Mediation Server Dynamic Screen Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing service linking systems for multifunction devices often display unnecessary settings, causing user unease due to the constant presence of album owner input and album name selection UIs, which can confuse users and reduce convenience.
Innovation Solution
A mediation server that acquires requests from an image processing device for screen information, supplying screens for service and communication selection only when necessary, and executing mediation communications to provide targeted services and data between the device and service providers, thereby optimizing the user interface and improving convenience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the system always displays album owner input UI and album name selection UI, then the service configuration is complete, but the user experience deteriorates due to unnecessary settings being constantly displayed
Solution Approach 1:
The UI display is made dynamic by detecting whether image processing is predetermined and adapting the displayed screens accordingly. When image processing is predetermined, the communication selection screen is displayed alone. When not predetermined, both service selection and communication selection screens are displayed, allowing the interface to adapt to different operational contexts.
Solution Approach 2:
Different parts of the interface are activated based on local conditions. The service selection screen is only displayed in the local context where image processing is not predetermined, while the communication selection screen is displayed when image processing is predetermined, ensuring each UI element appears only where and when needed.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system displays all service selection screens, then all services are available, but the information overload causes user confusion
Solution Approach 1:
The service selection screen is extracted and displayed only when necessary (when image processing is not predetermined). When image processing is predetermined, this screen is omitted entirely, leaving only the communication selection screen. This selective extraction prevents information overload while maintaining service availability when needed.
3Reliability
If the system requests both service selection and communication selection, then all parameters are configured, but the processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs partial configuration actions based on context. When image processing is predetermined, only communication selection is requested (partial action). When not predetermined, both service selection and communication selection are requested (complete action). This approach ensures configuration completeness when needed while reducing processing time when the context allows.
Data Source
AI summary
A mediation server sequentially supplies, to the image processing device, two or more pieces of screen information for causing a display unit of the image processing device to sequentially display two or more screens including a service selection screen and a communication selection screen when a first type of request is acquired. The mediation server executes a communication for mediating supply of the first type of target data from the target service providing server to the image processing device when it is the first type of communication and executes communication for mediating supply of the second type of target data from the image processing device to the target service providing server when it is the second type of communication.