CN110881081A

CN110881081A - Method for expanding menu on communication interface and related electronic equipment and medium

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Publication number: CN110881081A
Application number: CN201910559756.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张小林
Original assignee: Shanghai Co Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Co Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2018-09-06
Filing date: 2019-06-26
Publication date: 2020-03-13
Also published as: CN110879735A

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for expanding a menu on a communication interface, and related electronic equipment and media, belonging to the field of software, and in an embodiment of the method, a method for providing interface resources in electronic equipment is provided, wherein a plurality of interfaces are configured in the electronic equipment and can be output through a display of the electronic equipment, and the method comprises the following steps: s-1, loading one of the plurality of interfaces through a display of the electronic equipment; s-2, responding to the switching operation of the user on the plurality of interfaces, and switching and outputting the plurality of interfaces through the display; s-3 outputting a plurality of communications with the contact via the at least one communications network in the message area at least partially in response to operation of the communications operations interface. Based on the interface resource configuration method, the accessibility of the application program and the related information thereof through the user interface of the electronic equipment is improved.

Description

Method for expanding menu on communication interface and related electronic equipment and medium

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of interface interaction, in particular to the technical field of interface interaction in a communication information acquisition process.

Background

The development of science and technology has enabled people to change their communication modes greatly, and the continuous emergence of smart terminal products such as smart phones and the continuous release of various applications (apps) enables people to establish communication with family, colleagues and friends anytime and anywhere without being limited by distance.

However, in real life, some users, including but not limited to the elderly and children, are difficult to adapt to the technology development of the day and the night due to the lack of capability, difficult to adapt to the upgrading and upgrading of various communication means, and unable to be skilled in using the intelligent terminal and various communication apps, so that they may not be able to well establish communication with family and friends.

This situation is more evident in the following circumstances: young children work in large cities, while parents of their own ages, young children, may remain in a hometown that is far away. Even if a child purchases a smartphone and installs various communication apps and other apps for an old person, the old person often cannot normally operate the smartphone and the various internal apps, and thus cannot effectively establish communication with family and friends.

On the other hand, the technical route of the related communication technology and the related communication application software technology also takes place through a complex evolution process of many generations.

The communication system may provide fixed line connections or wireless connections for subscribers to communicate, such as voice or data communications. An example of a fixed line system is the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). One example of a wireless communication system is a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN), and another example is a satellite-based mobile communication system. Wireless communication typically occurs via a radio frequency connection between a mobile station of a subscriber and at least one network element of the communication system. Communications within a network are typically, but not necessarily, handled using fixed line connections between different network elements. Communications may also be transmitted within a system that includes one or more data networks. An example of such communication is the voice over IP (internet protocol) scheme that enables voice calls over packet switched data networks.

A communication network is a cellular radio network consisting of access entities commonly referred to as cells. In most cases, a cell is defined as an area covered by one or more Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs) that serve User Equipment (UE), such as a Mobile Station (MS), via a radio interface that may be connected to a Base Station Subsystem (BSS). Several cells cover a larger area and typically form a radio coverage area known as a Location Area (LA) or in some standards as a Routing Area (RA). It should be appreciated that the size of the location area or routing area depends on the system and environment and may be equal to one cell or less, such as a portion of the coverage area of a base station. One feature of cellular systems is that it provides mobility for mobile stations, i.e., enables mobile stations to move from one location area to another, and even from one network to another that is compatible with the standards to which the mobile station is adapted.

Wireless communication is a communication method using only electromagnetic waves without cables, and mainly includes microwave communication and satellite communication. Microwave is a radio wave that travels over distances typically of the order of tens of kilometers. However, the frequency band of the microwave is wide, and the communication capacity is large. A microwave relay station is established every dozens of kilometers in microwave communication. Satellite communication is the establishment of microwave communication links between two or more earth stations or between mobile bodies on the ground using communication satellites as relay stations.

Wireless Communication (Wireless Communication) is a Communication method for exchanging information using the characteristic that an electromagnetic wave signal can propagate in a free space, and in recent years, the most developed and widely used Wireless Communication technology is in the field of information Communication. Wireless communication implemented in mobile is also commonly referred to as mobile communication, and both are collectively referred to as wireless mobile communication.

In the network system of wireless mobile communication, the network system of mobile phone for mobile user mainly includes GSM, CDMA, 3G, 4G, and since the advent of mobile phone, the mobile phone has experienced the first generation analog system mobile phone (1G), the second generation GSM, TDMA and other digital mobile phones (2G), the 2.5 generation mobile communication technology CDMA, the third generation mobile communication technology 3G, the fourth generation mobile communication technology 4G.

The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) System is the beginning of the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), which is developed on the basis of the cellular System and belongs to the second generation digital Mobile communication System. Its advantages are more kinds of mobile communication services, high connection speed, high speech quality, high security and security, high anti-interference power and wide network coverage. In terms of the topological structure, the public mobile communication network generally adopts cellular topology, and is based on the consideration of improving the frequency spectrum utilization rate, reducing mutual interference and increasing the system capacity.

In order to realize the support from the traditional voice service to the data service, the GPRS superposes a network supporting high-speed packet data on the basis of the original GSM network, provides functions of WAP browsing (browsing Internet pages), E-mail and the like for users, promotes the first leap development of the mobile data service, and realizes the perfect combination of the mobile communication technology and the data communication technology (especially the Internet technology).

From the second generation GSM, most mobile communications are digital systems, and besides voice communications, short messages (short messages, SMS), MMS (technology) | MMS (multimedia messages ), Wireless Application Protocols (WAP), and the like can be transmitted and received.

The Short Message Service (SMS) is a part of a service plan of "converged communication", and a user directly sends or receives text or digital information through a mobile phone or other telecommunication terminals, and the number of characters that the user can receive and send a short message each time is 160 english, digital characters or 70 chinese characters.

In general, the "mobile data traffic" refers to data traffic generated by accessing the internet or using related data value-added services through mobile communication technologies such as GPRS, EDGE, TD-SCDMA, HSDPA, WCDMA, and LTE, and does not include traffic generated by accessing the internet through other methods such as WLAN and CSD.

A mobile communication network between a mobile subscriber and a mobile subscriber or between a mobile subscriber and a fixed subscriber, and a public mobile communication network and a private mobile communication network are classified by service object; and can be divided into a mobile phone network and a mobile data network according to service properties. The mobile phone network supports communication in the form of short messages and voice. Correspondingly, the terminal equipment is provided with an SMS short message interface and a voice interface, thereby accessing to a mobile telephone network, receiving and sending short messages and dialing/answering the telephone from the voice network.

In addition, the mobile terminal may be connected to the internet through the mobile data traffic based on the public mobile data network, or may be connected to the internet through a WLAN access point based on a conventional home or enterprise broadband derivation, so that various network services and programs are used, and real-time communication is one of them.

The above-mentioned WLANs are all called: wireless Local Area Networks, with a Chinese name: a wireless local area network (wlan), which is a system for data transmission by using Radio Frequency (RF) technology, and the technology is used to make up for the deficiency of wired lans, so as to achieve the purpose of network extension and realize a clear network without network wires and distance limitations. The current protocols included in WLANs are: ieee802.11b protocol, ieee802.11a protocol, ieee802.11g protocol, ieee802.11e protocol, ieee802.11i protocol, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), etc., and WIFI (wireless fidelity) technology is a wireless network communication technology based on IEEE802.11 series standards.

For both mobile data networks and WLAN communication networks, they are referred to in the industry as wireless data transmission networks.

Instant Messaging (IM) derived from the above communication technology is a real-time communication system (generally including service and client software) that allows two or more people to use a network to transmit text messages, files, data, voice and video in real time, including ICQ, Skype, MSN, etc. before the mobile data network is not popularized, and since then, with the popularization of wireless data transmission technologies such as mobile data network, WLAN, etc. and smart phone operating systems, a great number of mobile Instant Messaging services and software, such as Wechat, etc., have appeared.

There is a need for a communication method and related device based on the above communication technology and application software technology, which can meet various potential needs of users including but not limited to the elderly and children.

Disclosure of Invention

It would be beneficial if the accessibility (accessibility) and/or operability of resources on a user interface of an electronic device could be enhanced.

The embodiment of the invention provides a method for providing interface resources in electronic equipment, wherein the electronic equipment is provided with a plurality of interfaces, and the interfaces can be output through a display of the electronic equipment, and the method comprises the following steps:

s-1, loading one of the plurality of interfaces through a display of the electronic equipment;

s-2, responding to the switching operation of the user on the plurality of interfaces, and switching and outputting the plurality of interfaces through the display; wherein the electronic device comprises a communication operation interface associated with at least one communication network; the plurality of interfaces includes an interface for a contact; the contact interface includes a message area; and the method further comprises the step of,

s-3, at least partially in response to the operation of the communication operation interface, establishing communication with the contact via the at least one communication network and outputting a plurality of communication information generated by the communication in the message area.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the plurality of interfaces includes a communication interface for a first known contact and a communication interface for a first unknown contact; the first known contact communication interface comprises a first message area, and the first unknown contact communication interface comprises a second message area; and the method further comprises step a and step B, in which a plurality of communications with the first known contact via the at least one communications network are output in the first message region at least partly in response to operation of the communications operations interface. In step B, a plurality of communications with the first unknown contact via the at least one communications network are output in the second message region at least partially in response to operation of the communications operations interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the plurality of interfaces includes a communication interface for a first known contact or a communication interface for a first unknown contact; the first known contact communication interface comprises a first message area, and the first unknown contact communication interface comprises a second message area; and the method further comprises step a 'or step B'. In step a', a plurality of communications with the first known contact via the at least one communications network are output in the first message region at least partially in response to operation of the communications operations interface. In step B', a plurality of communications with the first unknown contact via the at least one communications network are output in the second message region at least partially in response to operation of the communications operations interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the contact interface comprises a communication interface for a first known contact and a communication interface for a first unknown contact; the message area comprises a first message area on the first known contact communication interface and a second message area on the first unknown contact communication interface; and the step S-3 further comprises the following two steps: a) outputting, in the first message region, a plurality of communication information with the first known contact via the at least one communication network at least partially in response to operation of the communication operations interface. And b) outputting, at least in part in response to operation of the communication operations interface, a plurality of communication information with the first unknown contact via the at least one communication network in the second message region.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the contact interface comprises a communication interface for a first known contact or a communication interface for a first unknown contact, and correspondingly, the message area comprises a first message area on the first known contact communication interface or a second message area on the first unknown contact communication interface; and said step S-3 further comprises one of the following two steps: A1) outputting, in the first message region, a plurality of communication information with the first known contact via the at least one communication network at least partially in response to operation of the communication operations interface. Alternatively, step B1) outputs a plurality of communications information with the first unknown contact via the at least one communications network in the second message region at least partially in response to operation of the communications operations interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the communication operation interface includes a key group virtually provided on a user interface currently output on the display and a key group physically provided on the electronic device, both key groups being independently associated with the at least one communication network, respectively.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the communication operation interface comprises a key group provided virtually on a user interface currently output on the display or a key group provided physically to the electronic device, wherein a physical key group is associated with the at least one communication network or a virtual key group is associated with the at least one communication network.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the contact interface further comprises an extensible button operable to reveal an extensible menu laterally; a first portion of the virtual keys or all of the virtual keys of the set of virtual keys are arranged in a column alongside the contact interface. This enhances the display efficiency and operability of more interface elements through a single interface (for example, the user interface of an electronic device such as a mobile phone with a smaller display area), and improves the utilization rate of the display capability of the single interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the contact interface further includes profile information for the contact (e.g., profile information of a first known contact or a first unknown contact), the profile information being configured up and down with the message area along a longitudinal direction of the display.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the contact profile information is located above the message area on the contact interface, the message area and the area to which the profile information corresponds are commensurate in breadth, and the message area and the profile information area are substantially centrally located on the contact interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the first portion of virtual keys are arranged in a column to the right of the contact interface to facilitate right-handed operation by a user. The expanded menu includes a second portion of the virtual keys in the set of virtual keys or other operating options, such as operating options for the message area. The operation options for the message area comprise expression options and social options. But also for operating options for applications such as camera programs, album programs, etc.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the expandable button is located substantially in the same column as the key column to the right of the contact interface. Correspondingly, the method of these embodiments further comprises the steps of: in response to a user's selection operation (e.g., clicking) on an expandable button, an expanded menu is presented, which optionally includes a second portion of keys in the key group and/or an emotive option, a social option (e.g., a red envelope button), and the like, in a single row at the bottom of the display, above an option area (abbreviated as option area, menu area) where the plurality of options are located. And when the second part of keys are activated, popping up a communication establishment interface, and when the expression options and the social options are activated, popping up corresponding expression or social interface elements for further operation of the user. And in response to the user completing the operation related to the selected second part key, the expression option or the social option, shrinking the expansion menu into an expansion button. In response to a user's clicking operation on the expand button, the expand menu is preferably presented in a single row in the lateral direction, with the expand menu and expand button being located at the bottom of the display, above the option area. And posting an object (e.g., the aforementioned red envelope, emoticon, photograph, etc.) selected by the user through the one or more options in the message area.

Optionally, the expanded menu may further include one or more of the following menu options: a menu option to initiate a voice or video call with a current contact (i.e., the contact to which the current contact interface corresponds) when activated, a menu option to initiate a short message service with the current contact when activated, a menu option to initiate a payment action for the current contact when activated, a menu option to initiate a video conference with the current contact and a contact group to which the electronic device user belongs together when activated.

Optionally, the plurality of interfaces configured in the electronic device may include an application program interface, and correspondingly, the extended menu may include other operation options, which may also be operation options for application programs such as a camera program, an album program, a daily information program, and the like, and these operation options may be operable to activate certain functions (features) of the application programs. And the interface elements of the interfaces of the application programs also have a certain correspondence with the interface elements of the communication interfaces, for example, the interface elements comprise virtual key columns correspondingly arranged on the right side of the interfaces, extensible buttons operable to show an extended menu, option areas and the like.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the related method further comprises the steps of: a plurality of options are arranged in a thumbnail form along the lateral direction at the bottom of the display, and are operable to output the plurality of interfaces through the display respectively, for example, in a one-to-one correspondence. Wherein the plurality of options includes a first option and/or a second option, the second option being associated with the first known contact communication interface, the first option being associated with the first unknown contact communication interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the expandable button is located longitudinally along the contact interface between the virtual key column and the option area in which the plurality of options are located, the expandable button being operable to present an expanded menu in a lateral direction, preferably in a single row, presenting one or more menu items.

Optionally, in some embodiments, wherein the expandable button is located in substantially the same column as the virtual key column, preferably, the expandable button may be disposed between the right key column on the contact interface and the option area at the bottom of the display, i.e. below the key column and above the option area. Therefore, the ordering and operability in composition are improved, and the display space on the interface is saved.

Optionally, in some embodiments of the invention, a first option in the menu area is associated with a communication function of the first unknown contact, the first option being operable to invoke the communication program to output a communication interface for the first unknown contact through the display, in other words, in response to a user manipulation of the first unknown contact option, to run the communication application to present the communication interface for the first unknown contact on the display, comprising: a communication key set for the first unknown contact, avatar, etc. profile information for the first unknown contact, and a corresponding message area. Establishing communication with a first unknown contact through at least one communication network available to the electronic device to generate a plurality of communication information in response to user operation of a key of the key set for communication; and outputting the plurality of communication information through the message area on the first unknown contact communication interface.

A key in the keypad, when pressed, triggers the electronic device to generate a signal to operate, or activate, a Feature of an application program to perform a function of the application. The inventor has found through research that for common applications, the number of important functions or functions commonly used by the user generally does not exceed 5, for example 3 to 4. For example, an instant messaging program may include several primary communication functions: "send voice message", "listen to voice message", "online video/audio call", etc., while for photo album applications may include several major image processing functions: "take/record", "view pictures", etc. Thus, a corresponding number of keys, 3 or 4, may be provided in the electronic device, each operating an application to run these functions. Of course, preferably, the 3 or 4 keys may be centrally configured on the same layer of the interface of the application to facilitate the user to directly access them without having to open further interfaces, sub-interfaces or floats. Keys corresponding to other auxiliary functions (such as emoticons and red packet functions for the contact communication interface) can be collectively arranged in an extensible menu, and the extensible menu is abbreviated into an extensible button by default and is displayed in an extensible mode according to the needs of a user. That is, in response to the user's operation on these expandable buttons, an expanded menu including buttons corresponding to the emoticon, the red-icon, and other functions is presented (temporarily) above the menu area in the lateral direction, and in response to the user's operation on these buttons, the object (e.g., the red-icon, the emoticon, and other functions) selected by the user through these buttons is posted to the message area. Because some function keys are configured in the expandable menu on the interface, the expandable menu is contracted into an expandable button by default and is only displayed on the user interface as required, so that the structure of interface elements is simplified, and the occupation of other necessary or important interface elements on the user interface is increased; the visual effect is improved, so that the time cost of misoperation or selection in too many interface elements of a user is reduced, and the effects improve the accessibility, the interactivity and the interaction efficiency of the interface to the user to a certain extent.

It is to be noted that, in the step of outputting, through the display, the communication interface for the first unknown contact in response to the operation of the user on the first option, the electronic device may output, through the display, the communication interface for the first unknown contact directly in response to the operation of the user on the first option, or may finally output, through the display, the communication interface for the first unknown contact in response to the operation of the user on the first option and then in response to the operation of the user on another operation or operations on a subsequent user interface.

Optionally, the step S-2 further includes a presentation step of a communication set interface: presenting a communication collection interface on a display of the electronic equipment in response to a switching operation of a user for the plurality of interfaces or a selection operation for the second option, wherein the communication collection interface comprises at least two of a first label option associated with an unknown contact interface, a second label option associated with a known contact interface, a third label option associated with a subscription number interface, a fourth label option associated with a dialing interface, and a fifth label option associated with the public service number interface, which are configured in a thumbnail form; two further steps are included after the communication collection interface presenting step: step a) outputting an unknown contact interface through the display in response to a user operation on the first tab option. Or, in response to a user operation on the second tab option, outputting a known contacts interface through the display. Wherein the known contact interface may include known contact information or contact options displayed in an integrated manner for a plurality of known contacts, and the unknown contact interface may also include unknown contact information or contact options displayed in an integrated manner for a plurality of unknown contacts. And b), switching to display the first known contact interface in response to the operation of the user on the option of the first unknown contact on the unknown contact interface, or switching to display the first known contact interface in response to the operation of the user on the option of the first known contact on the known contact interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the step S-2 further includes the following two steps: step 1), in response to a switching operation of a user on an interface currently presented on the display in the plurality of interfaces or a selection operation on the first option, presenting an interface of unknown contact person communication record sets on the display of the electronic device, wherein the unknown contact person communication record sets comprise at least one communication record set, and each communication record set corresponds to one unknown contact person respectively. And step 2), responding to the selection operation of the user on the communication record set aiming at the first unknown contact in the at least one communication record set, and switching to the first unknown contact communication interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the step S-2 further includes: presenting a communication set interface on a display of the electronic equipment in response to switching operation of the plurality of interfaces or selection operation of the second option by a user, wherein the communication set interface comprises at least two of a first label option associated with an unknown contact interface, a second label option associated with a known contact interface, a third label option associated with a subscription number interface, a fourth label option associated with a dialing interface and a fifth label option associated with the public service number interface which are configured in an abbreviated form.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the public service number interface is configured to provide at least one public service number; and further comprising one of the following two steps: step 1), providing the at least one public service number corresponding to the geographic position on the public service number interface based on the geographic position of the electronic equipment. Or, step 2) providing the at least one public service number on the public service number interface in a customized and/or selective manner according to the geographic location and/or the received manual configuration.

For example, the numbers of the life numbers, such as property phone of spring community, community doctor, etc., can be manually input into the electronic device, or automatically multiplex numbers in other devices local to the electronic device or associated with the electronic device, for example, the life number associated with the next area can inherit/multiplex the life number associated with the previous area, such as community inherits street, street inherits city, so that the numbers of 120 (medical emergency), 110 (fire fighting), power company, etc., do not need to be repeatedly entered for multiple communities, but can be multiplexed with each other among communities, or inherited between the upper level and lower level areas.

For another example, in the electronic device, a number corresponding to the geographic location information of the electronic device may be provided on the public service number interface for one or more life numbers according to GPS positioning of the electronic device, for example, when the GPS information of the electronic device corresponds to beijing, the life number display (010)10086 of "china mobile" is on the public service number interface, and when the GPS information of the electronic device corresponds to shanghai, the life number display (021)10086 of "china mobile" is on the public service number interface. Of course, in the electronic device, a directory customized according to the geographical location information of the electronic device may be provided on the public service number interface for the directory of the entire life number according to the GPS positioning of the electronic device. For another example, in some cases (e.g., the user of the electronic device temporarily travels and is located in the B-community but not in the a-community where the user is resident), all related or specific life numbers, life number books of the B-community may be automatically displayed on the public service number interface of the electronic device. This all enhances the manageability of the related resources provided by the public service number interface, as well as the operability for the user.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the communication aggregation interface includes the first tab option, the second tab option, and the fifth tab option, and is configured at the top or the bottom of the communication aggregation interface in parallel;

the step S-1 further comprises a step S-11) of presenting the unknown contact interface, the known contact interface and the public service number interface on a display of the electronic equipment respectively in response to a selection operation of a user for the first tag option, the second tag option or the fifth tag option; step S-12), in response to the selection operation of a user on the unknown contact interface, the known contact interface for a first unknown contact or a first known contact, presenting the first unknown contact communication interface or the first known contact communication interface on a display of the electronic equipment respectively; and, the step S-3 further comprises,

establishing communication with the first unknown contact or the first known contact through the at least one communication network, respectively, in response to user manipulation of the communication manipulation interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the related method further comprises the steps of: and in response to the switching operation of the user for the plurality of options, the plurality of options are presented in a moving mode. Preferably, the step of moving the presentation further comprises any one of the following three steps: a) moving the first set of options in the direction of the sliding operation and subsequently presenting the second set of options; b) moving the first set of options in the direction of the sliding operation to cancel presentation of the first set of options section by section at the edge of the display, and subsequently moving the second set of options into the region corresponding to the single row or column following the first set of options; c) moving the first set of options out of the display in the direction of the sliding operation, and moving the second set of options into the single row or column of corresponding regions following the first set of options.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the plurality of options are at least partially arranged laterally at the bottom of the display, and the moving presenting step further comprises: responding to the switching operation of the user for the option area where the options are located, and moving and presenting the options part by part; wherein each of the portions includes the same number of options, the same number being 3, 4, 5 or 6; the width of the option area along the longitudinal direction is 1.5cm-2.5 cm.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the plurality of options further comprises a second option; the method further comprises the following steps: in response to the selection operation of the user on the second option in the option area, switching from the current interface to the interface corresponding to the second option on the display, and synchronously differentiating the form of the second option in the option area.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the plurality of interfaces are configured in sequence, further comprising: in response to a single toggle operation by a user for the current interface, toggle presentation on the display of an interface of the plurality of interfaces that is adjacent to the current interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the related method further comprises: in response to a single switching operation of a user for the first contact communication interface (e.g., a first known contact communication interface or a first unknown contact communication interface, not repeated below), switching from the first contact communication interface to an interface corresponding to an option adjacent to the first option in the plurality of options on the display, and presenting the adjacent option differently in form in the option area.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the at least one communication network comprises a plurality of wireless communication networks; the plurality of communication information is attributed to at least two service properties; and the communication information output step further includes: establishing communication with the first contact through the plurality of wireless communication networks to generate the plurality of communication information in response to a user operation of the key set; and outputting the plurality of communication information through the message area on the first contact communication interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the plurality of wireless communication networks comprise a mobile telephone network, a wireless data transmission network comprising a wireless local area network and a mobile data network; said set of keys being associated with said mobile telephone network and said wireless data transmission network, respectively, and said communication establishing step further comprising:

responding to the operation of the user to the key group, establishing communication with the first contact through the mobile telephone network and the wireless data transmission network respectively to generate the plurality of communication information, and comprising: communication information and data service messages of a mobile telephone network; wherein the communication information of the mobile phone network comprises: voice service information and short message service information; the data service message includes one or more of the following: audio messages, video messages, picture messages, geographic locations, text messages, files, data.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the outputting step further includes: and integrating and outputting at least two items of the voice service information, the short message service information and the data service information to the message area.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the step of integrating and outputting further includes the steps of: outputting said voice service information and/or said short message service message through said message area on said first (known or unknown) contact communication interface when said set of keys is associated with said mobile phone network; and when the key group is associated with the wireless local area network or the mobile data network, outputting the data service message through the message area on the first contact communication interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the outputting step further comprises one of: step a), in response to occurrence of a latest one of the plurality of communication information, individually outputting the latest one in the message area. Or, step b), when the key group is associated with the mobile telephone network, in response to the occurrence of the latest piece of communication information of the mobile telephone network, individually outputting the latest piece of communication information of the mobile telephone network in the message area; when the key group is associated with the wireless local area network or the mobile data network, in response to the occurrence of a latest piece of the data service message, individually outputting the latest piece of the data service message in the message area.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the plurality of communication information output through the message area on the first unknown contact interface occurs via a mobile phone network, including voice service information and/or short message service information.

Optionally, in some embodiments, at least one of the communication networks comprises a mobile phone network and/or a wireless data transmission network, and the plurality of communication information corresponds to the mobile phone network and comprises voice service information and/or short message service information.

Optionally, the wireless data transmission network comprises a WLAN or a mobile data network. If the at least one communication network comprises a mobile telephone network and a wireless data transmission network, the communication program for known/unknown contacts or communication objects integrates some functions of an instant communication application and a communication application for the mobile telephone network in the mobile telephone. The corresponding mobile phone number in the mobile communication network or the corresponding identification code (ID) in the wireless data transmission network, such as WLAN, is stored in or mapped to the same program (e.g. the communication application program in some embodiments of the present invention), and the communication application program in the electronic device, such as a mobile phone, which can be used by the user establishes communication with the communication tool used by the current contact through the mobile phone network and the wireless data transmission network, respectively, according to the mobile phone number and the unique identification number (or understandable as an instant communication address/instant message address) corresponding to the contact in the communication network corresponding to the instant communication, thereby generating communication information. For users of electronic devices such as mobile phones, the application software belonging to the communication interface senses and experiences a single communication means and communication tool. Furthermore, the resources for communication information of different service properties in the communication process, including the communication interface of the communication network corresponding to different service properties, located at the lower layer of the software architecture, and the interactive interface for outputting a plurality of communication information, located at the upper layer of the software architecture, may all be integrated into the communication application.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the communication operation interface comprises a keypad (or simply a keypad) provided virtually on the first unknown contact communication interface and/or physically or on the electronic device, associated with the mobile phone network.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the physical key set and the virtual key set have consistency and/or correspondence with respect to at least one of: number, layout, form, appearance, orientation, color system, color, shape, pattern.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the virtual key group and the physical key group are respectively and correspondingly configured on the right side of the first unknown contact communication interface and the right side of the electronic device.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the virtual key group includes a first virtual key, a second virtual key, and a third virtual key; the communication establishing step comprises:

initiating a voice call or a video call to the first unknown contact through the mobile phone network in response to a user operation of a third virtual key on the first unknown contact communication interface;

sending short message service information to the first unknown contact through the mobile phone network in response to a user operation of a first virtual key on the first unknown contact communication interface, an

And responding to the operation of the user on the second virtual key, and outputting the short message service information received from the first unknown contact through the mobile phone network in an audio mode.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the virtual key group further includes a fourth virtual key, and the fourth virtual key and the first virtual key, the second virtual key, and the third virtual key are located in a column; the communication establishing step comprises:

responding to the operation of a user on the fourth virtual key, and presenting/hiding a corresponding dial in the first unknown contact communication interface; and

in response to a user dialing the dial and subsequent selection of the third virtual key, initiating a voice call or a video call over the mobile telephone network targeting the dialing.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the first unknown contact communication interface is provided with profile information of the first unknown contact, where the profile information includes a communication method.

Optionally, in some embodiments, before the presenting step of the first unknown contact communication interface, the method further comprises:

receiving communication information from any information initiator;

judging whether the information initiator is registered in an address book of the electronic equipment or not;

and if the information initiator is not registered in the address list, defining the information initiator as a first unknown contact.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the method further comprises the step of:

and recommending the first unknown contact to a user for configuration according to the frequency of initiating the communication information by the first unknown contact and/or the content of the communication information.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the method further comprises the step of:

and responding to configuration operation of the user for the first unknown contact, and registering the first unknown contact in the address list or adding the first unknown contact into a blacklist.

In addition, another embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic device, including: a display; a processor unit; a memory; and one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the processor unit, the one or more programs including instructions for performing any of the methods according to the preceding embodiments.

In addition, another embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic device, including: the device comprises a physical key group, a communication interface and a communication device, wherein the communication device comprises a display; a processor unit; a memory; and one or more programs for executing one or more programs,

the set of physical keys is detachably coupled to the processor unit through the communication interface;

wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the processor unit, the one or more programs including instructions for performing any of the methods of the preceding embodiments.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the mobile terminal further includes a base for mounting the communication device, the physical key group is configured on the base, and the communication interface is a connector, two ends of which are correspondingly disposed on the communication device and the base and are respectively in wired connection with the processor unit and the physical key group.

In addition, another embodiment of the present invention provides an information processing apparatus for use in a communication apparatus having a display, including:

means for performing any of the methods described in accordance with the preceding embodiments.

Additionally, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by an electronic device with one or more processors, cause the electronic device to perform any of the methods according to the preceding embodiments, is also provided in another embodiment of the invention.

Additionally, another embodiment of the invention provides an electronic device comprising a display, a touch-sensitive surface, optionally one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface, one or more processors, memory, and one or more programs; the one or more programs stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors include instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, implement the method according to the preceding embodiments.

In some of the above embodiments of the method of providing resources for unknown contacts, the communication resources are configured user-centric. In the switching process of the user interface of the electronic device, a common input component (for example, a communication operation interface for SMS service and voice telephone service) and a corresponding output component (for example, a message area) based on a mobile telephone network are configured in an integrated manner on a communication interface for a first unknown contact presented on a display or in a man-machine interface of software and hardware of the whole electronic device, so that the operability of the electronic device in the process of establishing relevant communication is improved. The user can access the main communication function of the communication application program without switching the interface or the man-machine interface. Further, the communication information based on different service types of the mobile phone network is integrated and output to the message area, and therefore the accessibility of the communication information output by the communication application program is improved. Further, the communication application User Interface is configured as at least a portion of an operating system User Interface (UI) such that the communication application User Interface preferentially and/or exclusively operates on the electronic device display. Based on the interface resource configuration method, the operability of the electronic equipment is improved. Furthermore, the communication record sets respectively corresponding to the unknown contacts form an unknown contact communication record set, and the unknown contact communication record set is provided for the user in an interface mode, so that the user can intensively check the communication records of the unknown contacts, the user experience is improved to a certain extent, and the operability of the application program through an interactive interface is enhanced.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and those skilled in the art can also obtain other drawings according to the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 illustrates a flow diagram of a method of providing resources for unknown contacts in accordance with an aspect of the subject invention;

FIG. 2 illustrates a user interface diagram in a method of providing resources for an unknown contact according to one embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3 illustrates a schematic diagram of a user interface in a method of providing resources for an unknown contact according to another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a user interface for displaying a latest message in a method for providing resources of an unknown contact according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 illustrates a schematic view of a plurality of interfaces configured in an electronic device and a plurality of options presented on a display of the electronic device according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 illustrates a schematic diagram of a user interface providing a set of unknown contact communication records, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 illustrates a user interface diagram in a method of providing resources for an unknown contact according to another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 8 illustrates a user interface diagram presenting a communication collection interface in a method of providing resources for an unknown contact according to one embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 9 illustrates a user interface diagram presenting a communication collection interface in a method of providing resources for an unknown contact according to another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 10 illustrates a user interface diagram presenting a communication collection interface in a method of providing resources for an unknown contact according to another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 11 illustrates a user interface diagram presenting a first unknown contact communication interface in a method of providing resources for an unknown contact in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 12 illustrates a user interface diagram presenting a dialing interface in a method of providing resources for an unknown contact according to another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 13 illustrates a user interface diagram presenting a dialing process in a method of providing resources for an unknown contact according to another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram of a user interface for presenting at least one unread notification message in a notification area, according to an embodiment of the invention;

15-a through 15-d illustrate user interface diagrams extending a message region and zooming into a first unread communication record, according to another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 16 illustrates a schematic user interface diagram for providing a dial in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 17 is a schematic diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a communication apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

18A, 18B illustrate a user interface diagram integrating the provision of multiple communication-related tabs, according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 19 shows a user interface diagram corresponding to a dialer according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIGS. 20A, 20B illustrate a schematic diagram of switching between a first contact communication interface and a first contact communication interface with an expanded functionality menu in one embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 21 illustrates a user interface diagram for integrating multiple communication-related tabs in yet another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 22 illustrates a flow diagram of a method of providing interface resources in an electronic device in one embodiment of the invention;

23A, 23B, 23C show schematic views of a user interface after operation of an expand menu item in the interface of FIG. 20B in an embodiment of the invention;

the same or similar reference numbers in the drawings identify the same or similar elements.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

The terminology used in the embodiments of the invention is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used in the examples of the present invention and the appended claims, the singular forms "a", "an", and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, and "a plurality" typically includes at least two.

It should be understood that the term "and/or" as used herein is merely one type of association that describes an associated object, meaning that three relationships may exist, e.g., a and/or B may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. In addition, the character "/" herein generally indicates that the former and latter related objects are in an "or" relationship.

The words "if", as used herein, may be interpreted as "at … …" or "at … …" or "in response to a determination" or "in response to a detection", depending on the context. Similarly, the phrases "if determined" or "if detected (a stated condition or event)" may be interpreted as "when determined" or "in response to a determination" or "when detected (a stated condition or event)" or "in response to a detection (a stated condition or event)", depending on the context.

It is also noted that the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a good or system that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such good or system. Without further limitation, elements recited by the phrase "comprising an … …" do not exclude the presence of additional like elements in a commodity or system that includes such elements.

Embodiments of electronic devices, user interfaces for such devices, and associated processes for using such devices are described. In some embodiments, the device is a portable communication device (such as a mobile phone) that also contains other functionality, such as PDA and/or music player functionality. Exemplary embodiments of portable multifunction devices include, but are not limited to, other portable electronic devices such as laptop or tablet computers with touch-sensitive surfaces (e.g., touch screen displays and/or touch pads). It should also be understood that in some embodiments, the device is not a portable communication device or communicator, but is a desktop computer with a touch-sensitive surface (e.g., a touch screen display and/or touchpad).

In some embodiments discussed below, an electronic device is described that includes a display and a touch-sensitive surface. However, it should be understood that the computing device may include one or more other physical user interface devices, such as a physical keyboard, mouse, and/or joystick.

In addition to communication applications such as telephony applications, video conferencing applications, or instant messaging applications, devices may support various applications such as one or more of the following: a note taking application, a drawing application, a presentation application, a word processing application, a health management application, a gaming application, an email application, an exercise support application, a photo management application, a digital camera application, a digital video recorder application, a web browsing application, a digital music player application, and/or a digital video player application.

In addition, the sequence of steps in each method embodiment described below is only an example and is not strictly limited.

FIG. 22 illustrates a flow diagram of a method for providing interface resources in an electronic device in one embodiment of the invention. Fig. 17 is a block diagram of the electronic device. As shown in the figure, the interface resource providing method of the embodiment includes steps S-1 and S-2. In step S-1, one of the plurality of interfaces is loaded through the display of the electronic device. In step S-2, the plurality of interfaces are switched and output through the display in response to a user switching operation on the plurality of interfaces.

Optionally, the electronic device in some embodiments comprises a communication operations interface associated with at least one communication network; the plurality of interfaces in the electronic device include an interface for a contact; the contact interface includes a message area; and the interface resource providing method further includes a step S-3 (not shown in the figure) of establishing communication with the contact via the at least one communication network and outputting a plurality of communication information in which the communication occurs in the message area, at least partially in response to an operation for the communication operation interface.

Optionally, the plurality of interfaces in some embodiments includes a public service number interface (as shown in fig. 21) for providing at least one public service number. By integrally displaying one or more public service numbers, or life numbers, on a separate interface, the accessibility of such resources to users can be improved.

Optionally, the method in some embodiments further comprises the step of: based on the geographic position of the electronic equipment, at least one public service number or living number corresponding to the geographic position is provided on a public service number interface. In other words, at least some of the at least one life number are selectively provided on the life number interface based on the geographic location of the electronic device, and the life numbers correspond to the geographic location where the electronic device is located.

Optionally, the method in some embodiments, further comprising the step of: at least one public service number is provided on the public service number interface in a customized and/or selective manner based on geographic location and/or received manual configuration.

Optionally, in a method in some embodiments, the electronic device comprises a communication operation interface associated with at least one communication network. Step S-1 of the related embodiment further comprises a sub-step S-11 (not shown in the figure) of presenting, for example switchably, on a display of the above-mentioned electronic device, a communication interface for the first unknown contact or the above-mentioned public service number interface of the above-mentioned plurality of interfaces. And, said method further comprises, in response to user manipulation of said communication manipulation interface, establishing communication with said first unknown contact or said at least one public service number via said at least one communication network.

In one embodiment of the invention, a method for providing resources of unknown contacts in an electronic device is provided, wherein the electronic device comprises a communication operation interface, which is associated with a mobile phone network, and a plurality of interfaces are configured in the electronic device and can be output through a display of the electronic device. The method according to this embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, comprises three steps: step 101), presenting a communication interface aiming at a first unknown contact in a plurality of interfaces on a display of the electronic equipment, wherein the first unknown contact communication interface comprises a message area; step 102), responding to the operation of a user on a communication operation interface, establishing communication with a first unknown contact through a mobile phone network to generate a plurality of communication information; and step 103) outputting the plurality of communication information through the message area on the first unknown contact communication interface.

Here, for a mobile phone number that is not registered in the address book of the electronic device, it may be called an unknown contact, a stranger contact, or also may be called a stranger for short, and there is a potential objective need for mobile phone communication.

Optionally, generally, in the method according to some embodiments of the present invention, the communication operation interface configured in the electronic device, or may also be referred to as a communication interface element, may be implemented in a hardware or software manner, and in the method according to some embodiments of the present invention, the communication operation interface may be a key set provided in a software form on the first unknown contact communication interface virtually, or a key set provided in a physical form on the electronic device, and functions of the two correspond, and may be separately configured in software and hardware of the electronic device, or may be configured on the electronic device at the same time for the user to perform communication interaction with the electronic device in a manner of arbitrarily selecting hardware or software. In a different scenario in some other embodiments, or may also be referred to as a communication enabled unit, a communication interface element, a user interface element, a communication operation option, etc. Specifically, the former virtual key set is generally a virtual key and a button on a communication interface, and the latter physical key set may be disposed on the electronic device housing in a hardware manner, both of which may be operated by a user to establish communication. Optionally, in some embodiments, the at least one physical key set and the at least one virtual key set have a correspondence and/or correspondence in at least one of number, layout, morphology, perception, orientation, color system, color, shape, pattern. And the plurality of communications correspond to a mobile telephone network and include voice service information and/or short message service information.

It is worth noting that: the electronic device may include either or both of 1) the set of virtual keys configured on the first unknown contact communication interface and 2) the set of physical keys configured in hardware, as described above. And the virtual key set and the physical key set are operable to establish communications, a communications link, a communications channel between the electronic device and the electronic device of the first unknown contact over the mobile telephone network, by which communications resources a user can communicate with the first unknown contact to generate communications information. The virtual key set and the physical key set may each independently enable establishment of communication between the user and the first unknown contact.

In other words, while the virtual key set and the physical key set may have some consistency and similarity in form, the two may be independent in communication functionality. In particular, the physical key set has a first association (a first association) between it and the communication network that can trigger communication, so that communication via the communication network is established when the physical key set is activated, for example by operation of a user. The virtual key group and the communication network are also provided with a second association supporting the user to establish communication through the virtual key group, and the two associations can be independent, namely, the user can respectively operate the virtual key group and the physical key group to realize independent access to the associated communication network so as to establish communication with the first unknown contact. Other embodiments of the present invention can be seen in detail, and are not repeated herein.

In addition, the virtual key set described above may also be referred to as a communication option, a communication option set, a user interface element in some embodiments, and is configured in the form of buttons, keys, etc. of software on the contact interface. In particular, 1, 2, 3, 4 or more interface elements such as keys or buttons may be included. And the set of physical keys may in some embodiments be alternatively referred to as a physical operator, a physical keyboard, etc.

The virtual key set and the physical key set correspond in function, and may include 1, 2, 3, 4 or more physical keys, etc. Those skilled in the art will understand that: although the virtual key group and the physical key group have different implementation forms, in some embodiments of the present invention, the virtual key group and the physical key group belong to basically the same means, and achieve basically the same functions and basically the same effects. For avoiding redundancy, in some embodiments of the method or the electronic device of the present invention, the virtual key set is mainly used as an example for description, however, the physical key set can also be applied to the method and the electronic device in these embodiments.

The method according to the embodiments of the present invention may be executed in some electronic devices or communication apparatuses or used in combination with application programs therein, and in some embodiments, a mobile phone, a smart mobile device, etc. will be taken as an example for description.

Although the architecture of an operating system, such as an IOS or android, applied to a mobile device, especially an intelligent mobile device, mostly originates from a computer operating system, that is, a logical architecture mainly based on a "platform + program", the architecture is closer to the technical essence of a computer, but a design framework that different independent applications are configured in a functional group-differentiated manner is adopted, and each application also corresponds to a different interaction operation level, and for users including but not limited to middle-aged and elderly people, the cognitive ability and the acceptance of the configuration logic of the application program of the virtual abstraction are sometimes low.

The method according to the embodiment of the invention provides resource allocation of the interface by taking user interaction as guidance and taking the user and the unknown contact as centers in an integrated mode. In some embodiments described below, simplified User Interfaces (UIs) and related core components are constructed, in other words, the interaction operations and corresponding functions of the electronic device and the communication apparatus such as a mobile phone are redefined, and the interaction operation hierarchy is simplified, so that the electronic device has high operability and usability for the User due to the operation of the resource providing method, and thus, the User also obtains accessibility (accessibility) to related information and resources.

Optionally, in some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2, in a first unknown contact communication interface output by a display of the electronic device, a message area is presented to a user, and simultaneously, a key set in a software form virtually provided on the first unknown contact communication interface, that is, an interface for the user to perform communication-related operations, is presented, the communication operation interfaces are associated with a mobile phone network, and in response to the user operating the communication operation interface, a communication is established with the first unknown contact through the mobile phone network to generate a plurality of communication information; the plurality of communications are then output through a message area on the first unknown contact communication interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2, the first unknown contact communication interface is provided with profile information of the first unknown contact, where the profile information includes a communication method, for example, a phone number of the first unknown contact, an automatically recognized identity (for example, courier), and the like.

Optionally, in some embodiments of the present invention, the plurality of communication information includes at least one unread communication record, and the outputting step 103 further includes: the number of at least one unread communication record is notified in the message area. For example, as shown in fig. 3, when 15 unread communication records are received from a first unknown contact through the mobile phone network, the 15 unread communication records are displayed in the message area 301 of the first unknown contact communication interface. Optionally, a mark corresponding to the unread communication record may also be presented in the message area, for example, when the unread communication record is short message service information, a mark corresponding to the short message service information, such as the message mark shown in fig. 3, is displayed, and when the unread communication record is voice service information, a mark corresponding to the voice service information is displayed. Of course, these unread communication records may also be marked with a uniform mark, or further, the user may be prompted to view in the vicinity of the mark, for example, in fig. 3, the user may be prompted to view in the word "view multiple new messages".

Optionally, in some embodiments of the invention, when unread communication records from a plurality of unknown contacts are received over a mobile phone network, the number of unread communication records from the plurality of unknown contacts is displayed in a message area of the first unknown contact communication interface.

Optionally, according to a simplified message output concept, in some embodiments of the present invention, the outputting step 103 may further include: the latest piece of the plurality of pieces of communication information is individually output in the message area in response to occurrence of the latest piece.

For example, as shown in fig. 4, the latest piece of communication information is short message service information, and in response to the occurrence of the latest piece of short message service message, the latest piece of short message service message is individually output in a message area, such as an individual piece of communication information shown in a message area 401 in fig. 4, which is short message service information transmitted by the first unknown contact. In other words, the electronic device displays only the latest piece of the plurality of pieces of communication information individually in the message area 401. Further, the latest piece of communication information is continuously updated and outputted to the message area 401, that is, every time a piece of communication information occurs, the latest piece of communication information is individually outputted to the message area 401. Of course, the communication information corresponds to a mobile phone network, and includes voice service information and/or short message service information, such as SMS text short message or call record of voice call, and in some cases, one or more of the following items: audio messages, video messages, picture messages, geographical locations, text messages, files, data, etc., which may not be repeated here.

The mode of only displaying one piece of (one at a time) latest communication information at a time, or optionally, simply called a message, wherein the interface element layout method can meet the demand of instant communication in most cases, one or more messages are serially output one by one through the message area, and the 'one by one' way enables the electronic equipment to provide the orderliness of message flow for the user, so that the experience of the user for obtaining the messages is more intuitive. Of course, in addition to the "one-to-one" manner, the round-to-one (round) of the message may also include: after receiving a plurality of messages, the user feeds back one message, or simply "one from and one to". Whether for the "one-to-one" or "many-to-one" approach, in some embodiments, the presentation of these incoming messages in the message area may preferably be in a manner of "only one at a time being displayed", e.g., only one message that has recently occurred is displayed.

Optionally, according to a simplified message output concept, in some embodiments of the invention, further comprising the steps of: a plurality of options are configured in a contraction mode at the periphery of the display and can be operated to output a plurality of interfaces through the display respectively; wherein the plurality of options includes a first option associated with an interface of the set of unknown contact communication records.

Specifically, in some embodiments of the invention described above or below, a plurality of options are arranged in an abbreviated form at the periphery of the display, and the plurality of options are operable to output a corresponding plurality of interfaces through the display respectively. The plurality of options includes a first option of an interface associated with a set of communication records for unknown contacts, or strangers. Here, the interface for the set of unknown contact records is configured to display at least one set of communication records respectively corresponding to at least one unknown contact over the mobile telephone network in a ranked manner.

Since the plurality of options respectively represent the plurality of interfaces in an abbreviated form, the abbreviated menu item can present more options such as unknown contacts, known contacts, applications and the like for the user on a smaller scale on the current interface, so that the user can also globally know other available options such as communication contacts, application programs and the like through the current interface, and has a navigation function for selecting and positioning the client in the plurality of application options configured by the electronic device. Of course, alternatively, the program in the electronic device may also be executable by the processor unit to: the presentation of the plurality of options is cancelled in response to a real-time response event occurring at the electronic device. When the real-time response event occurs, a plurality of options are not required to be displayed in a navigation mode at the bottom of the display, and the cancellation of the display of the plurality of options can also provide larger screen display space for the real-time response event.

Here, it should be noted that, when the related resources of the multiple interfaces are configured in the electronic device or in a remote server, the multiple options may be regarded as icons similar to shortcuts and presented on the display for the user to select, and at the same time, the multiple options point to or are associated with the related resources corresponding to the multiple options, so that, when the user selects the multiple options on the display, the electronic device invokes or runs the related resources associated with the multiple options, thereby outputting at least one interface corresponding to the multiple options through the display. The related resources corresponding to each of the plurality of options may also be referred to as a plurality of objects. The plurality of objects are executable program resources, and are located in a background or remote server of the electronic device, and when a first option in the plurality of options, for example, an unknown contact icon, is selected by a user, correspondingly, a first object in the plurality of objects, for example, an unknown contact communication record set or an address-bearing (addressed) executable resource, is loaded, so as to output a first interface in the plurality of interfaces, for example, an interface of the unknown contact communication record set, through a display. The output of the interfaces through the display basically depends on the selection operation of a user on a plurality of options or the switching operation of the user on user interfaces such as a communication interface and an application interface.

Here, the plurality of options are arranged in a thumbnail form at the periphery of the display, where the periphery means that the plurality of options are presented at one or more of the top, bottom, left side or right side of the interface or display, and does not necessarily mean completely surrounding. The plurality of options have a certain arrangement order on the display, which is formed by adding or sequencing the plurality of options through the interactive operation of the user with the electronic equipment, or the arrangement order of the plurality of options is set through the login of a back door program by a server or another remote electronic equipment. Whether or not multiple options are provided to the user through, for example, the bottom region of the display, multiple objects may be independently arranged in their output order through the display. For example, after the first interface corresponding to the first object is output through the display, the other interfaces may be sequentially output in the above-described predetermined order in response to a user switching operation through repeated sliding or the like of the interface output area in the middle of the display. The interfaces are in one-to-one correspondence with a plurality of objects stored locally or remotely. Here, the relationship between the configuration order of the options on the display, the possible configuration order of the objects and the interfaces is also applicable to the methods or apparatuses of some embodiments described below, and details thereof may not be repeated.

Optionally, in the method or the electronic device of some embodiments of the present invention, the plurality of options are configured at the top/bottom of the display or beside the display, and the method further includes: and responding to the switching operation of the user for the multiple options, and movably presenting the multiple options. Specifically, if the options cannot be completely presented at the top/bottom of the display or cannot be completely presented at the side of the display, the options may be partially presented first, for example, a part of the options is first presented at the top/bottom of the display or at the left or right side of the display, and then the options are presented in a moving manner in response to the user switching operation for the options, for example, another part of the options that is not presented is presented in a moving manner.

Optionally, in the method or the electronic device of some embodiments of the present invention, the plurality of options are arranged laterally in a single row at the bottom of the display or longitudinally in a single column beside the display, the moving presenting step further includes: and responding to the switching operation of the user for the area corresponding to the single row or the area corresponding to the single column, and moving and presenting the plurality of options part by part. For example, as shown in fig. 5, the plurality of options 503 are arranged in a single row (single row) on the top/bottom of the display or in a single column beside the display, wherein the rectangular area of the single row occupied by the options on the display in the horizontal direction may be referred to as a menu area or an option area 502. Taking the plurality of options 503 arranged in a single row as an example, as shown in fig. 5, the single row of options is disposed laterally at the bottom of the display, and the method of this embodiment further includes the steps of: in response to a switching operation of the user with respect to the option area 502, the plurality of options 503 are presented by moving the option area 502 uniformly portion by portion. It will be appreciated that the method of this embodiment herein may also include the steps of: and responding to the switching operation of the user for the area corresponding to the single column, and moving and presenting the plurality of options part by part. It is understood that the switching operation for the plurality of options 503 may include a slide gesture or the like for the area where the plurality of options 503 are located.

Optionally, in the method or electronic device of some embodiments of the invention, wherein the first set of options from the plurality of options is arranged in a single line at the top/bottom of the display; or in a single column disposed alongside the display, the method of this embodiment further comprises the steps of: and in response to the switching operation of the user for the first group of options, switching and presenting a second group of options in the plurality of options in the area corresponding to the single row or the single column.

Specifically, if the plurality of options cannot be completely presented in a single row at the top/bottom of the display or cannot be completely presented in a single column beside the display, the plurality of options may be grouped, for example, the plurality of options may be substantially evenly divided into a plurality of groups, a first group of options is first arranged at the top/bottom of the display in a single row or arranged at the left or right side of the display in a single column, and a second group of options in the plurality of options is switchingly presented in a region corresponding to the single row or the single column in response to a switching operation of a user for the first group of options in the single row or the single column.

Alternatively, in the method or electronic device according to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 5, the plurality of options 503 may be substantially equally divided into a plurality of groups, the first group of options is first arranged at the bottom of the display in a single row, and in response to the user switching operation on the option area 502, the plurality of groups of options sequentially move along the user's sliding operation direction, and are sequentially presented to the user via the option area 502. As shown in fig. 5, the first Group of options includes a first option 5a, a second option 5b, a third option 5c, and a fourth option 5d, where the first option 5a corresponds to an interface 5-Contact of the unknown Contact communication record set, the second option 5b corresponds to an Album application interface 5-Album, the third option 5c and the fourth option 5d also correspond to two interfaces (not shown in the figure) in the plurality of interfaces 504, respectively, and the fifth option 5e corresponds to a Group communication interface 5-Group. The first set of options is disposed in an option area 502 at the bottom of the display; or in a single column (not shown) arranged beside the display, in response to a user's switching operation for the first group of options, a second group of options of the multiple options is switchingly presented in a single row of regions, the second group of options including the fifth option 5e and three options (not shown in the figure) subsequent thereto. The switching operation here may be a sliding operation to the left or the right, which will not be described in detail below. Specifically, the step of presenting the first group of options and the second group of options in the plurality of options through option area switching may include: the first option 5a, the second option 5b, the third option 5c, and the fourth option 5d are collectively moved in the direction of the sliding operation of the user indicated by directional Arrow 5-Arrow in fig. 5, thereby successively presenting the second group of options, i.e., the fifth option 5e and three options subsequent thereto. From another aspect, the step of presenting the first group of options and the second group of options in the plurality of options by switching the option area may further include: the first option 5a, the second option 5b, the third option 5c, the fourth option 5d are moved in the direction of the sliding operation indicated by the Arrow 5-Arrow to cancel the presentation of the first option 5a, the second option 5b, the third option 5c, the fourth option 5d one by one at the edge of the display, and in succession to the first group of options, the second group of options, headed by the fifth option 5e, is moved part by part into the option area 502. From yet another aspect, the step of presenting the first set of options and the second set of options from the plurality of options by the option area toggle further comprises: the first option 5a, the second option 5b, the third option 5c, the fourth option 5d are moved visually in sequence out of the display area of the display in the direction of the sliding operation indicated by the Arrow 5-Arrow, and a second group of options, headed by the fifth option 5e, is moved into the option area 502 following the first group of options.

Of course, the option 5d is the last option in the first group of options, and if the current interface is the interface corresponding to the option 5d and the option 5d is presented differently in the form as the current option, in this case, the electronic device may also, in response to a switching operation of the user for sliding left on the communication interface or the application interface corresponding to the option 5d, switch and present a second group of options in the plurality of options in the option area, differentiate the form with the first option 5e of the second group of options as the current option, and load the communication interface or the application interface corresponding to the option 5e in the interface.

It is worth noting that: in the method or electronic device of some embodiments of the present invention, the plurality of options may be arranged in a single row and moved and presented on the display part by part (a section by section), wherein the speed of the moving process may correspond to the speed of the user operation gesture, and the unit of the moving is a part (section) or a group of the plurality of options, which allows the user to clearly distinguish the next group of unpowted options from the previous group of browsed options and browse all the options regularly. Meanwhile, the above set of options or a part of the options may include 1 to 10 options, and for a general mobile phone, optionally 3 to 6 options, such as 4 options in the above embodiment. For mobile terminals such as tablet computers configured with larger displays, each set or portion of options may include a greater number of options. Of course, the number of options included in each section or each group is preferably the same.

Alternatively, the single row of regions 502 may be regions where multiple options configured as a single row are located at the top or bottom of the display. Alternatively, the option area 502 may also be understood as an area within the outline (outline) of the pixels or locations covered by the plurality of options on the display, which is substantially invariant to the plurality of options, for example a lateral stripe-shaped area at the bottom of the display, which stripe-shaped area has a width in the longitudinal direction (as indicated by the arrow in fig. 5) of about 0.5 cm to 3.5 cm, preferably 1.5cm to 2 cm. The option area 502 is located laterally at the bottom of the display, does not occupy the main display area or interaction area of the display, and is also convenient for the user to handle, without interfering with the user's main interaction behavior. Through the option area 502, the user can apply operations including a switching operation such as sliding to one or more options located at the bottom of the display, and the switching operation of the user for the main display area or the interactive area of the display and the switching operation for the option area have different effects. The "main display area" or "main interaction area" may include a portion of the first unknown contact communication interface, or an operation of a portion of the display other than the menu area or the single row/column area, which will not be described in detail herein.

The abbreviated menu items in the method of some embodiments of the invention are configured at the bottom of the display, and the communication interface or the application interface is configured in the middle area of the display and has a corresponding relationship. The communication application interface, the first application interface, may be generally located in the middle of the display, occupying a larger area, and providing a main area for the user to recognize and operate, for example, the first unknown contact communication interface in the above or below embodiments is located in the middle of the display, and by sliding the communication interface, it is possible to switch one content at a time and synchronously change a focus option, i.e., a current option, among a plurality of options in a menu area, corresponding to a currently displayed interface in the middle of the display.

Optionally, in the method or the electronic device of some embodiments of the present invention, the plurality of options includes a first option associated with an interface of the unknown set of contact communication records, and the interface presenting step of the unknown set of contact communication records further includes: and presenting an interface aiming at the unknown contact person communication record set on a display of the electronic equipment in response to the switching operation of the user for the plurality of interfaces or the selection operation aiming at the first option, wherein the unknown contact person communication record set comprises at least one communication record set, and each communication record set respectively corresponds to one unknown contact person.

In particular, in some embodiments of the invention described above or below, the plurality of options includes a first option of an interface associated with a set of communication records for unknown contacts, or strangers/strangers; and the method of the embodiments further includes, in response to a switching operation of the user for multiple interfaces, switching from other interactive interfaces such as the communication interactive interface or the first application interface to the unknown contact communication record set interface, or, in response to a selection of an option such as clicking, long pressing and the like for the first option by the user, directly entering the unknown contact communication record set interface or jumping from other interactive interfaces to the unknown contact communication record set interface, that is, taking the interface of the unknown contact communication record set as the current interactive interface, as shown in fig. 6. Here, the interface for the set of unknown contact records is configured to display at least one set of communication records respectively corresponding to at least one unknown contact over the mobile telephone network in a ranked manner. For example, 601 in fig. 6 shows an interface of the unknown contact record set, and the interface arrangement of the unknown contact record set displays 5 communication record sets respectively corresponding to 5 unknown contacts through a mobile phone network, and each communication record set comprises one or more communication records between the user and the unknown contact corresponding to the communication record set.

Optionally, in the method or the electronic device of some embodiments of the present invention, the step of presenting the first unknown contact communication interface further includes: and switching to the first unknown contact communication interface in response to the user selecting the communication record set aiming at the first unknown contact in the at least one communication record set.

Specifically, if the current interface is an interface of an unknown contact person communication record set, at least one communication record set corresponding to at least one unknown contact person is displayed on the interface of the unknown contact person communication record set in an arrangement mode, and the at least one communication record set comprises a communication record set aiming at a first unknown contact person, the current interface is switched to the first unknown contact person communication interface in response to selection operations of clicking, long pressing and the like of a user on the communication record set of the first unknown contact person. For example, if the user clicks or presses on one of the communication record sets in fig. 6 corresponding to the first unknown contact, the communication interface shown in fig. 7 is displayed on the display in a switching manner, and a plurality of communication records between the user and the first unknown contact are output in the message area 701, where the plurality of communication records may include the read historical communication records or the unread communication records.

In one embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided a method for providing a user interface through a display of an electronic device, in one step of the method of the embodiment, a communication aggregation interface is loaded through the display in response to a user selection operation, and the communication aggregation interface may, for example, integrally present an unknown contact interface with any one or more of the following three interfaces: a known contacts interface, a subscription number interface, a dialing interface. And in another step of the method of the embodiment, in response to the user selecting operation through clicking, sliding and the like, switching and presenting two or more interfaces of an unknown contact interface, a known contact interface, a subscription number interface and a dialing interface through the display. The overall interface in which these interfaces are presented in an integrated manner may be referred to herein as a communication collection interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments, multiple tag options are configured at the premises in an abbreviated form at the perimeter of the communications aggregation interface. In other words, the plurality of tab options are stably presented on the communication collection interface regardless of whether any of the known contacts interface, the unknown contacts interface, the subscription number interface, or the dialing interface is currently presented on the display. And the plurality of tab options are operable to output a plurality of interfaces through the display, respectively. In some embodiments, the unknown contact interface includes a first tab option associated with the unknown contact interface operable to output the unknown contact interface via a display of the electronic device, including arranging a displayed set of communication records for a plurality of unknown contacts, each set of communication records for unknown contacts including a corresponding unknown contact and a most recent communication record that occurred most recently with the unknown contact. And a second tag option associated with the known contact interface operable to output the known contact interface via the display of the electronic device, including arranging a displayed set of communication records for a plurality of known contacts, each set of communication records for a known contact including a corresponding known contact and a latest communication record occurring most recently with the known contact. And a third tag option associated with the subscription number interface and operable to output, through a display of the electronic device, the subscription number interface, which includes a plurality of subscription number communication record sets that are arranged and displayed, wherein each subscription number communication record set includes a corresponding subscription number and a latest communication record that occurs latest with the subscription number. The subscription number may be a semi-unknown number between the known contact and the unknown contact, may be a common number in life added by the user through searching and the like, such as a property manager, a car rental phone, and the like. A fourth tag option associated with a dialing interface operable to output, via a display of the electronic device, the dialing interface comprising: dial, telephone number input box, dial key.

In some embodiments of the invention described above or below, multiple options are configured at the premise in an abbreviated fashion around the perimeter of the communications aggregation interface. In other words, the options are stably presented on the communication collection interface regardless of whether any of the known contacts interface, the unknown contacts interface, the subscription number interface, or the dialing interface is currently presented on the display. And the plurality of options are operable to output a plurality of interfaces through the display, respectively; wherein the plurality of options includes a second option that may be associated with the communication collection interface in some embodiments described above.

Optionally, in another embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided a method for providing resources of unknown contacts in an electronic device, in which the electronic device includes a communication operation interface, associated with a mobile phone network, the electronic device is configured with a plurality of interfaces, and the communication interface for a first unknown contact in the plurality of interfaces is output through a display of the electronic device, and is presented on the display of the electronic device, and the first unknown contact communication interface includes a message area; establishing communication with the first unknown contact through the mobile phone network to generate a plurality of communication information in response to the operation of the communication operation interface by the user; and outputting a plurality of communication information through the message area on the first unknown contact communication interface. And globally presenting the plurality of abbreviated options across the interface via a display of the electronic device, the abbreviated plurality of options also being disposed at a periphery of the display when the first unknown contact communication interface is currently loaded at the display, the plurality of options operable to output a corresponding plurality of interfaces via the display, respectively. In addition to the second option associated with the communication collection interface, the plurality of options may include a first option associated with the first unknown contact communication interface described above.

Optionally, in some embodiments of the present invention, the presenting of the communication aggregation interface includes: and presenting a communication set interface on a display of the electronic equipment in response to the switching operation of the user for the plurality of interfaces or the selection operation for the second option, wherein the communication set interface comprises a first label option which is configured in an abbreviated form and is associated with the unknown contact interface.

In particular, in some embodiments of the invention described above or below, the plurality of options includes a second option associated with the communication collection interface; and the method of the embodiment also comprises the step of responding to the switching operation of the user aiming at the plurality of interfaces, switching from the communication interactive interface or other interactive interfaces such as the first application interface to the communication set interface, or responding to the selection of the second option such as clicking, long pressing and the like by the user, and directly entering the communication set interface or jumping from other interactive interfaces to the communication set interface, namely taking the communication set interface as the current interactive interface. Here, the communication collection interface includes a first tab option associated with the unknown contact interface configured in an abbreviated form, the first tab option being located, for example, at the top, bottom, left side, or right side of the communication collection interface, and the user selects the first tab option to enter the associated unknown contact interface by clicking, long pressing, or the like.

Optionally, in some embodiments of the present invention, the communication collection interface further comprises a second tab option associated with the known contacts interface and/or a third tab option associated with the subscription number interface and/or a fourth tab option associated with the dialing interface, configured in an abbreviated form.

Specifically, in some embodiments of the present invention described above or below, the communication aggregation interface may further include a second tag option associated with the known contacts interface and/or a third tag option associated with the subscription number interface and/or a fourth tag option associated with the dialing interface. These interfaces, along with the previously described unknown contact interfaces, can be freely combined to form the communication aggregation interface. For example, the communication aggregation interface includes a first tab option associated with an unknown contact interface and a second tab option associated with a known contact interface, the first tab option and the second tab option being disposed on a top or bottom portion of the display, e.g., in a single row, operable to output the corresponding unknown contact interface or the corresponding known contact interface through the display. As shown in fig. 8, the whole current interface may be referred to as a communication set interface, a plurality of options are presented at the bottom of the display, which are operable to output a plurality of interfaces respectively through the display, and the leftmost option at the bottom is a second option 804, in the figure, the second option 804 is simply referred to as "communication set", and the second option 804 can be operated to enter the communication set interface; in fig. 8, the top left side is a second tag option 802 associated with a known contact interface, the second tag option 802 is referred to as "contact" for short, the top right side is a first tag option 801 associated with an unknown contact interface, the first tag option 801 is referred to as "stranger" for short, the user can enter the corresponding interface by operating the corresponding tag option, for example, by operating the second tag option 802 to enter a corresponding known contact interface 803, the known contact interface 803 includes a plurality of communication record sets of known contacts which are displayed in an arranged manner, and each of the communication record sets of known contacts includes a corresponding known contact and a latest communication record which occurs latest between the known contacts.

As another example, the communication aggregation interface includes a first tab option associated with an unknown contact interface, a second tab option associated with a known contact interface, and a third tab option associated with a subscription number interface, the first tab option, the second tab option, and the third tab option being disposed on the top or bottom of the display, e.g., in a single row, operable to output a corresponding unknown contact interface, a corresponding known contact interface, or a corresponding subscription number interface via the display. As shown in fig. 9, the entire current interface may be referred to as a communication collection interface, the top left side is a second tab option 902 associated with a known contacts interface, this second tab option 902 is referred to simply as "contact", in the middle of the top is a third tab option 903 associated with the subscription number interface, this third tab option 903 is abbreviated as "life number", the top right side is the first tab option 901 associated with the unknown contact interface, the first tab option 901 is abbreviated as "stranger", the user can enter the corresponding interface by operating the corresponding tab option, for example, by operating the third tab option 903 to enter the corresponding subscription number interface 904, the subscription number interface 904 includes a plurality of subscription number communication record sets which are displayed in an arranged manner, and each subscription number communication record set respectively includes a corresponding subscription number and a latest communication record which is newly generated between the corresponding subscription number and the subscription number.

The tab options and the associated interfaces included in the two communication collection interfaces are only used as examples, and the tab options and the associated interfaces included in the communication collection interfaces can be set arbitrarily, for example, a second tab option associated with a known contact interface and a third tab option associated with a subscription number interface configured in an abbreviated form may be included, or all four tab options and their associated interfaces may be included.

Optionally, in some embodiments of the present invention, the method further comprises the step of: and in response to the switching operation of the user for the plurality of interfaces or the selection operation for the second option, presenting the interface associated with the corresponding tag option in the communication set interface on a display of the electronic equipment according to a default setting or a history interface record.

In particular, in some embodiments of the invention described above or below, since a series of interfaces such as a known contact interface, an unknown contact interface, a subscription number interface, a dialing interface, etc. may be collectively presented in the communication collection interface, the interface presented each time the communication collection interface is opened may be set by default. For example, the default setting is to open the communication set interface, that is, to present a known contact interface associated with the second tab option, as shown in fig. 8, each time a user switches to the communication set interface from other interactive interfaces such as a communication interactive interface or a first application interface, to present a known contact interface 803 in response to a switching operation of the user for multiple interfaces, or to directly enter the known contact interface 803 or jump to the known contact interface 803 from other interactive interfaces in response to a selection option selection of the user for the second option such as clicking, long pressing, and the like, that is, to take the known contact interface 803 as the current interactive interface.

Alternatively, each time the communication set interface is opened, the interface associated with the corresponding tag option may be presented on the display of the electronic device according to the history interface record. For example, as shown in fig. 10, when the user leaves the communication set interface last time, the unknown contact interface 1003 associated with the first tag option is presented thereon, when the user switches from other interaction interfaces such as the communication interaction interface or the first application interface to the communication set interface through the switching operation this time, the unknown contact interface 1003 is still presented according to the history interface record, or, in response to the user selecting an option such as clicking, long-pressing and the like for the second option this time, the user directly enters the unknown contact interface 1003 or jumps from other interaction interfaces to the unknown contact interface 1003, that is, the unknown contact interface 1003 is taken as the current interaction interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments of the present invention, the presenting of the unknown contact interface includes: presenting an unknown contact interface on a display of the electronic device in response to a user selection operation for the first tag option; or when the current interface is other interfaces associated with other label options in the communication set interface, responding to the selection operation of the user for the unknown contact interface, and switching to present the unknown contact interface on the display of the electronic equipment.

When the user enters the communication set interface, the user can select a first tag option associated with the unknown contact interface through selection operation of clicking, long pressing and the like, and the electronic device responds to the selection operation of the user on the first tag option and presents the unknown contact interface on a display of the electronic device. Or, if the current interface is another interface associated with another tag option in the communication set interface, for example, the current interface is a known contact interface, a subscription number interface, or a dialing interface, the user may switch through operations such as swiping, and the electronic device switches and presents the unknown contact interface on the display of the electronic device in response to an option operation of the user on the unknown contact interface. For example, as shown in fig. 8, a current interface displayed on a display of the electronic device may be referred to as a communication set interface, a top portion configures a corresponding tag option in a thumbnail form, a top left side is a second tag option 802 associated with a known contact interface, the second tag option 802 is referred to as a "contact" for short, a top right side is a first tag option 801 associated with an unknown contact interface, the first tag option 801 is referred to as a "stranger" for short, and a user may enter an unknown contact interface 1003 shown in fig. 10 by clicking, pressing the first tag option 801 "stranger" for long, or may switch into an unknown contact interface 1003 shown in fig. 10 by swiping left and right.

Correspondingly, in response to the user selecting the second tag option, presenting a known contact interface on a display of the electronic equipment; or, if the current interface is other interfaces associated with other tag options in the communication set interface, presenting the known contact interface on the display of the electronic device in response to the selection operation of the user on the known contact interface.

Specifically, when the user enters the communication collection interface, the user can select a second tag option associated with the known contact interface by clicking, long pressing and the like, and the electronic device presents the known contact interface on the display of the electronic device in response to the selection operation of the user for the second tag option. Or, if the current interface is another interface associated with another tag option in the communication set interface, for example, the current interface is an unknown contact interface, a subscription number interface, or a dialing interface, the user may switch through operations such as swiping, and the electronic device presents the known contact interface on a display of the electronic device in response to a switching operation of the user for the known contact interface. For example, as shown in FIG. 9, the current interface displayed by the display of the electronic device may be referred to as a communication collection interface, with the top having corresponding tab options configured in an abbreviated form, the top left having a second tab option 902 associated with a known contacts interface, this second tab option 902 is referred to simply as "contact", in the middle of the top is a third tab option 903 associated with the subscription number interface, this third tab option 903 is abbreviated as "life number", the top right side is the first tab option 901 associated with the unknown contact interface, this first tab option 901 is abbreviated as "stranger" in the figure, the current interface is a subscription number interface 904, the user may enter the known contacts interface 803 as shown in fig. 8 by clicking, long-pressing the second tab option 902 "contacts" or may toggle into the known contacts interface 803 as shown in fig. 8 by swiping left or right through the current interface.

Other ways of entering the subscription number interface or the dialing interface are the same as or similar to the ways of entering the known contact interface and the unknown contact interface, so that the details are not repeated here and are included herein by way of reference.

Optionally, in some embodiments of the present invention, the unknown contact interface presents at least one entry in a list form, each entry corresponds to one communication record set, each communication record set corresponds to one unknown contact, and each entry in the list presents the latest communication record and profile information of the corresponding unknown contact.

Specifically, in some embodiments of the invention described above or below, the unknown contact interface displays at least one entry in a list format, each entry corresponding to a set of communication records, each set of communication records corresponding to an unknown contact, i.e., each entry also corresponding to an unknown contact, the set of communication records including the set of communication records for the first unknown contact, and each entry in the list presents at least part of the latest communication record of the corresponding unknown contact and corresponding profile information, the profile information including a communication means, e.g., a telephone number of the unknown contact, an automatically identified identity (e.g., courier), and the like. As shown in fig. 10, the current interface is an unknown contact interface 1003, a plurality of entries 1004 are displayed in the unknown contact interface 1003 in a list form, each entry 1004 corresponds to one communication record set, each communication record set corresponds to one unknown contact, profile information 1005 of the unknown contact corresponding to the entry is presented in a circle on the left side in each entry, here, the last four digits of the communication numbers, all the communication numbers of the unknown contact are presented on the top of each entry, and each entry also presents the latest communication record of the corresponding unknown contact.

Optionally, in some embodiments of the present invention, the last four bits of the communication number of the corresponding unknown contact are presented in the profile information of each entry, and a plurality of the profile information correspond to different background colors to distinguish different unknown contacts.

Specifically, in some embodiments of the present invention described above or below, the last four bits of the communication number of the corresponding unknown contact may also be presented in the profile information of each entry, as shown in fig. 10, the profile information 1005 of the unknown contact corresponding to each entry, here, the last four bits of the communication number, presented in the left circle in each entry, and the plurality of profile information 1005 correspond to different background colors to distinguish different unknown contacts.

Correspondingly, the known contact interface may also present at least one entry in a list form, where each entry corresponds to one communication record set, each communication record set corresponds to one known contact or contact group, respectively, each entry in the list presents the latest communication record and profile information of the corresponding known contact or contact group, and the profile information of each entry presents, for example, picture information of the corresponding known contact or contact group.

Correspondingly, the subscription number interface may also present at least one entry in a list form, where each entry corresponds to one communication record set, each communication record set corresponds to one subscription number, the subscription number may be a semi-unknown number between a known contact and an unknown contact, may be a common number in life that is added by a user through a search or the like, such as a property manager, a car rental phone, or the like, each entry in the list presents the latest communication record and profile information of the corresponding subscription number, and the profile information of each entry presents, for example, picture information of the corresponding subscription number.

Optionally, in some embodiments of the present invention, in response to a user selection operation of a communication record set for a first unknown contact in at least one communication record set, switching to the first unknown contact communication interface.

Specifically, in some embodiments of the invention described above or below, if the current interface is an unknown contact interface, the unknown contact interface displays at least one communication record set respectively corresponding to at least one unknown contact, and the at least one communication record set includes a communication record set for a first unknown contact, the current interface is switched to the first unknown contact communication interface in response to a selection operation of clicking, long pressing, and the like on the communication record set of the first unknown contact by a user. For example, if the user performs a click operation, a long press operation, etc. on one of the communication record sets corresponding to the first unknown contact in fig. 10, such as selecting the first entry 1004 in fig. 10, which corresponds to the communication record set of the strange contact with the communication number "13855005500", the first unknown contact communication interface shown in fig. 11 is displayed on the display in a switching manner, and a plurality of communication records between the user and the first unknown contact are output in the message area 1101, where the plurality of communication records may include the read historical communication records or the unread communication records. In addition, the first unknown contact communication interface further includes profile information 1102 and a dial key 1103, the last four digits of the communication number of the first unknown contact are presented in the profile information 1102, and when the dial key 1103 is clicked by a user, a voice call or a video call can be initiated for a target by using the communication number of the first unknown contact, and the interface shown in fig. 13 is entered. Other information such as all communication numbers, date information, etc. of the first unknown contact may also be presented in the first unknown contact communication interface.

Optionally, in some embodiments of the present invention, in response to a sliding operation performed by a user in the first unknown contact communication interface, the corresponding unknown contact communication interfaces are successively presented in the list order along the direction of the sliding operation.

Specifically, in some embodiments of the present invention described above or below, the unknown contact interface presents at least one entry in a list form, each entry corresponds to one communication record set, each communication record set corresponds to one unknown contact, that is, each entry in the list corresponds to one unknown contact communication interface, and a user can switch to the corresponding unknown contact communication interface by selecting one of the entries. Here, if the current interactive interface of the user is the first unknown contact communication interface and the user performs a sliding operation in the interface, for example, a sliding operation in the first unknown contact communication interface shown in fig. 11, the unknown contact communication interfaces may be switched along the direction of the sliding operation in response to the sliding operation of the user, for example, the corresponding unknown contact communication interfaces are continuously presented in the order of the list. It may be assumed that the direction of the sliding operation of the user is switched from right to left, and the corresponding list sequence is from top to bottom, that is, when the user performs a sliding operation from right to left on the first unknown contact communication interface, so that the unknown contact communication interface is switched from left to right, in response to the sliding operation of the user, the communication interface of the unknown contact corresponding to the next entry of the entry corresponding to the first unknown contact in the list is presented. Of course, the switching speed of the corresponding unknown contact communication interface can be adaptively adjusted according to the sliding operation speed of the user.

Optionally, in some embodiments of the present invention, the communication set interface further includes a fourth tab option associated with the dialing interface, configured in an abbreviated form, and the embodiment further includes the steps of: responding to the selection operation of the user for the fourth label option, and presenting a dialing interface on a display of the electronic equipment, wherein the dialing interface comprises a dial, a telephone number input box and dialing keys; and in response to a user dialing a dial and subsequent selection of a dial key, initiating a voice call or a video call over the mobile telephone network targeting the dial.

In particular, in some embodiments of the invention described above or below, the communication set interface further comprises a fourth tab option associated with the dialing interface, configured in an abbreviated form, operable to output the corresponding dialing interface via the display. The interface presented each time the communication set interface is opened may be set by default. For example, it may be set by default that each time the communication set interface is opened, i.e. a dialing interface is presented, as shown in fig. 12, the dialing interface is presented when switching from other interactive interfaces such as the communication interactive interface or the first application interface to the communication set interface in response to a switching operation of a plurality of interfaces by a user, or the dialing interface is entered directly or jumped from other interactive interfaces to the dialing interface in response to an option selection such as clicking, long pressing and the like of a second option by the user, i.e. the dialing interface is taken as the current interactive interface.

For another example, when the user leaves the communication set interface last time, a dialing interface is presented thereon, and when the user switches from the communication interactive interface or other interactive interfaces such as the first application interface to the communication set interface through the switching operation this time, the dialing interface is presented according to the history interface record, or, in response to the user selecting an option such as clicking, long-pressing, etc. for the second option this time, the user directly enters the dialing interface according to the history interface record or jumps to the dialing interface from other interactive interfaces, that is, the dialing interface is taken as the current interactive interface, as shown in fig. 12.

Or, when the user has entered the communication aggregation interface and the current interactive interface is a known contact interface, a subscription number interface or an unknown contact interface, the user may select a fourth tag option associated with the dialing interface by a selection operation such as clicking, long-pressing, etc., and the electronic device presents the dialing interface on a display of the electronic device in response to the selection operation of the user for the fourth tag option. Or, if the current interface is a known contact interface, a subscription number interface or an unknown contact interface, the user can switch through operations such as swiping, and the electronic device responds to the selection operation of the user on the dialing interface and switches and presents the dialing interface on a display of the electronic device.

As shown in fig. 12, the entire current interface may be referred to as a communication set interface, the top left side is a second tab option 1202 associated with a known contact interface, the second tab option 1202 is simply referred to as "contact", the top middle is a first tab option 1201 associated with an unknown contact interface, the first tab option 1201 is simply referred to as "stranger", the top right side is a fourth tab option 1203 associated with a dialing interface, the fourth tab option 1203 is simply referred to as "dialing", and a user may enter the corresponding interface by operating the corresponding tab option. In some embodiments of the present invention described above or below, in response to the user effectively dialing on the dial 1204 and subsequent selection operations such as clicking, long pressing, etc. on the dial 1206, the voice call or video call is initiated through the mobile phone network with the dial as the target, and the interface of the dialing process shown in fig. 13 is entered. In the interface shown in fig. 13, profile information 1301 is presented, and the last four digits of the destination telephone number input by the user are displayed in the profile information 1301. The interface shown in fig. 13 may also present, for example, an answer key 1302 and a hang-up key 1303, for the user to answer or hang-up the corresponding call.

In some embodiments of the above methods for providing a communication aggregation interface through a display of an electronic device, any one or more of a known contact interface, a subscription number interface, and a dialing interface and an unknown contact interface are collectively presented to a user in a communication aggregation interface in an integrated manner, and switching presentation can be performed in these interfaces in response to a selection operation of the user, so that the user can collectively view and operate each interface, user experience is improved to a certain extent, and operability of an application program through an interactive interface is enhanced.

Optionally, in the method or the electronic device according to the embodiment of the present invention as described above or below, a notification area is laterally configured on top of the display to at least partially present at least one unread notification message, the at least one unread notification message being at least partially associated with the plurality of options; and in response to a user operation on the notification area, extending the notification area in a longitudinal direction to collectively present the at least one unread notification information.

For example, as shown in fig. 14, a notification area 1401 is horizontally configured on the top of the display to at least partially present at least one piece of unread notification information, some or all of which are communication information belonging to multiple business properties from a contact, a contact group, or the unknown contact mentioned above in multiple options, or some of which may be information such as an upgrade alert of an application in multiple options. At least a portion of this unread notification information is presented in the notification area 1401, preferably in a manner that presents the latest item, or in a round-robin manner that presents each item, or some number of items. Correspondingly, in response to a user's operation of the notification area 1401, the notification area 1401 is extended on the display in a longitudinal direction downward to form an enlarged notification area 1401 to collectively present a plurality of or all of unread notification information, as shown in fig. 14. The main area on the display is used to display a communication interface or application interface for a first unknown contact within a certain period of time, and a notification area 1401 provided above the display may allow the user to know some communication information, update information, of other known or unknown contacts or applications than the first unknown contact in time. The content of the notification area or notification bar 1401 may include: the format of the notification bar can comprise head portrait and name describing information source, information abstract, and information type icon, including information, notification, and the like.

By arranging the notification bar 1401 in the top area of the display above the communication interface and the application interface, after unread notification information is received, reminding and accumulation are performed in the notification bar, optionally, the accumulation mode is the newest at the top, the oldest at the bottom, a user can expand all notification information by gestures such as pulling down and clicking the notification bar 1401, the clicked information can view the information in an enlarged mode (not shown in the figure) by borrowing the whole display range of the display, and the message can be removed when the information returns from the message enlarged mode. A soft button 'read all' (not shown in the figure) can be provided on the notification bar 1401 or on the periphery thereof, all unread messages can be read out one by one in order, and one piece of read messages can be cleared after reading; in response to the user dragging/sliding a single message to the left through the display, a "reply/delete" function entry (not shown in the figure) which is normally hidden may be displayed, and when a "reply" button in the function entry of the notification bar is clicked, an interface of an unknown contact, a known contact, a group or an applet corresponding to the sender of the message may be switched to, and in response to the user clicking a "delete" button in the function entry, the corresponding notification information may be directly deleted from the notification bar 1401, but the communication record of the background and the relevant sender is not deleted.

Optionally, in the method or the electronic device according to the embodiment of the present invention, as described above or below, a notification area is laterally configured on a top of the display to at least partially present at least one unread notification message, at least one of the at least one unread notification message being associated with the first unknown contact, the method of the embodiment further includes the steps of: and presenting a first unknown contact communication interface on a display of the electronic equipment in response to the user selecting the unread notification information associated with the first unknown contact.

For example, if the user performs a click operation, a long press operation, or the like on the unread notification information in any row of the notification set in the notification area 1401 as shown in fig. 14, if the unread notification information comes from the corresponding first unknown contact, the first unknown contact communication interface as shown in fig. 7 is displayed in a switching manner on the display, and a plurality of communication records between the user and the first unknown contact are output in the message area 1401. Or, if the notification area includes a plurality of unread notification information associated with a plurality of unknown contacts, the plurality of unread notification information associated with the plurality of unknown contacts may be presented in the notification area in an aggregated manner, or may be presented in the notification area sequentially together with other unread notification information according to occurrence times, and if the user selects the plurality of unread notification information associated with the plurality of unknown contacts presented in an aggregated manner, or selects only one of the unread notification information associated with the corresponding unknown contact, the interface presenting the unknown contact communication record set shown in fig. 6 is switched on the display, where the unknown contact communication record set includes at least one communication record set, and each communication record set corresponds to one unknown contact, respectively.

Optionally, in the method or the electronic device according to the embodiment of the present invention described above or below, the plurality of pieces of communication information include at least one unread communication record, where the at least one unread communication record may be from one unknown contact or from a plurality of unknown contacts, and optionally, the number of the at least one unread communication record may be notified in a message area of the first unknown contact communication interface; the method of this embodiment further comprises the steps of: in response to a user's one-touch operation on the at least one unread communication record, the message area is expanded and the at least one unread communication record is collectively output to the message area by occurrence time.

In particular, when multiple unread communication records are accumulated for a first unknown contact and/or other unknown contacts, the electronic device also enables the user to further view more chat records that occur with the first unknown contact and/or other unknown contacts through operation of the first unknown contact communication interface.

In the method of some embodiments, if a user applies a usual or specific interaction gesture such as a click, double click, long press to the profile information 302 or the message area 301 as shown in fig. 3, the electronic device may expand the message area 301 on the first unknown contact communication interface in response to the user's predetermined operation, thereby adapting to accommodate more unread communication records, allowing more unread communication records to be collectively output in the message area 301. Meanwhile, optionally, the electronic device may configure the profile information 302 on the first unknown contact communication interface in a thumbnail manner to reduce the display area occupied by the profile information on the interface, thereby facilitating expansion of the message area. Profile information 302 may be configured above message area 301. Corresponding to the expansion of the message area, the electronic device may collectively (collectively) output the plurality of unread communication records to the message area 301 during the process of integrally outputting the plurality of unread communication records, instead of displaying only the latest one of the plurality of communication information in the message area, of course, the collective presentation of the plurality of unread communication records in the message area may be arranged according to the time sequence of occurrence of the unread communication records. Here, all presented in the expanded message area 301 are unread communication records. In another possible embodiment, if the plurality of unread communication records all come from an unknown contact, the message area is expanded and the first unknown contact communication interface in another presentation mode is entered in response to a one-key operation of the user on the plurality of unread communication records. For example, as shown in fig. 3, in the first unknown contact communication interface, when a plurality of unread communication records are accumulated for the first unknown contact, the number of the plurality of unread communication records may be notified in the message area 301, the user applies a click, double click, long press, or the like to the profile information 302 or the message area 301, and the electronic device expands the message area 301 on the first unknown contact communication interface in response to the user's one-key operation and configures the profile information 302 in a thumbnail manner to present the first unknown contact communication interface in another presentation mode as shown in fig. 7, in which the message area is expanded to a size as shown in 701, thereby allowing more unread communication records to be collectively output in the message area 701. Optionally, a plurality of communication records including a plurality of unread communication records, a plurality of read communication records, with the first unknown contact may be presented in the expanded message area 701.

Of course, in response to the switching operation of the user, the electronic device may also return from the mode shown in fig. 7 to the mode shown in fig. 3, for example, in response to the user operating the profile information or the message area of the first unknown contact communication interface in fig. 7, the electronic device may reduce the message area and expand the profile information for presentation.

Optionally, in the method or the electronic device according to the embodiment of the present invention described above or below, for at least one unread communication record that is collectively output into the message area, the method of the embodiment further includes the steps of: and expanding the message area in response to the selection operation of the user on a first unread communication record in the at least one unread communication record, and amplifying and outputting the first unread communication record to the expanded message area.

Specifically, for at least one unread communication record collectively output to the message area, the user may select a first unread communication record from the unread communication records by a single click, a double click, a long press, and other common or specific interaction gestures, and the electronic device may expand the message area in response to a predetermined operation of the user, thereby outputting the first unread communication record to the expanded message area in an enlarged manner.

For example, fig. 15-a shows a plurality of unread communication records collectively output to the message area, from which the user selects a first unread communication record, for example, one of the pieces of text information, by operation of a common or specific interaction gesture such as single click, double click, long press, etc., and the electronic device expands the message area in response to a predetermined operation by the user, and enters the interface shown in fig. 15-b for displaying the text information in an enlarged manner.

Optionally, a text-to-speech option is configured in the lower right corner of the interface shown in 15-b, so that a user can trigger speech playing of the text message for listening; triggering voice information on an interface displayed in the main view to enter an interface for playing the voice information shown in fig. 15-c, wherein an operation option with a voice 'change characters' prompt is additionally configured in the interface; the interface shown in fig. 15-c triggers the voice-to-text option to enter the interface shown in fig. 15-d that converts voice information to text information. Alternatively, when the voice information is played as shown in fig. 15-c, the play bar in the picture may be dragged to fast forward or rewind the played voice information.

Optionally, in the device or method of some embodiments described above, the virtual key group and the physical key group are respectively and correspondingly configured on the right side of the first unknown contact communication interface and the right side of the electronic device.

Optionally, in the apparatus or method of some embodiments above, the virtual key group includes a first virtual key, a second virtual key, and a third virtual key; the communication establishing step in the method of this embodiment includes: in response to the operation of the third virtual key on the communication interface of the first unknown contact by the user, initiating a voice call or a video call to the first unknown contact through the mobile phone network; the method includes the steps of sending short message service information to a first unknown contact through a mobile phone network in response to a user operating a first virtual key on a first unknown contact communication interface, and audibly outputting short message service information from the first unknown contact received through the mobile phone network in response to a user operating a second virtual key.

Specifically, the set of virtual keys disposed to the right of the first unknown contact communication interface, such as set of virtual keys 305 shown in fig. 3, includes a first virtual key, a second virtual key, and a third virtual key that are substantially in a column. Here, the uppermost virtual key in the virtual key group 305 shown in fig. 3 is referred to as a third virtual key, the middle virtual key is referred to as a first virtual key, and the lowermost virtual key is referred to as a second virtual key.

For the setting of three virtual keys here, or simply three-key mode: in most mobile internet operating systems, because the architecture of the interaction level, application configuration and the like is mostly derived from a personal computer operating system, namely, the platform and the program are taken as the main logical architecture, while different programs are different and have different interface elements and interactive logical levels, therefore, the mobile phone operated by the method of the embodiment of the invention uses a triple-key mode, i.e., three buttons (including software and hardware buttons) of the same style and style are used in different program modules, which can be dynamically defined with different interface properties for different functions in different programs, therefore, the user can adapt to the aspects of perception, use, interaction and the like at one time and use repeatedly, and the interaction complexity and the learning threshold of the user on the application program in the electronic equipment are reduced.

For a third virtual key in the virtual key group 305, for example, a circular button with a telephone identifier at the top in the virtual key group 305, the communication establishing step in the method of the embodiment of the present invention further includes: and responding to the operation of the user on the third virtual key on the communication interface of the first unknown contact person, and initiating a voice call or a video call to the first unknown contact person through the mobile phone network. Thereby supporting the user's one-touch call/answer: in the mobile phone communication mode of the above-described embodiment, the electronic device such as the mobile phone of the user mainly performs communication via a mobile communication network, for example, a mobile phone network, and the one-touch outgoing call of the user of the electronic device is mainly implemented as an incoming call based on the mobile phone network, and the user can perform one-touch answering by clicking the third virtual key.

For the first virtual key and the second virtual key in the virtual key group 305, the communication establishing step in the method of the embodiment of the present invention further includes:

responding to the operation of a user on a first virtual key on a communication interface of a first unknown contact person, and sending short message service information to the first unknown contact person through a mobile phone network; and outputting short message service information from the first unknown contact received through the mobile phone network in an audio mode in response to the operation of the second virtual key by the user.

Specifically, for the first virtual key, for example, a button with a short message identifier in the middle of the virtual key group 305 shown in fig. 3, when the user clicks the first virtual key, the short message editor may be provided for the user to edit the short message, or a voice editor may be provided for the user to input the short message in a voice manner, and then automatically convert the short message into a text or directly send the short message service information to the first unknown contact through the mobile phone network. Here, through the method of mobile phone network communication in the above embodiment, the user can collect and send text information of the short message service to the current contact by one key in the mobile phone mode.

For the second virtual key, such as the lowest button with speaker id of the virtual key group 305 shown in fig. 3, the user may output the information from the first unknown contact in audio by clicking the second virtual key. Here, by the method of mobile phone network communication in the above embodiment, the user can obtain the information from the first unknown contact by audio by one-touch. Specifically, in the mobile phone mode, the electronic device operates the method of the embodiment of the present invention, so as to convert the text short message into a voice signal and play the voice signal, so that the user can hear the relevant content.

Optionally, in the apparatus or method of some embodiments above, the virtual key group further includes a fourth virtual key; the fourth virtual key and the first virtual key, the second virtual key and the third virtual key are located in a column, and the communication establishing step in the method of the embodiment includes: responding to the operation of the user on the fourth virtual key, and presenting/hiding a corresponding dial in the first unknown contact communication interface; and responding to the dialing of the user on the dial plate and the subsequent selection of the third virtual key, and initiating a voice call or a video call by taking the dialing as a target through the mobile phone network.

Specifically, if the current interface of the electronic device is the first unknown contact communication interface, the user may need to dial a new number, and for this scenario, in the methods of some embodiments of the present invention described above or below, the following resources are provided for communication with the unknown contact:

dial plate: when a user needs to dial a new number, the system can pop up the floating layer of the dial by clicking and long-pressing the fourth virtual key 306 shown in fig. 3, and the user can call out the phone by operating the virtual keys in the key group after dialing. Alternatively, when the user clicks and long presses the fourth virtual key 306 again as shown in fig. 3, the currently displayed dial is hidden.

One embodiment may be seen in fig. 16, where the virtual key set includes a fourth virtual key 1601; the fourth virtual key 1601 is located in a column with a virtual key group 1603 including a first virtual key, a second virtual key and a third virtual key, the fourth virtual key 1601 may be located below the third virtual key and above the first virtual key, and when a user operates the fourth virtual key 1601 by clicking, long pressing or the like, a corresponding dial 1602 is presented in the first unknown contact communication interface in response to the user operating the fourth virtual key 1601; subsequently, when the user makes a valid dial in the presented dial 1602 and then continues to operate the third virtual key by clicking, long-pressing, or the like, a voice call or a video call is initiated through the mobile phone network with the dial as a target in response to the above-described operation by the user.

Optionally, in the apparatus or method of some embodiments above, before the presenting step of the first unknown contact communication interface, further comprising: receiving communication information from any information initiator; judging whether the information initiator is registered in an address book of the electronic equipment or not; and if the information initiator is not registered in the address list, defining the information initiator as a first unknown contact.

Specifically, in addition to the contacts already stored in the electronic device such as the mobile phone, the user may also receive communication information of strange contacts not stored in the address book of the mobile phone, for example, a phone call or a short message made by a mobile phone number of the strange contact.

As shown in fig. 18A and 18B, the third aggregated page 4900 includes a known contact tab 4901, an unknown contact tab 4902, a label of the known contact tab 4901 (the text in the figure is identified as: a contact), a label of the unknown contact tab 4902 (the text in the figure is identified as: a stranger), and labels of the known contact tab 4901 and the unknown contact tab 4902 are arranged in parallel on top of the third aggregated page.

Optionally, the third aggregated page 4900 may further include a tag of a dialer tab, which may be arranged in parallel at the top of the third aggregated page 4900 (not shown in the figure).

Optionally, the third collection page may also include a life number tab 5101, the tag of which may also be configured at the top of the third collection page 4900 in parallel with the "contacts", "strangers" tags, as shown in fig. 21.

By integrating multiple contacts or multiple contact tabs on the same album leaf, the third album leaf is configured as an overall portal for all contacts to avoid not having an individual contact (e.g., a third contact) separately provided in the options/menu area, in which case the electronic device user cannot directly access the communication resources for the third contact through multiple options in the options area 4904 at the bottom of the display. Here, the sum of the options provided by the known contacts tab 4901 and the unknown contacts tab 4902, covering a majority of the contacts that a user of the electronic device may have access to, may be supplemented with one or more contact options that are individually exposed (potentially with high frequency communication needs) in an options area 4904, including options for other contacts in addition to the multiple contact options that are individually exposed in the options area 4904 configured for the electronic device.

Optionally, in the embodiment shown in fig. 18A, 18B, the "contacts" tab of the known contacts tab 4901 is operable to output the known contacts tab 4901 via a display of the electronic device, including a plurality of abbreviated sets of known contacts' communication records, each including a corresponding known contact icon/avatar and newly occurring communication information with the known contact, displayed in a predefined priority or in a chronological order of a latest message occurrence time, etc. A "stranger" tab of unknown contacts tab 4902 operable to provide the unknown contacts tab 4902 via the display, the unknown contacts tab 4902 including a plurality of abbreviated sets of unknown contacts communication records arranged for display, each abbreviated set of unknown contacts communication records including an icon of a corresponding unknown contact (e.g., four digits after the telephone number of the unknown contact and a background color uniquely corresponding to the four digits) and newly occurring communication information with the unknown contact. Similarly, the label of life number tab 5101 is operable to provide, via a display thereof, life number tab 5101, which lists one or more commonly used contacts, typically non-related contacts, including, for example: police, 120 emergency services, etc.

Optionally, a dialer tab is included in the third collection page 4900 in addition to the known contacts tab 4901 and the unknown contacts tab 4902. Optionally, a tab (not shown) of the dialer tab is juxtaposed with a "contacts" tab and a "strangers" tab at a top of the third collection page 4900 interface, operable to output a dialer interface through the third collection page 4900, the dialer interface including: virtual numeric keyboard, telephone number input box, calling option. To a dial interface.

Alternatively, when one of the abbreviated sets of known contact communication records on the known contact tab 4901 (e.g., the communication record of the contact corresponding to the second item at the top in the set list) is selected (e.g., clicked) by the user, the user interface switches to the communication interface corresponding to the contact, such as the communication interface shown in fig. 20.

Alternatively, a dialer tab (not shown), or a dialer interface, may be integrated into the third collection page 4900, but configured as a separate user interface. The corresponding dialer options may be configured at a particular location in the options area 5012 at the bottom of the display, e.g., at the end of the options area 5012. At the electronic device, the dialing program option is operable by the user to output a dialing interface via the display, as shown in fig. 19, the dialing interface including: virtual numeric keypad E5002, telephone number input box E5001, call option E5004. Additionally, if the dialer is configured as a separate user interface, then optionally, a dialer interface entry option 4903 may also be configured around the known contacts tab 4901 and the unknown contacts tab 4902 that may be manipulated by the user to turn to the separately configured dialer interface as shown in fig. 19 for the user to make a dial call or the like.

Optionally, corresponding to the above-mentioned dialing interface, the method of some embodiments further includes the steps of: 1) in response to a click operation of a user through the virtual numeric keypad E5002, presenting a corresponding telephone number in the telephone number input box E5001; 2) in response to the user's operation for the call option E5004, a communication targeted/targeted to a telephone number is established through the mobile telephone network.

20A-20B illustrate a switching diagram between a first contact communication interface and a first contact communication interface with an extensible menu at an electronic device, according to one embodiment of the invention. A first option 5011 of the plurality of options is an option for a first contact (e.g., a daughter of a user of the electronic device), the option being associated with a communication program, the first option 5011 being operable to invoke the communication program to output a communication interface 5010 for the first contact through the display, in other words, in response to operation of the first contact option 5011 by the user, run a communication application to present the communication interface 5010 for the first contact on the display, including profile information such as avatar 5009 for the first contact, and a message area 5001. Responsive to a user manipulation of a set of communication keys (5004, 5005, 5006, 5002, 5003), establishing communication with a first contact over at least one communication network available to the electronic device to generate a plurality of communication information; and outputting the plurality of communications through the message area 5001 on the first contact communication interface 5010.

Optionally, the first contact communication interface 5010 also includes an expandable button 5008, with all or a first portion of the keys in the group of keys (5004, 5005, 5006) or arranged in a column in the middle of the right side of the interface, as shown. The extensible button 5008 may be located between the key column (5004, 5005, 5006) formed by the first portion of keys on the communication contact interface and the options area 5012, i.e., below the key column (5004, 5005, 5006) and above the options area 5012. In addition, after the expandable button 5008 in the first contact communication interface shown in fig. 20A is operated by the user, it is changed to the first contact communication interface 5010 having the expanded menu 5007 shown in fig. 20B.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the expand button 5008 is located substantially in the same column as the key column (5004, 5005, 5006). Correspondingly, the method of these embodiments further comprises the steps of: in response to a user selection operation (e.g., clicking) on the expandable button 5008, an expanded menu 5007 is presented, which optionally includes at least one of a second portion of keys (5002, 5003) in the key group, an emoticon option, an album/photo option, a social option (e.g., a red-envelope button), and the like (not labeled in the figure), and objects (e.g., the red envelope, emoticon, photo, and the like described above) selected by the user through these one or more options are all posted in the message area 5001, and these options may be set, for example, at two positions on the left side among the four menu units of the expanded menu 5007. In response to a clicking operation of the expand button 5008 by the user, the expand menu 5007 is preferably presented in a single row in the lateral direction, with the expand menu 5007 and the expand button 5008 being located at the bottom of the display, above the options area 5012, as shown. A second part of keys (5002, 5003) of the key group included in the extended menu 5007, when activated, transfers the first contact interface into a corresponding communication setup state, for example, an SMS message collection box 5009 and a "send short message" button 50091 for sending the collected short message are provided on the first contact interface shown in fig. 23C, and the first contact interface shown in fig. 20B is converted into an online call state for the first contact shown in fig. 23B. When the expression option and the social option are activated, pop up the corresponding expression bar or social interface element for further operation by the user, as shown in fig. 23A. And, in response to a user's related operation such as clicking on the second part key (5002, 5003), the emoticon option, or the social option, the above-described expansion menu is contracted to an expandable button 5008.

Optionally, the method of the foregoing embodiment and some other embodiments further includes, in response to a click operation of the button 5003 for the data service type text message or the SMS text message in the extended menu 5007 by the user, a step of popping up a corresponding message collection box 5009, as shown in fig. 23C; step b) support (enable) the user to enter a text message in message collection box 5009 via a soft keyboard (not shown in the figure); step C) in response to the user's operation of the "send message" button 50091 shown in fig. 23C, a text message input by the user is sent through the corresponding wireless data transmission network or mobile phone network and output to be displayed in the message area of the first contact interface. The message area in the above-mentioned embodiment and some other embodiments may also be configured as an SMS message collection box or a message collection box for a text message of a data service class without additionally popping up a new message collection box, and a soft keyboard (not shown in the figure) popped up as needed is matched to support a user to manually input text content of an SMS message, which means that the message area can be used not only as an output interface of various messages, but also as an input interface of a text message of a data service class, an SMS message, and the like.

Optionally, the extended menu 5007 described above may also include a menu option 5002 to initiate a voice or video call with the current contact when activated, a menu option 5003 to initiate a short message service with the current contact when activated. In other words, menu option 5003 may allow a user to enter textual content through a dialog box and establish an SMS service for the textual content over a mobile phone network in response to a user click operation. And, the expanded menu 5007 may also include a menu option (not shown in the figures) that, when activated, initiates a payment action for the current contact, a menu option (not shown in the figures) that, when activated, initiates a video conference with the current contact and a contact group to which the user of the electronic device personally belongs. Here, the second part keys (5002, 5003) are configured in the expanded menu 5007 while the expanded menu is contracted to the expandable button 5008, which causes the second part keys (5002, 5003) or other social function keys to be presented on the user interface only as needed, and after the user completes the corresponding operations through the keys, the keys may be hidden along with the contraction of the expanded menu 5007. The method reduces the occupation of the display area on the user interface, improves the overall display effect of the elements on the user interface, reduces the complexity of the presentation of the interface elements, keeps the communication entries accessible as much as possible through the user interface, and improves the accessibility of the user interface to a certain extent. Of course, the first portion of keys (5004, 5005, 5006) included in the key column on the right side of the user interface may be displayed by the regular premises without being hidden, and the first portion of keys (5004, 5005, 5006) may also be provided at an unchanged location on the display across different contact interfaces, and even different application interfaces, for the user to interact with the user interfaces through the first portion of keys, respectively.

Alternatively, keys of multiple communication functions on the same contact interface may be selectively configured to be associated with different communication networks, which means that multiple keys on the same contact interface may be respectively associated with communication networks of different traffic properties within the same time period. For example, the first key 5005 and the second key 5006 in the key column formed by the first part of keys (5004, 5005, 5006) are respectively associated with a wireless data transmission network, such as the internet of things, WLAN or a mobile data network, and the first key 5005 and the second key 5006 are functionally corresponding. For example, the first key 5005 can capture a user audio/video signal via a microphone and/or a camera in response to a user tap operation and send the audio message or video message via a wireless data transmission network. The second key 5006 is operable by a user to output an audiovisual message received over the wireless data transmission network via a speaker and/or a display. In addition, a third key 5004 of the key column is associated with a mobile phone network through which voice telephony services may be established in response to a user click operation. The selective configuration of the key groups on the contact interface is also applicable to other related embodiments, and will not be described in detail below.

Optionally, the apparatus or method of some embodiments further comprises the step of: and recommending the first unknown contact to the user for configuration according to the frequency of initiating the communication information and/or the content of the communication information of the first unknown contact.

Specifically, for a first unknown contact that is not registered in the address list, communication information may be initiated for multiple times, and according to a frequency of initiating communication information by the first unknown contact, such as the total number of times of initiating communication information or the frequency of initiating communication information, when both of the two frequencies exceed a predetermined threshold, the first unknown contact is recommended to a corresponding user for configuration, such as black drawing and deleting for a remote administrator; or, strictly, as long as the total number of times of initiating communication by the first unknown contact exceeds a predetermined threshold, or the frequency of initiating communication information exceeds a predetermined threshold, and one of the times is met, recommending the first unknown contact to a remote administrator for configurations such as black drawing, deleting and the like; or, in some embodiments, when it is detected that the content of the communication information initiated by the first unknown contact includes a forbidden word preset by a system or set by a user, or the total number of forbidden words included in the content of the plurality of communication information initiated by the first unknown contact exceeds a predetermined threshold, or the percentage of the total number of forbidden words in all the content exceeds a predetermined threshold, recommending the first unknown contact to a remote administrator for configuration such as black drawing, deleting, and the like.

In some embodiments, if there are some unknown contacts that are actually contacts that are close to the user and need to be registered in the address book, for example, although the unknown contacts are not registered in the address book, the unknown contacts may be recommended to the remote administrator to be registered in the address book. Optionally, if it is detected that the content of the communication information initiated by the first unknown contact contains a system preset or user set excellent word, or further, the total number of times of initiating the communication information by the first unknown contact and/or the frequency of initiating the communication information exceed a predetermined threshold, the first unknown contact may be recommended to the remote administrator to be registered in the address book.

Optionally, in the apparatus or method of some embodiments described above, when it is determined that a first unknown contact is to be registered in an address book or blacklisted according to the frequency of initiating communication information and/or the content of the communication information of the first unknown contact, the first unknown contact is registered in the address book or blacklisted in response to a configuration operation of a user for the first unknown contact.

Fig. 17 is a schematic diagram illustrating an internal component of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present invention, where, as shown in fig. 17, the communication device includes: an operation portion, a housing (not shown), a processor unit accommodated in the housing, and a media acquisition unit 1703 and a media playing unit 1704 and a wireless data transmission unit 1705 accommodated in the housing and respectively coupled with the processor unit, such as the processor 1702. The operating part can be embodied, among other things, in the form of a physical operating element, such as a button, lever, handle, (reduced) keyboard, etc. Here, a physical keyboard 1701 of a simplified structure is schematically described by way of example, and the physical keyboard 1701 is provided on a housing and connected to a processor 1702.

Physical keyboard 1701 may issue a first trigger signal to processor 1702 in response to a first operation by a user and may also issue a second trigger signal to processor 1702 in response to a second operation by the user.

The communication device further includes a memory 1706 storing at least one machine readable instruction coupled to the processor 1702 and one or more programs executable by the processor 1702 to: acquiring a first media signal through the media acquisition unit 1703 in response to the first trigger signal, and transmitting the first media signal through the wireless data transmission network through the wireless data transmission unit 1705; in response to the second trigger signal, the second media signal received by the wireless data transmission unit 1705 via the wireless data transmission network is output by the media play unit 1704.

It will be appreciated that the processor unit may alternatively include one or more processors 1702, and that the processor or processor units may operate as a single Central Processing Unit (CPU) in a centralized fashion, or may operate in a distributed fashion where several sub-processing units/processors are coupled in a dedicated fashion to media capture unit 1703 and media play unit 1704, respectively, as their dedicated processors. Various modifications of the processor 1702 and processor unit described herein may be applied to the methods and apparatus of all embodiments described above or below, and are not described in further detail herein.

The communication device includes, but is not limited to, a handheld electronic device, such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a digital assistant, and the like.

Here, it should be noted that the communication process of the processor 1702 through the wireless data transmission unit 1705 to transmit the first media signal and receive the second media signal through the wireless data transmission network is an instant communication, and the instant communication is generally a duplex (duplex) communication. In other words, one or more programs may be executed by the processor 1702 to: the first media signal is acquired by the media acquisition unit 1703 in response to the first trigger signal, and the acquired first media signal is instantaneously transmitted through the wireless data transmission network by the wireless data transmission unit 1705, and an instantaneous second media signal from the other communication device is output by the media play unit 1704 in response to the second trigger signal.

The communication device may include a processor unit 1702. Actually, the communication device may further include a communication interface or the like. In addition, physical keys such as a power key, a volume adjustment key, etc. may also be provided on the communication device on the side or at other locations.

In some embodiments, the processor 1702 may operate as a single Central Processing Unit (CPU) in a centralized manner, or may operate in a distributed manner in the form of several sub-processing units (not shown in the figure) respectively connected to the media collection unit 1703 and the media playing unit 1704, and the wireless data transmission unit 1705, etc. as their dedicated processors.

The communication device is provided with a physical keyboard 1701, and based on the setting of the physical keyboard 1701, the user can more quickly and conveniently perform instant communication with the contact.

The physical keyboard 1701 is accommodated in the case, which means that the physical keyboard 1701 is accommodated in the case as a whole, but the physical keyboard 1701 may be exposed to the outside through the through hole and may partially protrude outside the case.

In practice, the physical keyboard 1701 may include one or more independently arranged physical keys having a triggering communication function. A user can directly trigger instant messaging, real-time messaging, etc. with a contact by manipulating one or more physical keys with a single action (single action), unlike a conventional keyboard for inputting information such as text.

In fact, the physical keyboard 1701 may have various physical key implementations, such as a key press, a toggle key, and when the physical key implementations are different, the user may operate the physical key in different ways. For example, in the case of a key, the operation that can be performed may be one or more continuous pressing operations, for example, a pressing operation that lasts for a certain period of time (referred to as a long pressing operation). For example, for a toggle key, the operations that can be performed may be toggle operations in different directions.

However, regardless of the specific implementation form of the physical key, the operation performed on the physical key in the embodiment of the present invention may preferably be a single action operation, such as the above-mentioned exemplary operations of single pressing, multiple pressing (which may be rapid and continuous), long pressing, and toggling. In this sense, a conventional number dial pad is different from the physical pad in that the number dial pad represents only numbers and requires a plurality of keys to be pressed in sequence before a communication can be initiated through a call key.

In addition, in practice, the physical keyboard 1701 may be connected to the processor 1702 via direct wires or key signal circuitry, which may be switching circuitry, logic processing circuitry, or the like. It should be noted that the trigger in the above-mentioned "physical keyboard is operable to trigger" refers to a hardware trigger. For example, optionally, when the physical keyboard 1701 includes at least one key, each key may operate in the form of a switch circuit, wherein one end of the switch is connected to the processor 1702 and the other end is connected to the key. The key may be connected to the processor 1702 via a "direct connection" circuit, or via a key signal circuit such as a conditioning circuit, an adapter circuit, a logic decision circuit, etc. Thus, when a key is pressed, the switch circuit is turned on to output a specific trigger signal to the processor 1702, which may trigger the processor 1702 to perform a corresponding operation or no operation, and when the key is released, the switch circuit is turned off, which may also trigger the processor 1702 to perform a corresponding operation or no operation. The processor 1702 may also determine whether the pressing operation is a short pressing operation or a long pressing operation according to the duration of the trigger signal.

Alternatively, the key signal circuit may be composed of a General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) chip, also called a bus expander, and a peripheral circuit. The GPIO chip comprises a plurality of input/output ports, a plurality of ports for short, and the peripheral circuit can be a resistor and a switch circuit which are connected in series and connected with each port. Thus, when a plurality of keys are included in the physical communication keyboard 1701, each key may be connected to one port through a switch circuit, and at this time, each port has two level states corresponding to a key being pressed and a key not being pressed, respectively.

Optionally, when there are a plurality of physical keys that need to be connected to the GIPO chip, but the number of ports of the GPIO chip is limited, one physical key may also be connected to a plurality of ports, so as to implement multiplexing of the plurality of physical keys to the plurality of ports of the GPIO chip, for example, multiplexing of 16 physical keys may be implemented for 4 ports, and at this time, when different physical keys are triggered, the 4 ports will present different level states. At this time, the ports are no longer connected with the physical keys in a one-to-one correspondence.

It will be appreciated that the GPIO chip described above may include an interface to the processor 1702 as well as a power interface, a ground interface, etc., in addition to the multiple ports connected to the physical key. Therefore, the processor 1702 can determine which physical key is operated according to the trigger signal received from each port of the GPIO chip, that is, the identification of the operation behavior of the physical key by the user is realized.

In one aspect, in this embodiment, after a user performs a first operation on physical keyboard 1701, physical keyboard 1701 may issue a first trigger signal to processor 1702. For example, when the physical keyboard 1701 includes a certain physical key, the user performs a first operation on the physical key, the physical key is connected to a certain port of the GPIO, and based on the first operation, a circuit between the physical key and the port is turned on, and a first trigger signal is sent to the processor 1702. The processor 1702 may control the media acquisition unit 1703 to start acquiring a first media signal of the user in response to the first trigger signal, and further send the acquired first media signal out through the wireless data transmission network through the wireless data transmission unit 1705. Based on this, in practical applications, when a certain communication application program is installed in the communication device, the user only needs to select a contact person that wants to communicate currently, and after selecting a certain contact person, the processor 1702 may apply the first operation to the physical keyboard 1701, and control the media acquisition unit 1703 to start acquiring the first media signal of the user, and further send the acquired first media signal to the communication application program of the contact person through the wireless data transmission unit 1705 via the wireless data transmission network. In an alternative embodiment, the media capturing unit 1703 may be a microphone, and thus, the first media signal may be a voice message captured by the microphone. In an alternative embodiment, the media capturing unit 1703 may be a camera, and thus, the first media signal may be a video/image message captured by the camera. In another alternative embodiment, the media capturing unit 1703 may be a microphone and a camera, so that the first media signal may be an audio/video signal obtained by the processor 1702 receiving a voice message captured by the microphone and a video/image message captured by the camera and fusing the received voice message and image message.

On the other hand, in this embodiment, after the user performs the second operation on physical keyboard 1701, physical keyboard 1701 may send a second trigger signal to processor 1702. For example, when the physical keyboard 1701 includes a certain physical key, the user performs a second operation on the physical key, the physical key is connected to a certain port of the GPIO, and based on the second operation, a circuit between the physical key and the port is turned on, and a second trigger signal is sent to the processor 1702. The processor 1702, in response to the second trigger signal, may control the media playing unit 1704 to start playing the second media signal that the wireless data transmission unit 1705 has received through the wireless data transmission network. In practical applications, when a user receives a second media signal sent by a contact through a communication application program, a second operation may be triggered on a physical key of the physical keyboard 1701, and the processor 1702 controls the media playing unit 1704 to play the received second media signal based on the second operation, so that the user can listen to communication data sent by the contact through one key.

In some embodiments, the media play unit 1704 may be a second speaker, and thus, the second media signal may be a voice message. In an alternative embodiment, the media play unit 1704 may be a display and a second speaker, whereby the second media signal may be a video/image message. But also characters, pictures and the like. In an alternative embodiment, the media play unit 1704 may be a display, and thus, the second media signal may be text, pictures, etc.

Furthermore, it should be noted that in the method, the communication apparatus, and the electronic device according to some embodiments of the present invention, the mentioned display (display) of the communication apparatus/electronic device is preferably a touch display, and therefore, the description thereof may not be repeated.

Optionally, the display is disposed on one side of the first face of the housing, for example, above the first face; physical keyboard 1701 is disposed on the other side of the first side, which may be the front side of the housing, than the lower side, or the second side of the housing, which may be the side of the housing.

In the process of playing the second media signal that has been received through the wireless data transmission network, for example, in the case that the second media signal is an audio/video signal, the audio/video signal may be compressed and encoded in the transmission process, so that in the playing process, decoding processing needs to be performed according to a corresponding encoding standard, and then the decoded audio/video signal is played.

In summary, the communication device provided in this embodiment is provided with a physical keyboard for a user to establish communication, and when the user wants to send a message to a contact, the physical keyboard may be first operated to trigger the media acquisition unit to acquire a first media signal of the user, and send the first media signal to the contact through the wireless data transmission network. And when the communication device receives a second media signal sent by the contact person through the wireless data transmission network, the user can trigger the media playing unit to output the second media signal to the user by performing a second operation on the physical keyboard. Therefore, based on the communication device, the user can realize instant communication with the contact person through the wireless data transmission network instead of a mobile telephone network such as GSM and the like through the physical keyboard, and compared with the traditional mode that the user needs to carry out interface interactive operation on communication application programs for many times, the man-machine interactive level is greatly reduced, so that the success rate of the communication between the user and other people can be improved, and the communication instantaneity can also be improved.

In addition, the electronic device suitable for the method of the embodiment of the present invention described above or below may further include a base for mounting the communication device, the physical key set is disposed on the base, the communication interface is a connector, and two ends of the connector are correspondingly disposed on the communication device and the base and are respectively connected to the processor unit and the physical key set by wires.

Alternative embodiments

An embodiment 1. a method for providing interface resources in an electronic device, wherein the electronic device is configured with a plurality of interfaces and can output through a display of the electronic device, the method comprising:

s-3 outputting a plurality of communications with the contact via the at least one communications network in the message area at least partially in response to operation of the communications operations interface.

2. The resource providing method according to embodiment 1, wherein the contact interface comprises a communication interface for a first known contact and/or a communication interface for a first unknown contact; the message area comprises a first message area on the first known contact communication interface and/or a second message area on the first unknown contact communication interface; and said step S-3 further comprises,

outputting, in response, at least in part, to operation of the communication operations interface, a plurality of communication information with the first known contact via the at least one communication network in the first message region, and/or,

outputting, in the second message region, a plurality of communications with the first unknown contact via the at least one communications network at least partially in response to operation of the communications operations interface.

3. The resource providing method according to

embodiment

1 or 2, wherein the communication operation interface includes a key group virtually provided on a user interface currently output on the display and/or physically provided to the electronic device, in association with the at least one communication network.

4. The resource providing method of embodiment 3, wherein the contact interface further comprises an extensible button operable to reveal an extended menu laterally; a first portion or all of the set of virtual keys are arranged in a column alongside the contact interface.

5. The resource providing method of embodiment 4, wherein the contact interface further comprises profile information for the contact, configured above and below the message area.

6. The resource providing method of embodiment 5, wherein the contact profile information is located above the message area, commensurate in size, and substantially centrally located on the contact interface.

7. The resource providing method according to any one of embodiments 4-6, wherein the first part of virtual keys are arranged in a column on the right side of the contact interface; and the expanded menu comprises a second part of virtual keys in the virtual key group and/or operation options aiming at the message area.

8. The method of embodiment 7, wherein the second portion of virtual keys or the operation options for the message region further comprise at least one of: a) a menu option to initiate a voice or video call with the current contact when activated, b) a menu option to initiate a short message service with the current contact when activated, c) a menu option to initiate a payment action for the current contact when activated, d) a menu option to initiate a video conference with a group of contacts to which the current contact and the electronic device user belong together when activated.

9. The method of

embodiment

7 or 8, further comprising the steps of: a plurality of options are arranged at the bottom of the display in a thumbnail mode along the transverse direction and are operable to output the plurality of interfaces through the display respectively; wherein the plurality of options includes a first option and/or a second option, the second option being associated with the first known contact communication interface, the first option being associated with the first unknown contact communication interface.

10. The method of embodiment 9, wherein the expandable button is located between the virtual key column and the option area where the plurality of options are located along a longitudinal direction of the contact interface, the expandable button being operable to reveal an expanded menu in a single row along a lateral direction.

11. The method of embodiment 10, wherein the expandable button is located in substantially the same column as the virtual key column.

12. The method of embodiment 9, wherein the step S-2 further comprises:

presenting an interface for a set of unknown contact communication records on a display of the electronic device in response to a user switching operation or a selection operation for the first option for an interface currently presented on the display in the plurality of interfaces, wherein the set of unknown contact communication records comprises at least one set of communication records, and each set of communication records respectively corresponds to one unknown contact; and

and switching to the first unknown contact communication interface in response to a user selection operation of the communication record set of the at least one communication record set aiming at the first unknown contact.

13. The method according to embodiment 9, wherein the step S-2 further comprises a presentation step of a communication collection interface: presenting a communication collection interface on a display of the electronic equipment in response to a switching operation of a user for the plurality of interfaces or a selection operation for the second option, wherein the communication collection interface comprises at least two of a first label option associated with an unknown contact interface, a second label option associated with a known contact interface, a third label option associated with a subscription number interface, a fourth label option associated with a dialing interface, and a fifth label option associated with the public service number interface, which are configured in a thumbnail form; after the communication collection interface presenting step, the method further comprises the following steps:

outputting the unknown contact interface or the known contact interface through the display in response to user operation of the first tab option and the second tab option, respectively; and

switching to display the first unknown contact interface or the first known contact interface in response to a user operation of an option for the first unknown contact on the unknown contact interface or a user operation of an option for the first known contact on the known contact interface.

14. The method as in embodiment 13, wherein the public service number interface is to provide at least one public service number; and further comprising the steps of:

providing the at least one public service number corresponding to the geographic location on the public service number interface based on the geographic location of the electronic device, or,

the at least one public service number is provided on the public service number interface in a customized and/or selective manner based on geographic location and/or received manual configuration.

15. The method of embodiment 13, wherein the communication aggregation interface comprises the first tab option, the second tab option, and the fifth tab option, and is configured in parallel at the top or bottom of the communication aggregation interface;

the step S-1 further comprises a step S-11) of presenting the unknown contact interface, the known contact interface and the public service number interface on a display of the electronic equipment respectively in response to a selection operation of a user for the first tag option, the second tag option or the fifth tag option; step S-12), in response to the user' S selection operation on the unknown contact interface, the known contact interface for the first unknown contact or the first known contact, presenting the first unknown contact communication interface or the first known contact communication interface on the display of the electronic device, respectively; and, the step S-3 further comprises,

16. The resource providing method according to embodiment 9, wherein the method further comprises the steps of:

and in response to the switching operation of the user for the plurality of options, the plurality of options are presented in a moving mode.

17. The resource providing method of embodiment 16, wherein the plurality of options are at least partially laterally arranged at a bottom of the display, the step of moving the presentation further comprising: responding to the switching operation of the user for the option area where the options are located, and moving and presenting the options part by part; wherein each of the portions includes the same number of options, the same number being 3, 4, 5 or 6; the width of the option area along the longitudinal direction is 1.5cm-2.5 cm.

18. The resource providing method according to any one of embodiments 9, 16 or 17, wherein: the plurality of options further includes a second option; the method further comprises the following steps: in response to the selection operation of the user on the second option in the option area, switching from the current interface to the interface corresponding to the second option on the display, and synchronously differentiating the form of the second option in the option area.

19. The resource providing method according to any one of embodiments 9 and 16 to 18, wherein the plurality of interfaces are configured in sequence, further comprising:

in response to a single toggle operation by a user for the first known contact communication interface, toggle presentation on the display of an interface of the plurality of interfaces adjacent to the first known contact communication interface.

20. The resource providing method according to any one of embodiments 9 and 16 to 18, further comprising:

in response to a single toggle operation by a user for the first known contact communication interface, toggling on the display from the first known contact communication interface to an interface corresponding to an option adjacent to the first option in the plurality of options, and presenting the adjacent options differentially in form in the option area.

21. The resource providing method according to any of embodiments 9, 16-20, wherein the at least one communication network comprises a plurality of wireless communication networks; the plurality of communication information is attributed to at least two service properties; and the communication information output step further includes: establishing communication with the first known contact through the plurality of wireless communication networks to generate the plurality of communication information in response to user manipulation of the set of keys; and outputting the plurality of communication information through the message area on the first known contact communication interface.

22. The resource providing method according to embodiment 21, wherein the plurality of wireless communication networks include a mobile telephone network, a wireless data transmission network including a wireless local area network and a mobile data network; said set of keys being associated with said mobile telephone network and said wireless data transmission network, respectively, and said communication establishing step further comprising:

establishing communication with the first known contact through the mobile phone network and the wireless data transmission network respectively to generate the plurality of communication information in response to the operation of the key set by the user, comprising: communication information and data service messages of a mobile telephone network; wherein the communication information of the mobile phone network comprises: voice service information and short message service information; the data service message includes one or more of the following: audio messages, video messages, picture messages, geographic locations, text messages, files, data.

23. The resource providing method according to embodiment 22, wherein the outputting step further includes: and integrating and outputting at least two items of the voice service information, the short message service information and the data service information to the message area.

24. The resource providing method according to embodiment 23, wherein the integration outputting step further includes:

outputting said voice service information and/or said short message service message through said message area on said first known contact communication interface when said key set is associated with said mobile phone network; outputting the data service message through the message area on the first known contact communication interface when the key set is associated with the wireless local area network or the mobile data network.

25. The resource providing method according to embodiment 22 or 23, the outputting step further comprising:

outputting the latest piece of the plurality of communication information separately in the message area in response to occurrence of the latest piece; or

Outputting said latest piece of said mobile telephone network's communication information alone in said message area in response to occurrence of said latest piece of said mobile telephone network's communication information when said set of keys is associated with said mobile telephone network; when the key set is associated with the wireless local area network or the mobile data network, the latest piece of data service message is output separately in the message area in response to the occurrence of the latest piece of the data service message.

26. The method according to any of embodiments 2-7, wherein the plurality of communication information with the first unknown contact corresponds to the mobile phone network, including voice service information and/or short message service information.

27. The method of embodiment 3, wherein the physical key set and the virtual key set have consistency and/or correspondence to at least one of: number, layout, form, appearance, orientation, color system, color, shape, pattern.

28. The method according to embodiment 3 or 27, wherein the virtual key set and the physical key set are respectively correspondingly configured on the right side of the first unknown contact communication interface and the right side of the electronic device.

29. The method of any of embodiments 27-28, wherein the set of virtual keys comprises a first virtual key, a second virtual key, and a third virtual key; the communication establishing step comprises:

30. The method of embodiment 29 wherein the set of virtual keys further comprises a fourth virtual key in a column with the first, second and third virtual keys; the communication establishing step comprises:

31. An electronic device, comprising: a display; a processor unit; a memory; and one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the processor unit, the one or more programs including instructions for performing any of the methods of embodiments 1-30.

32. An electronic device, comprising: a set of physical keys, a communication interface and a communication device, the communication device comprising a display; a processor unit; a memory; and one or more programs for executing one or more programs,

wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the processor unit, the one or more programs including instructions for performing any of the methods of embodiments 1-30.

33. The electronic device of embodiment 32, further comprising a base for mounting the communication apparatus, wherein the set of physical keys is disposed on the base, and the communication interface is a connector, two ends of which are correspondingly disposed on the communication apparatus and the base and are respectively connected to the processor unit and the set of physical keys by wires.

34. An information processing apparatus for use in a communication apparatus having a display, comprising:

apparatus for performing any of the methods of embodiments 1-30.

35. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by an electronic device with one or more processors, cause the electronic device to perform any of the methods of embodiments 1-30.

36. An electronic device comprising a display, a touch-sensitive surface, optionally one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface, one or more processors, memory, and one or more programs; the one or more programs stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors include instructions that when executed by the one or more processors perform a method according to any of embodiments 1-30.

The above-described embodiments of the apparatus are merely illustrative, and the units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and the parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the modules may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the present embodiment. One of ordinary skill in the art can understand and implement it without inventive effort.

Through the above description of some embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that each embodiment can be implemented by adding a necessary general hardware platform, and of course, can also be implemented by a combination of hardware and software. With this understanding in mind, the above-described aspects and portions of the present technology which contribute substantially or in part to the prior art may be embodied in the form of a computer program product, which may be embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media having computer-usable program code embodied therein, including without limitation disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like.

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 will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable communication device to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable communication device, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable communication device to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable communication device to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

In a typical configuration, a computing device includes a processor unit (CPU), input/output interfaces, a network interface, and memory.

The memory may include forms of volatile memory in a computer readable medium, Random Access Memory (RAM) and/or non-volatile memory, such as Read Only Memory (ROM) or flash memory (flash RAM). Memory is an example of a computer-readable medium.

Computer-readable media, including both non-transitory and non-transitory, removable and non-removable media, may implement information storage by any method or technology. The information may be computer readable instructions, data structures, modules of a program, or other data. Examples of computer storage media include, but are not limited to, phase change memory (PRAM), Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), other types of Random Access Memory (RAM), Read Only Memory (ROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technology, compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM), Digital Versatile Discs (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other non-transmission medium that can be used to store information that can be accessed by a computing device. As defined herein, a computer readable medium does not include a transitory computer readable medium such as a modulated data signal and a carrier wave.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above examples are only intended to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, but not to limit it; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; and such modifications or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the corresponding technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

1. A method of providing interface resources in an electronic device, wherein the electronic device is configured with a plurality of interfaces that are output through a display of the electronic device, the method comprising:

2. The resource providing method of claim 1, wherein the contact interface comprises a communication interface for a first known contact and/or a communication interface for a first unknown contact; the message area comprises a first message area on the first known contact communication interface and/or a second message area on the first unknown contact communication interface; and said step S-3 further comprises,

3. The resource providing method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the communication operation interface comprises a key set provided virtually on a user interface currently output on the display and/or provided physically to the electronic device, associated with the at least one communication network.

4. The resource providing method of claim 3, wherein the contact interface further comprises an extensible button operable to reveal an extended menu laterally; a first portion or all of the set of virtual keys are arranged in a column alongside the contact interface.

5. The resource providing method of claim 4, wherein the contact interface further comprises profile information for the contact, configured above and below the message area.

6. The resource providing method of claim 5, wherein the contact profile information is located above the message area, commensurate in size, and substantially centrally located on the contact interface.

7. The resource providing method of any of claims 4-6, wherein the first portion of virtual keys are arranged in a column to the right of the contact interface; and the expanded menu comprises a second part of virtual keys in the virtual key group and/or operation options aiming at the message area.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the second portion of virtual keys or the operation options for the message region further comprise at least one of: a) a menu option to initiate a voice or video call with the current contact when activated, b) a menu option to initiate a short message service with the current contact when activated, c) a menu option to initiate a payment action for the current contact when activated, d) a menu option to initiate a video conference with a group of contacts to which the current contact and the electronic device user belong together when activated.

9. The method according to claim 7 or 8, further comprising the step of: a plurality of options are arranged at the bottom of the display in a thumbnail mode along the transverse direction and are operable to output the plurality of interfaces through the display respectively; wherein the plurality of options includes a first option and/or a second option, the second option being associated with the first known contact communication interface, the first option being associated with the first unknown contact communication interface.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the expandable button is located between the virtual key column and an option area in which the plurality of options are located along a longitudinal direction of the contact interface, the expandable button operable to reveal an expanded menu in a single row along a lateral direction.