Terminal Multimedia Sorting for Timely Cross-App Organization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Multimedia data recorded or downloaded by smart terminals like mobile phones are often scattered across various applications, making it inconvenient for users to summarize them in a timely manner and leading to inevitable omissions during manual organization.

Innovation Solution

A data processing method and device that acquires and sorts multimedia objects based on attribute information, such as creation time and source, to arrange files of different kinds and sources together for easier organization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If multimedia data are stored in various APPs or folders manually, then users have control over data storage, but it becomes inconvenient for users to summarize them in time and causes inevitable omissions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconvenience of summarizing multimedia dataVSAvoidtime required to manually summarize data
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically monitors and collects multimedia data from various applications without requiring user intervention. The terminal device autonomously identifies newly added or updated multimedia files, extracts their attributes, and performs sorting operations, enabling the system to serve itself rather than requiring manual user operation for data organization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary sorting and organization of multimedia data as it is being added to the terminal. By continuously monitoring file additions and updates in real-time, the system prepares the data for summarization in advance, so that when users need to review or access the multimedia content, it is already organized and ready, eliminating the need for subsequent manual sorting.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If multimedia data from different applications are collected and sorted automatically, then data processing efficiency is improved, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata processing efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal data processing system that can handle multiple types of multimedia files (images, videos, audio, documents) from various applications through a single integrated mechanism. The terminal device's processing unit is designed to universally monitor, identify, extract attributes from, and sort different file types using the same workflow, eliminating the need for separate handling mechanisms for each file type or application.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system merges the data collection, attribute extraction, and sorting functions into a single integrated processing unit within the terminal. Instead of having separate systems for each application's multimedia data, the patent combines all these functions into one unified mechanism that processes all multimedia files through a common workflow, thereby improving efficiency without proportionally increasing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS12436992B2Monitoring, sorting, rpesenting objects and generating a multimedia document by a terminal computing device
Publication Date: 2025.10.07 DOUYIN VISION CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided are a data processing method and device, a terminal, and a storage medium. The data processing method provided includes: acquiring target objects and attribute information thereof in response to a first instruction; and sorting the target objects and/or the subsidiary information based on the attribute information to obtain a sorting result, wherein the target objects include objects added to or updated by a terminal after the first instruction is triggered. According to the data processing method provided by the disclosure, by acquiring target objects added to or updated by a terminal and respective attribute information corresponding thereto and sorting them based on the attribute information, files or data of different kinds and different sources acquired by the terminal within a specific period of time can be arranged together for the convenience of users to organize them, thereby improving the data processing efficiency.