Electronic device and method for adjusting message log

• US 10,419,380 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2017
• Issued: 09/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Chien, How-Wen, Chang, Sung-Chieh
• Primary Examiner(s): Coby, Frantz
• Application Number:
  US15/441,269
• Publication Number:
  US 20170250937A1
• Time in Patent Office: 935 Days
• Field of Search: 709206, 709223, 709207, 726 12, 726 13, 726 22, 713168, 713176, 713178
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads

Abstract

A method for adjusting a message log includes logging messages to the message log when the messages are received. The messages are displayed on a display device of an electronic device. The message log is adjusted according to a predetermined adjusting operation when the predetermined adjusting operation is detected. The adjusted message log is displayed on the display device, and the predetermined adjusting operation is sent to one or more other electronic devices that are in communication with the electronic device.

Claims

1. A method for adjusting a message log of an electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying messages of a message log on a display device of the electronic device, wherein the messages are logged to the message log according to time information of each of the messages;

determining an inserting position for a message to be inserted, wherein when two adjacent messages of the message log are simultaneously selected and are dragged away from each other, a position between the two adjacent messages is determined as the inserting position; and

inserting the message to be inserted to the inserting position.

2. The method according to claim 1,

wherein a sending time when the message is sent out by a sender is set as the time information of the message or a receiving time when the message is received by the electronic device is set as the time information of the message.

3. The method according to claim 2,

wherein the two adjacent messages are two messages of the message log having adjacent sending time or adjacent receiving time.

4. The method according to claim 1,

further comprising:

deleting a message from the message log when the message is dragged towards a predetermined direction.

5. The method according to claim 1,

further comprising:

moving a message of the message log from an original position to a target position when a long press is applied to the message and the message is dragged from the original position to the target position.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the message to be inserted is a message which has not been logged to the message log.

7. An electronic device, comprising:

a display device;

a storage device; and

at least one processor, wherein the storage device stores one or more programs, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to;

display messages of a message log on the display device, wherein the messages are logged to the message log according to time information of each of the messages;

determine an inserting position for a message to be inserted, wherein when two adjacent messages of the message log are simultaneously selected and are dragged away from each other, a position between the two adjacent messages is determined as the inserting position; and

insert the message to be inserted to the inserting position.

8. The electronic device according to claim 7,

wherein a sending time when the message is sent out by a sender is set as the time information of the message or a receiving time when the message is received by the electronic device is set as the time information of the message.

9. The electronic device according to claim 8,

wherein the two adjacent messages are two messages of the message log having adjacent sending time or adjacent receiving time.

10. The electronic device according to claim 7,

wherein the at least one processor is further caused to:

delete a message from the message log when the message is dragged towards a predetermined direction.

11. The electronic device according to claim 7,

wherein the at least one processor is further caused to:

move a message of the message log from an original position to a target position when a long press is applied to the message and the message is dragged from the original position to the target position.

12. The electronic device according to claim 7, wherein the message to be inserted is a message which has not been logged to the message log.

13. A non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a processor of an electronic device, causes the processor to perform a method for adjusting a message log, wherein the method comprises:

displaying messages of a message log on a display device of the electronic device, wherein the messages are logged to the message log according to time information of each of the messages;

determining an inserting position for a message to be inserted, wherein when two adjacent messages of the message log are simultaneously selected and are dragged away from each other, a position between the two adjacent messages is determined as the inserting position; and

inserting the message to be inserted to the inserting position.

14. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 13,

wherein a sending time when the message is sent out by a sender is set as the time information of the message or a receiving time when the message is received by the electronic device is set as the time information of the message.

15. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 14,

wherein the two adjacent messages are two messages of the message log having adjacent sending time or adjacent receiving time.

16. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 13,

wherein the method further comprises:

deleting a message from the message log when the message is dragged towards a predetermined direction.

17. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 13,

wherein the method further comprises:

moving a message of the message log from an original position to a target position when a long press is applied to the message and the message is dragged from the original position to the target position.

18. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 13,

wherein the message to be inserted is a message which has not been logged to the message log.