Secondary Display Auto-Push for Shared Messages
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inefficiency in accessing and viewing shared messages on communication devices, as conventional methods require significant effort to find and display saved messages, leading to reduced utilization of device features.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system where communication units can automatically push messages, including images, video, and audio, to a secondary display, with authentication to ensure only approved senders' content is displayed, and allowing for filtering and forwarding of messages with authentication information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional message retrieval methods are used, then users can access shared messages, but users must invest significant effort and time to find and display saved messages
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables messages to automatically push to secondary displays without requiring user intervention for retrieval. The message delivery system serves itself by autonomously transmitting messages from the centralized storage to authorized users' devices, eliminating the need for users to manually search and display saved messages.
Solution Approach 2:
Messages are pre-positioned in a centralized storage system (photograph web log) where they are readily accessible. The system performs preliminary organization and storage of messages so that when a user wants to view a message, it can be immediately pushed to their device without requiring them to search through saved messages first.
2Extent of automation
If automated message pushing is implemented, then message retrieval becomes effortless, but system complexity increases due to authentication and filtering requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a message log (centralized storage system) as an intermediary between the message source and the user's communication device. This intermediary handles the complexity of authentication, filtering, and message management, while the user's device simply receives and displays pushed messages. The intermediary absorbs the system complexity away from the user's device.
Data Source
AI summary
A message, including for example an image, video, audio, text, and/or haptics, e.g., a digital photograph, is received by a communication device (101) via a receiver (109) operably connected to a communication network (117), and determined by a processor (107) of the communication device (101) to be targeted to a display, such as a secondary display (103) of the communication device. The processor (107) can authenticate the message or messages. Where the message is authenticated, the processor (107) can automatically display the one or more messages, responsive to receipt thereof, on the secondary display (103). Accordingly, a user can glance at the secondary display (103) of the communication device (101) and view messages, e.g., images, video, audio, text, and/or haptics which have been shared by one or more senders.