Quick Reply Interface Using Pull-Down Gesture Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing user interfaces require precise mouse or touch screen movements to initiate reply operations, making them inefficient and complicated for users to quickly reply to messages.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that utilize a pull-down gesture to trigger a quick reply operation, displaying a text box and a user prompt icon that rotates from down to up as the gesture exceeds a threshold length, allowing users to initiate a quick reply without clicking on a button or icon.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a user clicks on a reply button or icon using a mouse or touch screen, then the reply operation can be initiated, but the operation becomes complicated and inefficient due to requiring precise movements

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of initiating reply operationVSAvoidtime to initiate reply operation

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of requiring the user to actively click on a reply button, the system inverts the interaction by detecting a pull-down gesture in the text box area and automatically triggering the reply operation. This passive detection approach eliminates the need for precise clicking movements and reduces the steps required to initiate a reply.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention extracts the reply initiation function from the traditional button-clicking interaction and implements it through a gesture-based system. By separating the gesture detection from the button interface, the system achieves faster and more intuitive reply initiation without the complexity of precise mouse or touch movements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Productivity

If a traditional reply button interface is used, then the system provides clear visual cues for replying, but the interaction becomes complicated requiring precise mouse or touch movements

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvereply operation efficiencyVSAvoidinteraction complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The invention replaces the mechanical clicking action (mouse button press or touch screen tap) with a gesture-based interaction system. The pull-down gesture in the text box area substitutes for the traditional button-clicking mechanism, simplifying the interaction while improving reply operation efficiency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces dynamic gesture recognition that detects the pull-down motion in the text box area and responds by triggering the reply operation. This dynamic interaction replaces the static button-clicking interface, allowing for more fluid and efficient user input while reducing interaction complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS10514829B2Methods and systems for quick reply operations

Publication Date: 2019.12.24 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD

AI summary

A method and system for performing quick reply operations are disclosed. The method for quick reply operations includes displaying a text box; determining a display area of the text box; and receiving a user instruction. The method further includes determining whether the user instruction is a pull-down gesture in the display area of the text box; determining whether the pull-down gesture exceeds a threshold length; and displaying a quick reply text box. The method and system consistent with the present disclosure implement quick reply functions and improve the user experience for replying to various messages and postings.