Electronic File Sharing with Keyword-Based URI Generation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing file sharing methods in electronic devices often require manual input of complex and unintuitive path parts in URIs, leading to user inconvenience and inefficiency.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device is configured to display a text input field for setting a path part in a URI, allowing users to input a keyword, which is then used to generate a unique URI with numerals, enabling seamless file sharing through communication circuitry.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If manual input of path parts in URIs is required for file sharing, then file sharing functionality is achieved, but user convenience and operational ease deteriorate due to complex and unintuitive input requirements

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser convenience in file sharingVSAvoidcomplexity of URI path input

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically generates the path part of the URI based on the keyword input by the user. Instead of requiring the user to manually construct the complete URI path, the system serves itself by converting the simple keyword into the appropriate path structure, thereby eliminating complex manual input while maintaining file sharing functionality

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary processing of the keyword to generate the path part before the actual file sharing operation. By pre-generating the URI path structure from the keyword, the system prepares the necessary components in advance, reducing the operational burden on the user during the file sharing process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If keywords are used instead of manual path input, then ease of operation improves, but system complexity increases due to keyword processing and URI generation mechanisms

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefile sharing efficiencyVSAvoidcomplexity of keyword processing system

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces a keyword as an intermediary between the user and the complex URI path structure. Instead of directly exposing the complex path syntax to users, the keyword acts as a simplified mediator that the system automatically translates into the appropriate URI path, improving productivity while managing complexity through abstraction

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20250233908A1Electronic device, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for sharing file

Publication Date: 2025.07.17 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

An electronic device is configured to display, via a display, in a user interface (UI) of a software application for sharing a file, a text input field for setting a path part in a uniform resource identifier (URI); transmit, to a server, through a communication circuitry, first data indicating a keyword inputted to the text input field; receive, from a server, through the communication circuitry, second data indicating the URI comprising the path part that comprises the keyword and numerals identified with respect to the keyword; and after the second data is received, upload, to the server, through the communication circuitry, at least one file, for sharing, wherein the uploaded at least one file is accessible using the URI comprising the path part that comprises the keyword and the numerals.