Desktop Management Method and Device

• US 20140298108A1
• Filed: 11/21/2012
• Published: 10/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Cui, Xiaolin, Li, Xiangru, Yang, Wenze, Luo, Xuan
• Granted Patent: US 9,208,049 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/39
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1446 Point-in-time backing up or restoration of persistent data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1466 to make the backup process non-disruptive
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1675 Temporal synchronisation or re-synchronisation of redundant processing components
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2056 by mirroring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2082 Data synchronisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/302 where the computing system component is a software system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3079 the data filtering being achieved by reporting only the changes of the monitored data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3668 Software testing software testing in telephone exchanges H04M3/242, testing of hardware G06F11/22
• 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications

Abstract

A desktop management method and device is disclosed in the present disclosure and the method comprising: acquiring a desktop icon of an operation object desktop to generate a mirror desktop; adjusting the desktop icon of the mirror desktop according to the desktop icon of the operation object desktop to make the desktop icon of the mirror desktop the same as the operation object desktop thereof; and displaying the desktop icon of the adjusted mirror desktop according to the stored mirror desktop arrangement manner. The present disclosure can avoid the loss and disorder of desktop contents.

Claims

1. A desktop management method, comprising:

acquiring desktop icons of an operation object desktop to generate a mirror desktop;

adjusting the desktop icons of the mirror desktop according to the desktop icons of the operation object desktop to make the desktop icons of the mirror desktop the same as the operation object desktop thereof; and

displaying the desktop icons of the adjusted mirror desktop according to an arranging manner for the saved mirror desktop;

monitoring the operation object desktop to edit the mirror desktop according to an adding, deleting or modifying operation occurred on the operation object desktop;

monitoring the mirror desktop to edit the operation object desktop according to an adding, deleting or modifying operation occurred on the mirror desktop,

wherein the desktop icons of the operation object desktop are acquired by an application program interface (API) of the operation object desktop and the desktop icons of the mirror desktop are the same as the desktop icons of the operation object desktop.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the step of acquiring the desktop icons of the operation object desktop to generate the mirror desktop, the method further comprises:

duplicating the desktop icons on the operation object desktop to generate a page with the desktop icons; and

arranging the desktop icons on the page according to a predetermined arranging manner of the mirror desktop.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the step of adjusting the desktop icons of the mirror desktop according to the desktop icons of the operation object desktop to make the desktop icons of the mirror desktop the same as that of the operation object desktop, the method further comprises:

adding, deleting or modifying the desktop icons of the mirror desktop according to the desktop icons of the operation object desktop to make the desktop icons of the mirror desktop the same as the operation object desktop thereof when the desktop icons of the operation object desktop are different from the desktop icons of the mirror desktop.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the step of displaying the desktop icons of the adjusted mirror desktop according to the arranging manner for the saved mirror desktop, the method comprises:

receiving an operation command from an end user to arrange or classify the desktop icons of the mirror desktop;

executing the operation command to arrange or classify the mirror desktop; and

saving the arranged mirror desktop after an arranging or classifying operation.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the step of monitoring the operation object desktop

to add, delete or modify on the mirror desktop when the adding, deleting or modifying operation occurred on the operation object desktop comprises;

monitoring a failure of the adding, deleting or modifying operation on the operation object desktop; and

stopping editing the mirror desktop.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of monitoring the operation object desktop is achieved by a registry information in a system, and the registry information monitors the change of the desktop icons of the operation object desktop to recognize the adding, deleting or modifying operation when the adding, deleting or modifying operation has occurred on the operation object desktop, and the adding, deleting or modifying operation is synchronized on the mirror desktop.

21. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of monitoring the mirror desktop to add, delete or modify on the operation object desktop when the adding, deleting or modifying operation occurred on the operation object desktop comprises:

monitoring a failure of the adding, deleting or modifying operation on the mirror desktop; and

stopping editing the operation object desktop.

7. A desktop management method, comprising:

acquiring desktop icons of an operation object desktop;

duplicating the desktop icons on the operation object desktop to generate a page with the desktop icons;

arranging the desktop icons on the page according to a predetermined arranging manner to be a mirror desktop;

adjusting the desktop icons of the mirror desktop according to the desktop icons of the operation object desktop to make the desktop icons of the mirror desktop the same as the operation object desktop thereof;

displaying the desktop icons of the adjusted mirror desktop according to an arranging manner for the saved mirror desktop;

monitoring the operation object desktop to add, delete or modify on the mirror desktop when an adding, deleting or modifying operation occurred on the operation object desktop; and

monitoring the mirror desktop to add, delete or modify on the operation object desktop when the adding, deleting or modifying operation occurred on the mirror desktop.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein before the step of adjusting the desktop icons of the mirror desktop according to the desktop icons of the operation object desktop to make the desktop icons of the mirror desktop the same as that of the operation object desktop, the method further comprises:

adding, deleting or modifying the desktop icons of the mirror desktop according to the desktop icons of the operation object desktop to make the desktop icons of the mirror desktop the same as the operation object desktop thereof when the desktop icons of the operation object desktop are different from the desktop icons of the mirror desktop.

11. The method according to claim 7, wherein after the step of displaying the desktop icons of the adjusted mirror desktop according to the arranging manner for the saved mirror desktop, the method comprises:

receiving an operation command from an end user to arrange or classify the desktop icons of the mirror desktop;

executing the operation command to arrange or classify the mirror desktop; and

saving the arranged mirror desktop after an arranging or classifying operation.

13. The method according to claim 23, wherein the step of monitoring the operation object desktop is achieved by a registry information in a system, and the system information monitors the change of the desktop icons of the operation object desktop to recognize the adding, deleting or modifying operation when the adding, deleting or modifying operation has occurred on the operation object desktop, and the adding, deleting or modifying operation is synchronized on the mirror desktop.

22. The method according to claim 7, wherein the step of monitoring the operation object desktop to add, delete or modify on the mirror desktop when the adding, deleting or modifying operation occurred on the operation object desktop comprises:

monitoring a failure of the adding, deleting or modifying operation on the operation object desktop; and

stopping performing the adding, deleting or modifying operation on the mirror desktop.

23. The method according to claim 7, wherein the step of monitoring the mirror desktop to add, delete or modify on the operation object desktop when the adding, deleting or modifying operation occurred on the operation object desktop comprises:

monitoring a failure of the adding, deleting or modifying operation on the mirror desktop; and

stopping performing the adding, deleting or modifying operation on the operation object desktop.

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12. (canceled)

14. A desktop management device, comprising:

an acquiring module configured for acquiring desktop icons of an operation object desktop to generate and start a mirror desktop;

an adjusting module configured for adjusting the desktop icons of the mirror desktop according to the desktop icons of the operation object desktop to make the desktop icons of the mirror desktop the same as that of the operation object desktop;

a display module configured for displaying the desktop icons of the adjusted mirror desktop according to the arranging manner for the saved mirror desktop;

a first monitoring module configured for monitoring the operation object desktop;

a second monitoring module configured for monitoring the mirror desktop; and

a synchronizing module is configured for adding, deleting or modifying on the mirror desktop when an adding, deleting or modifying operation occurred on the operation object desktop and adding, deleting or modifying on the operation object desktop when the adding, deleting or modifying operation occurred on the operation object desktop.

16. The device according to claim 14, wherein the device further comprises:

a mirror module configured for duplicating the desktop icons on the operation object desktop to generate a page with the desktop icons and arranging the desktop icons on the page according to a predetermined arranging manner of the mirror desktop.

17. The device according to claim 14, wherein the adjusting module is to add, delete or modify the desktop icons of the mirror desktop according to the desktop icons of the operation object desktop to make the desktop icon of the mirror desktop the same as the operation object desktop thereof when the desktop icons of the operation object desktop are different from the desktop icons of the mirror desktop.

18. The device according to claim 14, wherein the device further comprises:

a processing module configured for receiving an operation command from an end user to arrange or classify the desktop icons of the mirror desktop; and

a saving module configured for saving the arranged mirror desktop after an arranging or classifying operation.

20. The device according to claim 25, wherein the first monitoring module is to monitor the operation object desktop by a registry information in a system, the system information monitors the change of the desktop icons of the operation object desktop to recognize the adding, deleting or modifying operation when the adding, deleting or modifying operation has occurred on the operation object desktop, and the adding, deleting or modifying operation is synchronized on the mirror desktop.

24. The device according to claim 14, wherein the first monitoring module is further configured for monitoring a failure of the adding, deleting or modifying operation on the operation object desktop and the synchronizing module won'"'"'t perform the adding, deleting or modifying operation on the mirror desktop.

25. The device according to claim 14, wherein the second monitoring module is further configured for monitoring a failure of the adding, deleting or modifying operation on the mirror desktop and the synchronizing module won'"'"'t perform the adding, deleting or modifying operation on the operation object desktop.

15. (canceled)

19. (canceled)