Unified Favorite Folder for Cross-App Resource Collection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in efficiently managing and accessing collected information resources across multiple applications, requiring cumbersome steps and scattered storage, which hinders quick retrieval and organization of favorite content.
Innovation Solution
A method and device for information resource collection that utilizes a unified favorite folder, where key information from various applications is collected, stored, and displayed, allowing for easy access and organization through a system interface, with features like notification, sorting, and display of collected resources based on recency, and the ability to open the original application for further viewing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If information resources are collected through individual applications, then each application can maintain its own collection function, but users face scattered storage and cumbersome access across multiple applications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges collection functions from multiple individual applications into a unified system-level collection mechanism. The operating system establishes a universal collection interface that aggregates information resources from different applications into a single unified favorite folder, eliminating the need for users to access each application separately while preserving the ability to collect from any application.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal collection interface at the operating system level that serves multiple applications simultaneously. This interface can collect information resources from any application that implements the standard interface, providing multi-functional capability without requiring separate collection mechanisms for each application.
2Reliability
If information resources are stored in separate locations within each application, then each application maintains independent storage, but users experience difficulty in quick retrieval and organization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines scattered storage locations from multiple applications into a single unified favorite folder at the operating system level. This consolidation allows users to retrieve all collected information resources from one central location rather than searching through multiple application-specific storage areas, significantly reducing retrieval time while maintaining the ability to track source applications.
3Ease of operation
If a unified collection system is implemented across multiple applications, then access and management become simpler, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary operating system layer that mediates between individual applications and the unified collection system. This intermediary establishes standard interfaces and protocols that applications can implement, managing the complexity of unified collection while keeping individual applications relatively simple. The operating system handles the coordination, data aggregation, and unified folder management.
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosure relates to an information resource collection method, device and computer-readable storage medium. The method includes receiving a broadcast message sent by an application program of a plurality of application programs through a system interface that is configured to direct each of the plurality of application programs to report an occurrence of collection events to an operating system; analyzing the broadcast message to obtain key information of an information resource; obtaining the key information of the information resource; and storing the key information of the information resource in a unified favorite folder that is configured to store and display key information of a plurality of collected information resources that has been collected via the system interface from at least one of the plurality of application programs.