TV Dynamic Settings Interface for Faster Access

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users of television devices often have to navigate through multiple setting interfaces to locate desired settings, such as content restrictions, requiring a significant number of selections.

Innovation Solution

A television device system that identifies and displays dynamic settings based on usage history, including user and other users' setting interactions, using a predictive model to rank and display these settings in an easily accessible area, separate from the standard setting interface.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users navigate through multiple setting interfaces to locate desired settings, then comprehensive setting coverage is maintained, but user access time and navigation complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesetting accessibilityVSAvoidtime to locate setting

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of setting usage patterns and proactively places frequently accessed settings on the home screen before users need them. This predictive placement eliminates the need for users to navigate through multiple interfaces to locate commonly used settings, directly reducing access time while maintaining comprehensive setting coverage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The setting interface is segmented into two distinct locations: the home screen for frequently accessed settings and the traditional settings interface for comprehensive settings. This segmentation allows users to access common settings quickly without sacrificing access to all settings, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and time loss.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If dynamic settings are displayed on the user interface separate from the setting interface, then setting access speed increases, but the user interface structure becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesetting access speedVSAvoiduser interface structure

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the setting access function into the existing user interface by displaying dynamic settings on the home screen. This integration allows settings to be accessed without leaving the current interface context, improving access speed while avoiding the complexity of separate interface structures. The home screen serves as both content display and settings access point.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS12598358B2Dynamic settings on a television device

Publication Date: 2026.04.07 GOOGLE LLC

AI summary

A system may identify at least one dynamic setting for a television device by selecting at least one television setting from a plurality of television settings using a plurality of signals relating to setting usage history, the plurality of signals including a usage of the plurality of television settings by other users of television devices. A system may receive information that identifies the at least one dynamic setting. A system may display the at least one dynamic setting on a user interface of the television device, where the at least one dynamic setting can be displayed in a location that is different from a setting interface.