Mobile Terminal Application Modification Apparatus

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Solution Overview

Problem

Young people tend to prefer personalized mobile terminal experiences, but existing technologies do not effectively modify applications to enhance user affinity and engagement based on usage patterns.

Innovation Solution

An apparatus and method for a mobile terminal that detects application execution and key input patterns, updates execution information, and generates modification events such as level-ups, hidden content, or additional features when thresholds are met, allowing for personalized experiences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If applications are modified based on usage patterns, then user engagement and affinity are improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-defines multiple execution information types (execution count, execution time, key input patterns) and their corresponding threshold values before actual usage. This allows the complex personalization logic to be prepared in advance, reducing real-time processing complexity while maintaining adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The application automatically tracks its own execution information and compares it against predefined thresholds without requiring external intervention. The system self-modifies based on accumulated usage data, reducing the need for complex external control mechanisms while achieving personalization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If execution information is continuously tracked and compared, then personalized modifications are achieved, but processing time and resource consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveusage-based personalizationVSAvoidprocessing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of continuous real-time comparison, the system periodically checks execution information against thresholds at defined intervals or trigger points. This reduces processing overhead while still achieving timely personalization modifications based on accumulated usage patterns.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses predefined threshold templates and execution information structures that can be replicated across different applications. This standardization reduces processing complexity and time by avoiding custom analysis for each application while maintaining personalized adaptation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

3Measurement precision

If multiple execution information types are monitored, then personalization accuracy is improved, but measurement and detection complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveusage pattern detection accuracyVSAvoidexecution information tracking complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a universal execution information tracking framework that can monitor multiple types of usage data (execution count, time, key patterns) through a single integrated mechanism. This multi-functional approach reduces the need for separate detection systems for each metric while maintaining high measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system focuses on tracking specific quantifiable parameters (execution count, time duration, key input sequences) that can be precisely measured and compared against numerical thresholds. This parameter-based approach simplifies detection complexity by converting qualitative usage patterns into measurable quantitative data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS8594645B2Apparatus to modify applications of mobile terminal

Publication Date: 2013.11.26 PANTECH CORP

AI summary

An experience modification apparatus for a mobile terminal generates a modification event upon detecting execution of an application provided by the mobile terminal or upon detecting a specific order of key inputs so as to modify the applications of the mobile terminal.