Application sharing method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016057205-A1
Application number	US-201514933251-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 5, 2015
Priority date	Jun 3, 2013
Publication date	Feb 25, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention provides an application sharing method and apparatus, which resolve a problem that not all applications can be shared. The method of the present invention includes: obtaining a distance between an icon of a first application and an icon of a second application, where the first application is a to-be-shared application, and the second application is used to share the first application; determining whether the distance is less than a preset distance; if the distance is less than the preset distance, obtaining application information of the first application in an application store on the Internet, and obtaining information about a to-share-with user, where the application information includes a link address of the first application in the application store; and sending the link address to the to-share-with user by using the second application. The present invention can be applied to application sharing.

First claim

1 . An application sharing method, comprising:
obtaining a distance between an icon of a first application and an icon of a second application, wherein the first application is a to-be-shared application, and the second application is used to share the first application; determining whether the distance is less than a preset distance; if the distance is less than the preset distance, obtaining application information of the first application in an application store on the Internet, and obtaining information about a to-share-with user, wherein the application information comprises a link address of the first application in the application store; and sending the link address to the to-share-with user by using the second application.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the icon of the second application is displayed on a display unit after the icon of the first application is selected.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the second application is a communications application, a social application, or the application store.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein if the second application is a communications application, the obtaining information about a to-share-with user comprises:
obtaining the information about the to-share-with user by using the second application; or if the second application is a social application, the obtaining information about a to-share-with user comprises: obtaining the information about the to-share-with user by using the second application, wherein the information about the to-share-with user is stored in a file related to the second application.

5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the application information further comprises evaluation information on the first application; and
after the determining whether the distance is less than a preset distance, the method further comprises: if the distance is less than the preset distance, sending the evaluation information to the application store by using the second application.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the obtaining application information of the first application in an application store on the Internet comprises:
obtaining the link address of the first application from an installation package of the first application according to an identifier of the first application; or obtaining the link address of the first application from a stored table of correspondences between identifiers and link addresses of installed applications according to an identifier of the first application; or obtaining the link address of the first application from the application store on the Internet according to an identifier of the first application, wherein the application store on the Internet stores a table of correspondences between identifiers and link addresses of applications.

7 . An application sharing apparatus, comprising:
a first obtaining unit, configured to obtain a distance between an icon of a first application and an icon of a second application, wherein the first application is a to-be-shared application, and the second application is used to share the first application; a determining unit, configured to determine whether the distance is less than a preset distance; a second obtaining unit, configured to: if the distance is less than the preset distance, obtain application information of the first application in an application store on the Internet, and obtain information about a to-share-with user, wherein the application information comprises a link address of the first application in the application store; and a first sending unit, configured to send the link address to the to-share-with user by using the second application.

8 . The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the apparatus further comprises a display unit, and the icon of the second application is displayed on the display unit after the icon of the first application is selected.

9 . The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the second application is a communications application, a social application, or the application store.

10 . The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein:
the second obtaining unit is configured to: if the second application is a communications application, obtain the information about the to-share-with user by using the second application; or the second obtaining unit is further configured to: if the second application is a social application, obtain the information about the to-share-with user by using the second application, wherein the information about the to-share-with user is stored in a file related to the second application.

11 . The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the application information obtained by the second obtaining unit further comprises evaluation information on the first application; and
the apparatus further comprises: a second sending unit, configured to: after the determining unit determines whether the distance is less than the preset distance, if the distance is less than the preset distance, send the evaluation information to the application store.

12 . The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the second obtaining unit is configured to obtain the link address of the first application from an installation package of the first application according to an identifier of the first application; or
obtain the link address of the first application from a stored table of correspondences between identifiers and link addresses of installed applications according to an identifier of the first application; or obtain the link address of the first application from the application store on the Internet according to an identifier of the first application, wherein the application store on the Internet stores a table of correspondences between identifiers and link addresses of applications.

Assignees

• Huawei Device Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Chan
• Wu Huangwei
• Huang Xi

Classifications

• G06F3/04817

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

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04L67/06 Primary

  specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP] · CPC title

• G06F16/955 Primary

  using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL] · CPC title

• H04L67/34 Primary

  involving the movement of software or configuration parameters  (network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416) · CPC title