JP2010128825A - Apparatus, method and program for processing information - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processing apparatus enabling a user to obtain which application program an error has occurred to when making a display on a plurality of application programs. <P>SOLUTION: The information processing apparatus capable of making a display on the plurality of application program includes an error occurrence detecting means for detecting the occurrence of an error; an application state detecting means for detecting the states of the application programs; an application extracting means for extracting the application program corresponding to the error, based on the state of the application program detected by the application state detecting means when the occurrence of the error is detected by the error occurrence detecting means; and a display means for making a display on the application program extracted by the application extracting means, differently from a display on the other application programs. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing program capable of performing display related to a plurality of application programs.

  There are various services for providing information by an information processing apparatus such as a mobile phone terminal. For example, there are a mailer program for sending and receiving e-mails and an application program for displaying information such as weather forecasts by communicating with other servers. When these programs operate, for example, a communication failure may occur and an error display may be required.

  As a technology related to this, for example, in Patent Document 1, it is a subject to perform different error notifications according to a predetermined access count and error count at the time of error occurrence, and errors in access processing from a terminal to a server are reported. In order to reduce, according to the first step of collecting, classifying and storing the number of accesses and the number of errors in the access processing from the terminal in the error notification method, the predetermined measurement period and the predetermined number of accesses, The second step of calculating the error occurrence frequency from the number of accesses and the number of errors for each classification, the third step of determining the error frequency level according to the error occurrence frequency for each classification, and the classification for each operation screen on the terminal And a fourth step for identifying the error notification processing process according to the error frequency level for each It is shown.

  In addition, for example, Patent Document 2 has a problem of transmitting text data indicating that the WWW server itself has failed to an unspecified number of terminal devices in real time, and the WWW server has a failure in the WWW server itself. A WWW server monitoring unit that determines whether or not an abnormality has occurred in the WWW server itself, a transmission source specifying unit that acquires an IP address of a terminal device that has requested browsing through a communication network, It is disclosed that the apparatus includes a failure information transmitting unit that transmits text data indicating that a failure has occurred in the WWW server itself to a terminal device corresponding to the acquired IP address.

Further, for example, Patent Document 3 discloses an information notification system capable of quickly grasping the status of the data relay device on the data terminal device side with a simple configuration, an information notification method in the system, a data relay device, and a data terminal device. And providing a storage medium, data communication between the portable terminal device and the host computer is performed by relaying the data relay device, and communication between the terminal device and the relay device is performed via the optical communication unit, Communication between the host computers is performed via the LAN control unit, and the relay device performs a power-on self-test when the power is turned on, and transmits self-detected abnormality content (error information) via the data communication path with the terminal device. In the terminal device, if the received data in the reception buffer of the optical communication unit is error information, the error information is displayed on the display unit. It is possible to display disclosed Ri.
JP 2004-302664 A JP 2004-133546 A JP 2001-34594 A

However, these conventional techniques all relate to error display for a single application program on one display. When error display for a plurality of application programs is performed on one display, error display for any application program is displayed. There is a problem that it is difficult for the user to grasp whether it is. Furthermore, depending on the malicious program, there is a problem that when a phishing scam is performed by displaying a fake error message, it is difficult to detect it.
The present invention has been made paying attention to such problems of the conventional technology, and when a display related to a plurality of application programs is performed, the user can grasp which application program has an error. Furthermore, for the purpose of providing an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing program that make it easy to detect malicious programs such as phishing fraud by displaying fake errors Yes.

The gist of the present invention for achieving the object lies in the inventions of the following items.
[1] An information processing apparatus capable of performing display related to a plurality of application programs, an error occurrence detection unit for detecting occurrence of an error, an application state detection unit for detecting the state of an application program, and the error occurrence detection When the occurrence of the error is detected by the means, the application extraction means for extracting the application program corresponding to the error based on the state of the application program detected by the application state detection means, and the application extraction means An information processing apparatus comprising: a display unit configured to display a display related to an application program differently from a display related to another application program.

  [2] The error occurrence detection unit detects an error type, and the display unit displays the application program extracted by the application extraction unit according to the error type detected by the error occurrence detection unit. Is displayed differently from the display related to other application programs. The information processing apparatus according to [1].

  [3] The information processing apparatus is a communicable apparatus, and only the error occurrence detection unit detects an error generated by communication of a plurality of application programs [1] or [2] The information processing apparatus described in 1.

  [4] An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus capable of performing display relating to a plurality of application programs, an error occurrence detection step for detecting occurrence of an error, and an application state detection step for detecting the state of the application program; An application extracting step of extracting an application program corresponding to the error based on the state of the application program detected by the application state detecting step when the occurrence of an error is detected by the error occurrence detecting step; A display step for displaying the display related to the application program extracted in the extraction step differently from the display related to the other application programs; Information processing method according to claim.

  [5] An information processing program that operates on an information processing apparatus capable of performing display relating to a plurality of application programs, the information processing apparatus including error occurrence detection means for detecting occurrence of an error, and status of the application program When the occurrence of an error is detected by the application state detection unit to be detected and the error occurrence detection unit, the application program corresponding to the error is extracted based on the state of the application program detected by the application state detection unit. Functions as application extraction means and display means for displaying the display related to the application program extracted by the application extraction means differently from the display related to other application programs Information processing program for causing.

The present invention operates as follows.
In the information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program according to the present invention, the error occurrence detection means detects the occurrence of an error, the application state detection means detects the state of the application program, and the application extraction means detects the error. When occurrence of an error is detected by the occurrence detection unit, an application program corresponding to the error is extracted based on the state of the application program detected by the application state detection unit, and the display unit is operated by the application extraction unit. The display related to the extracted application program is displayed differently from the display related to other application programs. Thereby, when displaying about a plurality of application programs, the user can grasp which application program has an error. Furthermore, since the application program corresponding to the error display is clarified, it becomes easy to detect a malicious program that performs a phishing scam by displaying a fake error display.

  According to the information processing apparatus, the information processing method, and the information processing program according to the present invention, the user can grasp which application program has an error when performing display related to a plurality of application programs. Furthermore, since the application program corresponding to the error display is clarified, it becomes easy to detect a malicious program that performs a phishing scam by displaying a fake error display. For the user, the operability, convenience, and safety when an error occurs are further improved.

Hereinafter, an example of a preferred embodiment for realizing the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a conceptual module configuration diagram of a configuration example of the present embodiment.
The module generally refers to a component such as software or hardware that can be logically separated. Therefore, the module in the present embodiment indicates not only a module in a program but also a module in a hardware configuration. Therefore, the present embodiment also serves as an explanation of a program, a system, and a method. However, for the sake of explanation, the words “store”, “store”, and equivalent terms are used. However, when the embodiment is a program, these terms are controlled to be stored in the storage device. I mean. In addition, the modules correspond almost one-to-one with the functions. However, in mounting, one module may be composed of one program, or a plurality of modules may be composed of one program. A plurality of programs may be used. The plurality of modules may be executed by one computer, or one module may be executed by a plurality of computers in a distributed or parallel environment. Note that one module may include other modules. In the following, “connection” includes not only physical connection but also logical connection (data exchange, instruction, reference relationship between data, etc.).
Further, the system or apparatus includes a configuration in which a plurality of computers, hardware, devices, and the like are connected via a network and the like, and includes a case where the system or device is realized by a single computer, hardware, devices, and the like.

Hereinafter, a mobile phone will be mainly exemplified and described as the information processing apparatus.
The information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment can display information related to a plurality of application programs. As shown in FIG. 1, the error occurrence detection module 110, the error determination processing module 120, and the application state detection module 130 and a display module 140. Examples of the display related to the application program include an icon indicating that the application program is operating (a small image that is a design indicating the application program and can be displayed on the screen), and an image displayed by the application program. Etc. In addition, the information processing apparatus includes a screen. Although a plurality of screens may be provided, display on a plurality of application programs can be performed on at least one of the screens.

The error occurrence detection module 110 is connected to the error determination processing module 120 and detects the occurrence of an error. The detected error is passed to the error determination processing module 120. In addition, as long as an error is passed, an identifier, an error message, or the like may be passed as long as the error is specified.
The error occurrence detection module 110 may further detect an error type and pass the detected error type to the error determination processing module 120. The error type may be, for example, one that specifies a process in which an error has occurred, or a severity that indicates the importance of the error. A table in which the location where the error has occurred and the severity is prepared in advance, and the severity may be determined using the table.
Further, only the error occurrence detection module 110 may detect an error that occurs due to communication of a plurality of application programs. That is, each application program does not receive an error generated by communication, but only the error occurrence detection module 110 receives and distributes the error to the corresponding application program.

  The application status detection module 130 is connected to the error determination processing module 120 and detects the status of an application program running on the information processing apparatus. The detected state of the application program is passed to the error determination processing module 120. In addition, as long as the status is specified, the identifier or the like may be passed as long as the status is specified. The application program status includes, for example, “idle (standby)”, “communication”, “running”, and the like. The application program as a target for detecting the state may be limited to the application program displaying on the screen of the information processing apparatus.

The error determination processing module 120 is connected to the error occurrence detection module 110, the application state detection module 130, and the display module 140. When the error occurrence detection module 110 detects the occurrence of an error, the error determination processing module 120 detects the error occurrence detection module 110. The application program corresponding to the error is extracted based on the state of the applied application program. Then, the extracted application program is transferred to the display module 140. If the application program is passed, as long as the application program is specified, its identifier, name, etc. may be passed.
For example, if the error received from the error occurrence detection module 110 is related to communication, and the status of the application program detected by the application status detection module 130 is “in communication”, the error is the application program in communication. It turns out that Therefore, an application program “in communication” is extracted.

  The display module 140 is connected to the error determination processing module 120, and displays the display related to the application program extracted by the error determination processing module 120 differently from the display related to other application programs. For example, changing to a color that increases the display brightness related to the application program, changing the hue to a vivid color, expanding the display area, blinking, etc., and conversely reducing the display brightness related to another application program. Change, change to a dull hue, decrease the display area, etc., but leave the display related to the application program as it is.

  Further, the display module 140 displays the display related to the application program extracted by the error determination processing module 120 in accordance with the type of error detected by the error occurrence detection module 110 different from the display related to other application programs. You may make it make it. For example, an identifier for identifying a process in which an error has occurred may be received as an error type, and the above-described display may be performed when the process is a predetermined process (for example, a communication process). Further, the error severity may be received as the error type, and the above-described display may be performed when the error is greater than a predetermined threshold (when it is more serious). As a result, the above-mentioned display is not performed for an error in processing that is frequently performed but does not need to be handled or an error that has a low severity, and it is possible to prevent a complicated display from occurring.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of processing according to this embodiment.
In step S202, the error occurrence detection module 110 detects the occurrence of an error. For example, a communication error is detected.
In step S204, the application state detection module 130 detects the state of an application program running on the information processing apparatus.
In step S206, the error determination processing module 120 extracts an application program corresponding to the error detected in step S202 based on the state of the application program detected in step S204.

In step S208, the error determination processing module 120 notifies the application program extracted in step S206 that an error has occurred.
In step S210, the display module 140 displays an error according to the instruction of the application program notified of the error in step S208. Note that an error display instruction may be given to the display module 140 by the error determination processing module 120.
In step S212, the display module 140 causes the display related to the application program extracted in step S206 to be displayed differently from the display related to other application programs. For example, the area other than the corresponding application program is changed to a color with a faint hue as if the corresponding application program is spotlighted (fade out).
Further, the order of the processes in step S210 and step S212 may be reversed. That is, the error display may be performed after the display related to the corresponding application program is different from the others.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the data structure of the application state table 300. The application state table 300 stores the state of the application program detected by the application state detection module 130.
The application state table 300 is No. A column 310, an application ID column 320, and an application status column 330;
No. The column 310 stores the codes sequentially encoded in the running application program.
The application ID column 320 stores an identifier that uniquely identifies an operating application program.
The application status column 330 stores the status of the running application program. For example, there are “idle”, “communication”, “running”, and the like.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a module configuration when the present embodiment is embodied.
The example illustrated in FIG. 4 includes an application A 401, an application B 402, an application C 403, an application execution environment module 410, an application management module 420, a communication control module 430, and a real screen display module 440. The application management module 420 includes an error An occurrence detection module 110, an error determination processing module 120, an application state detection module 130, and a display module 140 are included.

Application A 401, application B 402, and application C 403 are each connected to an application execution environment module 410.
The application execution environment module 410 is connected to the application A 401, application B 402, application C 403, and application management module 420.
The application management module 420 is connected to the application execution environment module 410, the communication control module 430, and the real screen display module 440.
The communication control module 430 is connected to the application management module 420.
The real screen display module 440 is connected to the application management module 420.

This is an example when there are application A401, application B402, and application C403 as application programs. For example, the application A 401 is a mailer, the application B 402 is a device that displays a weather forecast by communicating with an external server, and the application C 403 is a device that searches a train route.
The application program, application execution environment module 410, application management module 420, and communication control module 430 are hierarchically configured. The real screen display module 440 is controlled by the application management module 420. In addition to the communication control module 430, a module that controls other hardware (GPS (Global Positioning System), camera, etc.) may be used as the lowest layer.

  The application execution environment module 410 provides an environment for executing a plurality of application programs, controls the application A 401 and the like according to instructions from the application management module 420, and transmits the instructions from the application A 401 and the like to the application management module 420. . For example, the application A 401, the application B 402, and the application C 403 are activated based on an instruction from the application management module 420. Then, after the application B 402 is activated, a communication request from the application B 402 is transmitted to the application management module 420, and a failure notification as a result of the communication is received from the application management module 420 and transmitted to the application B 402.

  The application management module 420 manages a plurality of application programs via the application execution environment module 410. For example, the application management module 420 activates the application A 401 and the like in response to an instruction from the user. A communication request instruction is received from the application B 402 and a communication request is made to the communication control module 430. At this time, the application state detection module 130 detects that the application A 401 is in an idle state, the application B 402 is in a communication state, and the application C 403 is in an idle state, and stores them in the application state table 300. The error occurrence detection module 110 detects a communication failure in the communication control module 430 (receives a communication failure notification), and the error determination processing module 120 notifies the communication failure to the application B 402 whose state is in communication. Then, the error display is performed on the real screen display module 440, and the display module 140 changes the display related to the application B402 corresponding to the communication failure to be different from the display related to the applications A401 and C403. Instruct module 440. Then, the real screen display module 440 displays the application B402 on the screen, for example, as a spotlight.

The communication control module 430 communicates with an apparatus such as an external server in accordance with an instruction from the application management module 420. The result (including an error such as communication failure) is passed to the application management module 420.
The real screen display module 440 controls display of a screen in the information processing apparatus in accordance with an instruction from the display module 140 in the application management module 420.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a display example of the display 500 of the information processing apparatus.
The display 500 displays an application icon 511, an application icon 512, an application icon 513, an application icon 514, an application icon 515, and the like on a background 599. That is, an application icon 511 or the like is displayed as an icon indicating that each of the five application programs is operating.

  FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an error display example. From the state shown in the example of FIG. 5, for example, one application program causes an error (for example, illegal processing), and an error display area 520 “Application is invalid” is displayed. Except for this embodiment, as shown in the example of FIG. 6, the user cannot easily know which application program the error display area 520 corresponds to.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a spotlight display example. The display module 140 is a spotlight display of an icon of an application program corresponding to an error.
FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of spotlight display and error display. An error display area 520 is further displayed on the display of FIG. The error display area 520 is displayed in a transparent color (for example, a logical OR display with the application icon 512) so that the area overlapping the error display area 520 (the application icon 512 displayed in spotlight) can be grasped. Also good.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing another example of processing according to this embodiment.
In step S902, the error occurrence detection module 110 detects the occurrence of an error and its type. For example, the occurrence of a communication error and the severity as its type are detected.
The processing from step S904 to step S908 is equivalent to step S204 to step S208 in the flowchart shown in the example of FIG.
In step S910, the display module 140 determines the type of error. In this determination, if it is determined that the error is not necessary to be displayed, the process proceeds to step S999 and ends. If it is determined that the error needs to be displayed, the process proceeds to step S912. For example, when the severity as an error type is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, it is determined that the error is not required to be displayed, and when the error is greater than the threshold, it is determined that the error needs to be displayed.

In step S912, the display module 140 causes the display related to the application program extracted in step S906 to be displayed differently from the display related to other application programs. For example, the hue is changed to a vivid one as if a corresponding application program is spotlighted.
In step S914, the display module 140 displays an error according to the instruction of the application program notified in step S908. Note that an error display instruction may be given to the display module 140 by the error determination processing module 120.
Further, the order of the processes in step S912 and step S914 may be reversed. In other words, after the error display is performed, the display regarding the corresponding application program may be different from the others.

  The information processing apparatus in which this embodiment is implemented may be a mobile phone 1000 as shown in FIG. The mobile phone 1000 is a character input device for inputting characters according to requests such as a telephone number or an application program, etc., for example, a microphone 1005 that can input voice so as to have a function as a telephone, a speaker 1004 that can output voice. Key 1002, antenna 1003 for transmitting and receiving radio waves for data communication, display 1001 (display of icons, application program processing results, etc.) as a result of character input by key 1002, display of application programs, etc. Specifically, it corresponds to the display 500 shown in FIGS. The mobile phone 1000 has a CPU, memory, communication circuit, and other hardware that execute application programs and the like, and a computer program that is software for realizing an information processing apparatus is stored in the memory. The software and hardware resources cooperate to realize an information processing apparatus.

  Note that the hardware configuration of the computer on which the program according to the present embodiment is executed is a general computer as shown in FIG. 11, specifically, a computer built in the mobile phone 1000. . There are a CPU 1110 that executes programs such as an error occurrence detection module 110, an error determination processing module 120, an application state detection module 130, and a display module 140, a RAM 1130 that stores the programs and data, a program for starting the computer, and the like. A ROM 1120 stored therein, an HD 1140 as an auxiliary storage device (including a flash memory, etc.), data input by an operator's operation from a key or the like, or data output to a CRT, a liquid crystal display, etc. A UI / F 1150 serving as an interface for the above, a removable media reader / writer 1160 for reading and writing to a removable medium such as a memory card, a communication line I / F 1170 for connecting to a communication network, Te, and a bus 1180 for exchanging data by connecting them. A plurality of these computers may be connected to each other via a network.

Note that the described program can be stored in a recording medium, and in that case, it can be understood as an invention of a “computer-readable recording medium on which a program is recorded”.
The “computer-readable recording medium on which a program is recorded” refers to a computer-readable recording medium on which a program is recorded, which is used for program installation, execution, program distribution, and the like.
The recording medium is, for example, a digital versatile disc (DVD), which is a standard established by the DVD Forum, such as “DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM,” and DVD + RW. Standard “DVD + R, DVD + RW, etc.”, compact disc (CD), read-only memory (CD-ROM), CD recordable (CD-R), CD rewritable (CD-RW), Blu-ray disc ( Blu-ray Disc (registered trademark), magneto-optical disk (MO), flexible disk (FD), magnetic tape, hard disk, read-only memory (ROM), electrically erasable and rewritable read-only memory (EEPROM), flash Includes memory, random access memory (RAM), etc. .
The program or a part of the program can be recorded on the recording medium and stored or distributed. Also, by communication, for example, a local area network (LAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), a wide area network (WAN), a wired network used for the Internet, an intranet, an extranet, etc., or wireless communication It can be transmitted using a transmission medium such as a network or a combination thereof, and can also be carried on a carrier wave.
Furthermore, the program may be a part of another program, or may be recorded on a recording medium together with a separate program.

It is a figure which shows the module structural example of one embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the process example by this Embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the data structure example of an application state table. It is a figure which shows the module structural example at the time of embodying this Embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of a display of a display. It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of an error display. It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of a spotlight display. It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of a spotlight display and an error display. It is a flowchart which shows another processing example by this Embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the mobile telephone which is an example of information processing apparatus. It is a block diagram which shows the hardware structural example of the computer which implement | achieves this Embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

110 ... Error occurrence detection module 120 ... Error determination processing module 130 ... Application state detection module 140 ... Display module

Claims (5)

An information processing apparatus capable of performing display related to a plurality of application programs,
An error occurrence detection means for detecting the occurrence of an error;
Application status detection means for detecting the status of the application program;
An application extracting unit that extracts an application program corresponding to the error based on the state of the application program detected by the application state detecting unit when an error occurrence is detected by the error occurrence detecting unit;
An information processing apparatus comprising: a display unit configured to display a display related to an application program extracted by the application extraction unit differently from a display related to another application program. The error occurrence detection means detects an error type,
The display means displays the display related to the application program extracted by the application extraction means differently from the display related to other application programs according to the type of error detected by the error occurrence detection means. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1. The information processing apparatus is a communicable apparatus,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein only the error occurrence detection unit detects an error that occurs due to communication of a plurality of application programs. An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus capable of performing display related to a plurality of application programs,
An error detection step for detecting the occurrence of an error;
An application state detection step for detecting the state of the application program;
When the occurrence of an error is detected by the error occurrence detection step, an application extraction step of extracting an application program corresponding to the error based on the state of the application program detected by the application state detection step;
An information processing method comprising: a display step of displaying a display related to the application program extracted in the application extraction step differently from a display related to another application program. An information processing program that operates on an information processing apparatus capable of performing display related to a plurality of application programs,
The information processing apparatus;
An error occurrence detection means for detecting the occurrence of an error;
Application status detection means for detecting the status of the application program;
An application extracting unit that extracts an application program corresponding to the error based on the state of the application program detected by the application state detecting unit when an error occurrence is detected by the error occurrence detecting unit;
An information processing program for causing a display relating to an application program extracted by the application extracting means to function as a display means for displaying differently from a display relating to another application program.

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