Mobile Device Gesture Interaction for Simplified User Data Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for interacting between smart device users, such as sending friend requests or performing financial transactions, are cumbersome and require complex procedures, especially for users unfamiliar with social network services.
Innovation Solution
A method that allows mobile devices to automatically detect and connect with other devices within a predetermined distance or network, enabling interactions like friend requests and financial transactions through simple touch gestures, such as swiping an image, to update user-originating information stored on a server.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional SNS friend request procedures are used, then user-originating information can be updated, but the operation becomes cumbersome and complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting nearby mobile devices and pre-establishing interaction opportunities before the user initiates any action. The mobile device searches for other devices within predetermined distance or network connections, and displays their information proactively, so when the user performs a simple swipe gesture, the interaction is already prepared and can be executed immediately without searching or selecting procedures.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the complex SNS interaction procedures (searching names, clicking buttons, sending requests, waiting for acceptance) and replaces them with a single essential action - the swipe gesture. By removing unnecessary intermediate steps and keeping only the core interaction function, the system achieves intuitive operation while maintaining the ability to update user-originating information on the server.
2Ease of operation
If automatic device detection is implemented, then interaction becomes simpler, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses an intermediary approach by leveraging existing network infrastructure (APs, ad-hoc networks, cellular network base stations) and location services to facilitate device detection and connection. Rather than implementing a completely new complex detection mechanism, the patent utilizes available intermediaries like wireless networks and location systems to automatically identify nearby devices, thereby simplifying the user interface while managing system complexity through established technologies.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for automatically changing information originating from at least either of a first user and a second user by using a mobile device includes steps of: (a) a first device searching second devices as a target to perform interaction and then selecting a specific second device among the searched second device to change the user-originating information; (b) the first device transmitting to, or receiving from, the specific second device data related to the interaction, if a touch gesture is detected in the first device; and (c) at least either of the first and the second devices allowing a server to update the information originating from at least either of the first user and the second user by referring to the transmitted data related to the specific interaction.