Cross-Device Media Playback Control With App Icon Preloading
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulty in quickly finding and controlling media applications across multiple intelligent electronic devices, affecting user experience.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for implementing media playing control that displays icons of media applications on a connected device, allowing direct selection and playback of media data without extensive searching, utilizing wireless connections or server communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If users manually search through all applications on connected devices to find media applications, then they can access media functionality, but the operation time and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-fetches and displays icons of media applications from connected devices before the user actually needs to access them. When a connection is established, the system automatically retrieves and shows available media apps (music, video, audio) from the connected device, so that when the user wants to play media, the applications are already visible and ready for selection, eliminating the need for manual searching.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a media playing control application as an intermediary interface between the user and the actual media applications on connected devices. This control app displays icons representing media applications from connected devices and handles the mediation of selecting and launching these applications, simplifying the user's interaction by providing a dedicated control layer rather than requiring direct browsing of all applications.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system displays all applications from connected devices, then users can find any application, but the interface becomes cluttered and difficult to navigate
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different display treatments to different types of applications based on their functionality. Media applications (music, video, audio) are displayed with special icons in a prominent location within the media playing control application, while other non-media applications are excluded or treated differently. This local differentiation allows the interface to highlight only the relevant applications for the current context (media playback) without showing all applications, thus maintaining simplicity while preserving access to media functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the application display by creating a dedicated media playing control application that separately handles media-related applications from other applications. Instead of showing a unified list of all applications, the system divides them into categories and only prominently displays media applications (music, video, audio) in the control interface, while other applications remain accessible but are not mixed into the media control view, reducing overall interface complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for implementing media playing control and an electronic device are provided. When the electronic device is connected to a second electronic device, the electronic device may obtain information about an application of a media type such as an audio or video type that is installed on the connected second electronic device and that is started on the second electronic device, and to display an icon of the application based on the obtained information about the application. Further, when the user taps an icon of an application such as a music application, media data of the application is obtained from the connected electronic device and played on the electronic device. In this way, in a scenario in which the electronic device is connected to a second electronic device, the user can quickly determine and start a media application that has been used on the second electronic device to improve user experience.