Handheld Device Triggering Content via Orientation and Mode Changes

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing mechanisms fail to effectively ensure user attention on the display screen of handheld electronic devices, necessitating improved methods to trigger content display.

Innovation Solution

A method and device that monitor trigger conditions such as changes in screen orientation, device orientation, or operational mode, and display content like advertisements, with a locked mode to maintain user focus until a termination condition is met.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If content is displayed on the display screen, then user attention is required, but existing mechanisms fail to ensure adequate user attention

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser attentionVSAvoidtrigger mechanism

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by monitoring trigger conditions (device orientation changes, screen orientation changes, operational mode changes) before content display. This advance preparation ensures the user is in the appropriate state for receiving content, thereby improving reliability of user attention without adding complex intervention mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If trigger conditions are monitored continuously, then content can be displayed at optimal moments, but device resources are consumed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent display effectivenessVSAvoiddevice resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs periodic monitoring of trigger conditions rather than continuous intensive processing. By checking for orientation changes, screen changes, or mode changes at discrete intervals, the system achieves effective content timing while minimizing device resource consumption and energy usage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

3Reliability

If locked mode is implemented to maintain user focus, then user attention is improved, but user freedom is restricted

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser focusVSAvoiduser freedom

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The locked mode is implemented dynamically rather than statically. The system automatically transitions between locked and unlocked states based on termination conditions, allowing temporary restriction of operations only when necessary to maintain user focus during content display, while preserving full user freedom when content is not active.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS8850365B2Method and handheld electronic device for triggering advertising on a display screen

Publication Date: 2014.09.30 MALIKIE INNOVATIONS LTD

AI summary

A method and handheld electronic device for triggering the display of content on a display screen are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of triggering the display of content on a display screen of a handheld electronic device, the method comprising: monitoring for the occurrence of trigger conditions comprising one or more of: inputs to change an operational mode of the handheld electronic device, changes in orientation of the handheld electronic device, or changes in a screen orientation of a graphical user interface (GUI) displayed on the display screen; and reproducing content on the handheld electronic device in response to detection of one of the trigger conditions.