TERMINAL AND LOOK AND FEEL MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100120411A1
• Filed: 09/24/2009
• Published: 05/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wang, Rui, Zhao, Hui
• Application Number:
  US12/565,998
• Publication Number:
  US 20100120411A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/422.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0283 for providing a decorative aspect, e.g. customization of casings, exchangeable faceplate
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions

Abstract

A Look and Feel management method applicable to a terminal with a Look and Feel package pre-configured includes: receiving a management instruction which is an instruction for one of activation, modification or deletion of or query about the Look and Feel package, and executing one of activation, modification or deletion of or query about the Look and Feel package in accordance with the management instruction. A beneficial effect of a more convenient management on the Look and Feel of a terminal may be achieved with the management of operations of activating, deleting, modifying and querying about a Look and Feel package of the terminal.

Claims

1. A Look and Feel management method, comprising:

receiving a management instruction which indicates an operation for query about a current Look and Feel package;

wherein the management instruction carries an identifier of the current Look and Feel package and the current Look and Feel package comprises a reference identifier;

searching the current Look and Feel package according to the identifier of the current Look and Feel package;

obtaining the reference identifier in the current Look and Feel package; and

executing the operation for query about a reference Look and Feel package in accordance with the reference identifier.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the management instruction indicates an operation for query about the current Look and Feel package, and

the executing of the operation for query about the reference Look and Feel package is:

returning information used to identify the reference Look and Feel package in accordance with the reference identifier.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the current Look and Feel package comprises the current identifier, the reference identifier and contents of a reference Look and Feel package corresponding to the reference identifier;

and the reference Look and Feel package comprises the reference identifier, elements and values of the elements.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the information used to identify the reference Look and Feel package comprises:

the reference identifier and/or the contents of the reference Look and Feel package.

5. A Look and Feel management method, comprising:

receiving a management instruction which indicates an operation for one of modification and deletion of a current Look and Feel package;

wherein the management instruction carries an identifier of the current Look and Feel package and the current Look and Feel package comprises a reference identifier;

searching the current Look and Feel package according to the identifier of the current Look and Feel package;

executing the operation for one of modification and deletion of the current Look and Feel package; and

updating the reference identifier in the current Look and Feel package according to the operation for one of modification and deletion of the current Look and Feel package.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the management instruction indicates an operation for modification of the current Look and Feel package and carries a new reference identifier;

the executing of the operation for modification of the current Look and Feel package comprises;

updating elements and values of the elements in the current Look and Feel package respectively to elements and values of the elements of a Look and Feel package corresponding to the new reference identifier; and

the updating the reference identifier in the current Look and Feel package according to the operation for one of modification and deletion of the current Look and Feel package comprises;

updating the reference identifier in the current Look and Feel package to the new reference identifier.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the management instruction indicates an operation for modification of the current Look and Feel package and carries a new Look and Feel element value;

the executing of the operation for modification of the Look and Feel package comprises;

replacing a corresponding Look and Feel element value in the current Look and Feel package with the new Look and Feel element value; and

the updating the reference identifier in the current Look and Feel package according to the operation for one of modification and deletion of the current Look and Feel package comprises;

modifying the reference identifier in the current Look and Feel package to correspond to the modified current Look and Feel package.

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

recording and storing elements and values of the elements in the updated current Look and Feel package as a new Look and Feel package, after replacing the corresponding Look and Feel element value with the new Look and Feel element value.

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

after modifying the reference identifier in the current Look and Feel package to correspond to the modified current Look and Feel package, reporting the reference identifier of the modified current Look and Feel package to notify the server about that the current Look and Feel package has been modified by a user.

10. The method according to claim 5, wherein the management instruction indicates an operation for deletion of the current Look and Feel package;

the executing of the operation for deletion of the current Look and Feel package comprises;

deleting contents in the current Look and Feel package, updating elements and values of the elements in a pre-configured default Look and Feel package as elements and values of the elements of the current Look and Feel package; and

the updating the reference identifier in the current Look and Feel package according to the operation for one of modification and deletion of the current Look and Feel package comprises;

updating an identifier of the pre-configured default Look and Feel package as a reference identifier in the current Look and Feel package.

11. A terminal, comprising:

a Look and Feel package storage unit adapted to store a current Look and Feel package and a reference Look and Feel package;

wherein the current Look and Feel package is identified by a current identifier and comprises a reference identifier, and the reference Look and Feel package is identified by the reference identifier and comprises elements and values;

an agent unit adapted to receive a management instruction sent from one of a network and a user;

an output unit adapted to obtain and output the contents of the reference Look and Feel package according to the reference identifier of the current Look and Feel package according to the management instruction;

a Look and Feel processing module adapted to receive the contents of the reference Look and Feel package and process and output the contents;

a Look and Feel presentation module adapted to receive and present the contents output from the Look and Feel processing module.

12. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the current Look and Feel package further comprises elements and values of the elements which is respectively the same as the elements and values of the elements of the reference Look and Feel package.

13. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the management instruction is a modification instruction carrying a new reference identifier;

and the terminal further comprises;

a Look and Feel modification unit adapted to update the reference identifier in the current Look and Feel package in the Look and Feel package storage unit with the new reference identifier.

14. The terminal according to 13, wherein the current Look and Feel package further comprises elements and values of the elements which is respectively the same as the elements and values of the elements of the reference Look and Feel package;

and the Look and Feel modification unit is further adapted to update the elements and values of the elements in the current Look and Feel package in the Look and Feel package storage unit with the elements and values thereof of a Look and Feel package corresponding to the new reference identifier.

15. The terminal according to claim 12, wherein the management instruction is a modification instruction carrying a new Look and Feel element value;

and the terminal further comprises;

a Look and Feel modification unit adapted to replace the value of a corresponding element in the current Look and Feel package with the new element value, modify value of the reference identifier to a specific value and instruct the output unit to output the modified current Look and Feel package.

16. The terminal according to claim 15, wherein the terminal further comprises an element modification record unit adapted to record the modified current Look and Feel package except the current identifier and the reference identifier as a new Look and Feel package into the Look and Feel package storage unit and set value of the identifier of the new Look and Feel package to the specific value.

17. The terminal according to claim 12, wherein the Look and Feel package storage unit further stores a default Look and Feel package, the management instruction is a deletion instruction and the Look and Feel modification unit is further adapted to update the contents of the current Look and Feel package with the elements and values of the elements of the default Look and Feel package to delete the contents of the current Look and Feel package according to the deletion instruction.

18. The terminal according to claim 12, wherein the management instruction is a query instruction with a target identifier and the terminal further comprises a Look and Feel query unit adapted to obtain and return one of the current Look and Feel package and the reference Look and Feel package if the target identifier is the current identifier and value of the reference identifier in the current Look and Feel package is not a specific value

19. The terminal according to claim 12, wherein the management instruction is a query instruction with a target identifier and the terminal further comprises a Look and Feel query unit adapted to obtain and return the current Look and Feel package if the target identifier is the current identifier and value of the reference identifier in the current Look and Feel package is the specific value.