Mobile phone based software processing method and mobile phone

• US 9,395,978 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2012
• Issued: 07/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Company Limited (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Company Limited (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yu, Bin
• Primary Examiner(s): Tecklu, Isaac T
• Application Number:
  US14/123,160
• Publication Number:
  US 20140109047A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,398 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/62 Uninstallation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files

Abstract

A mobile phone based software processing method recording time information of installation of each software program in a mobile phone; updating the latest time information of the software; and when it is detected that the time information of certain software is idle for more than a preset time interval, determining that the software is long-term idle, arranging and displaying a list of long-term idle software being idle for more than a preset time interval, and updating or unloading the long-time idle software automatically according to requirements.

Claims

1. A mobile phone based software processing method, comprising the following steps:

receiving an operation of a user to set a preset time interval, and

performing the following steps of;

recording a time information of installation of software in a mobile phone, and storing the time information and a corresponding software name in a designated file according to certain rules; and

every time the software is used, re-updating the time information of the latest use of the software into the designated file;

regularly comparing the time information of the software stored in the designated file with the current time and determining whether the time information is more than the preset time interval; and

when it is detected that time information of the software is idle for more than the preset time interval, determining that the software is idle for a long time,

arranging and displaying a list of long-term idle software that are idle for more than the preset time interval,

receiving an operation of the user to unload certain software and trigger a management module to work;

searching corresponding items of the software in the designated file by calling the interface of an operating system, and

deleting the items, by the management module.

2. The mobile phone based software processing method of claim 1, further comprising the following step prior to the recording step:

receiving an operation of the user to preset a regular time.

3. The mobile phone based software processing method of claim 1, further comprising the following step prior to the recording step:

pre-creating a designated file for storing time information of installation and service time of certain software, and defining the name of the designated file as SwInfoFile.

4. The mobile phone based software processing method of claim 1, wherein, in the recording step, recording time information of installation of each software in a mobile phone and storing the time information and corresponding software name in a designated file according to certain rules further comprise the following steps of:

receiving an operating instruction for software being installed,

acquiring a time of current software being installed by calling the interface of an operating system,

creating a plurality of items corresponding to the current software being installed in the designated file by calling the interface of the operating system, and

recording the time of the current software being installed.

5. The mobile phone based software processing method of claim 1, wherein, in the recording step, re-updating the time information of the latest use into the designated file every time the software is used comprises the steps of:

receiving an operation of the user to open certain software and trigger a management module to work, and acquiring the current time of opening the software by calling the interface of the operating system by the management module; and

searching a plurality of items corresponding to the opened software in the designated file by calling the interface of the operating system by the management module, and updating the time in the searched items corresponding to the opened software as the current time of opening the software.

6. The mobile phone based software processing method of claim 2, wherein the regularly comparing the time information further comprises the following steps of:

triggering the management module to work when the regular time preset by the user is reached;

acquiring the current time by calling the interface of the operating system by the management module;

acquiring the time of software recording one by one from the designated file by calling the interface of the operating system by the management module, comparing these times of software recording with the current time acquired, and calculating idle days of all software; and

determining software of whether the idle days of all software are more than the preset time interval according to the determining criterion of the preset time interval.

17. The mobile phone based software processing method of claim 1, wherein the time information of the certain software is detected on a daily basis.

20. The mobile phone based software processing method of claim 1, wherein the time information of the certain software is detected at a predetermined fixed time each day.

7. A mobile phone based software processing method, comprising the following steps:

recording time information of installation of each software in a mobile phone, and storing the time information and corresponding software name thereof in a designated file according to certain rules; and

every time the software is used, re-updating the time information of the latest use of each software into the designated file;

regularly comparing the time information of each software stored in the designated file with the current time and determining whether the time information is more than a preset time interval; and

when it is detected that the time information of certain software is idle for more than the preset time interval, determining that the certain software is idle for a long time, arranging and displaying a list of long-term idle software being idle for more than the preset time interval;

receiving an operation of the user to unload certain software and trigger a management module to work;

searching corresponding items of the software in the designated file by calling the interface of an operating system,

deleting the items, by the management module, and

updating or unloading the long-time idle software automatically according to requirements.

8. The mobile phone based software processing method of claim 7, further comprising the following steps prior to the recording step:

receiving an operation of a user to preset a regular time, and receiving an operation of the user to set the preset time interval.

9. The mobile phone based software processing method of claim 7, further comprising the following steps prior to the recording step:

pre-creating a designated file for storing time information of installation and service time of certain software, and defining the name of the designated file as SwInfoFile.

10. The mobile phone based software processing method of claim 7, wherein, in the recording step, recording time information of installation of each software in a mobile phone and storing the time information and corresponding software name in a designated file according to certain rules further comprises the following steps of:

receiving an operating instruction for software being installed of the user, and acquiring the time of current software being installed by calling the interface of an operating system; and

creating a plurality of items corresponding to the current software being installed in the designated file by calling the interface of the operating system, and recording the time of current software being installed.

11. The mobile phone based software processing method of claim 7, wherein, in the recording step, re-updating the time information of the latest use into the designated file every time the software is used specifically comprises the following steps of:

receiving an operation of the user to open certain software and trigger a management module to work, and acquiring the current time of opening the software by calling the interface of the operating system by the management module; and

searching corresponding items of the opened software in the designated file by calling the interface of the operating system by the management module, and updating the time in the items as the current time of opening the software.

12. The mobile phone based software processing method of claim 8, wherein comparing the time information of each software stored in the designated file further comprises the following steps of:

triggering the management module to work when the regular time preset by the user is reached;

acquiring the current time by calling the interface of the operating system by the management module;

acquiring the time of recorded software one by one from the designated file by calling the interface of the operating system by the management module, comparing the time of recorded software with the time acquired, and calculating idle days of all software; and

determining whether the idle days of all software calculated are more than the preset time interval according to the determining criterion of the preset time interval.

13. The mobile phone based software processing method of claim 7, wherein the detecting step further comprises the following steps of:

receiving an operation of the user to unload certain software and trigger the management module to work; and

searching corresponding items of the software in the designated file by calling the interface of the operating system, and deleting the items, by the management module.

18. The mobile phone based software processing method of claim 7, wherein the time information of the certain software is detected on a daily basis.

14. A mobile phone, comprising:

a processor and memory;

a setting module, which is used for receiving an operation of a user to preset a regular time and receiving an operation of the user to set a preset time interval;

a management module, which is used for recording time information of installation of each software in a mobile phone, and storing the time information and corresponding software name thereof in a designated file according to certain rules;

re-updating the time information of the latest used software into the designated file every time when the software is used; and

wherein the management module is further used for regularly comparing the time information of each software stored in the designated file with the current time, determining whether the time information is more than a preset time interval, and determining that the software is idle for a long time when it is detected that the time information of the software is idle for more than a preset time interval;

searching corresponding items of the software in the designated file by calling the interface of an operating system,

deleting the items, by the management module, and

a display module, which is used for arranging and displaying a list of long-term idle software being idle for more than the preset time interval, and updating or unloading the long-time idle software automatically according to requirements.

15. The mobile phone of claim 14, further comprising a create module, which is used for pre-creating a designated file for storing time in order of installation and service time of certain software.

16. The mobile phone of claim 14, wherein the management module further comprises:

a software installation management unit, which is used for receiving an in service instruction for software being installed of the user, and acquiring a time of current software being installed by calling the interface of an operating system; and

, creating a plurality of items corresponding to the current software being installed in the designated file by calling the interface of the operating system, and recording the time of current software being installed;

a time updating unit, which is used for receiving an operation of the user to open certain software, and acquiring the current time of opening the software by calling the interface of the operating system; and

searching corresponding items of the opened software in the designated file by calling the interface of the operating system, and updating the time in the items into the current time of opening the software;

a comparing and determining unit, which is used for acquiring the current time by calling the interface of the operating system when the regular time preset by the user is reached;

acquiring the time of recorded software one by one from the designated file by calling the interface of the operating system, comparing the acquired time of recorded software with the current time acquired, and calculating idle days of all software; and

, determining software of whether the idle days of all software are more than the preset time interval according to the determining criterion of the preset time interval; and

a software unloading management unit, which is used for receiving an operation of the user to unload certain software, searching corresponding items of the software in the designated file by calling the interface of the operating system, and deleting the items.

19. The mobile phone of claim 14, wherein the time information of certain software is detected on a daily basis.