Mobile Terminal Folder Icon Update Notification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Mobile terminals face challenges in efficiently managing a large number of icons and providing effective user interface operations, particularly in creating and managing folders for multiple icons and updating information related to applications.

Innovation Solution

A mobile terminal with a touchscreen and controller that displays folder icons, receives update information, and performs touch actions to create, manage, and update folders by correlating icons and displaying graphical objects indicating updates, allowing users to create folders, delete icons, and view update information within the folder.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the number of applications and icons is increased, then the functionality and versatility of the mobile terminal is improved, but the complexity of managing and organizing icons increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovefunctionalityVSAvoidicon management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements folder structures to segment icons into categories. Users can create folders to organize icons by application type, frequency of use, or other criteria, reducing the complexity of managing a large number of icons on the home screen.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent enables nested folder structures where folders can contain sub-folders. This allows for hierarchical organization of icons, providing multiple levels of categorization to manage large numbers of applications efficiently.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

2Ease of operation

If icons are displayed on the home screen, then user accessibility is improved, but the amount of information and update notifications that need to be managed increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser accessibilityVSAvoidupdate information management

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts update information from individual icon displays and consolidates it into a separate notification system. Update notifications are displayed as separate visual elements that indicate changes without cluttering the home screen icon displays.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where update information is communicated to users through visual notifications on the home screen. This feedback system keeps users informed about application updates without requiring them to check each icon individually.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS8892168B2Mobile terminal and method of managing display of an icon in a mobile terminal

Publication Date: 2014.11.18 LG ELECTRONICS INC

AI summary

A mobile terminal is provided. According to one embodiment, the mobile terminal includes: a display for displaying a folder icon corresponding to at least one application; a communication unit for receiving update information corresponding at least partially to the at least one application; and a controller for controlling the display to display the folder icon and, upon receipt of the update information by the communication unit, for controlling the display to display a graphical object indicating the receipt of the update information and corresponding to the folder icon.