INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AN INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND AN INFORMATION PROCESSING CONTROL PROGRAM

• US 20110035698A1
• Filed: 06/11/2009
• Published: 02/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Hideaki
• Application Number:
  US12/988,658
• Publication Number:
  US 20110035698A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/781
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages

Abstract

In an information processing apparatus having a plurality of functions, an information processing apparatus which is capable of executing an appropriate process to an operation by user according to the function under execution is provided.

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention is an information processing apparatus having a plurality of application functions, characterized by comprising:

• • an input means to accept input from the user;
  • a storage means for holding a table, to which processing information was registered by correlating to combinations of applications;
  • a display means which displays at least two windows;
  • a control means which displays the first window and the second window for the second application to the display means in the case when the input means accepts input for starting the second application while the first window for the first application is displayed on the display means; and
  • a processing means for processing based on the processing information corresponding to combination of the first application and the second application in the case when the input means accepts input for the first window and the second window respectively while the first window and the second window are displayed on the display means.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus having a plurality of application functions, comprising:

an input part that accepts input from the user;

a storage part that holds a table to which processing information was registered by correlating to combinations of applications;

a display part that displays at least two windows;

a control part that displays the first window and the second window for the second application to the display part in the case when the input part accepts input for starting the second application while the first window for the first application is displayed on the display part; and

a processing part that processes based on the processing information corresponding to combination of the first application and the second application in the case when the input part accepts input for the first window and the second window respectively while the first window and the second window are displayed on the display part.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the control part displays the first window and the second window on the display part in parallel.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a gesture analyzing part that determines whether predetermined input was performed with the input part,

wherein the information processing apparatus carries out the process based on the processing information corresponding to the combination of the first application and the second application, and the predetermined input in the case when the gesture analyzing part determines that the predetermined input was performed.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, comprising:

two or more of application functions among an electronic mail application, a telephone directory application, a browsing application, a motion picture viewing application and a mail decoration application.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processing part pastes a designated object displayed on the first window into the second window in the case when the first application is the electronic mail application and the second application is the telephone directory mail application.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the processing part pastes the designated object on the predetermined position of the second window for input entered at an arbitrary position of the second window.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein a plurality of electronic mail address is stored in the storage part with classified condition, and

the processing select the electronic mail address from the storage part according to the input position of the second window and make it the designated object.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processing part acquires identification information of contents displayed on the first window and pastes the identification information obtained into the second window in the case when the first application is the browsing application or the motion picture viewing application, and the second application is the electronic mail application.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the processing part acquires identification information of contents designated by the input part based on the second processing information and pastes the identification information obtained into the second window in the case when the first application is the browsing application or the motion picture viewing application, and the second application is the electronic mail application.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the input part is a touch panel disposed on the display part.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein an update and a new addition of the processing information are performed to the table by the entry from the input part.

12. A information processing method by using a information processing apparatus having a display part and a memory in which processing information was registered by correlating to combinations of applications, comprising:

a step for displaying the first window and the second window for the second application to the display part in the case when accepting input for starting the second application while the first window for the first application is displayed on the display part; and

a step for processing based on the processing information corresponding to combination of the first application and the second application in the case when accepting input for the first window and the second window respectively while the first window and the second window are displayed on the display part.

13. A computer readable medium having computer readable program code for executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus having a display part and a memory in which processing information was registered by correlating to combinations of applications, comprising:

a first code for displaying the first window and the second window for the second application to the display part in the case when accepting input for starting the second application while the first window for the first application is displayed on the display part; and

a second code for processing based on the processing information corresponding to combination of the first application and the second application in the case when accepting input for the first window and the second window respectively while the first window and the second window are displayed on the display part.

14. An information processing apparatus having a plurality of application functions, comprising:

an input means to accept input from the user;

a storage means for holding a table to which processing information was registered by correlating to combinations of applications;

a display means which displays at least two windows;

a control means which displays the first window and the second window for the second application to the display means in the case when the input means accepts input for starting the second application while the first window for the first application is displayed on the display means; and

a processing means for processing based on the processing information corresponding to combination of the first application and the second application in the case when the input means accepts input for the first window and the second window respectively while the first window and the second window are displayed on the display means.