Releasing resources from processes in a particular order to provide required resources to start an application

• US 10,268,515 B2
• Filed: 08/15/2014
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shell Internet (Beijing) Security Technology Co., Ltd (Kingsoft Corporation Limited)
• Original Assignee: Shell Internet (Beijing) Security Technology Co., Ltd (Kingsoft Corporation Limited)
• Inventors: Zhang, Kangzong, Luo, Yong, Yang, Haiying, Xiao, Chao
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, James J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Joy-Davila, Jorge A Chu
• Application Number:
  US15/105,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20170004013A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,712 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0604 Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0647 Migration mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0673 Single storage device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/485 Task life-cycle, e.g. stopping, restarting, resuming execution G06F9/4881 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4881 Scheduling strategies for dispatcher, e.g. round robin, multi-level priority queues
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and a device for managing an application applied in an electronic device, said method comprising: detecting an application installed in the electronic device; determining an application to be managed from a detection result according to a predetermined regulation; creating an application management folder; generating a shortcut identification for the application to be managed in the application management folder; triggering an operation for providing memory resources to the application to be managed and triggering an operation for starting the application to be managed, after receiving an operation on the shortcut identification from a user. With embodiments of the present disclosure, the starting speed of the application may be improved and the possibility of happening of phenomena such as unsmooth start, runtime error and crashing may be reduced, and the tidiness of the desktop is improved.

Claims

1. A method for application management, wherein the method is applied in an electronic device and the method comprises:

determining an application to be managed from one or more applications installed in the electronic device according to a predetermined regulation;

creating an application management folder;

generating a shortcut identification for the application to be managed in the application management folder;

managing startup of the application to be managed via, after receiving an operation on the shortcut identification from a user,

triggering an operation for providing memory resources to the application to be managed, the memory resources being sufficient to satisfy a memory requirement of starting the application to be managed as defined in a memory requirement list, and

triggering an operation for starting the application to be managed;

wherein providing memory resources to the application to be managed comprises;

obtaining a size of memory required by starting the application to be managed;

determining whether remaining memory resources satisfy a memory requirement of starting the application to be managed;

releasing memory resources of processes in the electronic device to satisfy the memory requirement of starting the application to be managed when the remaining memory resources cannot satisfy the memory resources requirement of starting the application to be managed, wherein during releasing memory resources, the memory resources are released first in an order of long to short unused time of respective processes, and then in an order of long to short starting periods of the respective processes.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein obtaining a size of memory required by starting the application to be managed comprises:

searching for the size of memory required by starting the application to be managed in the memory requirement list, the memory requirement list being a preset memory requirement list stored locally;

or

sending a memory searching request to a server, and obtaining the size of memory required by starting the application to be managed from the server, wherein the memory searching request carries an identification of the application to be managed.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the memory searching request further carries hardware information of the electronic device, and the server determines the size of memory required by starting the application to be managed according to the identification of the application to be managed and the hardware information of the electronic device carried the memory searching request.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein releasing memory resources comprises:

releasing memory resources occupied by processes in the electronic device in sequence until the size of memory required by starting application to be managed is satisfied, in which memory resources occupied by a first kind of processes are released first, and memory resources occupied by a second kind of processes are released later, the first kind of processes are processes which will not be restarted by an operating system after exiting, and the second kind of processes are processes will be restarted by the operating system after exiting.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein during releasing memory resources occupied by a first kind of processes, the memory resources occupied by respective processes are released in an order of long to short unused time of respective processes.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

monitoring a running state of the application to be managed;

releasing memory resources occupied by the application to be managed if it is monitored that the application to be managed finishes running.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

sending an application recommendation request to a server, wherein the application recommendation request carries the shortcut identification of the application to be managed;

receiving application recommendation information, including a classification of the application to be managed, determined by the server according to the application recommendation request and displaying the application recommendation information to the user.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions that, when executed by a processor of a device, causes the device to perform a method for application management comprising:

determining an application to be managed from one or more applications installed in the electronic device according to a predetermined regulation;

creating an application management folder;

generating a shortcut identification for the application to be managed in the application management folder;

managing startup of the application to be managed via, after receiving an operation on the shortcut identification from a user,

triggering an operation for providing memory resources to the application to be managed, the memory resources being sufficient to satisfy a memory requirement of starting the application to be managed as defined in a memory requirement list, and,

triggering an operation for starting the application to be managed;

wherein providing memory resources to the application to be managed comprises;

obtaining a size of memory required by starting the application to be managed;

determining whether remaining memory resources satisfy a memory requirement of starting the application to be managed;

releasing memory resources of processes in the electronic device to satisfy the memory requirement of starting the application to be managed when the remaining memory resources cannot satisfy the memory resources requirement of starting the application to be managed, wherein during releasing memory resources, the memory resources are released first in an order of long to short unused time of respective processes, and then in an order of long to short starting periods of the respective processes.

9. An electronic device for application management, comprising:

a housing, a displayer, a circuit board and a processor, wherein the circuit board is arranged inside a space enclosed by the housing, the displayer is arranged external to the housing and connected with the circuit board, and the processor is arranged on the circuit board and configured to process data so as to execute following acts of;

determining an application to be managed from one or more applications installed in the electronic device and according to a predetermined regulation;

creating an application management folder;

generating a shortcut identification for the application to be managed in the application management folder;

managing startup of the application to be managed via, after receiving an operation on the shortcut identification from a user,

triggering an operation for providing memory resources to the application to be managed, the memory resources being sufficient to satisfy a memory requirement of starting the application to be managed as defined in a memory requirement list, and

triggering an operation for starting the application to be managed;

wherein providing memory resources to the application to be managed comprises;

obtaining a size of memory required by starting the application to be managed;

determining whether remaining memory resources satisfy a memory requirement of starting the application to be managed;

releasing memory resources of processes in the electronic device to satisfy the memory requirement of starting the application to be managed when the remaining memory resources cannot satisfy the memory resources requirement of starting the application to be managed, wherein during releasing memory resources, the memory resources are released first in an order of long to short unused time of respective processes, and then in an order of long to short starting periods of the respective processes.

10. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to obtain the size of memory required by starting the application to be managed by acts of:

searching for the size of memory required by starting the application to be managed in the memory requirement list, the memory requirement list being a preset memory requirement list stored locally;

or

sending a memory searching request to a server, and obtaining the size of memory required by starting the application to be managed from the server, wherein the memory searching request carries an identification of the application to be managed.

11. The electronic device according to claim 10, wherein the memory searching request further carries hardware information of the electronic device, and the server determines the size of memory required by starting the application to be managed according to the identification of the application to be managed and the hardware information of the electronic device carried the memory searching request.

12. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to release memory resources by acts of:

releasing memory resources occupied by processes in the electronic device in sequence until the memory requirement of starting the application to be managed is satisfied, in which memory resources occupied by a first kind of processes are released first, and memory resources occupied by a second kind of processes are released later, the first kind of processes are processes which will not be restarted by an operating system after exiting, and the second kind of processes are processes will be restarted by the operating system after exiting.

13. The electronic device according to claim 12, wherein during releasing memory resources occupied by a second kind of processes, the memory resources occupied by respective resources are released first in an order of long to short unused time of respective processes, and then in an order of long to short starting periods of the respective processes.

14. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to execute following acts of:

monitoring a running state of the application to be managed;

releasing memory resources occupied by the application to be managed if it is monitored that the application to be managed finishes running.