Live Video Gift Interface Layout for Simpler Co-Hosting Interaction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing live streaming co-hosting solutions have complicated interaction operations for sending gifts, leading to a poor user experience.

Innovation Solution

An interaction method and apparatus that simplifies the gift-sending process by displaying an interaction interface with virtual gifts upon a trigger operation on a user display interface, allowing direct sending of gifts to clients and managing co-hosting states through management controls.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the existing live streaming co-hosting solution is used, then the co-hosting function is achieved, but the interaction operation for sending gifts becomes complicated and inconvenient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegift-sending operationVSAvoidinteraction interface complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The interaction interface is segmented into distinct functional zones: a first interaction area for gift-sending operations and a second interaction area for co-hosting state management. This segmentation allows users to access gift functions directly from the user display interface without navigating through complex menus, thereby simplifying the gift-sending operation while organizing the overall interface complexity into manageable sections.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The user display interface serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays user information, enables direct gift-sending interactions, and provides access to co-hosting state management. By making the interface multi-functional, the patent eliminates the need for separate complex interaction flows for different operations, thereby improving ease of operation without requiring additional interface layers.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If the interaction interface includes both virtual gifts and management controls, then both gift-sending and state management are enabled, but the interface complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinteraction functionalityVSAvoidinterface structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The interaction interface is divided into a first interaction area displaying virtual gifts for sending, and a second interaction area displaying management controls for co-hosting state. This spatial segmentation allows both gift-sending and state management functionalities to coexist without creating a cluttered or confusing interface, as each function has its designated zone with clear visual hierarchy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent organizes multiple interaction functions across different spatial dimensions on the screen rather than stacking them vertically or nesting them within multiple menus. The first interaction area for gifts and the second interaction area for management controls are positioned in distinct regions, allowing users to access both functionalities simultaneously without increasing perceived interface complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS12535943B2Interaction method and apparatus, electronic device and computer readable medium
Publication Date: 2026.01.27 DOUYIN VISION CO LTD
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AI summary

An interaction method and apparatus, an electronic device and a computer readable medium are provided. The method includes: for an electronic device used by any participant in a live room, when at least one candidate user display interface is displayed on a live video page displayed by the electronic device, after the electronic device receives a trigger operation on a target user display interface in the candidate user display interfaces, the electronic device may display an interaction interface on the live video page, and some virtual gifts are deployed on the interaction interface. After receiving a trigger operation on a target gift in the virtual gifts, the electronic device may send the target gift to a client corresponding to the target user display interface, and thus the client corresponding to the target user display interface is able to receive the gift from the participant through the live video page.