Method and electronic device for automatically managing activities of application

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11237850-B2
Application number	US-201816650715-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 5, 2018
Priority date	Oct 9, 2017
Publication date	Feb 1, 2022
Grant date	Feb 1, 2022

Abstract

Embodiments herein provide method for automatically managing activities of an application in an electronic device. The method includes detecting by an activity controller an input on a data item of the application displayed on a screen of the electronic device. Further, the method includes determining by the activity controller at least one activity associated with the data item.Furthermore, the method includes causing by the activity controller to automatically display an at least one activity interface and performing the at least one activity associated with the data item within the at least one activity interface. The at least one activity interface comprises a synchronization element to synchronize a result of the at least one performed activity with the application displayed on the screen of the electronic device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for automatically managing activities of an application in an electronic device, comprising:
detecting an input on a data item of a parent application displayed on a screen of the electronic device;
determining a child application to perform an activity related to the data item of the parent application;
displaying an interface comprising the child application on the parent application;
performing the activity related to the data item of the parent application by the child application within the interface;
displaying a result of the performed activity within the interface;
synchronizing the result of the performed activity by the child application with the parent application;
detecting an invert relationship event; and
in response to detecting the invert relationship event, updating a relationship between the parent application and the child application by inverting the relationship, wherein inverting the relationship comprises operating the parent application as the child application and the child application as the parent application.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein synchronizing the result of the performed activity by the child application with the parent application comprises:
detecting an input performed on a synchronization element of the activity interface; and
synchronizing the result of the performed activity by the child application with the parent application.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the activity of the parent application is determined by:
obtaining a context associated with the parent application; and
determining an activity to be performed by the child application based on the context associated with the parent application.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
detecting an input on the child application within the interface;
determining an another child application to perform at least one sub-activity associated with the activity of the parent application;
causing to display an another interface comprising the another child application;
performing the at least one sub-activity by the another child application within the another interface and displaying a result of the at least one performed sub-activity within the another interface; and
synchronizing the result of the at least one performed sub-activity in at least one of the parent application and the child application.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
synchronizing the child application displayed within the interface with at least one of a wearable device or another electronic device.

6. An electronic device for automatically managing activities of an application, comprising:
a memory; and
a processor coupled to the memory, configured:
detect an input on a data item of a parent application displayed on a screen of the electronic device,
determine a child application to perform an activity related to the data item of the parent application,
display an interface comprising the child application on the parent application,
perform the activity related to the data item of the parent application by the child application within the interface,
display a result of the performed activity within the interface, and
synchronize the result of the performed activity by the child application with the parent application,
detect an invert relationship event, and
in response to detecting the invert relationship event, update a relationship between the parent application and the child application by inverting the relationship, wherein inverting the relationship comprises operating the parent application as the child application and the child application as the parent application.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Verma Abhishek
• Thakur Avinash
• Garg Jatin
• Jadav Pranav
• Shubham Shubham

Classifications

• G06F9/451 Primary

  Execution arrangements for user interfaces · CPC title

• G06F11/3438

  monitoring of user actions (tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535) · CPC title

• G06F1/163

  Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt · CPC title

• G06F3/017

  Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883) · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title