User Interface Configuration Sync for Cross-Device Personalization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing user interfaces are not customizable to user preferences and lack synchronization across devices, leading to inefficiencies and inconvenience in menu management and setup.
Innovation Solution
A user interface apparatus and method that includes a user-interface-configuration unit, user-information-management unit, and user-interface-tree-management unit to manage and synchronize user interface elements based on user preferences, allowing for customization and synchronization across devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users are allowed to customize user interface elements, then user preference satisfaction improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The user interface is divided into independent configurable elements (icons, menus, buttons) that can be individually customized, moved, and managed. Each UI element becomes a separate manageable unit rather than a fixed integrated structure, allowing users to modify specific elements without affecting the entire interface system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a new dimension of UI management by implementing a file-based configuration system. User interface customizations are stored as configurable files that can be versioned, synchronized, and managed across devices, adding a temporal and spatial dimension to UI customization that was previously unavailable.
2Adaptability or versatility
If user interface configuration is customized for each device, then user preference satisfaction improves, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
User interface configurations are copied across multiple devices through file synchronization. Once a user customizes their interface on one device, the configuration files are automatically copied to other devices, eliminating the need to manually recreate the same customizations on each device and significantly reducing setup time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring interface elements with editable attributes and default configurations. This allows users to start with pre-prepared UI templates that can be quickly customized, rather than building interfaces from scratch on each device.
3Ease of operation
If user interface elements are made configurable, then ease of operation improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces configuration files as an intermediary layer between the user interface elements and the underlying system. These files serve as a mediator that stores UI state, element positions, and customization data, allowing the system to manage complexity externally rather than embedding it deeply within the device software architecture.
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AI summary
Provided are an apparatus and method for setting a user interface according to user preferences, more particularly, an apparatus and method for setting the user interface according to the user preferences, in which the user interface can be set up by reflecting the user preferences, and the set user interface is synchronized in order to be used in other devices. The apparatus includes a user-interface-configuration unit that is notified of an update and rearrangement of a predetermined user interface element by a user, a user-information-management unit that manages security information of the user that reconfigures the user interface element, and a user-interface-tree-management unit that reconfigures a predetermined user-interface tree based on the reconfigured user-interface element.