Method and device for launching application and electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019073099-A1
Application number	US-201615754945-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 5, 2016
Priority date	Sep 28, 2015
Publication date	Mar 7, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method and a device for launching an application (APP) and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: acquiring a page sliding-up operation instruction from a user to display a preset sliding-up page having a first sequence number and having one or more application icons, in which the sliding-up page is a portion of a touch screen formed by dividing the touch screen and is within a range coverable by a single-sliding operation of a user; and determining an application icon corresponding to an application launching operation and launching an application corresponding to the application icon, according to the application launching operation from the user to the sliding-up page.

First claim

1 . A method for launching an application, comprising:
acquiring a page sliding-up operation instruction from a user to display a preset sliding-up page having a first sequence number and having one or more application icons, wherein the sliding-up page is a portion of a touch screen formed by dividing the touch screen and is within a range coverable by a single-sliding operation of the user; and determining an application icon corresponding to an application launching operation and launching an application corresponding to the application icon, according to the application launching operation from the user to the sliding-up page.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
in the sliding-up page, receiving an editing operation instruction from the user and editing the one or more application icons comprised in the sliding-up page.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the sliding-up page is set by:
categorizing all application icons on the touch screen according to a preset categorization strategy; arranging one or more application icons of a respective category into one or more sliding-up pages according to an application icon arrangement rule of the sliding-up page; and setting, for the one or more sliding-up pages corresponding to the respective category, one or more sequence numbers respectively.

4 . The method according claim 3 , further comprising:
setting a page sliding-up control of each category at bottom of each sliding-up page.

5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein acquiring a page sliding-up operation instruction from a user comprises:
acquiring a single-sliding operation input by the user to the touch screen, and judging whether the single-sliding operation matches with a preset page sliding-up operation; if yes, outputting the page sliding-up operating instruction; and if no, performing a process according to a common single-sliding operation.

6 . The method according to claim 5 , wherein the preset page sliding-up operation comprises: within a bottom-left corner region, a bottom-right corner region, a top-left corner region and a top-right corner region, a sliding operation from top-right to bottom-left, or a sliding operation from bottom-left to top-right, wherein an inclination angle from top-right to bottom-left or an inclination angle from bottom-left to top-right is within a preset inclination range.

7 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein editing the one or more application icons comprised in the sliding-up page comprises:
marking each application icon comprised in the sliding-up page as a cancellable state; in a page corresponding to an another portion of the touch screen formed by dividing the touch screen, displaying, moveably and slidably, application icons corresponding to all applications installed on a mobile terminal device; deleting by touching the application icon in the cancellable state, and/or, selecting an application icon comprised in the page corresponding to the another portion and adding the application icon selected to an empty location of the sliding-up page; and moving the one or more application icons comprised in the sliding-up page to sequence.

8 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein moving the one or more application icons comprised in the sliding-up page to sequence comprises:
for each application corresponding to a respective application icon comprised in the sliding-up page, when the application is running, acquiring an actual physical memory usage value of the application, and in the sliding-up page, sequencing the application icons corresponding to the applications in an increasing sequence or in a decreasing sequence according to the actual physical memory usage values.

9 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein moving the one or more application icons comprised in the sliding-up page to sequence comprises:
acquiring a usage number of each application corresponding to a respective application icon comprised in the sliding-up page, within a preset time period; recording a running duration of each application within the preset time period; calculating, for each application, a weighted sum of the usage number and the running duration; and in the sliding-up page, sequencing the application icons corresponding to the applications according to the weighted sums.

10 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying one or more messages received by one or more applications on a page corresponding to another portion of the touch screen formed by dividing the touch screen.

11 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein displaying one or more messages received by one or more applications comprises:
displaying, in sequence, the one or more messages received according to a chronological order of receiving the one or more messages; and if a capacity of messages displayed exceeds a capacity of the page corresponding to the another portion, displaying the messages received in an abbreviated form.

12 . The method according to claim 11 , further comprising:
if the user touches the message displayed, launching an application corresponding to the touched message in the touch screen, and after existing the launched application, restoring the touch screen as the sliding-up page and the page corresponding to the another portion and deleting the touched message from the page corresponding to the another portion.

13 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein displaying one or more messages received by one or more applications comprises:
within a preset display time period, buffering one or more offline messages received, when the preset display time period is over, if the one or more offline messages correspond to one application, when the number of the one or more offline messages is less than a preset first number, displaying the one or more offline messages according to a chronological order of receiving the one or more offline messages; or when the number of the one or more offline messages is not less than the preset first number, displaying offline messages of the preset first number according to the chronological order of receiving the one or more offline messages and displaying the number of the one or more offline messages behind the final offline message displayed; and if the one or more offline messages correspond to a plurality of applications, setting a message item for each application, wherein the message item comprises an application icon and the number of offline messages, when the number of the message items exceeds a preset second number, displaying messages items of the preset second number according to a preset displaying strategy and displaying the number of the message items behind the final message items displayed.

14 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
in the sliding-up page, receiving a page sliding-up switching operation instruction, so as to switch the sliding-up page having the first sequence number to a sliding-up page having a next sequence number.

15 . The method according to claim 14 , wherein receiving a page sliding-up switching operation instruction, so as to switch the sliding-up page having the first sequence number to a sliding-up page of a next sequence number comprises:
receiving a horizontal sliding operation input by the user within a preset region in the sliding-up page to output the page sliding-up switching operation instruction; and switching the sliding-up page having the first sequence number to the sliding-up page of the next sequence number.

16 . The method according to claim 14 , whe

Assignees

• Beijing Kingsoft Internet Security Software Co Ltd

Inventors

• Liu Delin

Classifications

• G06F3/0483 Primary

  Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

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

• G06F3/04817 Primary

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

• G06F3/04847

  Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials · CPC title

• G06F3/04883

  for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text · CPC title