Communication Terminal UI Signaling for Reliable Mode Switching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication terminals often fail to adapt communication modes during deteriorating connections, leading to untimely closures and potential confusion or failure, especially when users manually switch modes without proper signaling.
Innovation Solution
A method and interface for managing and controlling user interfaces during ongoing communications, providing change signaling data to terminals to block or modify interactions, ensuring seamless transitions between communication modes by generating and transmitting data to control user interfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the user interface allows manual switching between communication modes during ongoing communication, then the user can attempt to adapt to deteriorating connection conditions, but the communication mode change may fail or cause untimely closure due to lack of coordination between terminals
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by notifying the user interface of the mode change intention before the actual mode change occurs. This allows the receiving terminal to prepare for the transition, ensuring coordinated execution and preventing communication failures or untimely closures.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the initiator terminal sends notifications about the intended mode change to the receiving terminal. This feedback loop ensures both terminals are aware of the upcoming change, enabling synchronized execution and maintaining communication reliability during mode transitions.
2Reliability
If the user interface provides real-time notifications about mode changes to all terminals, then the coordination and reliability of mode transitions improve, but the complexity of the signaling system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts the mode change notification function from the core communication protocol, implementing it as a separate user interface management mechanism. This allows the signaling to be handled independently without complicating the fundamental communication framework, thus improving reliability while controlling complexity.
3Reliability
If the user interface blocks interactions during mode transitions, then the risk of failed mode changes and communication closures is reduced, but the ease of operation decreases due to restricted user access
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies preliminary anti-action by blocking user interactions with the interface during the mode transition period. This prevents users from initiating conflicting actions that could disrupt the ongoing mode change, thereby ensuring reliable transitions while temporarily restricting accessibility only when necessary.
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AI summary
The disclosed technology relates to the management of a user interface of a communication terminal involved in ongoing communication by a communication terminal, referred to as an initiator terminal. A method is described for managing a user interface of at least one communication terminal by an initiator terminal during ongoing communication between communication terminals including the initiator terminal and at least one corresponding terminal, the user interface management method comprising, at least prior to a change, triggered by the initiator terminal, of the communication mode of the ongoing communication, providing change signaling data to the user interface of the at least one communication terminal, the change signaling data being able to control the user interface of a communication terminal. The risks of failure of the change of communication mode and therefore of unwanted closure of the ongoing communication are therefore reduced or even avoided.