Shared Mail Display Differentiation via Local Quality

Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulty in distinguishing shared emails from non-shared emails within their mailbox, leading to a reduced user experience due to the lack of clear differentiation in display methods.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus for displaying shared emails, which involve determining shared emails through a mail sharing operation and displaying them in a preset manner distinct from non-shared emails, utilizing a shared mail determination module and a shared mail display module to differentiate their display.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If shared mails are displayed using the same display manner as non-shared mails, then the mailbox interface remains simple and unified, but users cannot quickly distinguish shared mails from non-shared mails

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveUser ability to distinguish shared mailsVSAvoidDisplay manner complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by making shared mails have distinct display characteristics (different background color, icons, or positioning) compared to non-shared mails. This allows users to quickly identify shared mails through localized visual differences while maintaining the overall simplicity of the mailbox interface.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes color changes by displaying shared mails with a first background color and non-shared mails with a second background color. This visual differentiation through color enables users to rapidly distinguish shared mails without adding complex interface elements or structures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #32Color changes

2Loss of information

If all mails in the mailbox are displayed uniformly, then the display interface remains consistent and simple, but users experience difficulty in rapidly identifying shared mails

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveSharing status information visibilityVSAvoidDisplay differentiation complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by making shared mails have distinct display characteristics (different background color, icons, or positioning) compared to non-shared mails. This allows users to quickly identify shared mails through localized visual differences while maintaining the overall simplicity of the mailbox interface.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes color changes by displaying shared mails with a first background color and non-shared mails with a second background color. This visual differentiation through color enables users to rapidly distinguish shared mails without adding complex interface elements or structures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #32Color changes

Data Source

PatentUS11895075B2Method and apparatus for displaying shared mail, and electronic device and storage medium

Publication Date: 2024.02.06 DOUYIN VISION CO LTD

AI summary

A method and apparatus for displaying mail for share, and an electronic device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: in response to the detection of a mail sharing operation, determining mail for share in a current mailbox; and displaying the mail for share in a preset display manner, wherein the preset display manner is different from a display manner of non-shared mail in the current mailbox. By means of the technical solution, mail for share and non-shared mail in a mailbox can be effectively distinguished from one another, thereby improving the user experience.