Display method and electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10318610-B2
Application number	US-201514670840-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 27, 2015
Priority date	Oct 15, 2014
Publication date	Jun 11, 2019
Grant date	Jun 11, 2019

Abstract

A display method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: displaying a display interface including at least one object; obtaining progress information of at least one first object of the at least one object, where the progress information indicates a content position of the at least one first object that was last output; and displaying the progress information of the at least one first object in the display interface.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for executing an object, the method applied to an electronic device comprising a processor, and the method comprising:
obtaining, by the processor, a plurality of first objects arranged in a first order that were last displayed in a display interface, wherein the plurality of first objects each has a type that meets a preset condition, and the type of the object meeting the preset condition indicates that an application for presenting an object of the type exists locally;
obtaining, by the processor, first progress information of the plurality of first objects, wherein the first progress information indicates a last executed object among of the plurality of first objects arranged in the first order;
displaying, by the processor, the plurality of first objects arranged in the first order, with the last executed object being displayed with the first progress information, wherein the last executed object being displayed with the first progress information indicates the last executed object being displayed with a different color or being displayed with an added mark compared with other first objects; and
executing, by the processor, the last executed object by performing a trigger operation based upon the first progress information.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the display interface is a display interface of a first application, and a second application is started and a content of an object is output by performing a trigger operation on the object in the display interface of the first application, and the second application is different from the first application; and
wherein the method further comprises:
obtaining second progress information of the last executed object, wherein the second progress information is progress information of the last executed object in a process that the last executed object was last output using the second application,
wherein the second progress information indicates at least one of a spatial position or a time position of a content of the last executed object that was last output using the second application in a whole content of the last executed object; and
displaying the second progress information of the last executed object in the display interface of the first application.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein obtaining the second progress information of the last executed object comprises:
obtaining the second progress information of the last executed object by a third application, and sending the second progress information from the third application to the first application, wherein the third application is different from the first application; or
obtaining the second progress information of the last executed object directly by the first application.

4. An electronic device, comprising a processor and a non-transitory storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
obtain a plurality of first objects arranged in a first order that were last displayed in a display interface in a first order, wherein the plurality of first objects each has a type that meets a preset condition, and the type of the object meeting the preset condition indicates that an application for presenting an object of the type exists locally;
obtain first progress information of the plurality of first objects, wherein the first progress information indicates a last executed object among the plurality of first objects arranged in the first order;
display the plurality of first objects arranged in the first order, with the last executed object being displayed with the first progress information, wherein the last executed object being displayed with the first progress information indicates the last executed object being displayed with a different color or being displayed with an added mark compared with other first object; and
execute the last executed object by performing a trigger operation based upon the first progress information.

5. The electronic device according to claim 4 , wherein the display interface is a display interface of a first application, and
a second application is started and a content of an object is output by performing a trigger operation on the object in the display interface of the first application, and the second application is different from the first application; and
wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to: obtain second progress information of the last executed object, wherein the second progress information is progress information of the last executed object in a process that the last executed object was last output using the second application,
wherein the second progress information indicates a spatial position of a content of the last executed object that was last output using the second application in a whole content of the last executed object; and
display the second progress information of the last executed object in the display interface of the first application.

Assignees

• Lenovo Beijing Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yang Chunlong

Classifications

• G06F40/103 Primary

  Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents (automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191) · CPC title

• G06F3/04817 Primary

  using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) · CPC title

• G06F17/211 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic