Desktop generation and operation methods for mobile terminal and corresponding devices thereof

• US 10,845,944 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2013
• Issued: 11/24/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Luo, Yonghao, Chen, Shoufu, Fang, Chi, Zhu, Xiaomu, Li, Tian
• Primary Examiner(s): Ng, Amy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Muhebbullah, Sajeda
• Application Number:
  US14/779,777
• Publication Number:
  US 20160085413A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,521 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

Disclosed is a desktop generation method for a mobile terminal. The method includes: creating a block object, the block object containing attribute information; invoking a drawing function, drawing a plurality of blocks according to the attribute information about the block object, and distributing the plurality of blocks on the screen of a mobile terminal without superposition so as to form a desktop; and when the shortcut of an application program is required to be displayed on the desktop, displaying a shortcut icon and/or a program name of the shortcut of the application program in an idle block on the desktop, the idle block being a block in which the shortcut of the application program is not displayed. Also disclosed are a desktop generation device of a mobile terminal, a desktop operation method for a mobile terminal and a corresponding device thereof.

Claims

1. A desktop generation method for a mobile terminal, comprising:

creating a block class object, wherein the block class object comprises attribute information;

drawing, by calling a drawing function, a plurality of blocks based on the attribute information of the block class object, wherein the plurality of blocks are distributed on a screen of the mobile terminal without overlap to form a desktop;

wherein each block of the plurality of blocks is not transparent and is visible for a user, the plurality of blocks including at least one block that is an idle block, wherein an idle block is a block on which no shortcut for an application program is currently presented;

presenting, in a first block that has been an idle block on the desktop, a shortcut icon and/or program name of a shortcut for an application program in a case that the shortcut for the application program is required to be presented on the desktop;

wherein one application program is associated with the first block, and the shortcut icon and/or program name of the shortcut for the application program only occupy a partial region of the first block, and wherein the shortcut icon is in an irregular shape;

detecting a triggered block of the plurality of blocks, the triggered block being triggered by the user, wherein the triggered block is triggered even if the user clicks a region of the screen outside the icon but within the triggered block;

performing an operation on an application program associated with the triggered block;

receiving an operation message of selecting and moving two or more blocks of the plurality of blocks when the two or more blocks are clicked;

selecting one of the clicked two or more blocks and converging the rest of the clicked two or more blocks around the one of the clicked two or more blocks; and

moving the two or more clicked blocks simultaneously to a target position of the desktop.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein presenting, in an idle block on the desktop, a shortcut icon and/or program name of a shortcut for an application program in a case that the shortcut for the application program is required to be presented on the desktop comprises:

monitoring a message of requiring creating a shortcut for an application program on the desktop which is sent from an operating system of the mobile terminal;

reading a shortcut icon and/or program name of the application program for which the shortcut is required to be created on the desktop;

detecting an idle block on the desktop and presenting the shortcut icon and/or program name of the application program in an idle block.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the block is a rectangular block, the number of the plurality of blocks is N×

M, wherein N is the number of the blocks on the desktop of the mobile terminal in a transverse direction, M is the number of the blocks on the desktop of the mobile terminal in a longitudinal direction, and N and M each are natural numbers greater than or equal to 2.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the blocks are spaced apart by a preset distance.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the desktop is a plurality of desktops and the method further comprises:

receiving an operation message by taking the desktop or a block comprised in the desktop as an operation object, wherein the operation message is detected by a detector that is shared by the plurality of desktops;

performing an action in a predetermined action manner to present a plurality of desktops on a screen of the mobile terminal;

wherein the operation object is the desktop, the type of the operation message is integral movement of the desktop, and performing the corresponding operation on the operation object based on the type of the operation message comprises;

detecting whether the operation message of integral movement is received by one of the plurality of desktops; and

creating a list corresponding to the one desktop for recording sequence numbers of blocks comprised in the one desktop and position information of the blocks in the one desktop, in a case that the operation message of integral movement is received by the one desktop;

wherein the integral movement is for moving all of the plurality of blocks comprised in the one desktop into another desktop; and

detecting a target position to which the one desktop is to be moved integrally, and drawing the desktop at the target position by calling a drawing function, based on the sequence numbers of the blocks and the position information of the blocks in the desktop recorded in the list.

5. A desktop operation method for a mobile terminal, comprising:

performing an action in a predetermined action manner to present a plurality of desktops on a screen of the mobile terminal, wherein each of the plurality of desktops is generated by;

creating a block class object, wherein the block class object comprises attribute information; and

drawing, by calling a drawing function, a plurality of blocks based on the attribute information of the block class object, wherein the plurality of blocks are distributed on a screen of the mobile terminal without overlap to form a desktop;

wherein each block of the plurality of blocks is not transparent and is visible for a user, the plurality of blocks including at least one block that is an idle block, wherein an idle block is a block on which no shortcut for an application program is currently presented;

wherein one application program is associated with one block that was previously an idle block but on which a shortcut for an application program is currently presented, and a shortcut icon and/or program name of a shortcut for an application program only occupy a partial region of the one block, and wherein the shortcut icon is in an irregular shape;

receiving an operation message by taking the desktop or a block comprised in the desktop as an operation object, and performing a corresponding operation on the operation object based on a type of the operation message;

detecting a triggered block of the plurality of blocks, the triggered block being triggered by the user, wherein the triggered block is triggered even if the user clicks a region of the screen outside the icon but within the triggered block;

performing an operation on an application program associated with the triggered block;

receiving an operation message of selecting and moving two or more blocks when the two or more blocks are clicked, the two or more blocks being located in the same desktop or being located in different desktops of the plurality of desktops;

selecting one of the clicked two or more blocks and converging the rest of the clicked two or more blocks around the one of the clicked two or more blocks; and

moving the clicked two or more blocks simultaneously to a target desktop of the plurality of desktops.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the operation object is the block in the desktop, the type of the operation message is selecting a block in one or more desktops and moving the selected block to a target desktop, and performing the corresponding operation on the operation object based on the type of the operation message comprises:

detecting whether the operation message of selecting and moving is received by a block in the screen of the mobile terminal; and

recording in a list a sequence number of the block and position information of the block in the desktop where the block is located, in a case that the operation message of selecting and moving is received by the block, wherein the list is created when the operation message of selecting and moving is received by a block in the screen of the mobile terminal for the first time; and

detecting a target position to which the block is to be moved, and interchanging positions of an idle block on a desktop where the target position is located and the block in the list, based on the sequence number of the block and the position information of the block in the desktop where the block is located recorded in the list.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein it is detected whether there is an idle block in the desktop where the target position is located in a case that the target position to which the block is to be moved is detected;

and in a case that there is an idle block and the number of the idle blocks is greater than or equal to the number of the blocks recorded in the list, positions of the idle block and the block in the list are interchanged based on the sequence number of the block and the position information of the block in the desktop recorded in the list.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein it is detected whether there is an idle block in the desktop where the target position is located in a case that the target position to which the block is to be moved is detected;

and in a case that there is an idle block and the number of the idle blocks is less than the number of the blocks recorded in the list, positions of the idle block and the block in the list are interchanged in sequence listed by the sequence number, and other extra blocks in the list are returned to original positions.

10. The method according to claim 5, wherein the operation object is the block in the desktop, the type of the operation message is displaying and hiding of the desktop, and performing the corresponding operation on the operation object based on the type of the operation message comprises:

detecting whether the operation message of displaying and hiding is received by one of the plurality of desktops;

changing an attribute value of a visible attribute of a block in the one desktop to an opposite attribute value, in a case that the operation message of displaying and hiding is received by the one desktop;

refreshing the desktop, and drawing the block in the desktop by calling a drawing function to display the desktop and the block in the desktop or not drawing the block in the desktop by calling the drawing function to hide the desktop and the block in the desktop based on the attribute value.

11. The method according to claim 5, wherein the block is a rectangular block, the number of the plurality of blocks is N×

M, wherein N is the number of the blocks on the desktop of the mobile terminal in a transverse direction, M is the number of the blocks on the desktop of the mobile terminal in a longitudinal direction, and N and M each are natural numbers greater than or equal to 2.

12. The method according to claim 5, wherein the blocks are spaced apart by a preset distance.

13. A desktop generation apparatus for a mobile terminal, comprising a processor and a non-transitory storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

create a block class object, wherein the block class object comprises attribute information;

draw a plurality of blocks by calling a drawing function based on the attribute information of the block class object, wherein the plurality of blocks are distributed on a screen of the mobile terminal without overlap to form a desktop;

wherein each block of the plurality of blocks is not transparent and is visible for a user, the plurality of blocks including at least one block that is an idle block, wherein an idle block is a block on which no shortcut for an application program is currently presented;

present, in a first block that has been an idle block on the desktop, the shortcut icon and/or program name of a shortcut for an application program in a case that the shortcut for the application program is required to be presented on the desktop;

wherein one application program is associated with the first block, and the shortcut icon and/or program name of the shortcut for the application program only occupy a partial region of the first block, and wherein the shortcut icon is in an irregular shape;

detect a triggered block of the plurality of blocks, the triggered block being triggered by the user, wherein the triggered block is triggered even if the user clicks a region of the screen outside the icon but within the triggered block;

perform an operation on an application program associated with the triggered block;

receive an operation message of selecting and moving two or more blocks of the plurality of blocks when the two or more block are clicked;

select one of the clicked two or more blocks and converge the rest of the clicked two or more blocks around the one of the clicked two or more blocks; and

move the clicked two or more blocks simultaneously to a target position of the desktop.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to:

monitor a message of requiring creating a shortcut for an application program on the desktop which is sent from an operating system of the mobile terminal;

read a shortcut icon and/or program name of the application program for which the shortcut is required to be created on the desktop;

detect an idle block on the desktop; and

present the shortcut icon and/or program name of the application program in an idle block, in a case that it is detected that there is an idle block on the desktop.

15. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the blocks are spaced apart by a preset distance.