Tabbed Multi-Screen Collaboration Window Interface

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current multi-screen collaboration methods between mobile phones and PCs lack an efficient way to switch between multiple applications running in the background, requiring complex operations and poor user experience.

Innovation Solution

A window display method that allows multiple applications to be displayed in tabs on a PC, enabling users to quickly switch between them by clicking or dragging tabs, and supports file sharing through simple drag-and-drop operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple mobile phone applications are displayed in separate windows on PC, then users can access multiple applications simultaneously, but switching between applications becomes complex and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemulti-application accessVSAvoidapplication switching time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple mobile phone application windows into a single PC window using a tabbed interface. Each mobile phone application is represented as a tab within the unified PC window, allowing users to switch between applications by simply clicking different tabs rather than switching between separate windows. This combining approach resolves the contradiction by maintaining multi-application access while dramatically reducing switching time and operational complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple mobile phone applications are displayed in separate windows on PC, then users can access multiple applications simultaneously, but the operation complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemulti-application accessVSAvoidapplication switching operation
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple mobile phone application interfaces into a single unified PC window with tabs, where each tab represents a different mobile phone application. This merging eliminates the need to manually switch between multiple separate windows, reducing operational complexity while maintaining the ability to access multiple applications simultaneously through simple tab switching.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Area of stationary object

If a single PC window displays mobile phone interface, then the PC screen space is utilized efficiently, but multiple applications cannot be displayed simultaneously

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovePC screen utilizationVSAvoidmulti-application display
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the single PC window into multiple tabbed sections, where each tab can display a different mobile phone application interface. This segmentation allows the PC screen space to be utilized efficiently while simultaneously enabling multiple applications to be displayed and accessed within the unified window structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

4Adaptability or versatility

If multiple windows are created for mobile phone applications on PC, then each application can be displayed independently, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveapplication independenceVSAvoidwindow management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple mobile phone application windows into a single PC window with tabs, maintaining application independence through separate tabbed sections while reducing window management complexity. Users can still access and interact with each application independently through its respective tab, but the system manages them within a unified window structure rather than requiring multiple separate windows.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11853526B2Window display method, window switching method, electronic device, and system
Publication Date: 2023.12.26 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

This application provides a window display method, a window switching method, an electronic device, and a system. The method is applied to multi-screen collaboration between a mobile phone and a PC, and a plurality of application interfaces of the mobile phone are displayed in a form of tabs in a multi-screen collaboration window. In the multi-screen collaboration process, a background of the mobile phone may obtain user operations, distinguish between operation objects according to the user operations, and then determine a running status of an application and a window display status, so as to obtain an operation result that better meets user's expectation. The method may further implement file sharing between the mobile phone and the PC and between different applications of the mobile phone.