METHOD FOR PROCESSING TOUCH SCREEN TERMINAL OBJECT AND TOUCH SCREEN TERMINAL

• US 20130285948A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: ZHANG, TING
• Granted Patent: US 11,068,085 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for processing a touch screen terminal object and a touch screen terminal. The method includes: receiving an object placing instruction of placing, in a container interface, a source object selected in a source interface, determining, according to attribute information of the source object, a display icon that corresponds to the source object, and displaying, in the container interface, the display icon that corresponds to the source object; receiving an icon placing instruction of placing the display icon that corresponds to the source object and is in the container interface on a selected target object in a target interfac; determining a target operation option according to the attribute information of the source object and attribute information of the target object; and starting a target operation procedure according to the target operation option and the target object.

Claims

1. A method for processing a touch screen terminal object, comprising:

receiving an object placing instruction given by a user, wherein the object placing instruction is used to place, in a container interface, a source object selected by the user in a source interface, the object placing instruction carries attribute information of the source object, and the source interface is an interface where the source object is located;

determining, according to the attribute information of the source object, a display icon that corresponds to the source object, and displaying, in the container interface, the display icon that corresponds to the source object;

receiving an icon placing instruction given by the user, wherein the icon placing instruction is used to place the display icon that corresponds to the source object and is in the container interface on a target object in a target interface, the icon placing instruction carries the attribute information of the source object and attribute information of the target object, and the target interface is an interface where the target object is located;

determining a target operation option according to the attribute information of the source object and the attribute information of the target object, wherein the target operation option is an operation option of an executable operation that is generated when the source object is associated with the target object; and

starting a target operation procedure according to the target operation option and the target object.

2. The method for processing a touch screen terminal object according to claim 1, wherein the determining, according to the attribute information of the source object, a display icon that corresponds to the source object, and displaying, in the container interface, the display icon that corresponds to the source object comprises:

searching a preset object attribute database according to the attribute information of the source object, obtaining the display icon that corresponds to the source object, and displaying, in the container interface, the display icon that corresponds to the source object, wherein the object attribute database comprises attribute information of each object and icon information that corresponds to each object in the touch screen terminal.

3. The method for processing a touch screen terminal object according to claim 1, wherein the determining a target operation option according to the attribute information of the source object and the attribute information of the target object comprises:

searching a preset object operation database according to the attribute information of the source object and the attribute information of the target object, and obtaining the target operation option, wherein the object operation database comprises operation options of executable operations that are generated when objects in the touch screen terminal are associated with each other.

4. The method for processing a touch screen terminal object according to claim 2, wherein the determining a target operation option according to the attribute information of the source object and the attribute information of the target object comprises:

searching a preset object operation database according to the attribute information of the source object and the attribute information of the target object, and obtaining the target operation option, wherein the object operation database comprises operation options of executable operations that are generated when objects in the touch screen terminal are associated with each other.

5. The method for processing a touch screen terminal object according to claim 3, wherein the searching a preset object operation database according to the attribute information of the source object and the attribute information of the target object, and obtaining the target operation option comprises:

searching the preset object operation database according to the attribute information of the source object and the attribute information of the target object, obtaining and displaying an operation list of the source object, wherein the operation list of the source object comprises at least one operation option of the executable operation that is generated when the source object is associated with the target object; and

receiving an operation selection instruction given by the user, and obtaining the target operation option from the operation selection instruction, wherein the operation selection instruction carries the target operation option selected by the user from the operation list of the source object.

6. The method for processing a touch screen terminal object according to claim 4, wherein the searching a preset object operation database according to the attribute information of the source object and the attribute information of the target object, and obtaining the target operation option comprises:

searching the preset object operation database according to the attribute information of the source object and the attribute information of the target object, obtaining and displaying an operation list of the source object, wherein the operation list of the source object comprises at least one operation option of the executable operation that is generated when the source object is associated with the target object; and

receiving an operation selection instruction given by the user, and obtaining the target operation option from the operation selection instruction, wherein the operation selection instruction carries the target operation option selected by the user from the operation list of the source object.

7. The method for processing a touch screen terminal object according to claim 3, before the receiving an icon placing instruction given by the user, comprising:

searching the object operation database according to the attribute information of the source object and attribute information of each object in the target interface, obtaining a first object, and performing display processing on the first object, so that the user identifies, according to a display state of the first object, that the first object is irrelevant to the source object, wherein the first object is an object whose executable operation generated when the source object is associated with the first object is empty.

8. The method for processing a touch screen terminal object according to claim 3, before the receiving an icon placing instruction given by the user, comprising:

obtaining the attribute information of the target object; and

searching the object operation database according to attribute information of an object that corresponds to each display icon in the container interface and the attribute information of the target object, obtaining a first display icon, and performing display processing on the first display icon, so that the user identifies, according to a display state of the first display icon, that an object that corresponds to the first display icon is irrelevant to the target object, wherein the first display icon is a display icon whose executable operation generated when the object that corresponds to the first display icon is associated with the target object is empty.

9. The method for processing a touch screen terminal object according to claim 1, wherein the source object is an image, music, video, an application program, text information, a contact, or a memorandum;

and

the target object is a folder, an image, a contact, or a desktop.

10. The method for processing a touch screen terminal object according to claim 1, wherein the attribute information of the source object comprises at least one piece of the following information:

a type of the source object, a name of the source object, and a thumbnail image of the source object; and

the attribute information of the target object comprises at least one piece of the following information;

a type of the target object and a name of the target object.

11. A touch screen terminal, comprising:

a first instruction receiving module, configured to receive an object placing instruction given by a user, wherein the object placing instruction is used to place, in a container interface, a source object selected by the user in a source interface, the object placing instruction carries attribute information of the source object, and the source interface is an interface where the source object is located;

a first obtaining module, configured to determine, according to the attribute information of the source object, a display icon that corresponds to the source object, and display, in the container interface, the display icon that corresponds to the source object;

a second instruction receiving module, configured to receive an icon placing instruction given by the user, wherein the icon placing instruction is used to place the display icon that corresponds to the source object and is in the container interface on a target object in a target interface, the icon placing instruction carries the attribute information of the source object and attribute information of the target object, and the target interface is an interface where the target object is located;

a second obtaining module, configured to determine a target operation option according to the attribute information of the source object and the attribute information of the target object, wherein the target operation option is an operation option of an executable operation that is generated when the source object is associated with the target object; and

a processing module, configured to start a target operation procedure according to the target operation option and the target object.

12. The touch screen terminal according to claim 11, wherein the first obtaining module is specifically configured to search a preset object attribute database according to the attribute information of the source object, obtain the display icon that corresponds to the source object, and display, in the container interface, the display icon that corresponds to the source object, wherein the object attribute database comprises attribute information of each object and icon information that corresponds to each object in the touch screen terminal.

13. The touch screen terminal according to claim 11, wherein the second obtaining module is specifically configured to search a preset object operation database according to the attribute information of the source object and the attribute information of the target object, and obtain the target operation option, wherein the object operation database comprises operation options of executable operations that are generated when objects in the touch screen terminal are associated with each other.

14. The touch screen terminal according to claim 12, wherein the second obtaining module is specifically configured to search a preset object operation database according to the attribute information of the source object and the attribute information of the target object, and obtain the target operation option, wherein the object operation database comprises operation options of executable operations that are generated when objects in the touch screen terminal are associated with each other.

15. The touch screen terminal according to claim 13, wherein the second obtaining module is further specifically configured to search the preset object operation database according to the attribute information of the source object and the attribute information of the target object, obtain and display an operation list of the source object, receive an operation selection instruction given by the user, and obtain the target operation option from the operation selection instruction, wherein the operation list of the source object comprises at least one operation option of the executable operation that is generated when the source object is associated with the target object, and the operation selection instruction carries the target operation option selected by the user from the operation list of the source object.

16. The touch screen terminal according to claim 14, wherein the second obtaining module is further specifically configured to search the preset object operation database according to the attribute information of the source object and the attribute information of the target object, obtain and display an operation list of the source object, receive an operation selection instruction given by the user, and obtain the target operation option from the operation selection instruction, wherein the operation list of the source object comprises at least one operation option of the executable operation that is generated when the source object is associated with the target object, and the operation selection instruction carries the target operation option selected by the user from the operation list of the source object.

17. The touch screen terminal according to claim 13, further comprising:

a first processing module, configured to, before the second instruction receiving module receives the icon placing instruction, search the object operation database according to the attribute information of the source object and attribute information of each object in the target interface, obtain a first object, and perform display processing on the first object, so that the user identifies, according to a display state of the first object, that the first object is irrelevant to the source object, wherein the first object is an object whose executable operation generated when the source object is associated with the first object is empty.

18. The touch screen terminal according to claim 13, further comprising:

a third obtaining module, configured to obtain the attribute information of the target object; and

a second processing module, configured to, before the second instruction receiving module receives the icon placing instruction, search the object operation database according to attribute information of an object that corresponds to each display icon in the container interface and the attribute information of the target object, obtain a first display icon, and perform display processing on the first display icon, so that the user identifies, according to a display state of the first display icon, that an object that corresponds to the first display icon is irrelevant to the target object, wherein the first display icon is a display icon whose executable operation generated when the object that corresponds to the first display icon is associated with the target object is empty.

19. The touch screen terminal according to claim 11, wherein the source object is an image, music, video, an application program, text information, a contact, or a memorandum;

and

the target object is a folder, an image, a contact, or a desktop.

20. The touch screen terminal according to claim 11, wherein the attribute information of the source object comprises at least one piece of the following information:

a type of the source object, a name of the source object, and a thumbnail image of the source object; and

the attribute information of the target object comprises at least one piece of the following information;

a type of the target object and a name of the target object.