Interactive interface for enabling and disabling input method

• US 11,007,435 B2
• Filed: 01/25/2017
• Issued: 05/18/2021
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Wang, Weiguang, Nie, Zhiming, Al, Feng, Li, Congbing
• Primary Examiner(s): Pierce, Damon J
• Application Number:
  US15/774,344
• Publication Number:
  US 20200246697A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,574 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/335 using Internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/42 by mapping the input signals into game commands, e.g. mapping the displacement of a stylus on a touch screen to the steering angle of a virtual vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/533 for prompting the player, e.g. by displaying a game menu
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/023 Arrangements for converting discrete items of information into a coded form, e.g. arrangements for interpreting keyboard generated codes as alphanumeric codes, operand codes or instruction codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses an input method processing method, applied to a cloud interaction system. The cloud interaction system includes a user equipment and a server. The method includes: sending, by the user equipment, an input method enabling request to the server after receiving an input method enabling instruction; encoding, by the server, input method enabling indication information to first data according to the input method enabling request, to obtain first instruction data, and sending the first instruction data to the user equipment; enabling, by the user equipment, a local input method according to the input method enabling indication information obtained by decoding the first instruction data, and rendering a first interactive application interface and a task graph of the local input method according to the first instruction data. The input method processing method provided in the embodiments can ensure that the local input method can always be normally displayed on the interactive application interface when the interactive application interface is in any state.

Claims

1. An input method processing method in a cloud interaction system, the cloud interaction system comprising a user equipment and a server, the method performed by at least one computer processor and comprising:

transmitting, by the user equipment, an input method enabling request to the server in response to receiving an input method enabling instruction while an interaction application is provided from the server and executed on the user equipment and a local input method is disabled to receive a text input on the interaction application, the input method enabling request being used to instruct the server to encode input method enabling indication information to first data, to obtain first instruction data;

receiving, by the user equipment, the first instruction data from the server;

enabling, by the user equipment, the local input method to receive the text input according to the input method enabling indication information obtained by decoding the first instruction data; and

rendering, by the user equipment on the interaction application, a first interactive application interface and a task graph of the local input method according to the first instruction data.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining, by the user equipment, a text inputted according to the local input method;

encoding, by the user equipment and obtaining, by the user equipment, encoding information based on a result of encoding; and

transmitting, by the user equipment, the encoding information to the server, wherein the encoding information is invoked, after being decoded by the server, to interactive application logic to which a current interactive application interface belongs.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising, after the obtaining, by the user equipment, the text inputted according to the local input method:

rendering, by the user equipment, a word-forming character string and/or an alternative character string of the text on the current interactive application interface by using a graphic rendering interface.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, by the user equipment, an input method disabling request to the server in response to receiving an input method disabling instruction, wherein the input method disabling request is used to instruct the server to encode input method disabling indication information to second data, to obtain second instruction data;

receiving, by the user equipment, the second instruction data from the server; and

disabling, by the user equipment, the local input method according to the input method disabling indication information obtained by decoding the second instruction data.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising, after the disabling the local input method:

rendering, by the user equipment, a second interactive application interface according to the second instruction data; and

displaying, by the user equipment, the second interactive application interface.

6. An input method processing method in a cloud interaction system, the cloud interaction system comprising a user equipment and a server, the method performed by at least one computer processor and comprising:

receiving, by the server, an input method enabling request from the user equipment while an interaction application is provided from the server and executed on the user equipment and a local input method is disabled to receive a text input on the interaction application;

encoding, by the server, input method enabling indication information to first data according to the input method enabling request, to obtain first instruction data; and

transmitting, by the server, the first instruction data to the user equipment, the first instruction data being used by the user equipment to obtain the input method enabling indication information by decoding the first instruction data to enable the local input method to receive the text input, and render, on the interaction application, a first interactive application interface and a task graph of the local input method.

7. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

receiving, by the server, encoding information of a text from the user equipment;

decoding, by the server, the encoding information, to obtain the text; and

invoking, by the server, the text to interactive application logic to which a current interactive application interface belongs.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising, after the invoking, by the server, the text to the interactive application logic to which the current interactive application interface belongs:

transmitting, by the server, the text to another user equipment that displays the current interactive application interface.

9. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

receiving, by the server, an input method disabling request from the user equipment;

encoding, by the server, input method disabling indication information to second data according to the input method disabling request, to obtain second instruction data; and

transmitting, by the server, the second instruction data to the user equipment, wherein the second instruction data is used by the user equipment to obtain the input method disabling indication information by decoding the second instruction data to disable the local input method, and render a second interactive application interface.

10. A user equipment in a cloud interaction system, the cloud interaction system comprising a server and the user equipment, the user equipment comprising at least one computer processor and at least one memory storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one computer processor, cause the at least one computer processor to:

transmit an input method enabling request to the server in response to receiving an input method enabling instruction while an interaction application is provided from the server and executed on the user equipment and a local input method is disabled to receive a text input on the interaction application, the input method enabling request being used to instruct the server to encode input method enabling indication information to first data, to obtain first instruction data,

receive the first instruction data from the server;

enable the local input method the receive the text input according to the input method enabling indication information obtained by decoding the first instruction data; and

render, on the interaction application, a first interactive application interface and a task graph of the local input method according to the first instruction data.

11. The user equipment according to claim 10, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one computer processor, further cause the at least one computer processor to:

display the first interactive application interface and the task graph of the local input method that are rendered.

12. The user equipment according to claim 10, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one computer processor, further cause the at least one computer processor to:

obtain text inputted according to the local input method;

encode the text and obtain encoding information based on a result of encoding of the text; and

transmit the encoding information to the server, wherein the encoding information is invoked, after being decoded by the server, to interactive application logic to which a current interactive application interface belongs.

13. The user equipment according to claim 12, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one computer processor, further cause the at least one computer processor to:

render, on the current interactive application interface, a word-forming character string and/or an alternative character string of the text on the current interactive application interface by using a graphic rendering interface.

14. The user equipment according to claim 10, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one computer processor, further cause the at least one computer processor to:

receive an input method disabling instruction;

transmit an input method disabling request to the server in response to receiving the input method disabling instruction, wherein the input method disabling request is used to instruct the server to encode input method disabling indication information to second data, to obtain second instruction data;

receive the second instruction data from the server; and

disable the local input method according to the input method disabling indication information obtained by decoding the second instruction data.

15. The user equipment according to claim 14, further comprising a display,

wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one computer processor, further cause the at least one computer processor to:

render a second interactive application interface according to the second instruction data; and

display the second interactive application interface on the display of the user equipment.

16. A server in a cloud interaction system, the cloud interaction system comprising a user equipment and the server, the server comprising at least one computer processor and at least one memory storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one computer processor, cause the at least one computer processor to:

receive an input method enabling request from the user equipment while an interaction application is provided from the server and executed on the user equipment and a local input method is disabled to receive a text input on the interaction application;

encode input method enabling indication information to first data according to the input method enabling request, to obtain first instruction data; and

transmit the first instruction data to the user equipment, the first instruction data being used by the user equipment to obtain the input method enabling indication information by decoding the first instruction data to enable the local input method to receive the text input, and render, on the interaction application, a first interactive application interface and a task graph of the local input method.

17. The server according to claim 16, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one computer processor, further cause the at least one computer processor to:

receive encoding information of text from the user equipment;

decode the encoding information, to obtain the text; and

invoke the text obtained by decoding to interactive application logic to which a current interactive application interface belongs.

18. The server according to claim 17, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one computer processor, further cause the at least one computer processor to:

transmit the text to another user equipment that displays the current interactive application interface.

19. The server according to claim 16, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one computer processor, further cause the at least one computer processor to:

receive an input method disabling request from the user equipment;

encode input method disabling indication information to second data according to the input method disabling request, to obtain second instruction data; and

transmit the second instruction data to the user equipment, wherein the second instruction data is used by the user equipment to obtain the input method disabling indication information by decoding the second instruction data to disable the local input method, and render a second interactive application interface.