Widget Intercommunication via Dynamic Content Localization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Mobile web browsing experiences on wireless communication devices are distinct from PC experiences, making them difficult for users to navigate and enjoy, due to constraints in user interfaces and device usage, and there is a need for a common user experience across different devices without requiring programming proficiency.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus for dynamically exchanging content between application graphical user interface widgets on a widget runtime model, allowing platform-independent widgets to link and relay content, and synchronizing and localizing widgets across devices based on user input and device usage, enabling a consistent user experience while accommodating device heterogeneity and location responsiveness.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If mobile web browsing is designed to mimic PC experience, then user familiarity is improved, but device constraints and usage patterns are ignored

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser familiarityVSAvoiddevice constraints adaptation

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by creating platform-independent widgets that adapt their behavior and presentation to specific device characteristics. Each widget can be customized to work optimally on mobile devices while maintaining a familiar interface paradigm, allowing different parts of the system to have different qualities suited to their specific context.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements universality through platform-independent widgets that can function across multiple device types (PC, mobile, tablet). These widgets provide consistent functionality and user experience across different platforms while adapting to device-specific constraints, achieving multi-functionality without requiring separate applications for each platform.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If programming proficiency is required to create widget interactions, then customization capability is improved, but ease of use deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecustomization capabilityVSAvoidease of use

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies self-service by enabling users to create and configure widget interactions through graphical interfaces and drag-and-drop mechanisms without requiring programming knowledge. The system provides self-contained widget components with built-in functionality that users can assemble and customize through intuitive point-and-click operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary layer (the widget runtime environment and configuration interface) that mediates between user intentions and complex technical implementations. This intermediary allows users to define widget behaviors through high-level specifications rather than direct programming, translating simple user actions into sophisticated widget interactions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Productivity

If device-specific experiences are optimized, then device performance is improved, but common user experience across devices deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice performanceVSAvoidcommon user experience

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent achieves universality by designing widgets that operate consistently across different device platforms while adapting to device-specific capabilities. The same widget can run on PC, mobile phones, and tablets with optimized performance for each platform, maintaining a common user experience paradigm while leveraging device-specific hardware and software features.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies dynamics by making widgets adaptable to their runtime environment. Widgets can dynamically adjust their behavior, resource consumption, and interface presentation based on the specific device they are running on, allowing optimal performance on each device type while maintaining consistency in core functionality and user interaction patterns.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS10558475B2Apparatus and methods for widget intercommunication in a wireless communication environment

Publication Date: 2020.02.11 QUALCOMM INC

AI summary

A method for dynamically localizing content of a graphical user interface widget executed on a widget runtime model of a computing platform on a user device includes configuring the graphical user interface widget to provide first location-responsive content in a presentation runtime model by defaulting to a static geographic location, wherein the graphical user interface widget provides the first location-responsive content based on the static geographic location, receiving a configuration setting to configure the graphical user interface widget for a localized mode, retrieving a geographic location for the user device, and providing the retrieved geographic location to the widget runtime model for the graphical user interface widget to select second location-responsive content, wherein the graphical user interface widget switches to provide the second location-responsive content based on the retrieved geographic location.