METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INTERFACE DISPLAY

• US 20140089842A1
• Filed: 11/26/2013
• Published: 03/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: LIN, Ru Lan, YUAN, Can Cai, XU, Sen Sheng, DING, Hai Feng, CEN, Zi Hao, LIU, Jia En
• Application Number:
  US14/091,249
• Publication Number:
  US 20140089842A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/781
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an interface display method, the method comprising: generating a first screen interface and a second screen interface, wherein the first screen interface displays a functional interface associated with an application, and the second screen interface displays a navigation interface comprising functional modules associated with the application; displaying the first screen interface; displaying the second screen interface when the second screen interface is triggered; and displaying an interface associated with a functional module in the first screen interface when the functional module is selected from the second screen interface. This interface display method accomplishes convenient switching between functional modules without occupying screen display space. The present disclosure also provides an interface display device.

Claims

1. An interface display method comprising:

generating a first screen interface and a second screen interface, wherein the first screen interface displays a functional interface associated with an application, and the second screen interface displays a navigation interface comprising functional modules associated with the application,

displaying the first screen interface,

displaying the second screen interface when the second screen interface is triggered, and

displaying an interface associated with a functional module in the first screen interface when the functional module is selected from the second screen interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the second screen interface comprises moving the second screen interface into a current screen.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein displaying the second screen interface comprises moving the first screen interface out of the current screen.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein at least part of the first screen interface is displayed in the current screen when the second screen interface is displayed in the current screen.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first screen interface comprises a virtual button, and the second screen interface is triggered by a pressing of the virtual button.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second screen interface is triggered by a gesture when the first screen interface is displayed.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the gesture comprises a left-to-right sliding gesture.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the second screen interface is triggered by an activation of a physical button.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the second screen interface is triggered by a shaking of a mobile device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the application comprises a mobile phone managing application.

11. An interface display device comprising:

an interface generating module that generates a first screen interface and a second screen interface, wherein the first screen interface displays a functional interface associated with an application, and the second screen interface displays a navigation interface comprising functional modules associated with the application,

an interface display module that displays the first screen interface,

a detection module that enables the interface display module to display the second screen interface when the second screen interface is triggered, and

a switching module that enables the interface display module to display an interface associated with a functional module in the first screen interface when the functional module is selected from the second screen interface.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the interface display module moves the second screen interface into a current screen when the second screen interface is triggered.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the interface display module moves the first screen interface out of the current screen when the second screen interface is triggered.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein at least part of the first screen interface is displayed in the current screen when the second screen interface is displayed in the current screen.

15. The device of claim 11, wherein the first screen interface comprises a virtual button and the second screen interface is triggered by a pressing of the virtual button.

16. The device of claim 11, wherein the second screen interface is triggered by a gesture when the first screen interface is displayed.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein the gesture comprises a left-to-right sliding gesture.

18. The device of claim 11, wherein the second screen interface is triggered by an activation of a physical button.

19. The device of claim 11, wherein the second screen interface is triggered by a shaking of a mobile device.

20. The device of claim 11, wherein the application comprises a mobile phone managing application.