Notification Storage Segmentation for Access Clutter

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices lack an efficient method to control and manage notifications, particularly in terms of storage and display, leading to user confusion and inconvenience in sorting and accessing notifications across various functions.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device with an input unit, display unit, storage unit, and processing unit that allows users to generate set inputs to store and display notifications in either a common or designated region, enabling users to sort and access notifications based on specific criteria through a user interface.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If notifications are stored in a common region without classification, then the device complexity is reduced, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to user confusion in accessing specific notifications

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenotification storage structureVSAvoidnotification access
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The notification storage structure is segmented into multiple regions: a first region for notifications associated with executed applications and a second region for other notifications. This segmentation allows users to easily access application-related notifications in the first region while maintaining a simpler overall structure compared to complete classification of all notifications.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If notifications are classified into multiple regions, then the ease of operation improves, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenotification managementVSAvoidstorage structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The notification storage is divided into two main regions based on notification type and application execution state, providing a balanced classification that improves accessibility without creating excessive complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The notification storage structure is dynamically adjusted based on application execution state. When an application is executed, its notifications are moved to or displayed from the first region, making the storage structure adaptive rather than static.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Productivity

If all notifications are displayed together, then the productivity is improved by quick access, but the object-generated harmful factors increase due to notification clutter

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenotification access speedVSAvoidnotification clutter
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

Notifications are segmented into different display regions based on their association with executed applications. This segmentation allows relevant notifications to be quickly accessed while filtering out unrelated notifications, reducing clutter without sacrificing access speed to important notifications.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different regions of the notification display area are assigned different qualities or characteristics. The first region is optimized for application-related notifications with quick access, while the second region handles other notifications, creating local optimization that reduces overall clutter while maintaining productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP3271806B1Method for controlling notification and electronic device thereof
Publication Date: 2019.10.09 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device and operation method of the electronic device are provided. The method comprises displaying an object for displaying a notification, in response to detecting an input for the object, storing the notification in a region corresponding to the detected input among at least one region, and displaying an indication for indicating that the notification is stored.