Application management method and device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9779106-B2
Application number	US-201214239186-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 14, 2012
Priority date	Aug 15, 2011
Publication date	Oct 3, 2017
Grant date	Oct 3, 2017

Abstract

Disclosed are an application management method and device, applied to a first device connected to a second device. The method includes mapping at least one application in the second device, to obtain at least one corresponding application identifier; detecting a first operation; when the first operation satisfies a first preset condition, determining an application identifier of a first application according to the at least one application identifier; detecting a second operation; when the second operation satisfies a second preset condition, obtaining a corresponding application management command according to the second operation; and sending the application management command to the second device, so that the second device manages the first application according to the application management command.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An application management method applied to a first apparatus connected with a second apparatus, a first operating system is run on the first apparatus, the method comprising:
mapping at least one application in the second apparatus and obtaining at least one corresponding application identifier, wherein a second operating system is run on the second apparatus, the at least one application is installed in the second operating system;
detecting a first operation;
when the first operation satisfies a first preset condition, determining an application identifier for a first application from the at least one application identifier;
detecting a second operation, wherein the second operation is an operation executed on the preceding, determined application identifier of the first application;
when the second operation satisfies a second preset condition, obtaining a corresponding application manage command according to the second operation, and transmitting the application manage command to the second apparatus, so that the second apparatus manages the first application according to the application manage command and so that
an application that is installed in the second electronic apparatus operates directly on a system interface of the operating system of the first electronic apparatus, wherein the application manage command comprises a command of switching a state, or a command of closing, starting, synchronizing, associating, backing up or installing an application.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein mapping at least one application in the second apparatus comprises:
transmitting, by the first apparatus, to the second apparatus a request for obtaining applications that have already been running on the second apparatus;
receiving a list of applications returned by the second apparatus according to the request, the list of applications including application identifiers of applications that have already been running on the second apparatus;
or
transmitting, by the first apparatus, to the second apparatus a request for obtaining applications that have not been running on the second apparatus;
receiving a list of applications returned by the second apparatus according to the request, the list of applications including application identifiers of applications that have not been running on the second apparatus.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the first apparatus includes a display unit such that in a first state of the first apparatus the display unit displays an operating state of the first operating system, and in a second state of the first apparatus the display unit displays an operating state of the second operating system.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein when the first apparatus transmits to the second apparatus a request for obtaining applications that have already been running on the second apparatus, transmitting the application manage command to the second apparatus comprises:
when the first apparatus is in the first state, transmitting to the second apparatus a switch command of switching to the second state, so that the second apparatus executes the first application in the second state, or
when the first apparatus is in the first state, transmitting to the second apparatus a close command of closing the first application, so that the second apparatus ends progress of the first application, or
when the first apparatus is in the first state, transmitting to the second apparatus a start command of starting the first application.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein mapping at least one application in the second apparatus comprises:
detecting data connection with the second electronic apparatus to obtain a detection result;
when the detection result indicates that the data connection of the first electronic apparatus with the second electronic apparatus succeeds, obtaining a list of applications from the second electronic apparatus, the list of applications including at least one application installed in the second electronic apparatus; and
creating at least one application identifier corresponding to one application in the list of applications according to the list of applications, wherein after the application identifier is triggered, the application corresponding to the application identifier can be started in the second electronic apparatus.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the first electronic apparatus includes a display unit, the method further comprising when the application corresponding to the at least one application identifier is started in the second electronic apparatus, displaying on the display unit a running interface of the second electronic apparatus.

7. The method according to claim 5 , wherein obtaining a list of applications from the second electronic apparatus comprises:
when the detection result indicates that the data connection of the first electronic apparatus with the second electronic apparatus succeeds, transmitting a request to the second electronic apparatus for obtaining a list of applications installed in the second electronic apparatus, and thereafter receiving the list of applications transmitted by second electronic apparatus in response to the request; or
when the detection result indicates that the data connection of the first electronic apparatus with the second electronic apparatus succeeds, receiving the list of applications automatically transmitted by the second electronic apparatus.

8. The method according to claim 5 , wherein obtaining a list of applications from the second electronic apparatus comprises:
obtaining from the second electronic apparatus a list of applications including all of the applications in the second electronic apparatus; or
obtaining from the second electronic apparatus a list of applications including specified applications in the second electronic apparatus; or
obtaining from the second electronic apparatus a list of applications including updated applications, wherein the second electronic apparatus has already stored therein a list of applications previously transmitted; or
transmitting to the second electronic apparatus a list of applications including applications to which already-existing application identifiers correspond, and obtaining from the second electronic apparatus a list of applications including updated applications, wherein the second electronic apparatus has not stored therein a list of applications previously transmitted.

9. The method according to claim 5 , wherein creating at least one application identifier corresponding to one application in the list of applications according to the list of applications comprises:
in the case of deleting already-created application identifiers when the electronic apparatus disconnects with the second electronic apparatus, creating a plurality of application identifiers respectively corresponding to all of the applications in the list of applications; or
in the case of not deleting already-created application identifiers when the electronic apparatus disconnects with the second electronic apparatus, comparing all of the applications in the list of applications with the applications to which the already-existed application identifiers correspond, and creating and/or deleting application identifiers corresponding to updated applications based on a comparison result.

10. The method according to claim 5 , further comprising:
when a user operates an update requesting unit on the first electronic apparatus, wherein the update requesting unit is a key provided on the first electronic apparatus or an identifier corresponding to a predetermined command,
if the data connection of the first elec

Assignees

• Xu Wei
• Deng Qiming
• Chen Dong
• Wang Sheng
• Huang Shiguang
• Liu Qing
• Chen Yanxia
• Lenovo Beijing Co Ltd
• Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd

Inventors

• Xu Wei
• Deng Qiming
• Chen Dong
• Wang Sheng
• Huang Shiguang
• Liu Qing
• Chen Yanxia

Classifications

• G06F8/61 Primary

  Installation · CPC title

• G06F17/30174 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F9/4445

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F9/452

  Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation (protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131) · CPC title

• G06F16/178 Primary

  Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems · CPC title