Tab Content Correspondence and Progress Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inconvenience when accessing content across multiple tabs in a tab browser, as they need to manually select and enter URLs for each tab, leading to tedious operations and uncertainty about when content will become available.
Innovation Solution
A screen displaying technology that allows content information to be received and corresponded to tabs, with progress information displayed, enabling easier access and visibility of content across tabs by determining if a non-corresponded tab exists and selecting it based on predetermined conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple tabs are provided in a window to access multiple contents, then the user can access multiple contents simultaneously, but the user must manually select and enter URLs for each tab, leading to tedious operations
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically corresponds content information to tabs in advance before the user needs to access it. When content is received, the system automatically determines which tab should display it and performs the correspondence action, eliminating the need for manual URL entry and tab selection by the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The tab browser system performs self-service by automatically managing content distribution to tabs without user intervention. The system autonomously determines content-tab correspondences, manages content images, and updates display areas without requiring manual user operations for each tab.
2Productivity
If content is downloaded and processed in the background, then content can be prepared in advance, but the user cannot see when content will become available
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides visual feedback to the user through progress information displays on tab bars. When content is being processed or downloaded in the background, the user can see progress indicators on the relevant tab bars, and when content is ready, the tab becomes visible and selectable, providing continuous feedback about content availability status.
3Area of stationary object
If only the active tab content is displayed, then the display area is optimized for current content, but other tabs show no information, creating uncertainty about content availability
Solution Approach 1:
The display area is segmented into multiple independent regions, with each tab having its own display area and progress information display area. This segmentation allows each tab to show its own content availability status independently while maintaining the overall window structure, enabling users to see which tabs have content ready without interfering with the active tab's display optimization.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention provides screen displaying technology allowing improvement in operability and convenience for the user. A screen display apparatus receives a content, displays a plurality of tabs in a display screen, corresponds content information to any one of the plurality of tabs, and displays the content information corresponding to a displaying tab. In the case of corresponding content information to a non-displaying tab other than the displaying tab, it is determined whether or not a there is a non-corresponded, non-displaying tab to which other content information is not corresponded, and when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does not exist, the non-displaying tab selected based on a predetermined selection condition and the content information are corresponded. Furthermore, the screen display apparatus calculates a progress status of at least one or more of receiving a content, generating a content image by drawing the content, and storing the content image in an image storage means, and then outputs the calculated progress status associated it with a tab corresponded to the content.