Method of displaying downloading progress of file

• US 8,495,516 B2
• Filed: 06/19/2009
• Issued: 07/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shenzhen TCL New Technology Co., Ltd. (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Shenzhen TCL New Technology Co., Ltd. (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Fu, Yaoyuan, Li, Meng, Yang, Yingying
• Primary Examiner(s): ABDUL-ALI, OMAR R
• Application Number:
  US13/379,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20120096387A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,495 Days
• Field of Search: 715/772
• US Class Current: 715/772
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]

Abstract

A displaying method of displaying a downloading progress of a file, including the following steps: downloading and restoring a poster of the file, and processing the poster to allow the poster to display the downloading progress of the other content of the file. With the present disclosure, the downloading progress of the other content of the file is displayed in the poster, and users are able to obtain the downloading progress when watching the poster, which brings a good using experience of products applying the displaying method.

Claims

1. A displaying method of displaying a downloading progress of a file, comprising the following steps:

downloading and storing a poster of a file; and

processing the poster to allow the poster to display the downloading progress of the other content of the file;

wherein the step of processing the poster to allow the poster to display the downloading progress of the other content of the file comprises;

processing a transparency of the poster; and

restoring the transparency which has been processed according to the downloading process.

2. The displaying method as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the step of downloading and storing a poster of the file, the poster is downloaded before the other content of the file.

3. The displaying method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a length of the whole poster is determined before the step of restoring the transparency which has been processed according to the downloading process, and the transparency which has been processed is restored based on a lengthwise direction of the poster.

4. The displaying method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transparency which has been processed is restored periodically.

5. The displaying method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the file is downloaded by a television.

6. A displaying method of displaying a downloading progress of a file, comprising the following steps:

downloading and storing a poster of a file; and

processing the poster to allow the poster to display the downloading progress of the other content of the file;

wherein the step of processing the poster to allow the poster to display the downloading progress of the other content of the file comprises;

processing a background color of the poster; and

restoring the background color which has been processed according to the downloading progress.

7. A displaying method of displaying a downloading progress of a file, comprising the following steps:

downloading and storing a poster of a file; and

processing the poster to allow the poster to display the downloading progress of the other content of the file;

wherein the step of processing the poster to allow the poster to display the downloading progress of the other content of the file comprises;

removing a background color of at least one portion of the poster and replacing the background color of the at least one portion of the poster with a predetermined color; and

changing the predetermined color of the at least one portion of the poster according to the change of the downloading progress.

8. The displaying method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the color gradually becomes lighter as the downloading progress goes on.

9. A displaying method of displaying a downloading progress of a file, comprising the following steps:

downloading and storing a poster of a file; and

processing the poster to allow the poster to display the downloading progress of the other content of the file;

wherein the step of processing the poster to allow the poster to display the downloading progress of the other content of the file comprises;

changing a transparency of the poster and adding a particular color to the poster; and

changing a degree of the color added to the poster according to the change of the downloading progress.

10. The displaying method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the color gradually becomes lighter as the downloading progress goes on.