INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CHANGING EXECUTION PRIORITY

• US 20140108996A1
• Filed: 09/24/2013
• Published: 04/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Client Computing Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: MAEKAWA, Hiroyuki, NAKATA, Takehiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,360,989 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/781
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4881 Scheduling strategies for dispatcher, e.g. round robin, multi-level priority queues

Abstract

An information processing device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to detect an instruction operation of drawing a trajectory of a position specified on a display screen so as to form the trajectory in a given shape, and change an execution priority of at least one program among a plurality of programs being executed when the instruction operation is detected.

Claims

1. An information processing device, comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory and configured to

detect an instruction operation of drawing a trajectory of a position specified on a display screen so as to form the trajectory in a given shape, and

change an execution priority of at least one program among a plurality of programs being executed when the instruction operation is detected.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the processor selects a program from among the plurality of programs being executed on the basis of positional relationships between the position specified by the detected instruction operation on the display screen and display ranges, on the display screen, of display windows corresponding to the plurality of programs being executed, and changes an execution priority of the selected program.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the processor selects a program corresponding to a display window in which the position specified by the detected instruction operation is included.

4. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the processor detects either a first instruction operation of drawing a trajectory of a specified position so as to form the trajectory in a first shape or a second instruction operation of drawing a trajectory of a specified position so as to form the trajectory in a second shape, and

wherein when the first instruction operation is detected, the processor increases the execution priority of the selected program, and when the second instruction operation is detected, the processor reduces the execution priority of the selected program.

5. The information processing device according to claim 4,

wherein the first instruction operation is an operation of moving the specified position in a given direction, and the second instruction operation is an operation of moving the specified position in the opposite direction to the given direction of the first instruction operation.

6. The information processing device according to claim 4,

wherein when the first instruction operation is detected, the processor causes a display window corresponding to the selected program to be displayed in the foreground.

7. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein when the position specified by the detected instruction operation is not included in any of the display ranges of the display windows, the processor displays an operation window configured to receive an operation of changing execution priorities of the plurality of programs being executed, and

wherein the processor changes, on the basis of the operation window, an execution priority of a program of which the execution priority is requested to be changed.

8. A method for changing an execution priority in an information processing device, comprising

changing, by a processor, an execution priority of at least one program among a plurality of programs being executed when an instruction operation of drawing a trajectory of a position specified on a display screen so as to form the trajectory in a given shape is detected.

9. The method according to claim 8,

wherein in the changing, a program is selected from among the plurality of programs being executed on the basis of positional relationships between the position specified on the display screen by the detected instruction operation and display ranges, on the display screen, of display windows corresponding to the plurality of programs being executed, and an execution priority of the selected program is changed.

10. The method according to claim 9,

wherein in the changing, a program that corresponds to a display window in which the position specified by the detected instruction operation is included is selected.

11. The method according to claim 9,

wherein in the detecting, either a first instruction operation of drawing a trajectory of a specified position so as to form the trajectory in a first shape or a second instruction operation of drawing a trajectory of a specified position so as to form the trajectory in a second shape is detected, and

wherein in the changing, when the first instruction operation is detected, the execution priority of the selected program is increased, and when the second instruction operation is detected, the execution priority of the selected program is reduced.

12. The method according to claim 11,

wherein the first instruction operation is an operation of moving the specified position in a given direction, and the second instruction operation is an operation of moving the specified position in the opposite direction to the given direction.

13. The method according to claim 11, further comprising

displaying a display window corresponding to the selected program in the foreground when the first operation is detected.

14. The method according to claim 10, further comprising

displaying an operation window configured to receive an operation of changing execution priorities of the plurality of programs being executed and changing, on the basis of the operation window, an execution priority of a program of which the execution priority is requested to be changed, when the position specified by the detected instruction operation is not included in any of the display ranges of the display windows.

15. A machine readable medium storing a program that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising

selecting, from among a plurality of programs being executed, at least one program of which an execution priority is to be changed when an instruction operation of drawing a trajectory of a position specified on a display screen so as to form the trajectory in a given shape is detected.

16. The machine readable medium according to claim 15,

wherein in the selecting, a program of which an execution priority is to be changed is selected from among the plurality of programs being executed on the basis of positional relationships between the position specified by the detected instruction operation on the display screen and display ranges, on the display screen, of display windows corresponding to the plurality of programs being executed.

17. The machine readable medium according to claim 16,

wherein in the selecting, a program that corresponds to a display window in which the position specified by the detected instruction operation is included is selected.

18. The machine readable medium according to claim 16,

wherein in the detecting, either a first instruction operation of drawing a trajectory of a specified position so as to form the trajectory in a first shape or a second instruction operation of drawing a trajectory of a specified position so as to form the trajectory in a second shape is detected, and

wherein in the selecting, when the first instruction operation is detected, a program of which an execution priority is to be increased is selected, and when the second instruction operation is detected, a program of which an execution priority is to be reduced is selected.

19. The machine readable medium according to claim 18,

wherein the first instruction operation is an operation of moving the specified position in a given direction, and the second instruction operation is an operation of moving the specified position in the opposite direction to the given direction of the first instruction operation.

20. The machine readable medium according to claim 18,

wherein when the first instruction operation is detected, a display window that corresponds to the selected program is displayed in the foreground.