CN111007976B

CN111007976B - Application control method and terminal equipment

Info

Publication number: CN111007976B
Application number: CN201911176190.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 蔡蔚
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-11-26
Filing date: 2019-11-26
Publication date: 2021-01-26
Anticipated expiration: 2039-11-26
Also published as: CN111007976A

Abstract

The invention provides an application control method and terminal equipment. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a starting request of a first application; in response to the initiation request, performing at least one of the following; if a second application which is positively associated with the first application and the positive association degree of which meets a first preset condition exists, starting the first application and the second application; and if a third application which is in negative association with the first application and has a negative association degree meeting a second preset condition exists, starting the first application, and forbidding starting the third application during the running period of the first application. The invention simplifies the complicated steps when the user starts a plurality of applications, and can block the third application, so that the blocked started applications are not limited by environmental factors such as a CPU (central processing unit), a memory and the like.

Description

Application control method and terminal equipment

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of terminals, in particular to an application control method and terminal equipment.

Background

At present, more and more application programs are installed on terminal equipment, and the control requirements of users on the applications are continuously increased.

When a user needs to start a plurality of applications, one application icon needs to be clicked on the desktop interface to start one application, after the application interface is displayed, the desktop interface is switched to, and another application icon is clicked to start another application. Therefore, the user needs to switch the desktop interface and the application interface for multiple times, and the operation is too complicated.

In addition, after the system parameters of the terminal device reach a certain threshold, for example, the temperature of the mobile phone is too high, the memory usage is too high, or the CPU load is too high, the terminal device may block the starting of some unnecessary applications, but the method of blocking the starting of the applications is limited by the system environment, and the blocked applications are relatively fixed and are not flexible enough.

Therefore, the application control schemes in the related art generally have the problems of cumbersome operations when starting up a plurality of applications and environmental restrictions when blocking certain applications.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides an application control method and terminal equipment, and aims to solve the problems that in an application control scheme in the related art, operation is complex when a plurality of applications are started, and certain applications are blocked and are limited by environment.

In order to solve the technical problem, the invention is realized as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides an application control method, which is applied to a terminal device, and the method includes:

receiving a starting request of a first application;

in response to the initiation request, performing at least one of:

if a second application which is positively associated with the first application and the positive association degree of which meets a first preset condition exists, responding to the starting request, and starting the first application and the second application;

and if a third application which is in negative association with the first application and has a negative association degree meeting a second preset condition exists, responding to the starting request, starting the first application, and forbidding starting the third application during the running period of the first application.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal device, where the terminal device includes:

the first receiving module is used for receiving a starting request of a first application;

a first control module and/or a second control module;

the first control module is used for responding to the starting request and starting the first application and the second application if the second application which is positively associated with the first application and the positive association degree of which meets a first preset condition exists;

and the second control module is used for responding to the starting request, starting the first application and forbidding starting the third application during the running period of the first application if the third application is negatively associated with the first application and the degree of the negative association meets a second preset condition.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal device, including: a memory, a processor and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the computer program, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the application control method.

In a fourth aspect, 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 the steps of the application control method.

In the embodiment of the invention, when the first application is requested to be started, if the second application which is positively associated with the first application and the positive association degree of which meets the first preset condition exists, the first application and the second application can be started in response to the request, so that the complicated steps of starting a plurality of applications by a user are simplified; in addition, if a third application which is negatively associated with the first application and whose negative association degree satisfies a second preset condition exists, the first application may be started in response to the request, and the third application is prohibited from being started during the running of the first application, so that the third application can be blocked, and the blocked and started application is not limited by environmental factors such as a CPU, a memory, and the like, but is directly associated with other applications.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments of the present invention will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without inventive labor.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a relationship model structure between applications of one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of an application control method of one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3A is a first diagram of a desktop icon interface in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3B is a diagram of a desktop icon interface of one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3C is a third schematic diagram of a desktop icon interface in accordance with one embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3D is a diagram of a desktop icon interface of one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4A is a first diagram of a desktop icon interface in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4B is a second diagram of a desktop icon interface in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4C is a third schematic diagram of a desktop icon interface in accordance with another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 4D is a fourth schematic diagram of a desktop icon interface in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flow chart of an application control method of another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6A is a first diagram of an application interface, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6B is a second schematic diagram of an application interface, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a block diagram of a terminal device of one embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal 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.

To facilitate the reader's understanding of the present invention, the association between the various applications established by the present invention is first described.

Before step 101, the method according to the embodiment of the present invention may establish a relationship model (i.e., a relationship) with a relationship coefficient α through an algorithm between different applications, where a value range of the relationship coefficient α is preset, for example, α is in a range of [ -1,1], where when the relationship coefficient α between two applications is 0, it indicates that no relationship model exists between the two applications, and by default, no relationship model exists between different applications installed in a terminal device (e.g., a mobile phone). The association model is implemented by user customization. For example, the user may establish the relationship model between different applications installed in the terminal device (e.g., a mobile phone), and select a value of the association coefficient α from the range of [ -1,1 ].

It is understood that when the correlation coefficient 0< α ≦ 1 between two applications, the correlation coefficient representing the two applications is a forward correlation coefficient, the two applications are positively correlated, and the larger the value of the correlation coefficient, the stronger the forward correlation degree of the two applications, where α ≦ 1 represents that the two applications are positively correlated.

Taking forward association between application 1 and application 2 as an example, if application 1 is started, the greater the association coefficient between application 1 and application 2 during the start of application 1, that is, the stronger the forward association degree, the more functions that application 2 can start, such as starting application, pushing message, popup, etc. When the forward correlation coefficient is 1, the application 2 may be automatically started after the application 1 is started.

Therefore, the correlation degrees of the applications with different correlation coefficients are different, the stronger the forward correlation degree of the applications with the correlation coefficient closer to 1 is, the stronger the forward correlation degree is, the more the associated applications are simultaneously started, and the more the functions such as starting the applications, pushing messages, popping windows and the like are.

And when the correlation coefficient-1 between the two applications is more than or equal to < alpha <0, the correlation coefficient of the two applications is a negative correlation coefficient, the two applications are in negative correlation, the smaller the numerical value of the correlation coefficient is, the stronger the negative correlation degree of the two applications is, wherein alpha is-1, and the two applications are in negative strong correlation.

Taking the application 1 and the application 2 as an example of negative association, if the application 1 is started, during the starting period of the application 1, the smaller the association coefficient between the application 1 and the application 2 is, i.e. the stronger the negative association degree is (i.e. the stronger the mutual exclusion degree is), the fewer functions that the application 2 can start are, such as functions of taking a picture, recording a sound, reminding a message, and the like. When the negative correlation coefficient is-1, after the application 1 is started, the application 2 is not allowed to be started during the starting of the application 1, and even if the application 1 is started, a destroying program is executed to stop the execution of the application 2, that is, all functions of the application 2 are prohibited.

Therefore, the correlation degrees of the applications with different correlation coefficients are different, the more negative correlation degrees of the applications with the correlation coefficients closer to-1 are, the stronger the negative correlation degrees are, and the fewer the functions simultaneously started by the correlation applications are.

For example, as shown in fig. 1, a relationship model structure between applications of an embodiment of the present invention is shown, in which relationship model structure APP a, APP B, APP C, APP D, APP E, APP F, APP G is included.

Wherein, the APP A establishes a relationship with the APP B, the APP C, the APP D, the APP E, the APP F and the APP G; the APP B establishes a relationship with the APP A, the APP C, the APP D, the APP E, the APP F and the APP G; respectively establishing a relationship between APP C and APP A and APP B; respectively establishing a relationship between the APP D and the APP A and APP B; respectively establishing a relationship between the APP E and the APP A and the APP B; respectively establishing a relationship between APP F and APP A and APP B; and respectively establishing a relationship between the APP G and the APP A and the APP B.

It should be noted that the listed association relationship actually has a repetitive association relationship, and the description is repeated here only for the purpose of listing the association relationship, and actually, for example, the association relationship between APP a and APP D is the same as the association relationship between APP D and APP a.

The incidence relation between different applications is set by the user in a customized way, so that the user can be ensured to completely customize the incidence relation between the applications.

It should be noted that the value of the association coefficient is not limited to be between-1 and 1, and may also be between 1 and 10, where a certain value within 1 to 10 may be taken as the value of the association coefficient that does not establish the association relationship, for example, when the association coefficient is 5, there is no association relationship between the two applications; when the correlation coefficient α: alpha is more than or equal to 1 and less than 5, then the two applications are in negative correlation; when the correlation coefficient α: alpha is more than 5 and less than or equal to 10, then the two applications are associated in the forward direction.

Then, in order to establish an association relationship between different applications, the present invention provides a flow of an application control method according to an embodiment.

In general, the association between applications may be established before controlling the applications.

In order to optimize user experience and avoid tedious manual operation, a user only needs to move an icon of one application to the top of an icon of another application in a desktop interface, and then the incidence relation between the two applications can be established. However, in consideration of the technical scheme that the creation of the icon folder is triggered by the overlapping of different applications in the related art, the process of establishing the association relationship may be described in different scenarios in the embodiment of the present invention.

In one example, fig. 3A to 3D are schematic interface diagrams illustrating an association relationship between an application a and an application B in an icon folder; in another example, FIGS. 4A-4C illustrate interface diagrams that establish a relationship between application A and application B where the icon is located on the desktop interface, but not in the icon folder.

The following describes the technical solution of the embodiment of fig. 2 according to the above two exemplary scenarios.

Wherein, the scene one: icons of different applications are in an icon folder, and the icon folder is displayed in a desktop interface and corresponds to fig. 3A to 3D;

scene two: icons of different applications are not in the icon folder, but are displayed in the desktop interface, corresponding to fig. 4A to 4C.

In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the application control method may include the steps of:

step 201, receiving a first sliding input dragging a first application icon to a preset range of a second application icon;

in a first scenario, as shown in fig. 3A, the icon folder of the desktop interface includes 6 application icons, and if a user wants to establish an association relationship between an application a and an application B, the icon of any one of the two applications may be dragged to a preset range of the icon of the other application, where the preset range is above, and the preset range may also be left and right, so that the system may receive the first sliding input.

In scenario two, the operation mode is the same as the operation mode described in scenario one, and the first sliding input is also performed, which is not described herein again.

Step 202, if the overlapping area of the first application icon and the second application icon after the operation of the first sliding input meets a third preset condition, displaying a sliding bar for marking a numerical range of related coefficients;

in scenario one, as shown in fig. 3B, for example, an icon of the application B is dragged over an icon of the application a, if it is determined that the overlapping area of the two icons meets a third preset condition (for example, the percentage of the overlapping area to the area of the application icon exceeds a preset proportion threshold, for example, 30%; or, for example, the percentage of the overlapping area to the area of the application icon is greater than a first preset proportion threshold and less than a second preset proportion threshold, for example, the overlapping area proportion is greater than 30% and less than 100%, it is required to say that the sizes of the icons of different applications are consistent), a slider marking the numerical range of the related coefficient (i.e., the value range, here [ -1,1]) as shown in fig. 3B may be displayed.

In scenario two, as shown in fig. 4A and 4B, three application icons of application a, application B, and application C are not in the icon folder, the user drags the icon of application B over the icon of application a, since icons of applications that are not in the same folder are overlapped, by default, icons of two applications are placed in one folder, in order to preserve this functionality and resolve conflicts, in embodiments of the present invention, when the user moves the application B over the application a and the overlapping area of the icons exceeds 30%, as shown in fig. 4A, two bubble icons may be displayed in the peripheral area of the application a (here, the position of the other peripheral area, such as the upper left corner, the upper right corner, etc.), the two bubble icons respectively display the characters of "establishing an association relationship" and "merging a folder", in this way, the user can select himself whether to create an association model of the two applications or to merge the icons of the two applications into one folder.

Then, after the user triggers the bubble icon with the "association relationship establishment" displayed thereon, for example, the system receives a preset input (e.g., a click, a double click, etc.) to the bubble icon, a desktop interface as shown in fig. 4B may be displayed. Specifically, a slider may be displayed above the icons of application a and application B.

In scene one and scene two, the sliding cursor (i.e. the sliding button) of the slider displayed in this step is located at the initial value of the correlation coefficient between application a and application B, and for two applications without correlation, the initial value of the correlation coefficient is a preset threshold, and in an embodiment, the preset threshold is 0. Therefore, the slide cursor in fig. 3B and 4B is located at the 0-scale position of the slide bar.

Step 203, receiving a second sliding input of the sliding cursor in the sliding bar;

in scenario one: the user may slide a sliding cursor in the slider bar, which may be moved within a numerical range of-1 to 1 as shown in fig. 3B.

In two examples of the invention, as shown in FIGS. 3B and 4B, 9 scales are included between-1 and-0, and the numerical values of-0.1, -0.2, -0.3, -0.4, -0.5, -0.6, -0.7, -0.8 and-0.9 are sequentially represented from 0 to-1. The scale is also provided with 9 scales between 0 and 1, and the scales sequentially represent the numerical values of 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8 and 0.9 from 0 to 1.

In scenario one, as shown in FIG. 3C, the user slides the slide button (solid black dot) to a scale of-0.3.

In scenario two, the method steps are similar to scenario one and are not described here again.

Step 204, responding to the second sliding input, and determining a value of a correlation coefficient corresponding to the sliding cursor;

in scenario one, in response to the second sliding input, the system may determine a value corresponding to a scale where the sliding button is located in the slider bar of fig. 3C, where the value is-0.3, and the value is a value of the correlation coefficient of the application a and the application B.

In scenario two, the method is similar to scenario one, and is not described here again.

Step 205, establishing an association relationship between a first application corresponding to the first application icon and an eighth application corresponding to the second application icon, and setting a value of the association coefficient as an association degree between the first application and the eighth application.

Optionally, in order to avoid a situation that the user mistakenly slides the sliding cursor or wants to adjust the sliding result, in the embodiment of the present invention, when step 205 is executed, a certain condition may exist, and when it is determined that the duration in which the sliding cursor is kept at the value in step 204 exceeds a certain preset duration (for example, 1.5s), or is within a certain preset duration range (for example, 1.5s to 2s), it is considered that the user has set the correlation coefficient between the two applications, step 205 may be executed.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 3D, after step 205 is executed, or when it is determined that the duration exceeds the preset duration, or when it is determined that the duration is within a certain preset duration range, a popup window may be displayed in the desktop interface to prompt the user that the association relationship between application a and application B is successfully created. As shown in fig. 3D, "successfully creating A, B negative associations between applications, when any application is launched A, B, only part of the functionality of other applications (e.g., when application a is launched, then other applications are application B; and when application B is launched, then other applications are application a) may be available".

When step 205 is executed, the association relationship between the application a and the application B may be established, the value of the association coefficient α between the application a and the application B is set to-0.3, and the value of-0.3 is set as the association degree between the application a and the application B. The incidence relation is a negative incidence relation.

The specific description of the second scenario is similar to that of the first scenario, and is not repeated here.

Then, when the association relationship between the two applications needs to be released, the scene two is used for illustration here, and the scene one is similar to the scene two, so that the details are not repeated.

For example, if the user wants to release the pre-established association between the application a and the application B, the icon of the application B is dragged to the top of the icon of the application a as shown in fig. 4A, and then the system displays two bubble icons in the top left corner of the icon of the application a (see fig. 4A, which is not described again here); next, as shown in fig. 4C, the system may display a slider bar in which the slide button is located at a scale with a value of the correlation coefficient of application a and application B, here 0.2. Then to release the relationship, the user may slide the slide button in fig. 4C to make the slide button located at the position where the numerical value of the 0 scale is located (as shown in fig. 4B). Optionally, after the duration of the sliding button being kept at the 0 scale exceeds 1.5s, the system may delete the association relationship between the application a and the application B, and modify the value of the association coefficient between the application a and the application B from 0.2 to 0. Optionally, a window shown in fig. 4D may pop up to prompt that the association has been deleted, where the prompt is "the association between the applications A, B is set to 0, and the default is restored".

Thus, in the embodiment of the present invention, when a plurality of applications need to be controlled, only the association relationship between different applications needs to be established, and the specific operation of establishing the association relationship is to drag one application icon above another application icon, and in the case that the overlapping area meets the condition, a sliding bar for setting the value of the association coefficient may be displayed, and the user also only needs to slide a cursor of the sliding bar to set the value of the association coefficient between two applications, so that the user may customize the associated applications, and customize the association degree between two applications, which is simple in operation and convenient for controlling the applications.

Optionally, when the value of the correlation coefficient is greater than a preset threshold, the correlation relationship is a forward correlation, and the forward correlation degree between the first application and the eighth application is the value of the correlation coefficient; when the value of the correlation coefficient is smaller than a preset threshold value, the correlation relationship is negative correlation, and the negative correlation degree between the first application and the eighth application is the value of the correlation coefficient.

In both examples of fig. 3A to 3D, and fig. 4A to 4D, the preset threshold value is 0.

Therefore, a user can flexibly set the association relationship between the two applications by setting the value of the association coefficient in a user-defined manner, if positive association of the two applications is needed, the value is set to be larger than the preset threshold, and if negative association of the two applications is needed, the value is set to be smaller than the preset threshold, so that the association relationship of different applications can be set more flexibly.

Optionally, when the value of the correlation coefficient is greater than a preset threshold, the larger the value of the correlation coefficient is, the stronger the forward correlation degree is;

and when the value of the correlation coefficient is smaller than a preset threshold value, the smaller the value of the correlation coefficient is, the stronger the negative correlation degree is.

In one example, for example, the value range of the correlation coefficient is [ -1,1], where the preset threshold is 0. When a user sets the value of the correlation coefficient between two applications to be in the range of (0, 1), the positive correlation of the two applications is indicated, and the closer the value of the correlation coefficient to 1, the stronger the positive correlation degree of the two applications is, the stronger the positive correlation degree is, the more functions one application of the two applications is allowed to be started after the other application is started are, and when the user sets the value of the correlation coefficient between the two applications to be in the range of [ -1,0), the negative correlation of the two applications is indicated, and the closer the value of the correlation coefficient to-1, the stronger the negative correlation degree of the two applications is. The stronger the negative correlation, the more functions, such as waking up, popping window, creating session, etc., are prohibited from being started by one of the two applications after the other application is started.

In this way, by setting the association relationship between the two applications and setting the association coefficient, after one of the two applications is started, the function start of the other application associated with the application can be intelligently controlled according to the magnitude of the association coefficient.

It should be noted that, the present invention may preset a maximum value and/or a minimum value for the correlation coefficient, for example, the value is 1 or-1. The maximum value and/or the minimum value are not set for the value of the correlation coefficient, for example, only the preset threshold value is set to be 0, so that the value of the correlation coefficient can be any value larger than 0 when the correlation relationship of the forward correlation is set; similarly, when setting the association relationship of the negative association, the value of the association coefficient may be any value smaller than 0.

Referring to fig. 5, a flowchart of an application control method according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown, and the method is applied to a terminal device, and specifically may include step 101 to step 103.

The steps of the above embodiment may be performed before step 101 of the present embodiment.

Step 101, receiving a starting request of a first application;

the first application may be any application installed in the terminal device.

After step 101, at least one of

steps

102 and 103 may be performed in response to the start request.

Step 102, if a second application which is positively associated with the first application and the positive association degree of which meets a first preset condition exists, responding to the starting request, and starting the first application and the second application;

the forward association degree meets a first preset condition and is used for indicating that the forward association relation between the second application and the first application is the association relation with the strongest forward association degree.

Then, as for the first preset condition, it can be implemented in any one of the following ways:

the first method is as follows: for example, if the preset threshold value representing no association relationship is 0, and then the forward association degree (specifically, the value of the forward association coefficient) is greater than a first preset threshold value (where the first preset threshold value is greater than 0, for example, the value is 10), it may represent that the forward association degree satisfies a first preset condition;

the second method comprises the following steps: for example, a preset threshold value indicating no association relationship is 0, and if the association coefficient is set to have a maximum value (e.g., 1), the value of the forward association coefficient is greater than a second preset threshold value (e.g., 0.8) and less than or equal to the maximum value (i.e., α is greater than 0.8 and less than or equal to 1), it may indicate that the forward association degree satisfies a first preset condition;

the third method comprises the following steps: for example, the preset threshold value representing no association is 0, and a plurality of candidate applications are positively associated with the first application (there is a positive association), so that values of positive association coefficients between the plurality of candidate applications and the first application may be the same or different, and then the values of the positive association coefficients between the plurality of candidate applications and the first application may be sorted from large to small, for example, a plurality of second applications ranked within a preset rank have positive association degrees satisfying a first preset condition.

For example, a plurality of second applications having a forward correlation with the first application and corresponding to the forward correlation coefficient whose value is ranked three times ahead are all the second applications in this step.

The method is as follows: for example, the preset threshold value indicating no association is 0, and if the association coefficient is set to have a maximum value (e.g., 1), the forward association degree may be satisfied with the first preset condition when the value of the forward association coefficient is the maximum value.

Therefore, the number of the second applications in the embodiment of the present invention may be one or more, and the present invention is not limited thereto.

For convenience of explanation, the fourth way is described below as a criterion for determining that the forward direction association degree satisfies the first preset condition.

For example, if the first application is application a and the second application having an association coefficient of 1 associated with application a is application B, application B is started at the same time as application a in response to a start request for application a.

Optionally, the user may be prompted whether to start application B before starting application B, and if the usage permission is passed, application a may be started and application B may be started; if the user does not allow application B to be launched after the prompt, only application a may be launched.

Optionally, in order to facilitate the user to control the simultaneous use of multiple applications, after the application a and the application B are started, the application interface of the application a and the application interface of the application B may be simultaneously displayed on the display screen; when one display screen is used, two application interfaces are displayed in a split screen mode; when the number of the display screens is two, the two display screens can be adopted to respectively display the two application interfaces. The user can conveniently view the application interfaces of the two applications at the same time.

In addition, since in this step, before starting the second application, it is equivalent to that the system automatically triggers a start request for the second application (for example, application B), before responding to the start request, it is also required to query whether there is an application (for example, application D) having a forward association degree with application B and the forward association degree satisfies a first preset condition, and if there is an application a, application B, and application D, this step starts application a, application B, and application D. That is, application B here may continue to perform step 102 and/or step 103 as the first application in the embodiment of fig. 5. The principle is similar and is not described in detail here.

Step 103, if a third application which is negatively associated with the first application and whose negative association degree meets a second preset condition exists, starting the first application in response to the start request, and prohibiting starting the third application during the running period of the first application.

And the negative association degree meets a second preset condition and is used for indicating that the negative association relation between the third application and the first application is the association relation with the strongest negative association degree.

The second preset condition is similar to the first preset condition and is set in a reverse manner.

For example, mode A: for example, if the preset threshold value representing no association is 0, and the negative association degree (specifically, the value of the negative association coefficient) is smaller than a first preset threshold value (where the first preset threshold value is smaller than 0, for example, the value is-10), it may represent that the negative association degree satisfies a second preset condition;

mode B: for example, a preset threshold value indicating no association relationship is 0, and if the association coefficient is provided with a minimum value (e.g., -1), the value of the negative association coefficient is greater than the minimum value and less than or equal to a second preset threshold value (e.g., -0.8) (i.e., -1 < α ≦ 0.8), it may indicate that the negative association degree satisfies a second preset condition;

mode C: for example, the preset threshold value indicating no association is 0, and a plurality of candidate applications negatively associated with the first application (having a negative association) are provided, so that values of negative association coefficients between the plurality of candidate applications and the first application may be the same or different, and then the values of the negative association coefficients between the plurality of candidate applications and the first application may be sorted from small to large, for example, a plurality of third applications ranked within a preset rank have negative association degrees satisfying a second preset condition.

For example, a plurality of third applications having a negative correlation with the first application and corresponding to the negative correlation coefficients whose values are ranked three times higher are all the third applications in this step.

Mode D: for example, the preset threshold value indicating no association is 0, and if the association coefficient is set to have a minimum value (e.g., -1), the negative association degree may be satisfied by the second preset condition when the value of the negative association coefficient is the minimum value.

Therefore, the number of the third applications in the embodiment of the present invention may be one or more, and the present invention is not limited thereto.

For convenience of explanation, the manner D is hereinafter used as a criterion for determining that the negative association degree satisfies the second preset condition.

For example, if the first application is application a and the third application associated with application a and having an association coefficient of-1 is application C, then in response to a start request for application a, after application a is started, during the running of application a (whether it is running in foreground or running in background), the start of application C is prohibited.

Alternatively, the user may be prompted whether to prohibit starting the application C before prohibiting starting the application C, and if the permission is passed, the starting of the application C may be prohibited after starting the application a.

In addition, the execution order of step 102 and step 103 is not limited by the present invention.

For the positive association of the two applications described in the embodiment of the present invention, it means that the value of the positive association degree between the two applications is greater than a preset threshold (e.g., 0), and for the negative association of the two applications, it means that the value of the negative association degree between the two applications is less than the preset threshold, and when the value of the association degree is the preset threshold, it indicates that the association relationship does not exist between the two applications.

Moreover, any application installed on the terminal device can be set by the customization of the user to have a negative association degree with the application, and the negative association degree meets a third application of a second preset condition, so that when the first application requested to be started is in different scenes, the blocked and started third applications can have differences or parts of the blocked and started third applications are the same, and the blocked and started applications are more flexible and are not fixed to a certain application.

Optionally, after the step of starting the first application in step 102 or step 103 is executed, the method according to the embodiment of the present invention may further include:

s301, if at least one fourth application which is positively associated with the first application and the positive association degree of which does not meet the first preset condition exists, displaying a preset floating window on a first application interface of the first application;

for example, an application D, an application E, and an application F associated with the application a are established in advance, and values of forward association coefficients of the three applications and the application a are all greater than 0 and less than 1, so that the forward association degrees of the three applications do not satisfy the first preset condition (the first preset condition limited by the fourth way), and therefore, the fourth application includes the application D, and the application F, and after the application a is started, as shown in fig. 6A, a preset floating window may be displayed in a display interface of the application a displayed on a display screen of the terminal device. Optionally, the preset floating window may display a text of "positively correlated application list" to remind the user.

S302, receiving a first input to the preset floating window;

the first input mode is not limited, for example, the user may perform a single-click operation on the preset floating window in fig. 6A to receive the first input.

S303, responding to the first input, and displaying icons of the at least one fourth application on the first application interface according to the sequence that the positive correlation degree between each fourth application and the first application is from high to low.

For example, the values of the forward correlation coefficients (i.e., the forward correlation degrees) of the application D, and the application F with the application a are 0.8, 0.7, and 0.6 in sequence, so as shown in fig. 6B, icons of three applications (for example, in a list manner) may be displayed in the application interface of the application a in the order from high to low of the values of the forward correlation coefficients, where the icons of the application D, the application E, and the application F are displayed in sequence in the list.

Therefore, the user can select which application to start from the list independently without switching the interface of the application A to the background, and then finds the icon of the application in the list from the desktop to trigger the start of the application, so that the linked start of the application associated in the forward direction is realized, and the control over a plurality of applications is facilitated.

Optionally, after S303, the method according to the embodiment of the present invention may further include:

receiving a second input of an icon of a fifth application in the list, wherein the fifth application is any one of the at least one fourth application;

as shown in fig. 6B, if the user needs to use both application a and application D, the icon of application D (here, the fifth application) may be selected from the list. The manner of this second input is not limiting.

Determining a first function item matched with the target forward correlation degree according to the target forward correlation degree between the fifth application and the first application;

in the corresponding relationship, the stronger the forward association degree (i.e., the larger the value of the forward association coefficient), the more the number of the corresponding function items and/or the higher the priority of the function items.

Alternatively, a plurality of applied function items may be counted in advance, and the priority of each function item is analyzed, so that the stronger the forward association degree, the higher the priority of the function item can be.

In this step, the first function item (for example, including a push message function item and a pop-up window function item) matching the forward association degree (0.8) may be determined by querying the corresponding relationship.

In response to the second input, launching the fifth application and launching the first function item of the fifth application.

Wherein the application D may be started in response to the second input, and a push message function item and a popup function item of the application are started, so that during the running of the application D, the two started function items may be utilized to receive the push message and implement popup.

Similarly, the application interface of application D may be displayed in the same display screen as the application interface of application a, for example, in a split screen display.

Optionally, during the running of the application a, the function items of the application D other than the first function item need to be prohibited from being started.

In the embodiment of the invention, the user can start the application associated with the application in the forward direction at any time without switching the application interface (without switching to a desktop, the other application associated with the application in the forward direction of the application interface being displayed can be started), and similarly, the application interface of the started application D can also display the application icon list which is associated with the application D in the forward direction and the forward association degree of which does not meet the first preset condition, so that after the application D is started, the user can start other applications associated with the started application in the forward direction on the premise of not switching the application interface.

identifying at least one sixth application which is in negative association with the first application and the degree of the negative association does not meet a second preset condition;

for example, the application M, the application N, and the application K associated with the application a are previously established for the application a, and the values of the negative association coefficients of the three applications and the application a are all greater than-1 and less than 0, so that the negative association degrees of the three applications do not satisfy the second preset condition (the second preset condition limited by the manner D), and therefore, the sixth application includes the application M, the application N, and the application K.

If a starting request for a seventh application is received, determining a second function item matched with the target negative association degree according to the target negative association degree between the seventh application and the first application, wherein the seventh application is any one of the at least one sixth application;

then, since the application M, the application N, and the application K are all negatively associated with the application a that has already been started, when the user triggers a start request to any one of the three applications in the desktop interface, for example, the seventh application here is the application M, the system may receive the start request to the application M.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a corresponding relationship between the negative association degree and the function items may be preset, where in the corresponding relationship, the stronger the negative association degree is (that is, the smaller the value of the negative association coefficient is), the greater the number of the corresponding function items and/or the higher the priority of the function items are.

Optionally, the function items of a plurality of applications may be counted in advance, and the priority of each function item is analyzed, so that the stronger the negative association degree, the higher the priority of the function item may be.

For example, the negative correlation coefficient of application a and application M is-0.8.

In this step, after receiving a start request for the application M, the second function item (for example, a push message function item, a pop-up window function item, a photographing function item, and a recording function item) that matches the negative association degree (-0.8) may be determined by querying the corresponding relationship.

In response to the launch request for the seventh application, launching the seventh application and disabling launching of the second functional item of the seventh application during execution of the first application.

Since the negative association degree between the application M and the application a does not satisfy the second preset condition, that is, the application M is not the application M prohibited from being started during the running of the application a, the application M may be started in response to a start request for the application M, but the above found push message function item, pop-up window function item, photographing function item, and recording function item of the application M need to be prohibited from being started during the running of the application a.

In the embodiment of the present invention, for a case that a negative association degree between different applications (for example, an application a and an application M) does not satisfy a second preset condition, after one application a is started, during running of the application a, although the application M may be started after being triggered by a user, the method of the embodiment of the present invention may intelligently suppress a function item of another application M according to a magnitude of the negative association degree. It is achieved that the control of the functional items of an application can be related to other applications.

In addition, the stronger the negative association degree is, that is, the smaller the value of the negative association coefficient is, the more functions that one associated application is prohibited from being started after the other associated application is started are, and the function items in the corresponding relationship in this embodiment are the function items that need to be prohibited. If the degree of the negative correlation satisfies the second preset condition, it indicates that the two applications are strongly negative correlations, and if one application is started, the other strongly negative correlation application is not allowed to be started, that is, all the function items are prohibited.

Referring to fig. 7, a block diagram of a terminal device of one embodiment of the present invention is shown. The terminal device of the embodiment of the invention can realize the details of the application control method in the embodiment and achieve the same effect. The terminal device shown in fig. 7 includes:

a first receiving module 31, configured to receive a start request for a first application;

a first control module 32 and/or a second control module 33;

the first control module 32 is configured to, if there is a second application which is forward associated with the first application and whose forward association degree satisfies a first preset condition, respond to the start request to start the first application and the second application;

a second control module 33, configured to, if there is a third application that is negatively associated with the first application and whose negative association degree satisfies a second preset condition, respond to the start request to start the first application, and prohibit starting the third application during the running of the first application.

Optionally, the terminal device further includes:

the first display module is used for displaying a preset floating window on a first application interface of the first application if at least one fourth application which is positively associated with the first application and the degree of the positive association of the fourth application does not meet the first preset condition exists;

the second receiving module is used for receiving a first input to the preset floating window;

and the second display module is used for responding to the first input and displaying the icon of the at least one fourth application on the first application interface according to the sequence that the positive correlation degree between each fourth application and the first application is from high to low.

Optionally, the terminal device further includes:

a third receiving module, configured to receive a second input of an icon of a fifth application in the list, where the fifth application is any one of the at least one fourth application;

the first determining module is used for determining a first function item matched with the target forward correlation degree according to the target forward correlation degree between the fifth application and the first application;

a first launching module, configured to launch the fifth application and launch the first function item of the fifth application in response to the second input.

Optionally, the terminal device further includes:

the identification module is used for identifying at least one sixth application which is in negative association with the first application and the negative association degree of which does not meet a second preset condition;

a second determining module, configured to determine, if a start request for a seventh application is received, a second function item that is matched with a target negative association degree between the seventh application and the first application according to the target negative association degree, where the seventh application is any one of the at least one sixth application;

a second starting module, configured to start the seventh application in response to the start request for the seventh application, and prohibit starting the second function item of the seventh application during running of the first application.

Optionally, the terminal device further includes:

the fourth receiving module is used for receiving a first sliding input of dragging the first application icon to a preset range of the second application icon;

a third display module, configured to display a slider marking a numerical range of a correlation coefficient if an overlapping area of the first application icon and the second application icon after the operation of the first sliding input satisfies a third preset condition;

a fifth receiving module, configured to receive a second sliding input to the sliding cursor in the slider;

a third determining module, configured to determine, in response to the second sliding input, a value of a correlation coefficient corresponding to the sliding cursor;

and the setting module is used for establishing an association relationship between a first application corresponding to the first application icon and an eighth application corresponding to the second application icon, and setting the value of the association coefficient as the association degree between the first application and the eighth application.

Optionally, when the value of the correlation coefficient is greater than a preset threshold, the correlation relationship is a forward correlation, and the forward correlation degree between the first application and the eighth application is the value of the correlation coefficient;

when the value of the correlation coefficient is smaller than a preset threshold value, the correlation relationship is negative correlation, and the negative correlation degree between the first application and the eighth application is the value of the correlation coefficient.

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

Figure 8 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal device implementing various embodiments of the present invention,

the terminal device 400 includes but is not limited to: radio frequency unit 401, network module 402, audio output unit 403, input unit 404, sensor 405, display unit 406, user input unit 407, interface unit 408, memory 409, processor 410, and power supply 411. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the terminal device configuration shown in fig. 8 does not constitute a limitation of the terminal device, and that the terminal device may include more or fewer components than shown, or combine certain components, or a different arrangement of components. In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device includes, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm computer, a vehicle-mounted terminal, a wearable device, a pedometer, and the like.

The user input unit 407 is configured to receive a start request for a first application;

a processor 410, configured to, if there is a second application that is forward associated with the first application and a forward association degree of which satisfies a first preset condition, respond to the start request to start the first application and the second application; and/or if a third application which is in negative association with the first application and has a negative association degree meeting a second preset condition exists, responding to the starting request, starting the first application, and forbidding starting the third application during the running period of the first application.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the radio frequency unit 401 may be used for receiving and sending signals during a message sending and receiving process or a call process, and specifically, receives downlink data from a base station and then processes the received downlink data to the processor 410; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. Typically, radio unit 401 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. Further, the radio unit 401 can also communicate with a network and other devices through a wireless communication system.

The terminal device provides wireless broadband internet access to the user through the network module 402, such as helping the user send and receive e-mails, browse web pages, and access streaming media.

The audio output unit 403 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 401 or the network module 402 or stored in the memory 409 into an audio signal and output as sound. Also, the audio output unit 403 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the terminal apparatus 400 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 403 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.

The input unit 404 is used to receive audio or video signals. The input Unit 404 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 4041 and a microphone 4042, and the Graphics processor 4041 processes image data of a still picture or video obtained by an image capturing apparatus (such as a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 406. The image frames processed by the graphic processor 4041 may be stored in the memory 409 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 401 or the network module 402. The microphone 4042 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 401 in case of the phone call mode.

The terminal device 400 further comprises at least one sensor 405, such as light sensors, motion sensors and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor that adjusts the brightness of the display panel 4061 according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that turns off the display panel 4061 and/or the backlight when the terminal apparatus 400 is moved to the ear. As one of the motion sensors, the 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 terminal device posture (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer posture calibration), vibration identification related functions (such as pedometer, tapping), and the like; the sensors 405 may also include a fingerprint sensor, a pressure sensor, an iris sensor, a molecular sensor, a gyroscope, a barometer, a hygrometer, a thermometer, an infrared sensor, etc., which will not be described in detail herein.

The display unit 406 is used to display information input by the user or information provided to the user. The Display unit 406 may include a Display panel 4061, and the Display panel 4061 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 407 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the terminal device. Specifically, the user input unit 407 includes a touch panel 4071 and other input devices 4072. Touch panel 4071, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect touch operations by a user on or near it (e.g., operations by a user on or near touch panel 4071 using a finger, a stylus, or any suitable object or attachment). The touch panel 4071 may include two parts, 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 410, receives a command from the processor 410, and executes the command. In addition, the touch panel 4071 can be implemented by using various types such as a resistive type, a capacitive type, an infrared ray, and a surface acoustic wave. In addition to the touch panel 4071, the user input unit 407 may include other input devices 4072. Specifically, the other input devices 4072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a track ball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described herein again.

Further, the touch panel 4071 can be overlaid on the display panel 4061, and when the touch panel 4071 detects a touch operation thereon or nearby, the touch operation is transmitted to the processor 410 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 410 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 4061 according to the type of the touch event. Although in fig. 8, the touch panel 4071 and the display panel 4061 are two independent components to implement the input and output functions of the terminal device, in some embodiments, the touch panel 4071 and the display panel 4061 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the terminal device, which is not limited herein.

The interface unit 408 is an interface for connecting an external device to the terminal apparatus 400. 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 408 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 terminal apparatus 400 or may be used to transmit data between the terminal apparatus 400 and an external device.

The memory 409 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 409 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 409 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 410 is a control center of the terminal device, connects various parts of the entire terminal device by using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the terminal device and processes data by operating or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 409 and calling data stored in the memory 409, thereby performing overall monitoring of the terminal device. Processor 410 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 410 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 410.

The terminal device 400 may further include a power supply 411 (e.g., a battery) for supplying power to various components, and preferably, the power supply 411 may be logically connected to the processor 410 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 terminal device 400 includes some functional modules that are not shown, and are not described in detail herein.

Preferably, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal device, which includes a processor 410, a memory 409, and a computer program that is stored in the memory 409 and can be run on the processor 410, and when being executed by the processor 410, the computer program implements each process of the foregoing application control method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not described here again.

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 above-mentioned embodiment of the application control method, 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 a terminal (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. An application control method applied to a terminal device is characterized by comprising the following steps:

receiving a starting request of a first application;

in response to the initiation request, performing at least one of:

if a second application which is positively associated with the first application and the positive association degree of which meets a first preset condition exists, starting the first application and the second application;

if a third application which is in negative association with the first application and has a negative association degree meeting a second preset condition exists, starting the first application, and forbidding starting the third application during the running period of the first application;

after the launching of the first application, the method further comprises:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein after the launching of the first application, the method further comprises:

if at least one fourth application which is positively associated with the first application and the positive association degree of which does not meet the first preset condition exists, displaying a preset floating window on a first application interface of the first application;

receiving a first input to the preset floating window;

in response to the first input, displaying icons of the at least one fourth application on the first application interface in an order from high to low in the degree of positive association between each fourth application and the first application.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein in response to the first input, after the first application interface displays the icon of the at least one fourth application in an order from a high to a low degree of forward association between each of the fourth applications and the first application, the method further comprises:

4. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to receiving the request for launching the first application, the method further comprises:

receiving a first sliding input dragging a first application icon to a second application icon within a preset range;

if the overlapping area of the first application icon and the second application icon after the operation of the first sliding input meets a third preset condition, displaying a sliding bar for marking the numerical range of the related coefficient;

receiving a second sliding input to a sliding cursor in the slider;

responding to the second sliding input, and determining the value of the correlation coefficient corresponding to the sliding cursor;

and establishing an association relationship between a first application corresponding to the first application icon and an eighth application corresponding to the second application icon, and setting the value of the association coefficient as the association degree between the first application and the eighth application.

5. The method of claim 4,

when the value of the correlation coefficient is larger than a preset threshold value, the correlation relationship is forward correlation, and the forward correlation degree between the first application and the eighth application is the value of the correlation coefficient;

6. The method of claim 5,

when the value of the correlation coefficient is larger than a preset threshold value, the larger the value of the correlation coefficient is, the stronger the forward correlation degree is;

7. A terminal device, characterized in that the terminal device comprises:

a first control module and/or a second control module;

the first control module is used for responding to the starting request and starting the first application and the second application if the second application is positively associated with the first application and the positive association degree of the second application meets a first preset condition;

the second control module is configured to respond to the start request to start the first application if a third application exists that is negatively associated with the first application and whose negative association degree satisfies a second preset condition, and prohibit starting the third application during running of the first application;

the terminal device further includes:

8. The terminal device according to claim 7, wherein the terminal device further comprises:

9. The terminal device according to claim 8, wherein the terminal device further comprises:

10. The terminal device according to claim 7, wherein the terminal device further comprises:

11. The terminal device of claim 10,

12. The terminal device of claim 11,

13. A computer-readable storage medium, having stored thereon a computer program which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the application control method according to any one of claims 1 to 6.