Method and device for unlocking mobile terminal

• US 9,380,147 B2
• Filed: 12/10/2012
• Issued: 06/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd (Baidu Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd (Baidu Incorporated)
• Inventors: Tang, Honggang
• Primary Examiner(s): MIZRAHI, DIANE D
• Application Number:
  US14/411,905
• Publication Number:
  US 20150207921A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,296 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/36 by graphic or iconic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724631 by limiting the access to the user interface, e.g. locking a touch-screen or a keypad

Abstract

A method and apparatus for unlocking a mobile terminal. The method comprises acquiring file names of a plurality of user files on an online hard drive; a mobile terminal placing the file names and a search box on a lock-screen page of the mobile terminal; the mobile terminal determining whether to unlock the mobile terminal based on the user'"'"'s operation on one file name among the plurality of file names and the search box; and if so, the mobile terminal performing unlocking and opening a file corresponding to the file name on the online hard drive. The present invention enables users to implement functions such as unlocking of a mobile terminal and opening of an online hard drive file, which require several complicated operations in the prior art, through simple operations such as dragging, thereby saving users'"'"' time and enhancing user experience.

Claims

1. A method for unlocking a locked mobile terminal, comprising:

acquiring file names of a plurality of files on an online hard drive with the locked mobile terminal;

presenting the file names of the files and a search box on a lock-screen page;

determining whether to perform a file unlocking based on a predetermined operation being performed on a selected file name among the plurality of file names and the search box; and

in response to said determination, performing the file unlocking on a file corresponding with the selected file name; and

opening the file corresponding with the selected file name.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising arranging the file names of the files at distances from the search box from close to remote according to a descending order of access frequencies of the file names.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising arranging fonts of the file names from big to small according to a descending order of access frequencies of the file names.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the file names in different colors.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining includes:

identifying the predetermined operation to obtain an identification result;

judging whether the identification result is a valid operation;

initiating said performing the file unlocking and said opening the file based upon a judgment that the identification result is the valid operation; and

not responding to the predetermined operation based upon a judgment that the identification result is not the valid operation.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the valid operation is dragging the selected file name into the search box.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising displaying a file thumbnail corresponding to the selected file name in the process of said dragging.

8. An apparatus for unlocking a mobile terminal, comprising:

an acquisition module configured to acquire file names of a plurality of files of a user on an online hard drive when the mobile terminal is in a locked state;

a first arrangement module configured to place the file names of the plurality of files and a search box on a lock-screen page of the mobile terminal;

an unlocking judgment module configured to determine whether to unlock the mobile terminal based on an operation initiated by the user on one file name among the plurality of file names and the search box; and

an execution module configured to unlock the mobile terminal and opening a file corresponding to the one file name on the online hard drive based on the one file name when said unlocking judgment module judges that the mobile terminal is to be unlocked.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising a second arrangement module configured to arrange the file names of the plurality of files at distances from the search box from close to remote according to a descending order of access frequencies of the file names of the plurality of files.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising a third arrangement module configured to arrange fonts of the plurality of file names from big to small according to a descending order of access frequencies of the file names of the plurality of files.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising a fourth arrangement module configured to display the file names of the plurality of files in different colors.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein said unlocking judgment module is adapted to identify the operation to obtain an identification result, judging whether the identification result is a valid operation, unlocking the mobile terminal and opening a file corresponding to the one file name on the online hard drive based on the one file name in response to a judgment that the identification result is the valid operation and not responding to the operation in response to a judgment that the identification result is not the valid operation.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the valid operation is dragging the one file name into the search box.

14. A non-volatile computer storage medium including at least one program for unlocking a mobile terminal when implemented by a processor, comprising:

acquiring file names of a plurality of files on an online hard drive via the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal is in a locked state;

presenting the file names of the files and a search box on a lock-screen page of the mobile terminal;

determining whether to perform a file unlocking based on a predetermined operation being performed on a selected file name among the plurality of file names and the search box; and

performing the file unlocking on a file corresponding with the selected file name via the mobile terminal in response to a result of execution of said determining; and

opening the file corresponding with the selected file name via the mobile terminal in response to the result of the execution of said determining.

15. The computer storage medium of claim 14, further comprising arranging the file names of the files at distances from the search box from close to remote according to a descending order of access frequencies of the file names.

16. The computer storage medium of claim 14, further comprising arranging fonts of the file names from big to small according to a descending order of access frequencies of the file names.

17. The computer storage medium of claim 14, further comprising displaying the file names in different colors.

18. The computer storage medium of claim 14, wherein said determining includes:

identifying the predetermined operation to obtain an identification result;

instruction for judging whether the identification result is a valid operation;

initiating said performing the file unlocking and said opening the file based upon a judgment that the identification result is the valid operation; and

not responding to the predetermined operation based upon a judgment that the identification result is not the valid operation.

19. The computer storage medium of claim 18, wherein the valid operation is dragging the selected file name into the search box.

20. The computer storage medium of claim 19, further comprising displaying a file thumbnail corresponding to the selected file name in the process of said dragging.