CN103019825A - Method and device for controlling application - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for controlling applications, relates to the technical field of computers, and is used for realizing flexible triggering of applications. The method includes: monitoring whether a preset event is triggered; when the preset event is triggered, invoking, updating or terminating an application corresponding to the preset event. The invention also discloses a device for realizing the method.

Description

A method and device for controlling an application

technical field

The present invention relates to the field of computer technology, in particular to a method and device for controlling applications.

Background technique

With the enhanced functions of the mobile terminal, it has become a must-have in people's life. In order to meet various needs of users, there are various applications (Application, APP) developed based on smart mobile terminals on the Internet. At the same time, in order to provide users with more and more humanized functions, the industry is working on research in this area.

Generally, various applications need to be manually triggered by the user before they can be used. Usually, the APP is opened by clicking the shortcut of the APP, and then the corresponding operation or use is completed through various options provided by it.

This method of operation does not take into account the timing of the user's demand for these functions, especially for a frequent operation that requires the user to memorize and trigger it manually.

To solve this problem, individual applications provide a reminder function. For example, the alarm clock application can pre-set the reminder time and reminder mode. If you set a reminder at 7 in the morning, you need to set the reminder time to 7 o'clock. Then when it is 7 o'clock, the user will be reminded by the set reminder mode. However, the alarm clock app needs to be kept open at all times, otherwise the alarm will not work. That is to say, the alarm application always occupies resources.

If the user sets a reminder time in the to-do list, the to-do list also needs to be kept open all the time, and the user is reminded to check the to-do list when the set reminder time is reached.

It can be seen that all applications that need to be reminded must remain open and occupy resources at all times. If there are many such applications, it will bring a large load to the equipment.

Contents of the invention

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for controlling applications, which are used to implement flexible triggering of applications.

A method for controlling an application includes the following steps: monitoring whether a preset event is triggered; when a preset event is triggered, calling, updating or terminating the application corresponding to the preset event. In this embodiment, the relevant application is invoked, updated or terminated when the preset condition is satisfied, instead of opening the relevant application all the time, so as to save resources.

Preferably, the trigger event includes: reaching a preset time point, passing a preset time period, reaching a preset location, reaching a preset temperature, reaching a preset speed, reaching a preset height, accessing a preset network , one or more of preset keys being triggered. This embodiment provides multiple trigger conditions to meet the requirements of different applications.

Preferably, before monitoring whether the preset event is triggered, the method further includes the step of calling an application that provides the preset event. When the solution of this embodiment is adopted, it is necessary to call the application providing the preset event, but it is not necessary to call the triggered application, thereby reducing the number of calling applications and saving resources.

Preferably, the corresponding application is an application provided by the operating system; the step of invoking, updating or terminating the application corresponding to the preset event includes: sending a call instruction, an update instruction or a termination instruction to the operating system to instruct the operating system to call , updating or terminating the application corresponding to the preset event. In this embodiment, the applications provided by the operating system need to be invoked or terminated by the operating system, so a solution is provided for such applications.

Preferably, when invoking, updating or terminating the application corresponding to the preset event, a step is further included: invoking, updating or terminating the application associated with the corresponding application. In this embodiment, not only the triggered application is invoked, but also other applications associated with it are invoked or terminated, so that the invoking and updating process can be simplified, the user does not need to click each application one by one, and the application can be terminated in time to save resources.

An apparatus for controlling an application, comprising:

A trigger module, configured to monitor whether a preset event is triggered;

The control module is configured to call, update or terminate the application corresponding to the preset event when the trigger module detects that the preset event is triggered.

Trigger events include: reaching the preset time point, passing the preset time period, reaching the preset position, reaching the preset temperature, reaching the preset speed, reaching the preset altitude, accessing the preset network, preset One or more of the keys being triggered.

The device further includes: a configuration module, configured to invoke an application that provides preset events.

The corresponding application is an application provided by the operating system;

The control module sends an invoking instruction, an updating instruction or a termination instruction to the operating system to instruct the operating system to invoke, update or terminate the application corresponding to the preset event.

The control module is also used to invoke, update or terminate applications associated with corresponding applications.

Additional features and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the description which follows, and in part will be apparent from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention. The objectives and other advantages of the invention may be realized and attained by the structure particularly pointed out in the written description and claims hereof as well as the appended drawings.

The technical solutions of the present invention will be described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments.

Description of drawings

The accompanying drawings are used to provide a further understanding of the present invention, and constitute a part of the description, and are used together with the embodiments of the present invention to explain the present invention, and do not constitute a limitation to the present invention. In the attached picture:

Fig. 1 is the flow chart of main method of control application in the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for controlling an application provided by an operating system in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method for controlling associated applications in an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is the main structural diagram of device in the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is a detailed structural diagram of the device in the embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

The preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the preferred embodiments described here are only used to illustrate and explain the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention.

In this embodiment, the relevant application is invoked, updated or terminated when the preset condition is satisfied, instead of opening the relevant application all the time, so as to save resources.

Referring to Fig. 1, the main method flow of the control application in this embodiment is as follows:

Step 101: Monitor whether a preset event is triggered; if so, continue to step 102; otherwise, end this process and continue to step 101. In this embodiment, the application providing the preset event needs to be invoked in advance, preferably, a process is created for the application providing the preset event.

Step 102: calling, updating or terminating the application corresponding to the preset event.

Preferably, there can be one or more preset events. When an event is triggered, step 102 can be executed. In step 102, the process of invoking the application corresponding to the preset event includes: creating (one or more) processes for the corresponding application, and sending a message to the process, so that the process completes the function of the corresponding application . The process of updating the application corresponding to the preset event includes: sending a message to the process corresponding to the corresponding application, so that the process completes the state update of the application and the like. The step of terminating the application corresponding to the preset event includes: terminating a process corresponding to the corresponding application, and reclaiming resources corresponding to the process, so as to terminate the application.

The trigger events in this embodiment include: reaching a preset time point, passing a preset time period, reaching a preset position, reaching a preset temperature, reaching a preset speed, reaching a preset height, accessing a preset One or more of network setting and preset button being triggered. Before monitoring whether the preset event is triggered, the application that provides the preset event needs to be invoked. For example, if the application that provides time is a clock, keep the clock on all the time, capture clock events in real time, and when the captured clock is the same as the preset time, call the corresponding application, and there may be one or more applications. For example, the reminder time of both the alarm clock and the to-do list is 7 o'clock, and when 7 o'clock arrives, the two applications of the alarm clock and the to-do list can be called at the same time, without keeping the two applications open, thereby saving resources. Similarly, an application that provides location is GPS (Global Positioning System), and an application that provides weather is a weather application. Device status includes CPU status, memory status, power status, etc., and there are corresponding functions to provide CPU status, memory status, power status, etc. Of course, the triggering events in this embodiment are not limited to the above types, and any triggering conditions can be applied to this embodiment, which are not listed here.

In particular, when the corresponding application is an application provided by the operating system, it is necessary to send a calling instruction, an updating instruction or a termination instruction to the operating system to instruct the operating system to call, update or terminate the application corresponding to the preset event. Preferably, a call command, an update command or a termination command is sent to the operating system process to instruct the operating system to call, update or terminate the application corresponding to the preset event.

Preferably, when the application corresponding to the preset event is invoked, updated or terminated, the application associated with the corresponding application is invoked, updated or terminated. For example, the user sets to turn on the flight mode at 22 o'clock, which means that the mobile terminal terminates the transmission of mobile communication signals, and then all applications that require mobile communication signal transmission can be closed, such as applications such as GPS and wireless networks can be terminated.

The implementation process of the control application will be introduced in detail below through two typical embodiments.

Referring to FIG. 2, the flow of the method for controlling the applications provided by the operating system in this embodiment is as follows:

Step 201: Monitor preset events.

Step 202: Determine whether the preset event is triggered; if so, continue to step 203; otherwise, end this process and continue to step 201.

Step 203: Determine the application corresponding to the preset event.

Step 204: Determine whether the application corresponding to the preset event is an application provided by the operating system, if yes, proceed to step 205, otherwise proceed to step 206.

Step 205: Send an invoking instruction, an updating instruction or a termination instruction to the operating system to instruct the operating system to invoke, update or terminate the application corresponding to the preset event.

Step 206: calling, updating or terminating the application corresponding to the preset event.

Referring to FIG. 3, the flow of the method for controlling associated applications in this embodiment is as follows:

Step 301: Monitor preset events.

Step 302: Determine whether a preset event is triggered; if yes, continue to step 303; otherwise, end this process and continue to step 301.

Step 303: Determine the application corresponding to the preset event.

Step 304: Determine an application associated with the application corresponding to the preset event.

Step 305: calling, updating or terminating the application corresponding to the preset event and its associated applications.

For example, when the user is at home or off work, he does not want to be disturbed by the phone, or does not want to receive the radiation of the mobile phone, and hopes to automatically turn on and off the flight mode to turn off all mobile phone signals and reduce radiation or phone disturbance.

Specifically include the following steps:

101. The user sets a trigger event and the applications that can be triggered by the trigger event;

For example, in this embodiment, any one of the following two trigger events (or both) can be set:

Event 1: The location of the mobile phone itself is in a certain cell, or the geographical range of a certain cell.

When setting event 1, since turning on GPS real-time positioning consumes more power, the user can set the frequency of detecting trigger events, for example, perform positioning every five minutes, and determine whether it is in the geographical range of a certain cell.

Event 2: Set the time between 20:00-6:00.

In this embodiment, the application corresponding to the set trigger event is a scene mode, and the scene mode application is updated to "turn on the airplane mode".

Detect whether event 1 or event 2 is satisfied, and if so, turn on the flight mode.

In this embodiment, the executed function is "turn on the flight mode", specifically: when the operating system directly provides the flight mode function: according to the interface provided by the operating system, send the parameters of "turn on the flight mode" to the operating system, so that The operating system update profile is "airplane mode".

Taking the Android operating system as an example, the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) application, the Bluetooth application, and the WIFI (a wirelessly connected technology) application in the mobile phone have registered for the ACTION_AIRPLANE_MODE_CHANGED message (a The monitoring of the message used to activate the application), after receiving the message, the GSM module, the Bluetooth module and the WIFI module will switch modes according to the message.

Therefore, when the preset trigger condition is triggered, it can be realized by defining the parameters of closing the GSM application, the Bluetooth application and the WIFI application in the ACTION_AIRPLANE_MODE_CHANGED message, and broadcasting the ACTION_AIRPLANE_MODE_CHANGED message.

The implementation process of the control application has been described above, which can be realized by the device, and the internal functions and structures of the device will be introduced below.

Referring to FIG. 4 , the device for controlling applications in this embodiment includes: a trigger module 401 and a control module 402 . The device may be an electronic device with various reminding functions such as a mobile terminal and a computer.

The triggering module 401 is used to monitor whether a preset event is triggered.

The control module 402 is configured to call, update or terminate the application corresponding to the preset event when the trigger module 401 detects that the preset event is triggered.

In this embodiment, triggering events include: reaching a preset time point, passing a preset time period, reaching a preset position, reaching a preset temperature, reaching a preset speed, reaching a preset height, accessing a preset One or more of network and preset keys are triggered.

The device further includes: a configuration module 403 , as shown in FIG. 5 . The configuration module 403 is used for configuring preset events, corresponding applications and associated applications, and invoking applications that provide preset events.

Specifically, when the corresponding application is an application provided by the operating system, the control module 402 sends a calling instruction, an updating instruction or a termination instruction to the operating system to instruct the operating system to call, update or terminate the application corresponding to the preset event.

Preferably, the control module 402 is also used for invoking, updating or terminating the application associated with the corresponding application.

In this embodiment, when a preset event is triggered, a related application is invoked, updated or terminated, and the related application does not need to be opened all the time, thereby saving resources. This embodiment can also invoke or terminate associated applications, and invoking applications can save user operations and realize automatic triggering; automatically terminating associated applications can save device resources.

Those skilled in the art should understand that the embodiments of the present invention may be provided as methods, systems, or computer program products. Accordingly, the present invention can take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment, or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including but not limited to disk storage and optical storage, etc.) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

The present invention is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It should be understood that each procedure and/or block in the flowchart and/or block diagram, and a combination of procedures and/or blocks in the flowchart and/or block diagram can be realized by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or processor of other programmable data processing equipment to produce a machine such that the instructions executed by the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing equipment produce a An apparatus for realizing the functions specified in one or more procedures of the flowchart and/or one or more blocks of the block diagram.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory capable of directing a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to operate in a specific manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture comprising instruction means, the instructions The device realizes the function specified in one or more procedures of the flowchart and/or one or more blocks of the block diagram.

These computer program instructions can also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing device, causing a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable device to produce a computer-implemented process, thereby The instructions provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flow chart or blocks of the flowchart and/or the block or blocks of the block diagrams.

Obviously, those skilled in the art can make various changes and modifications to the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Thus, if these modifications and variations of the present invention fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention and their equivalent technologies, the present invention also intends to include these modifications and variations.

Claims (10)

1. a method of controlling application is characterized in that, may further comprise the steps:

Whether the default event of monitoring is triggered;

When described default event is triggered, calls, upgrade or application that termination is corresponding with described default event.

2. the method for claim 1, it is characterized in that default event comprises: reach default time point, through the default time cycle, arrive default position, reach default temperature, reach default speed, reach one or more in being triggered of the default default network of height, access, programmable button.

3. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, before whether the default event of monitoring was triggered, described method also comprised step: the application of calling the event that provides default.

4. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, corresponding is applied as the application that operating system provides;

Call, upgrade or the step of the application that termination is corresponding with described default event comprises: send call instruction, update instruction or command for stopping to operating system, with the application that indication operating system is called, upgraded or termination is corresponding with described default event.

5. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, calls, upgrades or when application that termination is corresponding with described default event, also comprise step: call, upgrade or stop application with corresponding association.

6. a device of controlling application is characterized in that, comprising:

Whether trigger module is used for the default event of monitoring and is triggered;

Control module is used for when described trigger module monitoring obtains described default event and is triggered, and calls, upgrades or application that termination is corresponding with described default event.

7. device as claimed in claim 6, it is characterized in that trigger event comprises: reach default time point, through the default time cycle, arrive default position, reach default temperature, reach default speed, reach one or more in being triggered of the default default network of height, access, programmable button.

8. device as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, described device also comprises: configuration module is used for the application of calling the event that provides default.

9. device as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, corresponding is applied as the application that operating system provides;

Control module sends call instruction, update instruction or command for stopping to operating system, with the application that indication operating system is called, upgraded or termination is corresponding with described default event.

10. device as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, control module also is used for calling, upgrade or stops application with corresponding association.

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