SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY DISPLAYING APPLICATION SHORTCUT ICONS OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20100175025A1
• Filed: 07/27/2009
• Published: 07/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Lin, Sheng-Feng
• Granted Patent: US 8,151,217 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/811
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3466 Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/88 Monitoring involving counting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/977 Dynamic icon, e.g. animated or live action

Abstract

A method for dynamically displaying application shortcut icons of an electronic device constructs a dependency relation graph according to applications whose invoked frequency has reached a predetermined frequency value, and further according to browsing paths whose count has reached a predetermined dependency rule. The method further computes a weight value of each node in the dependency relation graph for ranking the applications to display application shortcut icons of the applications on the electronic device according to the rank.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically displaying application shortcut icons of an electronic device, the electronic device comprising a storage device storing the applications, the method comprising:

(a) receiving a predetermined frequency value and a dependency rule, wherein the frequency value is a count that how many times an application has been invoked within a predetermined time interval and the dependency rule is a count of a taken browsing path to the application;

(b) detecting a currently invoked application, and identifying a browsing path to the currently invoked application, and storing the browsing path into the storage device;

(c) accessing an invoked frequency of the currently invoked application from the storage device;

(d) updating the invoked frequency, and saving the updated invoked frequency in the storage device;

(e) storing an identifier of the currently invoked application into a queue of the storage device upon the condition that the updated invoked frequency of the currently invoked application is equal to or more than the predetermined frequency value;

(f) constructing a first dependency relation graph for the applications whose identifiers are in the queue upon the condition that the count of the browsing path to the currently invoked application is equal to or more than the dependency rule;

(g) computing a weight value of each node in the first dependency relation graph;

(h) ranking the applications of the first dependency relation graph according to the weight values; and

(i) displaying application shortcut icons of the applications according to the rank on a display screen of the electronic device.

2. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the invoked frequency is updated by increasing 1.

3. The method as described in claim 1, further comprising:

constructing a second dependency relation graph according to the browsing paths which are only from the currently invoked application and whose count are equal to or more than the predetermined frequency value; and

computing a weight value of each node in the second dependency relation graph.

4. The method as described in claim 1, wherein in block (h) the applications are ranked in a descending order according to the weight values.

5. The method as described in claim 1, wherein in block (g) the weight values are computed using the PageRank algorithm.

6. The method as described in claim 1, the electronic device is a mobile phone, a computer, or a personal digital assistant.

7. A storage device medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a processor, causing the processor to perform a method for dynamically displaying application shortcut icons of an electronic device, wherein the method comprises:

(a) receiving a predetermined frequency value and a dependency rule, wherein the frequency value is a count that how many times an application has been invoked within a predetermined time interval and the dependency rule is a count of a taken browsing path to the application;

(b) detecting a currently invoked application, and identifying a browsing path to the currently invoked application, and storing the browsing path into the storage device,

(c) accessing an invoked frequency of the currently invoked application from the storage device;

(d) updating the invoked frequency, and saving the updated invoked frequency in the storage device;

(e) storing an identifier of currently invoked application into a queue of the storage device upon the condition that the updated invoked frequency of the currently invoked application is equal to or more than the predetermined frequency value;

(f) constructing a first dependency relation graph for the applications whose identifiers are in the queue upon the condition that the count of the browsing path to the current application is equal to or more than the dependency rule;

(g) computing a weight value of each node in the first dependency relation graph;

(h) ranking the applications of the first dependency relation graph according to the weight values; and

(i) displaying application shortcut icons of the applications according to the rank on a display screen of the electronic device.

8. The storage device medium as described in claim 7, wherein the invoked frequency is updated by increasing 1.

9. The storage device medium as described in claim 7, further comprising:

constructing a second dependency relation graph according to the browsing paths which are only from the currently invoked application and whose count are equal to or more than the predetermined frequency value; and

computing a weight value of each node in the second dependency relation graph.

10. The storage device medium as described in claim 7, wherein in block (h) the applications are ranked in a descending order according to the weight values.

11. The storage device medium as described in claim 7, wherein in block (g) the weight values are computed using the PageRank algorithm.

12. The storage device medium as described in claim 7, wherein the electronic device is a mobile phone, a computer, or a personal digital assistant.

13. A system for dynamically displaying application shortcut icons of an electronic device, the electronic device being installed with the applications, the system comprising:

a storage device;

a parameter receiving module operable to receive a predetermined frequency value and a dependency rule, wherein the frequency value is a count that how many times an application has been invoked within a predetermined time interval and the dependency rule is a count of a taken browsing path to the application,

a detecting module operable to detect a currently invoked application, and identify a browsing path to the currently invoked application, and store the browsing path into the storage device;

a frequency computing module operable to access an invoked frequency of the currently invoked application from the storage device, update the invoked frequency, and save the updated invoked frequency in the storage device,

a storing module operable to store an identifier of the currently invoked application into a queue of the storage device, upon the condition that the updated invoked frequency of the currently invoked application equals or is more than the predetermined frequency value;

a dependency relation graph constructing module operable to construct a first dependency relation graph for the applications whose identifiers are in the queue upon the condition that the count of the browsing path to the current application is equal to or more than the dependency rule;

a weight value computing module operable to compute a weight value of each node in the first dependency relation graph;

a ranking module operable to rank the applications of the first dependency relation graph according to the weight values; and

a displaying module operable to displays application shortcut icons of the applications according to the rank on a display screen of the electronic device.

14. The system as described in claim 13, wherein the frequency computing module updates the invoked frequency by increasing 1.

15. The system as described in claim 13, wherein the dependency relation graph constructing module is further operable to construct a second dependency relation graph according to the browsing paths which are only from the currently invoked application and whose count are equal to or more than the predetermined frequency value.

16. The system as described in claim 15, wherein the weight value computing module is further operable to compute a weight value of each node in the second dependency relation graph.

17. The system as described in claim 13, wherein the ranking module ranks the applications in a descending order according to the weight values.

18. The system as described in claim 13, wherein weight value computing module computes the weight values using the PageRank algorithm.

19. The system as described in claim 13, wherein the electronic device is a mobile phone, a computer, or a personal digital assistant.

20. The system as described in claim 13, wherein the storage device is a hard disk drive, a compact disk drive, or a floppy disk drive.