Wireless Device Content Rendering Customization via Carrier Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current communication devices lack the ability to effectively customize user-interface features and content rendering from various sources, limiting dynamic content delivery and user interaction.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that utilize a framework to customize user-interface features by integrating customization data from external sources, such as carriers, to configure rendering and operability, enabling dynamic content generation and interaction on wireless devices through plug-ins that retrieve content data from multiple sources.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If current communication devices use standard content delivery, then device simplicity is maintained, but content delivery flexibility and customization capability are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery flexibilityVSAvoiddevice structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a customization data structure as an intermediary layer between content sources and device rendering systems. This mediator enables flexible content delivery by allowing carriers or third parties to inject customization parameters that modify user-interface features without changing the core device architecture, thus improving adaptability while controlling complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the content delivery system into independent components: base device functionality, customization data layer, and rendering engine. By separating customization logic from core device operations, the system achieves flexible content delivery capabilities without proportionally increasing overall device complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If user-interface features are customized with external data, then content rendering adaptability is improved, but system configuration complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent rendering adaptabilityVSAvoidconfiguration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses parameter changes by defining a standardized customization data structure that modifies user-interface parameters (such as display layout, interaction modes, or rendering properties) through controlled parameter variations. This approach enables high adaptability in content rendering while keeping configuration complexity manageable through systematic parameter organization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If dynamic content is retrieved from multiple sources, then content variety and user interaction quality are enhanced, but data processing requirements and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent source diversityVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal customization data structure that can handle multiple content sources (carriers, third parties, local devices) through a single standardized interface. This multi-functional approach enables diverse content retrieval while unifying data processing logic, thereby enhancing content variety without proportionally increasing processing complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS8166167B2System and method for providing customized rendering of content
Publication Date: 2012.04.24 QUALCOMM INC
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AI summary

Content data is programmatically received or retrieved programmatically from one or more network locations. The content data may be provided in part by a source entity, such as a carrier of a cellular network. A content is rendered from the content data on one or more user-interactive display objects. An ability of a user to interact with the one or more user-interactive display objects is configured based on customization data associated with the entity.