CN113282424A

CN113282424A - Information reference method and device and electronic equipment

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Publication number: CN113282424A
Application number: CN202110378002.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王梦莹
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-04-08
Filing date: 2021-04-08
Publication date: 2021-08-20
Anticipated expiration: 2041-04-08
Also published as: CN113282424B; WO2022213944A1

Abstract

The application discloses an information quoting method and device and electronic equipment, belongs to the technical field of communication, and can solve the problem that the content of one page can be copied and pasted to another page only when the electronic equipment needs to repeatedly enter different pages, so that the process steps of quoting the content by the electronic equipment are complicated and time-consuming. The method comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that the electronic equipment receives first input of a user on a first object, the first object is an object in a first page displayed on a display screen of the electronic equipment, and an information reference block is displayed on the display screen in a suspension mode; in response to a first input, the electronic device displays a first object in the information reference block; the electronic equipment receives a second input of the user to a second object, wherein the second object is an object in a second page displayed by the display screen; in response to a second input, the electronic device displays a second object in the information reference block; the electronic device displays the first content and the second content in the input area in a case where the input area is displayed on the display screen.

Description

Information reference method and device and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of communication, and particularly relates to an information citation method, an information citation device and electronic equipment.

Background

With the development of communication technology, electronic devices have more and more functions, and accordingly, applications in the electronic devices are more and more abundant.

During the process of displaying one page on the electronic device, the user sometimes needs to refer to the content in other pages. In the related art, assuming that the electronic device currently displays the page a in the application 1, when the user needs to refer to the content 1 of the page B in the application 2 and the content 2 of the page C in the application 3 in the page a, the user may trigger the electronic device to sequentially perform the following operations: exiting the currently displayed page a, opening the page B in the application 2, copying the content 1 in the page B, exiting the page B, re-opening the page a in the application 1, pasting the copied content 1 in the page a, exiting the page a, opening the page C in the application 3, copying the content 2 in the page C, exiting the page C, re-opening the page a in the application 1, pasting the copied content 2 in the page a, and thus completing the process of referring to the content in its entirety.

However, if the above manner of referring to the content is adopted, the electronic device needs to repeatedly exit and open different pages many times to copy and paste the content of one page into another page, which results in tedious and time-consuming steps of the process of referring to the content by the electronic device.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application aims to provide an information quoting method, an information quoting device and electronic equipment, and the method, the device and the electronic equipment can solve the problem that the content of one page can be copied and pasted to another page only when the electronic equipment needs to repeatedly quit and open different pages for many times, so that the process steps of quoting the content by the electronic equipment are complicated and time-consuming.

In order to solve the technical problem, the present application is implemented as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an information referencing method, where the method includes: the method comprises the steps that first input of a user on a first object is received by electronic equipment, the first object is an object in a first page displayed on a display screen of the electronic equipment, and an information reference block is displayed on the display screen in a suspension mode; responding to the first input, the electronic equipment displays a first object in the information reference block; the electronic equipment receives a second input of a user to a second object, wherein the second object is an object in a second page displayed by the display screen; in response to the second input, the electronic equipment displays a second object in the information reference block; when an input area is displayed on the display screen, the electronic device displays first content and second content in the input area, wherein the first content is indicated by the first object, and the second content is indicated by the second object.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an information citation device, where the device includes: the device comprises a receiving module and a display module; the receiving module is configured to receive a first input of a user to a first object, where the first object is an object in a first page displayed on a display screen of an electronic device, and an information reference block is displayed in a suspended manner on the display screen; the display module is configured to display a first object in the information reference block in response to the first input received by the receiving module; the receiving module is further configured to receive a second input of a second object from a user, where the second object is an object in a second page displayed on the display screen; the display module is further configured to display a second object in the information reference block in response to the second input received by the receiving module; the display module is further configured to display first content and second content in the input area when the input area is displayed on the display screen, where the first content is indicated by the first object, and the second content is indicated by the second object.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an electronic device, which includes a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, and when executed by the processor, the program or instructions implement the steps of the method according to the first aspect.

In a fourth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a readable storage medium, on which a program or instructions are stored, which when executed by a processor implement the steps of the method according to the first aspect.

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a chip, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, where the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to execute a program or instructions to implement the method according to the first aspect.

In the embodiment of the application, after receiving a first input of a first object of a first page by a user, the electronic device may display the first object in an information reference block displayed on a display screen in a floating manner, then, after receiving a second input of a second object pair of a second page by the user, the electronic device may display the second object in the information reference block displayed on the display screen in a floating manner, and finally, in a case that an input area is displayed on the display screen, the electronic device may directly display first content indicated by the first object and second content indicated by the second object in the input area. In the process, when a user needs to refer to different contents in a plurality of pages, the user can complete the reference by displaying the objects of the different contents in the information reference block always suspended in the display screen, so that the user does not need to continuously and repeatedly enter the page containing the input area and repeatedly perform pasting and copying, the steps of the content reference process of the electronic equipment can be simplified, and the time consumption of the content reference process of the electronic equipment is saved.

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Fig. 1 is a schematic flowchart of an information citation method provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is one of schematic diagrams of an interface applied by an information citation method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a second schematic diagram of an interface applied by an information referencing method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 4 is a third schematic diagram of an interface applied by an information citation method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a fourth schematic diagram of an interface applied by an information citation method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a fifth schematic view of an interface applied by an information citation method according to an embodiment of the present application;

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

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a second schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the invention.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present application. 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 application.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims of the present application are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It will be appreciated that the data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances such that embodiments of the application may be practiced in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein, and that the terms "first," "second," and the like are generally used herein in a generic sense and do not limit the number of terms, e.g., the first term can be one or more than one. In addition, "and/or" in the specification and claims means at least one of connected objects, a character "/" generally means that a preceding and succeeding related objects are in an "or" relationship.

The information referencing method provided by the embodiment of the present application is described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings through specific embodiments and application scenarios thereof.

The information reference method provided by the embodiment of the application can be applied to a scene that a user needs to refer to contents of different pages in the electronic equipment.

For a scenario in which a user needs to refer to contents of different pages in an electronic device, when the electronic device displays a page a and the user sometimes needs to refer to contents in other pages (e.g., page B in application 2 and page C in application 3), the user may trigger the electronic device to sequentially perform the following operations: exiting the currently displayed page a, opening the page B in the application 2, copying the content 1 in the page B, exiting the page B, re-opening the page a in the application 1, pasting the copied content 1 in the page a, exiting the page a, opening the page C in the application 3, copying the content 2 in the page C, exiting the page C, re-opening the page a in the application 1, pasting the copied content 2 in the page a, and thus completing the process of referring to the content in its entirety. In the above process, the electronic device needs to repeatedly exit and open different pages many times to copy and paste the content of one page into another page, which results in tedious and time-consuming steps of the process of referring to the content by the electronic device.

In the information reference method provided by the application, when the electronic device displays the page a, if the page B in the application 2 and the page C in the application 3 need to be referred, a user may trigger the electronic device to sequentially execute the following operations: long press of the input area in page a-triggering the electronic device to display an information reference block hovering in the display screen-exiting the currently displayed page a-opening page B in application 2-dragging content 1 in page B into the information reference block-exiting page B-opening page C in application 3-dragging content 2 in page C into the information reference block-exiting page C-reopening page a in application 1-the content in the information reference block will be displayed directly in the input area of page a. Therefore, the electronic equipment does not need to continuously and repeatedly enter the page A and repeatedly paste and copy, so that the steps of the process of quoting the content by the electronic equipment can be simplified, and the time consumption of the process of quoting the content by the electronic equipment is saved.

The present embodiment provides an information referencing method, as shown in fig. 1, the information referencing method including the following steps 301 to 305:

step 301: the information referencing device receives a first input by a user to a first object.

In this embodiment of the present application, the first object is an object in a first page displayed on a display screen of an electronic device, and an information reference block is displayed on the display screen in a floating manner.

In this embodiment, the first page may be any page in any application in the electronic device.

In one example, the first page includes an object indicating content that can be directly referred to. For example, the page includes a session identifier indicating an arbitrary session.

In another example, the first page includes directly-referenceable content, such as text content, picture content, multimedia content, and the like.

In the embodiment of the present application, the first object may be: an object containing or indicating content that a user needs to refer to.

In an example, the form of the first object may be the whole content corresponding to the referred content, for example, the first object is the whole content of the 65 th page in an electronic book, and the user needs to refer to the 2 nd paragraph therein.

In another example, the first object may also be in the form of path information for indicating that the user needs to refer to a page where the content is located, for example, a user identifier in a session list page is an object, and dialog information indicated by the user identifier that the user needs to refer to.

In an embodiment of the present application, the first object may include: an object containing or indicating a piece of content that the user needs to refer to. For example, the first object includes a user identifier indicating a sentence (a content) in the chat session 1. The first object may include: an object containing or indicating a plurality of contents that a user needs to refer to. For example, the first object includes one user id indicating two words (two contents) in the chat session 1, or the first object includes two user ids each indicating one word (two contents) in the chat session 1, respectively.

In this embodiment of the application, the first input may be a touch input, for example, a click input, a drag input, a double-click input, or an input of a special gesture, or an input of a voice, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

In an embodiment of the present application, the first input may be used to select the first object.

In this embodiment, the information reference block may be an information display area in the electronic device, and the information display area may display and reference content that the user needs to be on a page other than the current page.

In the embodiment of the application, the information reference block can be always displayed on different pages in a floating manner, and can be used for displaying different objects selected by a user, so that a subsequent user can select and process contents corresponding to the different objects through the information reference block.

Step 302: in response to the first input, the information referencing means displays the first object in the information referencing block.

Step 303: the information referencing device receives a second input by the user to the second object.

In this embodiment of the application, the second object is an object in a second page displayed on the display screen.

In this embodiment of the application, the second page and the first page may be different pages or may be the same page.

For example, when the second page is a different page, the application to which the first page belongs and the application to which the second page belongs may be different applications or may be the same application, and this is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

For example, the description of the second page and the second object may refer to the foregoing description, and will not be repeated here.

In this embodiment of the application, the second input may be a touch input, for example, a click input, a drag input, a double-click input, or an input of a special gesture, or an input of a voice, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

Step 304: in response to the second input, the information referencing means displays a second object in the information referencing block.

Step 305: the information referencing device displays first content and second content in an input area in a case where the input area is displayed on the display screen.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the first content is a content indicated by the first object, and the second content is a content indicated by the second object.

In this embodiment, the input area may be an area capable of receiving an input from a user and displaying a content that the user needs to refer to.

Illustratively, the input area may be an input box in any page, for example, an input box of a chat session interface, an input field of an input website, and the like.

In the embodiment of the present application, the first content may be a part of the content indicated by the first object, or may be all of the content indicated by the first object. For example, when the first object is an object identified by a user in the session list page, part of the dialog information indicated by the user identifier that the user needs to refer to may also be all of the dialog information indicated by the user identifier, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

Similarly, the second content may refer to the description of the first content, and the second content may be a part of the content indicated by the second object or may be all of the content indicated by the second object.

For example, the content (i.e., a part of the content or the entire content) in the content indicated by the first object as the first content may be preset by the electronic device or may be customized by the user.

According to the information reference method provided by the embodiment of the application, after receiving a first input of a first object of a first page by a user, an information reference device can display the first object in an information reference block displayed in a floating mode on a display screen, then, after receiving a second input of a second object pair of a second page by the user, the information reference device can display the second object in the information reference block displayed in the floating mode on the display screen, and finally, in the case that an input area is displayed on the display screen, first content indicated by the first object and second content indicated by the second object can be directly displayed in the input area. In the process, when a user needs to refer to different contents in a plurality of pages, the user can complete the reference by displaying the objects of the different contents in the information reference block always suspended in the display screen, so that the user does not need to continuously and repeatedly enter the page containing the input area and repeatedly perform pasting and copying, the steps of the content reference process of the electronic equipment can be simplified, and the time consumption of the content reference process of the electronic equipment is saved.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, after the step 304 and before the step 305, the information citation method provided in this embodiment of the present application may further include the following steps a1 to a 4:

step A1: the information referencing device receives a third input by the user to the first target object.

Illustratively, the first target object is the first object or the second object.

Step A2: in response to the third input, the information referencing device displays N contents indicated by the first target object, where N is a positive integer.

Step A3: the information citation device receives a fourth input of the user to at least one of the N contents.

Step A4: in response to the fourth input, the information referencing means copies the at least one content to the sticker sheet.

Illustratively, the at least one content is a first content or the second content.

For example, the input mode of the third input may be an input mode different from the first input and the second input. For example, when the first input and the second input are drag inputs, the third input may be a double-click input.

For example, the third input may be a touch input, for example, a click input, a drag input, a double-click input, or an input of a special gesture, or an input of a voice, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

For example, the first target object may indicate N pieces of content, for example, when the first target object is a user identifier, the user identifier may be used to indicate all pieces of session information between the user and the user 1, and specifically, the session information includes 10 pieces of content (the N pieces of content).

Illustratively, the fourth input may be an input in selecting at least one of the N contents.

For example, the sticker board may be a temporary buffer space inside the electronic device.

It can be understood that, after the electronic device receives a fourth input from the user, at least one of the N contents corresponding to the fourth input selected by the user is automatically placed in the temporary buffer space, and then, when the electronic device detects that the current display interface includes an input area, the temporary buffer space is automatically released, and the at least one content is directly displayed in the input area.

Example 1: in the case that a user needs to refer to different information in different sessions in a chat application, as shown in fig. 2 (a), assuming that a first page and a second page are both a session list page 31 in the chat application, a plurality of user identifiers are displayed on the session list page 31, and an information reference frame 32 (i.e., the information reference block) is displayed on the session list page in a floating manner, after the electronic device receives a drag input that the user identifier 33 (i.e., the first object) in the session list page is dragged into the information reference frame 32 by the user, the user identifier 33 is displayed in the information reference frame 32; next, when the electronic device receives a double-click input (i.e., the third input) from the user to the user identifier 33 (i.e., the first target object), as shown in fig. 2 (b), the electronic device displays a dialog box 34 between the user identifier 33 and the electronic device user 33 on the current page, and displays a plurality of pieces of dialog information (i.e., the N pieces of content) indicated by the user identifier 33 in the dialog box, and at this time, the electronic device receives three continuous-click inputs (i.e., the fourth input) from the user to 2 pieces of information, namely "xxxx" and "XX" of the plurality of pieces of dialog information (i.e., the at least one piece of content and the first content), respectively, and then the electronic device copies the 2 pieces of information to the sticker.

Then, as shown in fig. 2 (c), after receiving a drag input that the user drags the user identifier 35 (i.e., the second object) in the session list page to the information reference frame 32, the electronic device displays the user identifier 35 in the information reference frame 32; next, the electronic device receives a double-click input (i.e., the third input) from the user to the user identifier 35 (i.e., the first target object), as shown in fig. 2 (d), the electronic device displays a dialog box 36 between the user identifier 35 and the electronic device user 30 on the current page, and displays a plurality of pieces of dialog information (i.e., the N pieces of content) indicated by the user identifier 35 in the dialog box, and at this time, the electronic device receives a triple-click input (i.e., the fourth input) from the user to 1 piece of information "he likes XX" (i.e., the at least one piece of content, the second piece of content) in the plurality of pieces of dialog information, and copies the 1 piece of information to the sticker.

Finally, as shown in (e) of fig. 2, when the electronic device receives the user's input of switching page and switches the display page from the conversation list page 31 to the conversation page 37 of the user 37 in the chat application, an input box 38 is displayed in the conversation page 37, and the above-mentioned 3 pieces of information "XXX of his name", "XX of his name", and "XX of his liking" are displayed in the input box 38.

Therefore, when the electronic equipment needs to quote different contents in different pages, the electronic equipment does not need to repeatedly enter the page containing the final input area, the electronic equipment stores the quoted different contents for many times in the pasting board through the information quote block, and the information stored in the electronic equipment can be directly copied and input into the area again under the condition that the page contains the input area, so that the times of entering the input area are reduced, the operation steps are saved, and the use efficiency of the electronic equipment is improved.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, on the basis, after the first content and the second content are displayed in the input area in step 305, the information referencing method provided in this embodiment of the present application may further include steps B1 and B2 as follows:

step B1: the information reference device receives a fourth input of the user in the editing area.

Step B2: in response to the fourth input, the information referencing means updates the order in the first content and the second content according to order information input by the user.

Illustratively, the order of the first content and the second content corresponds to the order information.

Illustratively, the fourth input is used to adjust the different content order.

For example, the fourth input may be a touch input, for example, a click input, an input of a special gesture, or a voice input, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

For example, the editing area may be used for inputting a sequential input area of a sequence, where the sequential input area may be located in the input area or may be independently suspended on a display interface of the electronic device, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

In one example, after displaying the first content and the second content in the input area, the electronic device may display the order input area on the current page. The order input region may receive a fourth input of an arrangement order of the first content and the second content input by the user, and then order the different contents according to the different content arrangement order input by the user. The fourth input of the above arrangement order may be inputting numbers in the order input area, each number corresponding to the ordering of the first content and the second content, for example, when the electronic device receives the arrangement order "21" input by the user in the order input area, the ordering of the first content and the second content is changed, and the second content is arranged in front of the first content.

In another example, after displaying the first content and the second content in the input area, the electronic device may receive a fourth input of a user for adjusting an order of different contents in the input area, and then sort the contents according to the input of the user for adjusting the order.

It is understood that the above-mentioned sequence input area may be automatically displayed after the electronic device displays the first content and the second content in the input area, or may be displayed after the electronic device displays the first content and the second content in the input area, and a specific input of the sequence input area is displayed. The specific input may be an input mode preset in advance or set by a user in a user-defined manner for the electronic device, for example, the specific input may be any area of the current interface, or may also be that the electronic device automatically displays an edit control on the current interface after displaying the first content and the second content in the input area, and displays the sequential input area after the electronic device receives the input of the user to the margin control.

In one example, the first content and/or the second content may be composed of several sub-contents, wherein each sub-content may be different content automatically divided by the electronic device in the first content. For example, when the first content includes 3 different pieces of dialog information in one dialog box, each piece of information may be one sub-content.

Further, the sub-content may be different content divided by a user in the first content. For example, when the first content includes 1 different part of dialog information in one dialog box, each different part of the piece of information may be one sub-content.

Further, the fourth input may be an input for updating different sub-contents for the user. For example, the user may input the order of arranging the sub-contents for the different sub-contents, and the electronic device updates the order of the different sub-contents according to the order of arranging the sub-contents.

Example 2: in connection with the above example 1, as shown in (a) of fig. 3, after the 2 pieces of information are displayed in the input box 38, the first piece of information (i.e., the above first content) is "his title XXX", "his XX year", "he likes XX", and the second piece of information (i.e., the above second content) is "his personal title XX", a sequence input box 39 is displayed in the input box 38, and the user inputs 21 in the sequence input box 39, the two pieces of information are arranged in the sequence of "other personal title XX", "his likes XX", "his XXX", and "his XX year".

Example 3: in connection with the above example 1, as shown in (b) of fig. 3, after the above 3 pieces of information "his XXX", "his XX year", "he likes XX" are displayed in the input box 38, a sequence input box 39 is displayed in the input box 38, and the user inputs 312 in the sequence input box 39, the above 3 pieces of information are arranged in the sequence of "he likes XX", "his XXX", and "his XX year".

Therefore, after the electronic equipment receives the contents quoted by the user on different pages, the electronic equipment can conveniently finish the adjustment of different quote content sequences in the input box through the fourth input in order to facilitate the user to sort the quoted contents, and therefore the efficiency of the user for quoting the contents is improved.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, after the first content and the second content are displayed in the input area in step 305, the information referencing method provided in this embodiment of the present application may further include steps C1 to C3 as follows:

step C1: and the information reference device receives fifth input of the user to the first object and the second object.

Step C2: in response to the fifth input, the information referencing means updates the display order of the first object and the second object in the information referencing block.

Step C3: the information citation device updates the order of the first content and the second content according to the display order.

Illustratively, the order of the first content and the second content corresponds to the display order.

For example, the fifth input may be used to adjust the first content indicated by the first object and the second content indicated by the second content.

For example, the fifth input may be a touch input, for example, a click input, an input of a special gesture, or a voice input, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application

It is understood that, when the contents displayed in the information reference block are the first object and the second object, the electronic device may adjust the positions of the first contents indicated by the first object and the second contents indicated by the second object by receiving a user input of displaying positions of the first object and the second object in the information application block.

Therefore, the electronic equipment changes the first content and the second content respectively indicated by the first object and the second object by receiving the input of the first object and the second object displayed in the user adjustment information application block, so that the operation of adjusting the content display sequence can be completed more conveniently in the information reference block, and the efficiency of using the electronic equipment by the user is improved.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the information reference block includes a first area and a second area, the first area is used for displaying the first object and the second object, and the second area is used for displaying the receiving objects of the first content and the second content. On this basis, the information citation method provided by the embodiment of the application may further include the following steps D1 to D2:

step D1: the information referencing means receives a sixth input from the user to the above-mentioned reception object.

Step D2: in response to the sixth input, the information referencing means displays the received object in the second area.

Step D3: the information referencing means transmits the first content and the second content to the receiving object

For example, the sixth input may be a touch input, for example, a click input or a drag input, or may be an input of a special gesture, or may be a voice input, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

It can be understood that, after the electronic device displays the first object and the second object through the first area, and the second area is used for displaying the received objects of the first content and the second content, after the user completes selection of the reference content, if the user triggers the electronic device to leave the current page and opens a page including an input area including other objects except the received object, the first content and the second content are not displayed in the input area in the page of the other object, and only after the electronic device opens the page of the received object, the input area in the page of the received objects of the first content and the second content is displayed.

Example 4: in connection with the above example 1, as shown in (a) of fig. 4, an information reference block 32 is displayed on the session list page 31, wherein the information reference block is divided into a first area 41 and a second area 42, wherein the first area 41 is used to display the user identifier 33 (i.e., the above first object) and the user identifier 35 (i.e., the above second object). After the electronic device copies the 3 pieces of information to the sticker sheet, the electronic device receives an input (i.e., the sixth input) that the user drags the user identifier 43 to the second area 42 (i.e., the receiving object), and then displays the user identifier 43 in the second area 42.

When the user triggers the electronic device to leave the current page to the page 45 corresponding to the user identifier 44, the 3 pieces of information are not displayed in the input box of the page 45, as shown in (b) in fig. 4, when the user triggers the electronic device to leave the current page to the page 46 corresponding to the user identifier 43, the 3 pieces of information, "his XXX", "his XX year", "his liking XX" are displayed in the input box of the page 46, and then, the user clicks the sending control, and sends the 3 pieces of information to the user indicated by the user identifier 43.

Therefore, the electronic equipment can limit the page of the received information through the information reference block capable of indicating the received object, so that the reference paths of the first content and the second content can be clearly limited, and further, the electronic equipment is convenient for a user to avoid mistaken pasting and improve the use experience of the user under the condition that the user cannot complete reference at one time and needs to process other transactions and other pages contain input areas.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the first input is a selection input of the first object by a user through a first selection control. On this basis, before the step 301, the information citation method provided by the embodiment of the present application may further include the following steps E1 and E2:

step E1: and the information reference device receives a seventh input of the addition control in the information reference block from the user.

Step E2: in response to the seventh input, the information referencing device displays the first selection control.

For example, the seventh input may be a touch input, for example, a click input or a drag input, or may be an input of a special gesture, or may be a voice input, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

Illustratively, the add control is configured to instruct the electronic device to display a first selection control.

For example, the first selection control described above may be used to select the content indicated by the first object.

In one example, the first selection control may be a variable-shape control, and the control may be overlaid on part or all of the content indicated by the first object, where the overlaid content is the first content, that is, content in the content indicated by the first object.

Example 5: in the case that the user needs to refer different information in the shopping application and the news application to the chat application, as shown in (a) in fig. 5, assuming that the first page is a page 51 in the shopping application and the second page is a page 52 in the news application, an information reference frame 32 (i.e. the above information reference block) is displayed in a floating manner on the different pages (the page 51 and the page 52) of the display screen, an adding control 53 is displayed on the information reference frame 32, after the electronic device receives a click input of the adding control 53 by the user (i.e. the above seventh input), the electronic device displays a selection content control 54 (i.e. the above selection control) on the information reference frame 32, as shown in (b) in fig. 5, the electronic device receives the user's drag input to the selection content control 54, changes the shape of the selection content control 54, the area covered by the selection content control 54 on the page 51 is the content of the page 51 selected by the user, then, as shown in fig. 5 (c), the selected content control 54 (i.e., the first object described above) of the content in the selected page 51 is dragged into the information reference frame 32.

Then, as shown in (d) of fig. 5, the electronic device switches to the page 52, and similar to the above operation, the electronic device drags the selected content control 55 (i.e., the above second object) of the content in the selected page 52 into the information reference frame 32.

Finally, as shown in (e) in fig. 5, when the electronic device receives a page switching input from the user, and switches the display page from the page 52 to the conversation page 37 of the user 37 in the chat application, an input box 38 is displayed in the conversation page 37, and then the contents "eye cream XX is original" and "eye cream has XX hazard" selected by the above-mentioned selection content control 54 and selection content control 55 are displayed in the input box 38.

Therefore, the electronic equipment can conveniently quote different contents in different pages of different applications through the information quote block without repeatedly entering the page finally provided with the input box, so that the steps of operation when a user quotes the contents are reduced, and the use efficiency of the electronic equipment is improved.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, after the displaying of the first selection control in the step E2, in the step 301, the information referencing method provided in this embodiment of the present application may further include the following steps F1 and F2:

step F1: the information referencing device receives a first input from a user to control the first selection control over the first object.

Step F2: in response to the first input, the information citation device adjusts the coverage of the first selection control on the content indicated by the first object, and determines the content in the coverage as the first content.

In one example, the first input may be a drag input.

For example, the first selection control may be displayed in a different shape. E.g. rectangular, oval. The shape of the first selection control may be preset for the electronic device or may be user-defined, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

In one example, the first selection control described above may be displayed on the content indicated by the first object with a predetermined transparency. The preset transparency can be preset for the electronic device or can be customized for the user.

It is to be understood that, after the electronic device receives a coverage range of the first selection control over the content indicated by the first object, which is ended by the user (for example, a finger of the user is released on the display screen), the electronic device may automatically determine the content within the coverage range as the content that the user needs to refer to (i.e., the first content), and may also determine the content within the coverage range as the content that the user needs to refer to (i.e., the first content) after receiving a confirmation input of the user, for example, after receiving a confirmation input of a "confirmation button" clicked by the user, the electronic device determines the selected content as the content that the user needs to refer to (i.e., the first content).

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the information citation method provided in this embodiment of the present application may further include the following step G1 and step G2:

step G1: the information referencing means receives a ninth input by the user to the second target object.

For example, the second target object is the first object and/or the second object.

Step G2: in response to the ninth input, the information referencing device edits the second target object.

For example, the ninth input may be a touch input, for example, a click input or a drag input, or may be an input of a special gesture, or may be a voice input, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

For example, the information reference device may edit the second target object by adjusting the sequence, adding a website link, bolding characters, and highlighting characters for the second target object.

In one example, a processing control may be included on the first selection control, and the processing control may be configured to trigger the electronic device to display an edit bar, where a user may select the edit control in the edit bar to edit the content selected by the first selection control.

In connection with example 6 above: as shown in fig. 6 (a), after the electronic device drags the selected content control 55 (i.e., the second object) of the selected content in the selected page 52 into the information reference frame 32, the processing control 61 on the selected content control 55 is selected, and as shown in fig. 6 (b), an edit bar 62 is displayed in the page 52, and includes: and adding three options of website link, bold characters and highlight characters. After the electronic device receives the user input of the additional website link option, as shown in fig. 6 (c), the electronic device adds the corresponding website link to the content in the selected content control 55.

Therefore, the information reference device can conveniently edit the content indicated by the second target object through inputting the second target object, and simplifies the step of editing by the user through subsequent re-selection.

The beneficial effects of the various implementation manners in this embodiment may specifically refer to the beneficial effects of the corresponding implementation manners in the above method embodiments, and are not described herein again to avoid repetition.

It should be noted that, in the information referencing method provided in the embodiment of the present application, the execution subject may be an information referencing device, or a control module in the information referencing device for executing the information referencing method. In the embodiment of the present application, an information citation device provided in the embodiment of the present application is described by taking an example in which the information citation device executes an information citation method.

Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of a possible structure of an information citation device provided in an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 7, the apparatus 600 includes: a receiving module 601 and a display module 602; the receiving module 601 is configured to receive a first input of a first object by a user, where the first object is an object in a first page displayed on a display screen of an electronic device, and an information reference block is displayed in a suspended manner on the display screen; the display module 602, configured to display a first object in the information reference block in response to the first input received by the receiving module 601; the receiving module 601 is further configured to receive a second input of a second object from a user, where the second object is an object in a second page displayed on the display screen; the display module 602 is further configured to display a second object in the information reference block in response to the second input received by the receiving module; the display module 602 is further configured to display, in a case where an input area is displayed on the display screen, a first content and a second content in the input area, where the first content is a content indicated by the first object, and the second content is a content indicated by the second object.

The information reference device provided by the embodiment of the application can display the first object in the information reference block displayed on the display screen in a floating mode after receiving the first input of the first object of the first page by the user, then display the second object in the information reference block displayed on the display screen in a floating mode after receiving the second input of the second object pair of the second page by the user, and finally directly display the first content indicated by the first object and the second content indicated by the second object in the input area under the condition that the input area is displayed on the display screen. In the process, when a user needs to refer to different contents in a plurality of pages, the user can complete the reference by displaying the objects of the different contents in the information reference block always suspended in the display screen, so that the user does not need to continuously and repeatedly enter the page containing the input area and repeatedly perform pasting and copying, the steps of the content reference process of the electronic equipment can be simplified, and the time consumption of the content reference process of the electronic equipment is saved.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the apparatus 600 further includes: a copy module 603; the receiving module 601 is further configured to receive a third input from a user to a first target object, where the first target object is the first object or the second object; the display module 602 is further configured to display N contents indicated by the first target object in response to the third input received 601 by the receiving module, where N is a positive integer; the receiving module 601 is further configured to receive a fourth input of at least one of the N contents from the user; the copy module 603 is further configured to copy the at least one content to a pasting board in response to the fourth input received by the receiving module 601; wherein the at least one content is a first content or the second content.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the apparatus 600 further includes an updating module 604; the receiving module 601 is further configured to receive a fourth input of the user in the editing area; the updating module 604 is configured to update the sequence of the first content and the second content according to sequence information input by a user in response to the fourth input received by the receiving module 601, where the sequence of the first content and the second content corresponds to the sequence information.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the apparatus 600 further includes an updating module 604; the receiving module 601 is configured to receive a fifth input of the first object and the second object from the user; the updating module 604, configured to update the display order of the first object and the second object in the information reference block in response to a fifth input received by the receiving module 601; the updating module 604 is further configured to update the sequence of the first content and the second content according to the display sequence updated by the updating module 604, where the sequence of the first content and the second content corresponds to the display sequence.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the information reference block includes a first area and a second area, the first area is used for displaying the first object and the second object, and the second area is used for displaying a receiving object of the first content and the second content; the receiving module 601 is further configured to receive a sixth input of the receiving object from the user; the display module 602 is configured to display the receiving object in the second area in response to the sixth input received by the receiving module 601.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the first input is a selection input of the first object by a user through a first selection control; the apparatus further comprises a sending module 605; the receiving module 601 is further configured to receive a seventh input of the user to the add control in the information reference block; the display module 602 is further configured to display the first selection control in response to the seventh input received by the receiving module 601, and the sending module 605 is configured to send the first content and the second content to the receiving object.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the apparatus 600 further includes an adjusting module 606; the receiving module 601 is configured to receive a first input of a user controlling the first selection control on the first object; the adjusting module 606 is configured to adjust a coverage area of the first selection control on the content indicated by the first object in response to the first input received by the receiving module 601, and determine the content in the coverage area as the first content.

The information reference device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device, and may also be a component, an integrated circuit, or a chip in a terminal. The device can be mobile electronic equipment or non-mobile electronic equipment. By way of example, the mobile electronic device may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm top computer, a vehicle-mounted electronic device, a wearable device, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a netbook or a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and the like, and the non-mobile electronic device may be a server, a Network Attached Storage (NAS), a Personal Computer (PC), a Television (TV), a teller machine or a self-service machine, and the like, and the embodiments of the present application are not particularly limited.

The information citation device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device having an operating system. The operating system may be an Android (Android) operating system, an ios operating system, or other possible operating systems, and embodiments of the present application are not limited specifically.

The information citation device provided in the embodiment of the application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiments of fig. 1 to fig. 6, and is not described here again to avoid repetition.

It should be noted that, as shown in fig. 7, modules that are necessarily included in the information referencing apparatus 600 are illustrated by solid line boxes, such as a receiving module 601; modules that may or may not be included in the information referencing device 600 are illustrated with dashed boxes, such as update module 604.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 8, an electronic device 800 is further provided in this embodiment of the present application, and includes a processor 801, a memory 802, and a program or an instruction stored in the memory 802 and executable on the processor 801, where the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 801 to implement each process of the above-mentioned information referencing method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

It should be noted that the electronic device in the embodiment of the present application includes the mobile electronic device and the non-mobile electronic device described above.

Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an electronic device implementing an embodiment of the present application.

The electronic device 100 includes, but is not limited to: a radio frequency unit 101, a network module 102, an audio output unit 103, an input unit 104, a sensor 105, a display unit 106, a user input unit 107, an interface unit 108, a memory 109, and a processor 110. Wherein the user input unit 107 includes: touch panel 1071 and other input devices 1072, display unit 106 including display panel 1061, input unit 104 including image processor 1041 and microphone 1042, memory 109 may be used to store software programs (e.g., an operating system, application programs needed for at least one function), and various data.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the electronic device 100 may further comprise a power source (e.g., a battery) for supplying power to various components, and the power source may be logically connected to the processor 110 through a power management system, so as to implement functions of managing charging, discharging, and power consumption through the power management system. The electronic device structure shown in fig. 9 does not constitute a limitation of the electronic device, and the electronic device may include more or less components than those shown, or combine some components, or arrange different components, and thus, the description is not repeated here.

The user input unit 107 is configured to receive a first input of a first object by a user, where the first object is an object in a first page displayed on a display screen of the electronic device, and an information reference block is displayed in a suspended manner on the display screen; the display unit 106, configured to display a first object in the information reference block in response to the first input received by the user input unit 107; a user input unit 107, configured to receive a second input of a second object from a user, where the second object is an object in a second page displayed on the display screen; the display unit 106 is further configured to display a second object in the information reference block in response to the second input received by the user input unit 107; the display unit 106 is further configured to display, in a case where an input area is displayed on the display screen, a first content and a second content in the input area, where the first content is a content indicated by the first object, and the second content is a content indicated by the second object.

According to the electronic device provided by the embodiment of the application, after receiving a first input of a first object of a first page by a user, the electronic device can display the first object in an information reference block displayed in a floating mode on a display screen, then, after receiving a second input of a second object pair of a second page by the user, the electronic device can display the second object in the information reference block displayed in the floating mode on the display screen, and finally, under the condition that an input area is displayed on the display screen, first content indicated by the first object and second content indicated by the second object can be directly displayed in the input area. In the process, when a user needs to refer to different contents in a plurality of pages, the user can complete the reference by displaying the objects of the different contents in the information reference block always suspended in the display screen, so that the user does not need to continuously and repeatedly enter the page containing the input area and repeatedly perform pasting and copying, the steps of the content reference process of the electronic equipment can be simplified, and the time consumption of the content reference process of the electronic equipment is saved.

Optionally, the user input unit 107 is further configured to receive a third input from a user to a first target object, where the first target object is the first object or the second object; the display unit 106 is further configured to display N contents indicated by the first target object in response to a third input received by the user input unit 107, where N is a positive integer; the user input unit 107 is further configured to receive a fourth input of at least one of the N contents from the user; the processor 110, configured to copy the at least one content to a sticker sheet in response to the fourth input received by the user input unit 107; wherein the at least one content is a first content or the second content.

Optionally, the user input unit 107 is further configured to receive a fourth input of the user in the editing area; the processor 110 is configured to update an order of the first content and the second content according to order information input by a user in response to the fourth input received by the user input unit 107, where the order of the first content and the second content corresponds to the order information.

Optionally, the user input unit 107 is specifically configured to receive a fifth input of the first object and the second object from the user; the processor 110 is specifically configured to update a display order of the first object and the second object in the information reference block in response to the fifth input received by the user input unit 107; the processor 110 is further specifically configured to update an order of the first content and the second content according to the display order, where the order of the first content and the second content corresponds to the display order.

Optionally, the information reference block includes a first area and a second area, the first area is used for displaying the first object and the second object, and the second area is used for displaying the receiving objects of the first content and the second content; the user input unit 107 is further configured to receive a sixth input to the receiving object from the user; the display unit 106 is further configured to display the reception object in the second area in response to the sixth input received by the user input unit 107; the radio frequency unit 101 is configured to transmit the first content and the second content to the receiving object displayed by the display unit 106.

Optionally, the first input is a selection input of the first object by a user through a first selection control; the user input unit 107 is further configured to receive a seventh input of the user to the add control in the information reference block; the display unit 106 is further configured to display the first selection control in response to the seventh input received by the user input unit 107.

Optionally, the user input unit 107 is specifically configured to receive a first input of a user controlling the first selection control on the first object; the processor 110 is specifically configured to, in response to the first input received by the user input unit 107, adjust a coverage of the first selection control on the content indicated by the first object, and determine the content in the coverage as the first content.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the input Unit 104 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 1041 and a microphone 1042, and the Graphics Processing Unit 1041 processes image data of a still picture or a video obtained by an image capturing device (such as a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The display unit 106 may include a display panel 1061, and the display panel 1061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 107 includes a touch panel 1071 and other input devices 1072. The touch panel 1071 is also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 1071 may include two parts of a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 1072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described in detail herein. The memory 109 may be used to store software programs as well as various data including, but not limited to, application programs and an operating system. The processor 110 may integrate an application processor, which primarily handles operating systems, user interfaces, applications, etc., and a modem processor, which primarily handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 110.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a readable storage medium, where a program or an instruction is stored on the readable storage medium, and when the program or the instruction is executed by a processor, the program or the instruction implements each process of the above-mentioned information referencing method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

The processor is the processor in the electronic device described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes a computer readable storage medium, such as a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and so on.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to execute a program or an instruction to implement each process of the above-mentioned information referencing method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and is not described here again to avoid repetition.

It should be understood that the chips mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as system-on-chip, system-on-chip or system-on-chip, etc.

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. Further, it should be noted that the scope of the methods and apparatus of the embodiments of the present application is not limited to performing the functions in the order illustrated or discussed, but may include performing the functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in a reverse order based on the functions involved, e.g., the methods described may be performed in an order different than that described, and various steps may be added, omitted, or combined. In addition, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

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 application 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 application.

While the present embodiments have been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise embodiments described above, which are meant to be illustrative and not restrictive, and that various changes may be made therein by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. An information referencing method, characterized in that the method comprises:

receiving a first input of a user to a first object, wherein the first object is an object in a first page displayed on a display screen of electronic equipment, and an information reference block is displayed on the display screen in a suspension manner;

displaying a first object in the information reference block in response to the first input;

receiving a second input of a user to a second object, wherein the second object is an object in a second page displayed by the display screen;

displaying a second object in the information reference block in response to the second input;

and under the condition that an input area is displayed on the display screen, displaying first content and second content in the input area, wherein the first content is the content indicated by the first object, and the second content is the content indicated by the second object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein after displaying the second object in the information reference block, before displaying the first content and the second content in the input area, the method further comprises:

receiving a third input of a user to a first target object, wherein the first target object is the first object or the second object;

in response to the third input, displaying N contents indicated by the first target object, wherein N is a positive integer;

receiving a fourth input of the user for at least one of the N contents;

copying the at least one content to a sticker sheet in response to the fourth input;

wherein the at least one content is a first content or the second content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein after displaying the first content and the second content in the input area, the method further comprises:

receiving a fourth input of the user in the editing area;

updating an order of the first content and the second content according to order information input by a user in response to the fourth input, the order of the first content and the second content corresponding to the order information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein after displaying the first content and the second content in the input area, the method further comprises:

receiving a fifth input of the first object and the second object by the user;

updating a display order of the first object and the second object in the information reference block in response to the fifth input;

updating an order of the first content and the second content according to the display order, the order of the first content and the second content corresponding to the display order.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein the information reference block includes a first area for displaying the first object and the second object and a second area for displaying a reception object of the first content and the second content;

the method further comprises the following steps:

receiving a sixth input of the receiving object by the user;

displaying the received object in the second area in response to the sixth input;

transmitting the first content and the second content to the receiving object.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first input is a user selection input of the first object through a first selection control;

before the receiving of the first input of the first object by the user, the method further includes:

receiving a seventh input of a user to an add control in the information reference block;

in response to the seventh input, displaying the first selection control.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein receiving a first input by a user to a first object after displaying the first selection control comprises:

receiving a first input from a user controlling the first selection control on a first object;

in response to the first input, adjusting a coverage of the first selection control over the content indicated by the first object and determining content within the coverage as first content.

8. An information referencing apparatus, comprising: the device comprises a receiving module and a display module;

the receiving module is used for receiving a first input of a user to a first object, wherein the first object is an object in a first page displayed on a display screen of the electronic equipment, and an information reference block is displayed on the display screen in a suspension manner;

the display module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module and displaying a first object in the information reference block;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a second input of a second object by the user, where the second object is an object in a second page displayed by the display screen;

the display module is further configured to display a second object in the information reference block in response to the second input received by the receiving module;

the display module is further configured to display first content and second content in the input area under the condition that the input area is displayed on the display screen, where the first content is content indicated by the first object, and the second content is content indicated by the second object.

9. An electronic device comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program or instructions when executed by the processor implementing the steps of the information referencing method of any of claims 1-7.

10. A readable storage medium, on which a program or instructions are stored, which when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the information referencing method according to any one of claims 1 to 7.