Mobile Desktop Sharing via Segmented Drawing Files

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current sharing functions on mobile terminals are limited to sharing single files and cannot facilitate the sharing and use of entire screen interfaces or multiple screen interfaces on a desktop.

Innovation Solution

A desktop sharing method that involves a first terminal determining a desktop drawing file based on its desktop, which includes a desktop description file and a file package of one or more screen interfaces, and then sharing this file with a second terminal for updating its desktop.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If current sharing functions are used to share network resources, then single file sharing is enabled, but entire screen interface sharing is not supported

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesharing capabilityVSAvoidscreen interface information
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The desktop is segmented into multiple screen interfaces, each representing a complete functional view. The system captures and shares entire screen interfaces rather than individual files, allowing users to share complete working environments including multiple applications and their spatial relationships.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a copy of the entire screen interface (desktop drawing file) that can be transmitted to another terminal. This copy includes all visual elements, their positions, and relationships, enabling the receiving terminal to reconstruct the same desktop layout without transferring individual files.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Ease of operation

If single file sharing is implemented, then file transfer is simple, but desktop layout and multiple interface sharing cannot be achieved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefile sharing operationVSAvoiddesktop sharing function
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary capture and packaging of the entire desktop layout into a desktop drawing file before sharing. This pre-processing step consolidates all screen interfaces, application positions, and visual elements into a single shareable package, making the subsequent sharing operation as simple as file transfer while enabling complex desktop sharing functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If entire screen interfaces are shared, then complete desktop functionality is transferred, but the complexity of sharing increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesktop sharing functionVSAvoidsharing system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges multiple screen interfaces, application interfaces, and their spatial relationships into a single desktop drawing file. By combining all these elements into one unified data structure, the system simplifies the sharing process while maintaining the ability to represent complex multi-interface desktop environments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentEP4567570A1Desktop sharing method and mobile terminal
Publication Date: 2025.06.11 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a desktop sharing method and a mobile terminal, which are used to share a desktop of a mobile terminal, so as to meet a requirement for sharing and using one or more entire screen interfaces on the desktop of the mobile terminal by a user. The method of the embodiments of the present invention includes: determining, by a first terminal, a desktop drawing file according to a desktop of the first terminal when a first operation of a user received by the first terminal meets a first preconfigured condition, where the desktop drawing file includes a desktop description file and a file package of at least one screen interface on the desktop of the first terminal, the desktop description file includes a location of at least one application interface element on the desktop of the first terminal, and the file package includes a thumbnail of the at least one application interface element; and sharing, by the first terminal, the determined desktop drawing file, so that a second terminal updates a desktop of the second terminal according to the shared desktop drawing file.