Method and apparatus for displaying content on same screen, and terminal device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10698559-B2
Application number	US-201715695441-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 5, 2017
Priority date	May 20, 2015
Publication date	Jun 30, 2020
Grant date	Jun 30, 2020

Abstract

Provided are a method and an apparatus for displaying content on a same screen and a terminal device. The method includes: displaying an application interface of an application on a display apparatus, and displaying a floating region on the same screen as the application interface; setting a content loader corresponding to the floating region; determining display content of the floating region; and invoking the content loader to load the determined display content to the floating region for display.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for displaying content on a same screen, applied to a terminal device comprising a display apparatus, comprising:
displaying an application interface of an application on the display apparatus and displaying application content of the application on the application interface by invoking a service interface interacting with an underlying layer of an operating system installed in the terminal device;
displaying a floating region on the same screen as the application interface;
setting a class loader corresponding to the floating region;
determining display content of the floating region; and
invoking the class loader to load the determined display content to the floating region for display, while displaying the application content of the application on the application interface by invoking the service interface;
wherein the service interface for the application content on the application interface and the class loader for the display content in the floating region have different loading mechanisms;
obtaining an identifier of the display content displayed in the floating region through interprocess communication;
retrieving content corresponding to the identifier from an installation package of the application through a Qmi interface; and
adjusting the application content displayed on the application interface based on the retrieved content.

2. The method for displaying content on a same screen according to claim 1 , wherein the determining the display content of the floating region comprises:
determining a filtration condition for filtrating the display content of the floating region; and
obtaining the display content meeting the filtration condition.

3. The method for displaying content on a same screen according to claim 2 , wherein the obtaining the display content meeting the filtration condition comprises:
sending a display content request message to a server, wherein the display content request message comprises the filtration condition, and the server determines the display content meeting the filtration condition based on the filtration condition; and
receiving a display content response message sent by the server, wherein the display content response message is constructed by the server based on the determined display content, and the display content response message comprises the determined display content.

4. The method for displaying content on a same screen according to claim 3 , wherein the obtaining the display content meeting the filtration condition further comprises at least one of:
obtaining the display content meeting the filtration condition from content cached locally by the terminal device; and
receiving the display content meeting the filtration condition from the server, and updating the content cached locally by the terminal device based on the received display content.

5. The method for displaying content on a same screen according to claim 2 , wherein the filtration condition comprises an application identifier of the application displayed on the application interface, and the obtaining the display content meeting the filtration condition comprises:
determining reference content of the application based on the application identifier;
determining target reference content meeting the filtration condition from the reference content of the application based on the filtration condition; and
displaying the target reference content in the floating region.

6. The method for displaying content on a same screen according to claim 5 , further comprising:
applying the target reference content displayed in the floating region,
wherein adjusting the application content displayed on the application interface based on the display content displayed in the floating region comprises adjusting the application content displayed on the application interface based on the target reference content.

7. The method for displaying content on a same screen according to claim 1 , wherein the display content is a picture, the method further comprising loading the determined display content to the floating region for display, wherein the loading comprises:
determining a compression ratio for the picture based on a data amount of the picture, a width and a height of the picture, and a ratio of a width and a height of a picture browsing frame, wherein the picture browsing frame is a region for displaying the picture in the floating region;
invoking a picture processing application program interface to compress the picture based on the compression ratio; and
loading the compressed picture to the picture browsing frame in the floating region for display.

8. The method for displaying content on a same screen according to claim 7 , further comprising:
determining, when the picture is dragged, whether a position of the dragged picture reaches a boundary of the picture browsing frame, and
preventing the picture from being dragged toward the boundary in a case that the position of the dragged picture reaches the boundary of the picture browsing frame.

9. An apparatus for displaying content on a same screen, comprising a terminal device having a display apparatus, a processor and a memory for storing program instructions, wherein the processor executes the program instructions to:
display an application interface of an application on the display apparatus and display application content of the application on the application interface by invoking a service interface interacting with an underlying layer of an operating system installed in the terminal device;
display a floating region on the same screen as the application interface;
set a class loader corresponding to the floating region;
determine display content of the floating region;
invoke the class loader to load the determined display content to the floating region for display, while displaying the application content of the application on the application interface by invoking the service interface,
wherein the service interface for the application content on the application interface and the class loader for the display content in the floating region have different loading mechanisms;
obtain an identifier of the display content displayed in the floating region through interprocess communication;
retrieve content corresponding to the identifier from an installation package of the application through a Qmi interface; and
adjust the application content displayed on the application interface based on the retrieved content.

10. The apparatus for displaying content on a same screen according to claim 9 , wherein the processor executes the program instructions further to:
determine a filtration condition for filtrating the display content of the floating region; and
obtain the display content meeting the filtration condition.

11. The apparatus for displaying content on a same screen according to claim 10 , wherein the processor executes the program instructions further to:
send a display content request message to a server, wherein the display content request message comprises the filtration condition, and the server determines the display content meeting the filtration condition based on the filtration condition; and
receive a display content response message sent by the server, wherein the display content response message is constructed by the server based on the determined display content, and the display content response message comprises the determined display content.

12. The apparatus for displaying content on a same screen according to claim 11 , wherein the filtration condition comprises an application identifier of the application displayed on

Assignees

• Tencent Tech Shenzhen Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Kunjie
• Jin Chaoqun
• Zhou Wenshuo
• Feng Xiaonan
• Zhong Guangwen
• Li Can
• Zhou Liping
• Guo Cheng
• Xu Wei
• Song Xiao

Classifications

• H04N19/156 Primary

  Availability of hardware or computational resources, e.g. encoding based on power-saving criteria · CPC title

• G06F9/44526

  Plug-ins; Add-ons · CPC title

• A63F13/53

  involving additional visual information provided to the game scene, e.g. by overlay to simulate a head-up display [HUD] or displaying a laser sight in a shooting game · CPC title

• G06F9/46

  Multiprogramming arrangements · CPC title

• H04N19/59

  involving spatial sub-sampling or interpolation, e.g. alteration of picture size or resolution · CPC title