Media Collection GUI Segmentation for Intuitive Mobile Navigation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing mobile devices face challenges in intuitively locating and accessing desired media content due to non-intuitive user interactions and selections, necessitating improved graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for easier navigation.

Innovation Solution

A system is developed to generate and display a GUI that presents media collections associated with a user profile, including user identifiers and media items, organized by attributes such as location and time, with features like sequential display, statistics, and user input for adding and rearranging media items.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If traditional mobile device interfaces are used to view media content, then users can access media content, but the user interactions and selections become non-intuitive and difficult to navigate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of navigationVSAvoiduser interaction complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The media collection is segmented into multiple categories (e.g., location-based collections, time-based collections, event-based collections), allowing users to navigate through organized sections rather than a monolithic list. Each category presents a manageable subset of media items, reducing the cognitive load and interaction complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The interface transitions from traditional linear or grid-based media display to a multi-dimensional organizational structure using categories, tags, and visual groupings. Users can navigate through different dimensions of organization (location, time, event) to find content, making the interface more intuitive and easier to operate.

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

2Ease of operation

If media items are organized by multiple attributes (location, time, event), then users can locate desired content more easily, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent location efficiencyVSAvoidorganization system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The media collection system serves multiple organizational functions simultaneously - it can group media by location, time, event, or any combination thereof. The same underlying infrastructure handles all these organization types, making the system versatile without proportionally increasing complexity. Users can switch between different organizational attributes based on their needs.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically changes organizational parameters based on user preferences, context, and content characteristics. Instead of fixed organization schemes, the system can adapt the sorting and grouping parameters to match user intentions, making the complex multi-attribute organization manageable and intuitive for users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12373076B1Interface to display media collections
Publication Date: 2025.07.29 SNAP INC
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AI summary

A system to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) to display presentations of media collections associated with a user profile are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to systems for generating and causing display of a GUI that comprises a presentation of a user profile associated with a user, wherein the presentation includes a user identifier of the user, and a display of one or more media collections that comprises media items generated by the user.