Unified Virtual Item Interface for Batch Configuration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current gaming interfaces require users to manually select and manage virtual items for controlled virtual objects, which is time-consuming and inefficient, especially when items are missing, as users need to navigate through multiple screens to configure and purchase them.

Innovation Solution

The interface display method and apparatus provide a virtual item display interface that allows users to select and configure multiple virtual items in batches, with a transaction interface for quick acquisition of missing items, improving human-computer interaction efficiency by streamlining the process of equipping virtual objects with necessary items.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If users manually select and manage virtual items through traditional interfaces, then users can configure virtual items for controlled virtual objects, but the process is time-consuming and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveitem configuration efficiencyVSAvoidtime spent on item selection
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the item selection interface and item transaction interface into a unified interface system. The selection interface displays both available items and missing items, allowing users to perform selection and transaction operations without navigating between separate screens, thereby improving configuration efficiency and reducing time loss

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary comparison between selected items and owned items automatically when the user confirms selection. This preliminary action identifies missing items before the user needs to acquire them, allowing proactive display of transaction options and eliminating the need for users to manually check item availability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If users need to navigate through multiple screens to configure and purchase missing items, then users can acquire necessary virtual items, but the human-computer interaction efficiency is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveitem acquisition processVSAvoidinterface navigation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the item selection interface and item transaction interface into a single integrated interface. This interface displays selected items, owned items, and missing items simultaneously, allowing users to transition from selection to purchase without navigating through multiple screens, thereby simplifying the operation process while maintaining functional completeness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS20230280873A1Interface display method and apparatus, device, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2023.09.07 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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AI summary

This application discloses an interface display method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium, and belongs to the field of computer technologies. The method includes: displaying, by a terminal, a virtual item display interface, the virtual item display interface displaying a plurality of first virtual items, and the plurality of first virtual items corresponding to different parts of a controlled virtual object; comparing, by the terminal, the plurality of first virtual items with second virtual items owned by the controlled virtual object in response to a confirmation operation on the virtual item display interface; and displaying, by the terminal, a virtual item transaction interface in response to that no first virtual item exists in the second virtual items, the virtual item transaction interface being configured to obtain the first virtual items.