Mobile Terminal Grouping Controller for Daily Life Function Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current mobile terminals lack the ability to collectively manage various functions related to a user's daily life, such as payment reports and shopping items, as these functions are independently managed and not interconnected.

Innovation Solution

A mobile terminal with a wireless communication unit, user input unit, and touchscreen that allows grouping and managing of messages, enabling changes, cancellations, and updates to payment-related messages and reservations through a controller that processes user commands and transmits corresponding signals.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If functions are independently managed in mobile terminals, then each function can be implemented with simple structure, but the functions cannot be collectively managed and organized

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollective management capabilityVSAvoidsystem integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple independently managed functions (payment reports, shopping items, reservations, etc.) into a single organized group that can be collectively managed. The controller groups these diverse functions under unified control, allowing simultaneous viewing and management of previously separate functions through a single interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a universal management interface that can handle multiple different function types (payment reports, shopping items, reservations, messages) through a single grouped structure. This universal group management capability allows the system to manage diverse functions using the same organizational mechanism.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Ease of operation

If multiple functions are collectively managed, then user convenience and organization are improved, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidcontrol system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the collective group of functions into manageable units while maintaining their organized grouping. Users can selectively view or manage specific functions within the group (such as viewing only payment reports or only reservations) while the overall group structure provides collective organization, balancing ease of operation with manageable complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Productivity

If functions are managed independently, then the system structure remains simple, but related functions cannot be efficiently organized or accessed together

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanagement efficiencyVSAvoidorganizational structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple related functions into a single organized group that can be efficiently managed together. This merging allows users to access and manage related functions (payment reports, shopping items, reservations) in a unified manner, significantly improving management efficiency compared to independent management of each function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS10332097B2Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof
Publication Date: 2019.06.25 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a plurality of message, product or registration card items and be collectively managed. The present invention includes a wireless communication unit configured to transmit/receive messages or data, a user input unit configured to receive a command from a user, a touchscreen, and a controller outputting the received messages through the touchscreen, the controller controlling a prescribed received message among the received messages to be included in a prescribed group, the controller, if a change command for the prescribed group is received through the user input unit, controlling the wireless communication unit to transmit a change request signal corresponding to some messages selected from the received messages included in the prescribed group.