Sectional Mobile Interface for Simultaneous Application Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile terminal interfaces do not allow users to simultaneously view multiple application execution screens, limiting multitasking capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A method for controlling a mobile terminal screen that involves creating a 'magazine' layout with multiple sections, where applications are mapped to these sections, allowing users to simultaneously view and manage multiple application execution screens through touch events such as magazine creation, editing, and changing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a traditional single-screen interface is used, then the device complexity is low and ease of operation is maintained, but the user cannot simultaneously view multiple application execution screens
Solution Approach 1:
The display screen is divided into multiple sections, with each section capable of displaying a different application execution screen. This segmentation allows users to simultaneously view multiple applications without requiring a single complex full-screen interface for each application.
Solution Approach 2:
Each section on the display screen can be configured to show different applications based on user needs, making the same physical screen space serve multiple functional purposes simultaneously. The interface can adapt to display various combinations of applications in different sections.
2Productivity
If multiple application execution screens are displayed simultaneously using a magazine layout, then multitasking capability is enhanced, but the interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display is segmented into multiple fixed sections arranged in a magazine-like layout. Each section independently displays one application execution screen, enabling simultaneous viewing of multiple applications. This structured segmentation provides a systematic approach to multitasking while maintaining interface organization.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface uses a standardized magazine layout template that can be replicated and applied to different sets of applications. This template-based approach allows the system to handle multiple applications through a consistent, pre-defined interface structure rather than creating complex custom interfaces for each multitasking scenario.
3Ease of operation
If the screen is divided into main region and sub region with icons, then application accessibility is improved, but the ability to simultaneously view application execution screens is lost
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of using a single main region with icons, the display is divided into multiple sections where each section can directly display an application execution screen. This segmentation transforms the interface from an icon-based navigation system to a multi-screen display system, enabling simultaneous viewing while maintaining accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface transitions from a two-dimensional icon grid requiring navigation to a multi-sectional layout where multiple application execution screens are displayed simultaneously in different sections. This dimensional change allows users to access multiple applications at once without navigating through icons.
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AI summary
A method for controlling a screen of a mobile terminal that simultaneously displays a plurality of execution screens is provided. The method preferably includes: displaying a layout composed of a plurality of sections when a magazine creation event is sensed; mapping applications to the plurality of sections in a one-to-one correspondence, respectively to create a magazine; and displaying the magazine, and an execution screen of an application mapped to each of the sections is arranged at the magazine.