Simulated Hyperlink System for Mobile App Data Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in seamlessly transferring data between mobile applications on devices, as these apps are often single-purpose and lack intuitive methods for inter-app data sharing, leading to cumbersome workflows and unawareness of suitable apps for specific tasks.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a simulated hyperlink system on mobile devices that uses a trained model to predict operations based on user actions, allowing for intelligent selection and operation initiation across various mobile applications, even when the selected content is not a traditional hyperlink, by generating a centered selection from surrounding context.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If mobile applications are designed as single-purpose apps, then each app can be optimized for its specific function, but the ability to transfer data between apps becomes cumbersome and complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a simulated hyperlink system as an intermediary layer between content and applications. When users interact with content, the system generates simulated hyperlinks that mediate the connection to appropriate applications, automatically handling data transfer without requiring users to manually navigate between apps. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining app-specific optimization while providing seamless data transfer through the intermediary hyperlink system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-service by automatically detecting user actions on content, generating appropriate simulated hyperlinks, and initiating data transfer to relevant applications without user intervention. The system serves itself by intelligence-driven routing, eliminating the need for users to manually manage data transfer between single-purpose apps, thus maintaining both app optimization and ease of operation.
2Ease of operation
If traditional hyperlinks are used in mobile apps, then data transfer is straightforward, but users lose the ability to easily transfer data between different mobile applications
Solution Approach 1:
The simulated hyperlink system provides universality by working across multiple different mobile applications. Instead of requiring app-specific hyperlink implementations, the system generates universal simulated hyperlinks that can trigger data transfer to any application based on the content context. This allows straightforward data transfer while maintaining broad adaptability across the mobile application ecosystem.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the fundamental parameter of hyperlink functionality from traditional web-based links to application-specific intents. By transforming the hyperlink mechanism to work with mobile application intents and parameters, the system enables easy data transfer between apps while adapting to the specific interoperability requirements of different applications, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and adaptability.
3Ease of operation
If users manually select applications for data transfer, then they have control over the process, but the number of gestures and steps required increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-generating simulated hyperlinks and determining appropriate applications before the user completes their interaction. When users perform actions on content, the system has already prepared the data transfer pathway, so users experience immediate results without needing to manually select applications or perform additional gestures. This maintains user control while significantly reducing the time and gestures required for data transfer.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods simulate a hyperlink in regular content displayed on a screen. An example method can include generating, responsive to detecting a simulated hyperlink indication, a centered selection from content displayed on a display of a computing device, providing the centered selection to a simulated hyperlink model that predicts an operation given the centered selection, and initiating the operation using an intent associated with a mobile application. The simulated hyperlink model may also provide, from the centered selection, an intelligent selection used the intent's parameter. Another method includes identifying documents having a hyperlink whitelisted websites, generating positive training examples for a simulated hyperlink model using the documents, each positive training example having a centered selection, a web site, and a mobile application mapped to the website, and training the simulated hyperlink model, using the positive training examples, to predict an operation for the mobile application given the centered selection.