User Terminal Press Parameter Detection for Dedicated Message Display

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Solution Overview

Problem

In communication applications, users face inconvenience when trying to locate dedicated messages within a group chat, as they need to scroll through numerous messages to find unread dedicated messages, making it time-consuming and inefficient.

Innovation Solution

A message display method on user terminals that detects specific press parameters, such as press force or duration, to automatically display unread dedicated messages, eliminating the need to open the group chat screen and scroll through messages, by using the terminal to quickly identify and display these messages.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users open the message display screen and scroll upward to search for unread dedicated messages, then users can find the messages, but the process is time-consuming and inconvenient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconvenience of viewing dedicated messageVSAvoidtime spent searching for message
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary detection of unread dedicated messages and prepares them for display. When the user presses the home button, the system has already identified the target message and can immediately display it without requiring the user to manually search through the message history, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and time loss

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The home button serves as an intermediary mechanism that triggers the system to automatically retrieve and display unread dedicated messages. This intermediary element bridges the gap between the user's simple press action and the complex message retrieval process, eliminating the need for manual scrolling while maintaining ease of operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If the user terminal automatically displays unread dedicated messages upon press detection, then viewing convenience is improved, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconvenience of viewing dedicated messageVSAvoidcomplexity of message display system
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses the user's own press action on the home button as the trigger mechanism for automatic message display. This self-service approach leverages the existing user interaction habit rather than requiring additional complex input methods, thereby improving ease of operation without significantly increasing system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the state of the message display from manual browsing mode to automatic display mode by detecting the press parameter (home button activation). This parameter change enables the system to automatically transition to displaying unread dedicated messages, resolving the contradiction between operational convenience and system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10757245B2Message display method, user terminal, and graphical user interface
Publication Date: 2020.08.25 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

A message display method, a user terminal, and a graphical user interface, where the method includes: detecting, by a user terminal, a press parameter when a user performs a press operation on the user terminal, and displaying the unread dedicated message when the first press parameter is greater than a first preset parameter and an unread dedicated message of the user exists in a group of a communicate application. Hence, the user only needs to press the user terminal, and when a press condition is met, the user terminal can automatically display the unread dedicated message of the user. Therefore, it is more convenient to view a dedicated message.