CN111221616A

CN111221616A - Recommendation method of application program and electronic equipment

Info

Publication number: CN111221616A
Application number: CN202010033853.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘威
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Hangzhou Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Hangzhou Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-01-13
Filing date: 2020-01-13
Publication date: 2020-06-02

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides an application program recommending method and electronic equipment, relates to the technical field of communication, and aims to solve the problem that the application program recommending mode is single. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a first input of a user to at least one icon in M icons under the condition that the M icons are displayed on a screen locking interface, wherein the M icons comprise N target icons, and the target icons are icons of application programs which are not installed in the electronic equipment; responding to the first input, and displaying first prompt information under the condition that the screen of the electronic equipment is unlocked and the first time is greater than or equal to a first threshold value; the first frequency is the historical frequency of clicking a first icon on a screen locking interface after receiving first input, the first icon is one of the N target icons, the first prompt information is used for prompting a user whether to install an application program indicated by the first icon, M and N are positive integers, and N is not more than M.

Description

Recommendation method of application program and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to a recommendation method of an application program and electronic equipment.

Background

With the development of communication technology, more and more functions can be realized by electronic equipment, and more application programs can be installed in the electronic equipment.

Generally, applications can be searched and installed in an application mall of the electronic device, and at present, some uninstalled applications that can be recommended for a user in the application mall generally display the recommended applications in an interface in sequence from large to small download amount.

However, the download amount can only represent the applications installed by most users, and cannot meet the requirements of individual users, so the above manner of recommending applications is relatively single.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides an application program recommending method and electronic equipment, and aims to solve the problem that the mode of recommending application programs is single.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the embodiment of the present invention is implemented as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides an application program recommendation method, where the method includes: receiving a first input of a user to at least one icon in M icons under the condition that the M icons are displayed on a screen locking interface, wherein the M icons comprise N target icons, and the target icons are icons of application programs which are not installed in the electronic equipment; responding to the first input, and displaying first prompt information under the condition that the screen of the electronic equipment is unlocked and the first time is greater than or equal to a first threshold value; the first times are historical times of clicking of the first icon on the screen locking interface after the first input is received, the first icon is one of the N target icons, first prompt information is used for prompting a user whether to install an application program indicated by the first icon, M and N are positive integers, and N is not less than M.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an electronic device, where the electronic device includes: the device comprises a receiving module and a display module; the electronic device comprises a receiving module, a display module and a display module, wherein the receiving module is used for receiving first input of a user to at least one icon in M icons under the condition that the M icons are displayed on a screen locking interface, the M icons comprise N target icons, and the target icons are icons of application programs which are not installed in the electronic device; the display module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module, and displaying first prompt information under the condition that the screen of the electronic equipment is unlocked and the first time is greater than or equal to a first threshold value; the first times are historical times of clicking of the first icon on the screen locking interface after the first input is received, the first icon is one of the N target icons, the first prompt information is used for prompting a user whether to install the application program indicated by the first icon, M and N are positive integers, and N is not more than M.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic device, which includes a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored on the memory and operable on the processor, and when executed by the processor, the computer program implements the steps of the recommendation method for an application program according to the first aspect.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, and the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the recommendation method for an application program according to the first aspect.

In the embodiment of the invention, under the condition that the screen locking interface displays M icons, the electronic device receives a first input of a user to at least one icon in the M icons, and the electronic device can be unlocked on the screen of the electronic device in response to the first input. And displaying the first prompt message when the first time is greater than or equal to the first threshold. On one hand, the electronic device can prompt the user whether to install the application program indicated by the first icon according to the historical number of times that the first icon is clicked on the lock screen interface, the recommended application program is the application program corresponding to the first icon, the number of times of clicking exceeds a first threshold value, the more times of clicking indicates that the user is more interested in the application program corresponding to the first icon, and therefore the application program recommended to the user is closer to the requirement of the user according to the number of times of clicking the user on the uninstalled application icon in the unlocking process; on the other hand, compared with a mode that the electronic device recommends the uninstalled application program to the user according to the download times in the application mall, the recommendation method for the application program provided by the embodiment of the application program does not need the user to open the application mall, and after the electronic device is unlocked, the recommendation mode of whether to install the application program indicated by the first icon can be prompted to the user more flexibly.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of a possible android operating system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a recommendation method for an application according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a password setting interface according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a cipher bit according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a prompt interface according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a possible structure of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a second schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a third schematic view of a possible structure of an electronic apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 9 is a fourth possible structural diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a hardware schematic diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

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, 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.

It should be noted that "/" in this context means "or", for example, A/B may mean A or B; "and/or" herein is merely an association describing an associated object, and means that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, which may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. "plurality" means two or more than two.

The terms "first" and "second," and the like, in the description and in the claims of the present invention are used for distinguishing between different objects and not for describing a particular order of the objects. For example, the first icon and the second icon, etc. are for distinguishing different icons, rather than for describing a particular order of the icons.

It should be noted that, in the embodiments of the present invention, words such as "exemplary" or "for example" are used to indicate examples, illustrations or explanations. Any embodiment or design described as "exemplary" or "e.g.," an embodiment of the present invention is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other embodiments or designs. Rather, use of the word "exemplary" or "such as" is intended to present concepts related in a concrete fashion.

The electronic device in the embodiment of the present invention may be an electronic device having an operating system. The operating system may be an Android (Android) operating system, an ios operating system, or other possible operating systems, and embodiments of the present invention are not limited in particular.

The following describes a software environment to which the recommendation method for an application program according to the embodiment of the present invention is applied, by taking an android operating system as an example.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of a possible android operating system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 1, the architecture of the android operating system includes 4 layers, which are respectively: an application layer, an application framework layer, a system runtime layer, and a kernel layer (specifically, a Linux kernel layer).

The application program layer comprises various application programs (including system application programs and third-party application programs) in an android operating system.

The application framework layer is a framework of the application, and a developer can develop some applications based on the application framework layer under the condition of complying with the development principle of the framework of the application.

The system runtime layer includes libraries (also called system libraries) and android operating system runtime environments. The library mainly provides various resources required by the android operating system. The android operating system running environment is used for providing a software environment for the android operating system.

The kernel layer is an operating system layer of an android operating system and belongs to the bottommost layer of an android operating system software layer. The kernel layer provides kernel system services and hardware-related drivers for the android operating system based on the Linux kernel.

Taking an android operating system as an example, in the embodiment of the present invention, a developer may develop a software program that implements the recommendation method for an application program provided in the embodiment of the present invention based on the system architecture of the android operating system shown in fig. 1, so that the recommendation method for the application program may run based on the android operating system shown in fig. 1. That is, the processor or the electronic device may implement the recommendation method of the application program provided by the embodiment of the present invention by running the software program in the android operating system.

The following describes a recommendation method for an application program according to an embodiment of the present invention with reference to fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for recommending an application according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 2, the method for recommending an application includes S201 and S202:

s201, under the condition that the M icons are displayed on the screen locking interface, the electronic equipment receives a first input of a user to at least one icon in the M icons.

The M icons can include N target icons, the target icons are icons of the electronic device without application programs installed, M and N are positive integers, and N is smaller than or equal to M.

It should be noted that, in the M icons displayed on the lock screen interface by the electronic device, the icons other than the N target icons may be icons of installed applications or icons of other objects (for example, thumbnails of a picture, icons of files, and the like), which is not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the invention, the first input is input of an unlocking password which is correctly input by a user on the screen locking interface, and the unlocking password is input selected by the user on the displayed M icons according to a preset rule.

Optionally, the preset rule may not limit the selection order of the icons, the preset rule may also limit the selection order of the icons, and the specific rule may be selected according to the screen locking password.

It should be noted that all the unlocking passwords may be icons of the uninstalled application programs, or may be icons of the partially installed application programs and icons of the partially installed application programs, and of course, the user may also set all the unlocking passwords as icons of the installed application programs, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the invention, if all the unlocking passwords are icons without application programs installed, the number of the icons without the application programs installed in the M icons in the screen locking interface is the number of the icons corresponding to the unlocking passwords. In the case that all M icons displayed on the lock screen interface are icons of the application program, the other icons may be icons of the installed application program. If the unlocking password includes the icons of the installed applications and the icons of the installed applications, the number of the icons of the applications not installed in the M icons in the lock screen interface may be greater than the number of the icons of the applications not installed in the lock screen password.

For example, fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a password setting interface provided in an embodiment of the present invention, taking an unlocking password as 4 icons as an example, as shown in (a) in fig. 3, the electronic device displays a drop-down box on the icon unlocking password setting interface, and when the drop-down box is clicked by a user, the electronic device may display 5 icon combination options for the user, which are "4 uninstalled icons", "3 uninstalled icons and 1 installed icons", "2 uninstalled icons and 2 installed icons", "1 uninstalled icon and 3 installed icons", and "4 installed icons", respectively.

Of course, the electronic device may also provide the user with a choice of the order in which the icons are clicked. In a case where the user selects one icon combination option, the electronic device may further display a click order of the icons for the user, for example, "2 uninstalled icons and 2 installed icons" are selected by the user, as shown in (b) in fig. 3, the electronic device may further display "installed + uninstalled", "uninstalled + installed", "installed + uninstalled", "uninstalled + installed", and "unlimited order", and the user may select one of the orders, and may also select "unlimited order".

It should be noted that, assuming that the electronic device displays 9 icons on the screen locking interface, the screen locking password may be 4 icons, and certainly, in order to increase security, the electronic device may also display 16 icons, and the screen locking password is 6 icons.

It can be understood that the number of the icons corresponding to the unlocking password may be set by the user, or may be a preset number of the electronic device.

Optionally, the form of the electronic device displaying M icons may be: the number of icons displayed in each row can be the same or different; similarly, the number of icons displayed in each column may be the same or different, and this is not particularly limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

For convenience of understanding, in the embodiment of the present invention, an area in the lock screen interface where one icon is displayed is referred to as a password bit.

For example, as shown in fig. 4 (a), the electronic device may display the icons in 9 password bits in the form of 9 grids in the case of displaying 9 icons, but may display the icons in other forms, such as an octagon in the form of 9 passwords as shown in fig. 4 (b).

Optionally, the M icons displayed by the electronic device on the screen locking interface at each time may be the same or different. For example, a first group of icons is displayed at time 1, a second group of icons is displayed at time 2, and a third group of icons is displayed at time 3. The three groups of icons may be identical, different, and partially identical.

S202, the electronic equipment responds to the first input, and displays first prompt information under the condition that the screen of the electronic equipment is unlocked and the first time is greater than or equal to a first threshold value.

The first times are historical times of clicking the first icon on the screen locking interface after the first input is received, the historical times include the times of clicking the first icon in the first input, the first icon is one of the N target icons, and the first prompt information is used for prompting a user whether to install the application program indicated by the first icon.

Specifically, after receiving the first input, the electronic device may unlock the screen first, and then determine a relationship between the first number of times and the first threshold.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the first number may include the number of times that the user clicks the first icon when inputting the unlocking password in the current unlocking process and the unlocking process before the current unlocking process. The first number may be the number of times that the user clicks the first icon when correctly inputting the unlock password, or the sum of the number of times that the user clicks the first icon when correctly inputting the unlock password and the number of times that the user clicks the first icon when mistaking the password.

Generally, the electronic device can configure the user to input the wrong password at most in one unlocking process.

And under the condition that the first time does not comprise the times of clicking the first icon when the user wrongly inputs the password, if the user wrongly inputs the password, the electronic equipment can display a password error prompt and clear the times of clicking the first icon.

For example, if the first threshold is 100, during unlocking, if the number of times that the first icon is clicked by the user is equal to 100, after the unlocking is successful, the electronic device displays a prompt message, for example, a pop-up dialog box, to prompt the user whether to install the application program indicated by the first icon.

For example, fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a prompt interface provided in an embodiment of the present invention, where an electronic device may display the prompt interface on a screen, and use a first icon as an icon of an application 1, and the electronic device displays in the prompt interface "do you click on the application 1 multiple times, but do you not yet install the application, and need to install the application? "and select options" yes "and" no ". The user can select whether to install the application 1 as needed.

According to the recommendation method of the application program, provided by the embodiment of the invention, under the condition that M icons are displayed on the screen locking interface, the electronic equipment receives the first input of a user to at least one icon in the M icons, and the electronic equipment responds to the first input and can be unlocked on the screen of the electronic equipment. And displaying the first prompt message when the first time is greater than or equal to the first threshold. On one hand, the electronic device can prompt the user whether to install the application program indicated by the first icon according to the historical number of times that the first icon is clicked on the lock screen interface, the recommended application program is the application program corresponding to the first icon, the number of times of clicking exceeds a first threshold value, the more times of clicking indicates that the user is more interested in the application program corresponding to the first icon, and therefore the application program recommended to the user is closer to the requirement of the user according to the number of times of clicking the user on the uninstalled application icon in the unlocking process; on the other hand, compared with a mode that the electronic device recommends the uninstalled application program to the user according to the download times in the application mall, the recommendation method for the application program provided by the embodiment of the application program does not need the user to open the application mall, and after the electronic device is unlocked, the recommendation mode of whether to install the application program indicated by the first icon can be prompted to the user more flexibly.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the N target icons (icons of uninstalled applications) displayed in the lock screen interface may be icons in an icon set (which may be denoted as a target set) of the uninstalled applications.

Wherein the target set may include icons in at least one of the following (1) to (3):

(1) in an application mall of the electronic device, there are icons of uninstalled application programs for which the user searches for records.

Specifically, the electronic device may record the application programs searched by the user after the user opens the application mall each time, and add the icons of the application programs searched by the user and not installed to the target set.

For example, if the user searched for application 1 and application 2 in the application mall, the electronic device may add icon 1 of application 1 and icon 2 of application 2 to the target collection.

(2) In the classification of the uninstalled applications in the electronic equipment, the downloading amount ranks top K1 icons of the uninstalled applications, and K1 is a positive integer.

In embodiments of the present invention, the electronic device may employ a classification of application programs in an application mall. For example: games, offices, financial, travel, education, etc.

For example, assuming that no game-class application is installed in the electronic device, the electronic device may add, to the target set, the top 3 (i.e., K1 ═ 3) uninstalled applications with the downloading amount in the game-class application.

(3) In the application program classifications installed in the electronic equipment, the number of the installed application programs of the electronic equipment is ranked in each of K2 application program classifications, the downloading amount is ranked in K3 icons of uninstalled application programs, and K2 and K3 are positive integers.

For example, if the installed applications in the electronic device are installed more frequently (for example, K2 ═ 2), the electronic device may add the icons with the top 3 game class downloads (for example, K3 ═ 3) uninstalled applications and the icons with the top 3 tour class downloads to the target set.

In the embodiment of the invention, if the electronic equipment detects that the user searches, the ranking of the downloading amount is changed, and the number of the installed applications is changed, the electronic equipment can update the icons in the target set.

Based on the scheme, the electronic device can select the icon of the uninstalled application program as the recommended alternative icon from multiple angles, and the alternative icon can be selected according to the search behavior of the user, the number of the installed application programs on the electronic device, and the number of the uninstalled application programs, so that the application programs indicated by the alternative icons in the target set can be closer to the requirements of the user.

Optionally, before executing the foregoing S201, the method for recommending an application program according to the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following S203:

s203, the electronic equipment acquires N target icons from the icons of the uninstalled application programs.

Specifically, the electronic device may obtain N icons of uninstalled applications from the target set as the N target icons according to a first preset rule.

The first preset rule may be rule 1 or rule 2 described below.

Rule 1: icons for N uninstalled applications under one application category are selected at a time.

Illustratively, according to the sequence of the number of the installed applications in the electronic device from large to small, the electronic device sequentially obtains an application classification, and then selects icons of N un-installed applications after the display times of the icons are ranked in the screen locking interface under the application classification.

For example, in the installed applications of the electronic device, the number of financial classes is the largest, then the travel class is the travel class, and then the game class is the game class, the electronic device may select icons of N applications after ranking of the display times of the financial classes from the target set in the ith unlocking process, select icons of N applications after ranking of the display times of the travel class from the target set in the (i + 1) th unlocking process, select icons of N applications after ranking of the display times of the game class from the target set in the (i + 2) th unlocking process, and so on until the types of the applications are selected, and then select icons of N applications after ranking of the display times of the financial classes from the target set.

Specifically, the original display frequency of the icons which are not displayed on the screen locking interface is 0, one icon is displayed on the screen locking interface once, and the display frequency is increased by 1. The electronic equipment displays icons of uninstalled application programs in a screen locking interface for the first time, after classification is determined, N icons can be randomly acquired, and if the number of icons ranked at the last display time is larger than N, the N icons can be randomly selected from the icons.

Rule 2: each application category takes down an icon of an uninstalled application.

Illustratively, the electronic device sequentially acquires N application classifications according to the sequence of the number of the installed applications in the electronic device from top to bottom, and selects an icon of an uninstalled application which is displayed in the screen locking interface for the last time in each of the N application classifications.

Specifically, the electronic device can select class 1 to class N and class N to class 2N +1 in two adjacent unlocking processes, and the electronic device can also select class 1 to class N and class 2 to class N + 1.

For example, among the installed applications of the electronic device, the following are sequentially listed in order from the top to the bottom according to the number of the installed applications: the type 1, the type 2, the type 3, the type 4, the type 5, the type 6 and the type 7, assuming that N is 4, the electronic device may select, from the target set, each of the type 1, the type 2, the type 3 and the type 4 to display an icon of an uninstalled application with a ranking number in the lock screen interface respectively in the ith unlocking process; the electronic equipment can respectively select each type of type 2, type 3, type 4 and type 5 from the target set in the (i + 1) th unlocking process to display the icon of the last uninstalled application program with the ranking number in the screen locking interface; the electronic equipment can respectively select each type of type 3, type 4, type 5 and type 6 from the target set in the (i + 2) th unlocking process to display the icon of the last uninstalled application program with the ranking number in the screen locking interface; the electronic device can select each type of type 4, type 5, type 6 and type 7 from the target set to display the icon of the last uninstalled application in the screen locking interface in the (i + 3) th unlocking process. The electronic device can select each type of type 1, type 2, type 3 and type 4 from the target set respectively to display the icon of the last uninstalled application in the screen locking interface in the (i + 3) th unlocking process.

Specifically, when an icon of an uninstalled application program is displayed in the lock screen interface, if the display frequency ranking finally includes a plurality of icons, the electronic device may randomly acquire 1 icon.

Based on the scheme, the electronic equipment can acquire N icons of the uninstalled application programs from the target set according to a certain rule, so that the recommendation mode of the application programs is more flexible.

Optionally, after the step S202, the method for recommending an application program according to the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following step S204a or S204 b:

and S204a, the electronic equipment installs the application program indicated by the first icon when receiving the second input of the first prompt information from the user.

Wherein the second input may be an input by the user to determine to install the application indicated by the first icon. That is, the electronic device successfully recommends the application indicated by the first icon to the user.

Specifically, after the electronic device receives the second input, the electronic device may download the application program indicated by the first icon from the application mall and install the application program. After the installation is complete, the electronic device deletes the first icon in the target set.

S204b, when the electronic device receives the third input of the first prompt information from the user, the electronic device cancels the display of the first prompt information.

Wherein the third input may be an input by which the user determines not to install the application indicated by the first icon. That is, the electronic device fails to recommend the application indicated by the first icon.

Based on the scheme, the electronic device can determine whether the application program indicated by the first icon needs to be installed and whether the application program indicated by the first icon is no longer recommended according to the input of the first prompt message by the user. On one hand, if the electronic device determines that the user needs to install the application program indicated by the first icon, the electronic device may install the application program without manually triggering the electronic device to search, download and install the application program, so that operation steps of the user are reduced.

Optionally, after the above S204b, the method for recommending an application program according to the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following S205:

s205, clearing the counted historical click times of the first icon by the electronic equipment.

Optionally, after the electronic device clears the counted historical click times of the first icon, the electronic device may further increase the counted display times of the first icon on the unlocking interface by a target value.

It can be understood that after the first prompt message is cancelled to be displayed, the historical click times of the first icon are cleared, and the display times of the first icon on the unlocking interface are increased, so that the first icon is not displayed in the unlocking process within the latest period of time, that is, the weight of the application program indicated by the first icon is reduced.

Based on the scheme, if the electronic device determines that the user does not need to install the application program indicated by the first icon, after the first prompt message is cancelled, the weight recommended by the application program indicated by the first icon can be reduced by clearing the historical click times of the first icon and increasing the counted display times, so that the point device does not display the first icon in the screen locking interface within a certain time, and the recommendation of the application program which is not interested by the user is avoided.

Optionally, in the method for recommending an application program provided in the embodiment of the present invention, the first icon may be displayed in the first area, and the other icons except the first icon in the M icons may be displayed in the other areas except the first area.

The first area may be an area where the number of times that a user clicks on the screen locking interface exceeds a second threshold, and the first icon is an icon of the N target icons, where the number of times that the user clicks on the screen locking interface exceeds a third threshold.

That is, the first area is a password bit that the user frequently clicks when unlocking the screen.

Optionally, the first area may include one cipher bit or a plurality of cipher bits, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

For example, in the case where the first region includes one code bit, the code bit with the largest number of hits among all code bits may be in the first region.

Of course, in the embodiment of the present invention, an icon that is frequently clicked by the user in the lock screen interface may also be displayed in the first area, so as to facilitate unlocking by the user.

For example, as shown in (a) of fig. 4, if the number of clicks of password bit 1 and password bit 2 is greater than the number of clicks of other password bits, the electronic device may determine password bit 1 and password bit 2 as the first region.

Based on the scheme, the electronic equipment displays the icon of the uninstalled application program in the area frequently clicked by the user, so that the probability of clicking the icon by the user can be increased.

Optionally, the method for recommending an application program provided in the embodiment of the present invention, after the screen of the electronic device is unlocked, may further include the following S206:

s206, under the condition that the application mall is displayed, the electronic equipment displays P icons of the uninstalled application programs in the recommended area of the application mall.

And the clicked historical times of the icons of the P uninstalled application programs on the screen locking interface meet a preset condition, and P is a positive integer.

Specifically, the icons of the uninstalled applications that meet the second preset rule described below satisfy the preset condition.

Wherein, the second preset rule may be any one of rule 3 to rule 5:

rule 3: the number of clicks in the lock screen interface ranks the top P icons.

For example, the icons in the target set ranked 3(P ═ 3) times clicked by the user in the lock screen interface are: icon 1, icon 2 and icon 3, the electronic device may display the 3 icons in the recommendation area when displaying the application mall.

Rule 4: and in the application categories with the most number of installed applications in the electronic equipment, the icon of the application program with the most installation times in each application category in the previous P application categories.

For example, the categories of the electronic device with the largest number of installed applications are as follows: category 1, category 2, category 3, and category 4, the electronic device may display an icon of the application a installed the most frequently in category 1, an icon of the application b installed the most frequently in category 2, and an icon of the application c installed the most frequently in category 3 in the recommendation area.

Rule 5: in a category sequentially selected from the sequence of the number of installed applications in the electronic equipment from high to low, icons of P application programs are ranked before the click times of the screen locking interface.

For example, the categories of the electronic device with the largest number of installed applications are as follows: class 1, class 2, class 3 and class 4, the electronic device can display the icon 1, the icon 2 and the icon 3 with the largest number of clicks in the class 1 in the recommendation area when the application mall is displayed for the jth time, the electronic device can display the icon 4, the icon 5 and the icon 6 with the largest number of clicks in the class 2 in the recommendation area when the application mall is displayed for the jth +1 time, and the electronic device can display the icon 7, the icon 8 and the icon 9 with the largest number of clicks in the class 3 in the recommendation area when the application mall is displayed for the jth +2 time; and so on.

Rule 6: and sequentially selecting P icons in a classification according to the sequence of the total click times from large to small.

For example, the electronic device may count the sum of total clicks of each icon in each category in the screen-locking interface, for example, in order of the total number from the top to the bottom: the classification 1, the classification 2 and the classification 3 are carried out, so that the electronic equipment can display the icon 1-1, the icon 1-2 and the icon 1-3 which are clicked most in the classification 1 in the recommendation area when the application mall is displayed for the kth time; when the application mall is displayed at the (k + 1) th time, the icon 2-1, the icon 2-2 and the icon 2-3 with the largest clicking times in the classification 2 are displayed in the recommendation area, and when the application mall is displayed at the (k + 2) th time, the icon 3-1, the icon 3-2 and the icon 3-3 with the largest clicking times in the classification 3 are displayed in the recommendation area; and so on.

Optionally, the method for recommending an application program provided in the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following step S207:

and S207, if the recommendation frequency of the first icon in the recommendation area of the application mall is equal to a fourth threshold value and the user does not trigger the electronic device to install the application program indicated by the first icon, the electronic device cancels the first icon displayed in the recommendation area.

Furthermore, the electronic device can also clear the counted historical click times of the first icon, and increase the counted display times of the first icon on the unlocking interface by a target value.

The recommended times are the total times displayed in the recommended area by the electronic equipment under the condition that the user triggers the electronic equipment to display the application mall. For example, an application mall is displayed once and a first icon is displayed once in the recommendation area, which is marked as recommended once.

It can be understood that the recommendation frequency of the first icon in the recommendation area of the application mall is equal to the fourth threshold, which indicates that the recommendation frequency of the first icon is sufficient, and the user may not need to install the application program if the user does not select to install the application program indicated by the first icon, so that the electronic device does not display the first icon in the recommendation area any more within a certain period of time by clearing the counted historical click frequency of the first icon and increasing the counted display frequency of the first icon in the unlocking interface by the target value, that is, reducing the weight of the application program indicated by the recommended first icon in the unlocking process.

Optionally, it should be noted that the M application icons displayed by the electronic device may include an icon of an installed application and an icon of an uninstalled application.

Furthermore, before S201, the method for recommending an application according to the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following S208:

s208, the electronic equipment acquires M-N installed application icons according to a third preset rule.

Wherein the third preset rule may include at least one of:

rule 7: icons of top W1 applications with duration ranking are used in icons of installed applications.

Rule 8: the icons of the top W2 applications ranked in number of uses.

Rule 9: the icons of the top W3 application programs are ranked according to the clicking times of the icons in the screen locking interface.

Specifically, when downloading and installing the application program, the electronic device may add the icon of the application program to an installed application program icon list installedIconList, and store the number of times the user clicks the icon and the duration of use during the use of the electronic device by the user, which may be counted by day, week, month, and the like.

Rule 10: icons of W4 applications last used before locking the screen.

Wherein, W1, W2, W3 and W4 are integers less than or equal to M-N, and W1, W2, W3 and W4 are less than M-N under the condition that the third preset rule at least comprises two rules.

Specifically, when the electronic device is switched from the non-screen-locked state to the screen-locked state, the electronic device may mark an icon of an application running before screen locking in an installed application icon list installedIconList, so that the electronic device may obtain the icon of the installed application when unlocking.

It is to be appreciated that after an application is uninstalled from the electronic device, the electronic device may also delete the application's icon from the list of installed application icons installedIconList.

Based on the scheme, the electronic equipment can select the icons of the application programs frequently used by the user as the icons of the installed application programs displayed in the screen locking interface, so that the user can conveniently select the icons.

Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a possible structure of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 6, the electronic device 600 includes: a receiving module 601 and a display module 602; the receiving module 601 is configured to receive a first input of a user to at least one icon of M icons when the M icons are displayed on the screen locking interface, where the M icons include N target icons, and the target icons are icons of application programs that are not installed in the electronic device; the display module 602 is configured to, in response to the first input received by the receiving module 601, display a first prompt message when the screen of the electronic device is unlocked and the first time is greater than or equal to a first threshold; the first times are historical times of clicking of the first icon on the screen locking interface after the first input is received, the first icon is one of N target icons, first prompt information is used for prompting a user whether to install an application program indicated by the first icon, M and N are positive integers, and N is not more than M.

Optionally, with reference to fig. 6, as shown in fig. 7, the electronic device 600 further includes: a mounting module 603; an installation module 603, configured to, after the display module 602 displays the first prompt information, install the application indicated by the first icon when receiving a second input of the first prompt information from the user; or, the display module 602 is further configured to cancel displaying the first prompt information when a third input of the first prompt information by the user is received after the first prompt information is displayed.

Optionally, the first icon is displayed in the first area, and the other icons except the first icon in the M icons are displayed in the other areas except the first area; the first area is an area where the number of clicks of the user on the screen locking interface exceeds a second threshold, and the first icon is an icon of the N target icons, wherein the number of clicks in the screen locking interface exceeds a third threshold.

Optionally, with reference to fig. 6, as shown in fig. 8, the electronic device 600 further includes: an acquisition module 604; an obtaining module 604, configured to obtain N target icons from icons of uninstalled application programs.

Optionally, the display module 602 is further configured to display P icons of uninstalled application programs in a recommended area of an application mall in a case that the application mall is displayed after the screen of the electronic device is unlocked; and the clicked historical times of the icons of the P uninstalled application programs on the screen locking interface meet a preset condition, and P is a positive integer.

Optionally, the display module 602 is further configured to cancel the first icon displayed in the recommendation area if the recommendation frequency of the first icon in the recommendation area is equal to a fourth threshold and the user does not trigger the electronic device to install the application program indicated by the first icon.

Optionally, with reference to fig. 7, as shown in fig. 9, the electronic device 600 further includes: a statistics module 605; and the counting module 605 is configured to clear the counted historical click times of the first icon after the displaying module 602 cancels the displaying of the first prompt information.

The electronic device 600 provided by the embodiment of the present invention can implement each process implemented by the electronic device in the above method embodiments, and is not described here again to avoid repetition.

The embodiment of the invention provides electronic equipment, wherein under the condition that M icons are displayed on a screen locking interface, the electronic equipment receives first input of a user to at least one icon in the M icons, and the electronic equipment can be unlocked on a screen of the electronic equipment in response to the first input. And displaying the first prompt message when the first time is greater than or equal to the first threshold. On one hand, the electronic device can prompt the user whether to install the application program indicated by the first icon according to the historical number of times that the first icon is clicked on the lock screen interface, the recommended application program is the application program corresponding to the first icon, the number of times of clicking exceeds a first threshold value, the more times of clicking indicates that the user is more interested in the application program corresponding to the first icon, and therefore the application program recommended to the user is closer to the requirement of the user according to the number of times of clicking the user on the uninstalled application icon in the unlocking process; on the other hand, compared with a mode that the electronic device recommends the uninstalled application program to the user according to the download times in the application mall, the recommendation method for the application program provided by the embodiment of the application program does not need the user to open the application mall, and after the electronic device is unlocked, the recommendation mode of whether to install the application program indicated by the first icon can be prompted to the user more flexibly.

Fig. 10 is a hardware schematic diagram of an electronic device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention, where the electronic device 100 includes, but is not limited to: radio frequency unit 101, network module 102, audio output unit 103, input unit 104, sensor 105, display unit 106, user input unit 107, interface unit 108, memory 109, processor 110, and power supply 111. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the electronic device configuration shown in fig. 10 does not constitute a limitation of the electronic device, and that the electronic device may include more or fewer components than shown, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components. In the embodiment of the present invention, the electronic device includes, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm computer, a vehicle-mounted electronic device, a wearable device, a pedometer, and the like.

The user input unit 107, when M icons are displayed on the screen locking interface, receives a first input of a user to at least one icon of the M icons, where the M icons include N target icons, and the target icon is an icon of an application program that is not installed in the electronic device; the display unit 106 is used for responding to the first input, and displaying first prompt information under the condition that the screen of the electronic equipment is unlocked and the first time is greater than or equal to a first threshold value; the first times are historical times of clicking of the first icon on the screen locking interface after the first input is received, the first icon is one of N target icons, first prompt information is used for prompting a user whether to install an application program indicated by the first icon, M and N are positive integers, and N is not more than M.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the radio frequency unit 101 may be used for receiving and sending signals during a message transmission or call process, and specifically, after receiving downlink data from a base station, the downlink data is processed by the processor 110; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. Typically, radio frequency unit 101 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like. In addition, the radio frequency unit 101 can also communicate with a network and other devices through a wireless communication system.

The electronic device provides wireless broadband internet access to the user via the network module 102, such as assisting the user in sending and receiving e-mails, browsing web pages, and accessing streaming media.

The audio output unit 103 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 101 or the network module 102 or stored in the memory 109 into an audio signal and output as sound. Also, the audio output unit 103 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the electronic apparatus 100 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 103 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.

The input unit 104 is used to receive an audio or video signal. The input Unit 104 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 1041 and a microphone 1042, and the Graphics processor 1041 processes image data of a still picture or video obtained by an image capturing device (e.g., a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 106. The image frames processed by the graphic processor 1041 may be stored in the memory 109 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 101 or the network module 102. The microphone 1042 may receive sound and may be capable of processing such sound into audio data. The processed audio data may be converted into a format output transmittable to a mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 101 in case of a phone call mode.

The electronic device 100 also includes at least one sensor 105, such as a light sensor, motion sensor, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor that can adjust the brightness of the display panel 1061 according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that can turn off the display panel 1061 and/or the backlight when the electronic device 100 is moved to the ear. As one type of motion sensor, an accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in each direction (generally three axes), detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when stationary, and can be used to identify the posture of an electronic device (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer posture calibration), and vibration identification related functions (such as pedometer, tapping); the sensors 105 may also include fingerprint sensors, pressure sensors, iris sensors, molecular sensors, gyroscopes, barometers, hygrometers, thermometers, infrared sensors, etc., which are not described in detail herein.

The display unit 106 is used to display information input by a user or information provided to the user. The Display unit 106 may include a Display panel 1061, and the Display panel 1061 may be configured in the form of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED), or the like.

The user input unit 107 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the electronic device. Specifically, the user input unit 107 includes a touch panel 1071 and other input devices 1072. Touch panel 1071, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect touch operations by a user on or near the touch panel 1071 (e.g., operations by a user on or near touch panel 1071 using a finger, stylus, or any suitable object or attachment). The touch panel 1071 may include two parts of a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device detects the touch direction of a user, detects a signal brought by touch operation and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives touch information from the touch sensing device, converts the touch information into touch point coordinates, sends the touch point coordinates to the processor 110, and receives and executes commands sent by the processor 110. In addition, the touch panel 1071 may be implemented in various types, such as a resistive type, a capacitive type, an infrared ray, and a surface acoustic wave. In addition to the touch panel 1071, the user input unit 107 may include other input devices 1072. Specifically, other input devices 1072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described in detail herein.

Further, the touch panel 1071 may be overlaid on the display panel 1061, and when the touch panel 1071 detects a touch operation thereon or nearby, the touch panel 1071 transmits the touch operation to the processor 110 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 110 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 1061 according to the type of the touch event. Although in fig. 10, the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 are two independent components to implement the input and output functions of the electronic device, in some embodiments, the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the electronic device, and is not limited herein.

The interface unit 108 is an interface for connecting an external device to the electronic apparatus 100. For example, the external device may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power supply (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio input/output (I/O) port, a video I/O port, an earphone port, and the like. The interface unit 108 may be used to receive input (e.g., data information, power, etc.) from an external device and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the electronic apparatus 100 or may be used to transmit data between the electronic apparatus 100 and the external device.

The memory 109 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 109 may mainly include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, an application program required by at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and the like; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, a phonebook, etc.) created according to the use of the cellular phone, and the like. Further, the memory 109 may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device.

The processor 110 is a control center of the electronic device, connects various parts of the entire electronic device using various interfaces and lines, performs various functions of the electronic device and processes data by operating or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 109 and calling data stored in the memory 109, thereby performing overall monitoring of the electronic device. Processor 110 may include one or more processing units; alternatively, the processor 110 may integrate an application processor, which mainly handles operating systems, user interfaces, application programs, etc., and a modem processor, which mainly handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 110.

The electronic device 100 may further include a power supply 111 (e.g., a battery) for supplying power to each component, and optionally, the power supply 111 may be logically connected to the processor 110 through a power management system, so as to implement functions of managing charging, discharging, and power consumption through the power management system.

In addition, the electronic device 100 includes some functional modules that are not shown, and are not described in detail herein.

Optionally, an electronic device is further provided in an embodiment of the present invention, and with reference to fig. 10, the electronic device includes a processor 110, a memory 109, and a computer program that is stored in the memory 109 and is executable on the processor 110, and when the computer program is executed by the processor 110, the electronic device implements each process of the recommendation method embodiment of the application program, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements each process of the recommendation method embodiment of the application program, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here. The computer-readable storage medium may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling an electronic device (such as a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present invention.

While the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, which are illustrative and not restrictive, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Claims

1. A recommendation method of an application program is applied to an electronic device, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

receiving a first input of a user to at least one icon in M icons under the condition that the M icons are displayed on a screen locking interface, wherein the M icons comprise N target icons, and the target icons are icons of application programs which are not installed in the electronic equipment;

responding to the first input, and displaying first prompt information under the condition that the screen of the electronic equipment is unlocked and the first time is greater than or equal to a first threshold value;

the first times are historical times of clicking a first icon on a screen locking interface after the first input is received, the first icon is one of the N target icons, the first prompt information is used for prompting a user whether to install an application program indicated by the first icon, M and N are positive integers, and N is not more than M.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein after displaying the first prompt message, the method further comprises:

under the condition that second input of the first prompt message by the user is received, installing the application program indicated by the first icon;

alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

and under the condition that a third input of the first prompt message by the user is received, canceling the display of the first prompt message.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first icon is displayed in a first area, and the other icons than the first icon among the M icons are displayed in other areas than the first area;

the first area is an area where the number of clicks of a user on the screen locking interface exceeds a second threshold, and the first icon is an icon of the N target icons, where the number of clicks in the screen locking interface exceeds a third threshold.

4. The method of any of claims 1-3, wherein after the screen of the electronic device is unlocked, the method further comprises:

in the case of displaying an application mall, displaying icons of P uninstalled application programs in a recommended area of the application mall;

5. The method of claim 2, wherein after the canceling of the displaying of the first prompt message, the method further comprises:

and clearing the counted historical click times of the first icon.

6. An electronic device, characterized in that the electronic device comprises: the device comprises a receiving module and a display module;

the receiving module is used for receiving a first input of a user to at least one icon of M icons under the condition that the M icons are displayed on a screen locking interface, wherein the M icons comprise N target icons, and the target icons are icons of application programs which are not installed in the electronic equipment;

the display module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module, and displaying first prompt information under the condition that the screen of the electronic equipment is unlocked and the first time is greater than or equal to a first threshold value;

7. The electronic device of claim 6, further comprising: installing a module;

the installation module is used for installing the application program indicated by the first icon under the condition that second input of the first prompt information by a user is received after the display module displays the first prompt information;

alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

the display module is further configured to cancel displaying the first prompt message after displaying the first prompt message and under the condition that a third input of the first prompt message by the user is received.

8. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the first icon is displayed in a first area, and the other icons than the first icon among the M icons are displayed in other areas than the first area;

9. The electronic device of any of claims 6-8,

the display module is further used for displaying P icons of the uninstalled application programs in a recommended area of an application mall under the condition that the application mall is displayed after a screen of the electronic device is unlocked;

10. The electronic device of claim 7, further comprising: a statistical module;

and the counting module is used for clearing the counted historical click times of the first icon after the display module cancels the display of the first prompt message.