Data Transmission via Touch-Selected Hardware Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Devices like WIFI sound boxes and smart bands, lacking input peripherals, cannot establish a network connection with terminals for data transmission in social application clients, limiting data exchange.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that display device identifier information for hardware devices capable of executing data files, allowing users to select and send data files to these devices via touch inputs, utilizing near field communications or cloud connections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Use of energy by moving object
If hardware devices without input peripherals are used, then device miniaturization and low power consumption are achieved, but network connection establishment and data transmission capability are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a terminal as an intermediary device between the user and the hardware device. The terminal displays device identifier information of hardware devices and receives user selection inputs, then transmits selected data to the hardware device. This mediator approach allows hardware devices without input peripherals to still receive data through the terminal's interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The hardware device performs self-identification by providing its device identifier information to the terminal. The device autonomously presents itself in the list of available devices, and the data transmission process is initiated through the terminal without requiring input peripherals on the hardware device itself.
2Volume of moving object
If hardware devices without input peripherals are used, then device miniaturization is achieved, but interaction flexibility with social application client is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The terminal serves multiple functions: it displays social application client content, presents device identifier information of compatible hardware devices, receives user selections, and manages data transmission. This multi-functional approach enables flexible interaction between the terminal and hardware devices without requiring input peripherals on the hardware side.
3Ease of operation
If traditional network connection methods are used, then data transmission between terminal and hardware device is enabled, but device complexity increases due to required input peripherals
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the input interface requirement from the hardware device and relocates it to the terminal. The terminal handles all user input operations (selecting messages, choosing devices) while the hardware device only needs to provide its identifier and receive data, eliminating the need for input peripherals on the hardware device.
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AI summary
A data transmission method is performed by at least one processor of a terminal, and includes displaying one or more messages, each of the one or more messages including a data file, based on a touch and hold input on one of the one or more messages, displaying an option for displaying one or more icons respectively indicating one or more hardware devices capable of executing the data file of the one of the one or more messages, based on a touch input on the option, displaying the one or more icons respectively indicating the one or more hardware devices, and based on a touch input on one of the one or more icons indicating one of the one or more hardware devices, sending, to the one of the one or more hardware devices, the data file of the one of the one or more messages.