DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ICON OF APPLICATION

• US 20200133463A1
• Filed: 04/15/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2018
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SUN, Jianbing, GAN, Jingmeng, WANG, Mingde
• Application Number:
  US16/384,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20200133463A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a display method and apparatus of an icon of an application, the method including: A) enabling the icon of the application to enter a dynamic mode; B) determining a display mode of the dynamic mode of the icon of the application; C) acquiring information corresponding to the determined display mode; and D) displaying the information on the icon of the application. According to the display method and apparatus of an icon of an application according to the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, after the icon of the application enters the dynamic mode, a display space of the icon of the application may be sufficiently utilized by acquiring the information corresponding to the display mode of the dynamic mode and displaying the acquired information on the icon of the application, and it is convenient for a user to view the information of the application.

Claims

1. A display method of an icon of an application, comprising:

A) enabling the icon of the application to enter a dynamic mode;

B) determining a display mode of the dynamic mode of the icon of the application;

C) acquiring information corresponding to the determined display mode; and

D) displaying the information on the icon of the application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein step D) comprises:

displaying the information on the icon of the application in the determined display mode.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein step D) comprises:

determining a display manner according to the determined display mode or according to the determined display mode and the application, and displaying the information on the icon of the application in the determined display manner.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein step A) comprises:

receiving a first setting operation of setting the icon of the application to a dynamic mode and setting the icon of the application to the dynamic mode in response to the first setting operation;

or setting the icon of the application to the dynamic mode in response to a predetermined event.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein step B) comprises:

determining the display mode of the dynamic mode of the icon of the application according to a preset value of the display mode, a preset time and a predetermined event or a selection operation of a user for the display mode.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the determining of the display mode of the dynamic mode of the icon of the application according to the predetermined event comprises:

detecting an event that occurred;

determining whether a display mode associated with the occurred event exists among display modes of the dynamic mode of the icon of the application; and

determining the display mode associated with the occurred event as the display mode of the dynamic mode of the icon of the application.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the event comprises at least one of a system event and an event occurred in the application.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the display mode comprises at least one of a message reminder mode, a push mode, a countdown mode and a custom mode;

information corresponding to the message reminder mode comprises a real time message;

information corresponding to the push mode comprises a push message;

information corresponding to the countdown mode comprises time reminder information; and

information corresponding to the custom mode comprises the content set by the user for the application.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein in step D), latest acquired predetermined number of information are displayed, or all of the acquired information are displayed by automatically scrolling, or all of the acquired information are displayed by scrolling according to the user'"'"'s operation, on the icon of the application.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein step D) comprises:

extracting a key content of the acquired information and displaying the key content on the icon of the application.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

E) receiving a first predetermined operation performed on the icon of the application, and in response to the first predetermined operation, enlarge-displaying the icon of the application or previewing the information displayed on the icon of the application, wherein when the information displayed on the icon of the application is a plurality of pieces, latest acquired information is previewed, or all of displayed information are previewed in an automatically scrolling manner, or all of displayed information are previewed in a scrolling manner according to the user'"'"'s operation.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein step E) further comprises displaying a widget for processing the previewed information.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

F) receiving a second predetermined operation performed on the previewed information, and in response to the second predetermined operation, entering the application to view the previewed information.

14. A display apparatus of an icon of an application, comprising:

a dynamic mode entering unit to enable the icon of the application to enter a dynamic mode;

a display mode determining unit to determine a display mode of the dynamic mode of the icon of the application;

an information acquiring unit to acquire information corresponding to the determined display mode; and

an information display unit to display the information on the icon of the application.