Mobile Terminal Context-Aware Function Switching

Solution Overview

Problem

Mobile terminals lack the ability to seamlessly transition between functions, failing to consider the user's previous actions, leading to inconvenient function switching and information handling.

Innovation Solution

A mobile terminal with a controller that displays a menu for content transmission based on the user's previous function, allowing for automatic specification of a counterpart and streamlined content sharing by analyzing user patterns and execution commands.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the mobile terminal simply switches between functions via multitasking, then function switching is achieved, but information on previously used function is not considered and user convenience is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefunction switching convenienceVSAvoidinformation on previously used function

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of user execution patterns and previously used functions before the user needs to switch functions. By pre-processing and storing information about function usage sequences and patterns, the system prepares context information in advance, enabling it to automatically suggest or restore previous functions without requiring the user to manually search or input commands.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If the mobile terminal executes multiple functions sequentially or alternately, then functional versatility is improved, but the terminal cannot consider user intention in currently executed function

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefunctional versatilityVSAvoiduser intention recognition

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring and analyzing user execution patterns, function switching sequences, and usage timing. This feedback information is processed to understand user intentions and preferences, which then influences how the system presents function options, suggests next actions, or automatically selects functions based on learned patterns from previous interactions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of user execution patterns and previously used functions before the user needs to switch functions. By pre-processing and storing information about function usage sequences and patterns, the system prepares context information in advance, enabling it to automatically suggest or restore previous functions without requiring the user to manually search or input commands.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If the mobile terminal provides context-aware function switching, then user convenience is enhanced, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial analysis by focusing on specific, high-impact patterns in function usage rather than analyzing all possible user behaviors. Instead of implementing a complex general-purpose AI assistant, the system selectively monitors and responds to particular execution patterns that are most common or most beneficial to optimize, thereby reducing overall system complexity while still providing meaningful context-aware functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS10338774B2Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same

Publication Date: 2019.07.02 LG ELECTRONICS INC

AI summary

A mobile terminal, including a wireless communication processor; a touch screen; and a controller configured to: execute a first function specifying a counterpart, and execute a second function in combination with a display of a first menu for transmitting at least one or more contents selected by the second function to the specified counterpart through the wireless communication processor, in response to an execution command for executing the second function within a prescribed time from a timing of executing, suspending or ending the first function.