CN113641886A

CN113641886A - Searching method and device and electronic equipment

Info

Publication number: CN113641886A
Application number: CN202110801560.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 樊钰
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-07-15
Filing date: 2021-07-15
Publication date: 2021-11-12
Also published as: WO2023284799A1

Abstract

The application discloses a searching method, a searching device and electronic equipment, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The method and the device can solve the problems that the operation of searching the content through the electronic equipment is complex, and the user experience is poor. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a first input of a user; responding to the first input, and displaying M first interfaces corresponding to M application programs, wherein the M application programs are determined by the first input, and M is a positive integer larger than 1; displaying N second interfaces corresponding to N application programs under the condition that a first search box is displayed and comprises first information, wherein N is a positive integer less than or equal to M; wherein one of the N second interfaces comprises: and the content related to the first information is obtained by searching one of the N applications corresponding to the one second interface, wherein the N applications are applications of the M applications.

Description

Searching method and device and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of communication, and particularly relates to a searching method, a searching device and electronic equipment.

Background

With the development of communication technology, the functions of electronic devices become more abundant, for example, users can shop, purchase tickets, etc. in the electronic devices.

However, in a shopping, ticketing, etc. scenario, a user may need to compare goods, prices of goods, etc. on different platforms. For example, when a user wants to buy a headset, the user can check the price, configuration and the like of the headset through a shopping application program on the electronic device, and then trigger the electronic device to switch to another shopping application program, and check the price and configuration of the headset in the another shopping application program, so that the user can compare the price and configuration of the headset in different shopping application programs to buy more desirable things.

Based on the above manner, when shopping, ticket purchasing or other operations are performed on a plurality of platforms, if a user wants to search for a certain content, the user needs to frequently trigger the electronic device to repeatedly switch the search content among a plurality of application programs, so that the operation of searching for the content through the electronic device is complicated, and the search efficiency is low.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application aims to provide a searching method, a searching device and electronic equipment, and can solve the problems that the operation of searching contents through the electronic equipment is complex and the user experience is poor.

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 a search method, where the method includes: receiving a first input of a user; responding to the first input, and displaying M first interfaces corresponding to M application programs, wherein the M application programs are determined by the first input, and M is a positive integer larger than 1; displaying N second interfaces corresponding to N application programs under the condition that a first search box is displayed and comprises first information, wherein N is a positive integer less than or equal to M; wherein one of the N second interfaces comprises: and the content related to the first information is obtained by searching one of the N applications corresponding to the one second interface, wherein the N applications are applications of the M applications.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a search apparatus, including: the device comprises a receiving module and a display module. The receiving module is used for receiving a first input of a user. The display module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module and displaying M first interfaces corresponding to M application programs, wherein the M application programs are determined by the first input, and M is a positive integer greater than 1; displaying N second interfaces corresponding to N application programs under the condition that a first search box is displayed and comprises first information, wherein N is a positive integer less than or equal to M; wherein one of the N second interfaces comprises: and the content related to the first information is obtained by searching one of the N applications corresponding to the one second interface, wherein the N applications are applications of the M applications.

In a third aspect, embodiments of the present application provide an electronic device, which includes a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, where the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the method as in 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 as in the first aspect described above.

In a fifth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide 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 as in the first aspect.

In the embodiment of the application, a first input of a user can be received; responding to the first input, and displaying M first interfaces corresponding to M application programs, wherein the M application programs are determined by the first input, and M is a positive integer larger than 1; displaying N second interfaces corresponding to N application programs under the condition that a first search box is displayed and comprises first information, wherein N is a positive integer less than or equal to M; wherein one of the N second interfaces comprises: and the content related to the first information is obtained by searching one of the N applications corresponding to the one second interface, wherein the N applications are applications of the M applications. According to the scheme, the M first interfaces corresponding to the M application programs running simultaneously can be triggered and displayed through input of a user, so that N second interfaces including content related to the first information obtained through N application program searching can be respectively displayed under the condition that the first search frame is displayed and the first information is included in the first search frame, therefore, the user can view all results obtained after the N application programs search the first information at one time through each second interface in the N second interfaces, the user does not need to frequently trigger the electronic equipment to be switched to different application programs to search the content, and the function of searching the multiple application programs simultaneously is achieved. Thus, the operation of searching the content through the electronic equipment is simplified, and the searching efficiency is improved.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a search method provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an interface for content search according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a search apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a hardware schematic diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application.

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 is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein. 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.

In the embodiments of the present application, words such as "exemplary" or "for example" are used to mean serving as examples, illustrations or descriptions. Any embodiment or design described herein as "exemplary" or "e.g.," should not be construed as advantageous over other embodiments or designs. Rather, use of the word "exemplary" or "such as" is intended to present concepts related in a concrete fashion.

In the description of the embodiments of the present application, unless otherwise specified, "a plurality" means two or more, for example, a plurality of elements means two or more elements, and the like.

The embodiment of the application provides a searching method, a searching device and electronic equipment, which can receive a first input of a user; responding to the first input, and displaying M first interfaces corresponding to M application programs, wherein the M application programs are determined by the first input, and M is a positive integer larger than 1; displaying N second interfaces corresponding to N application programs under the condition that a first search box is displayed and comprises first information, wherein N is a positive integer less than or equal to M; wherein one of the N second interfaces comprises: and the content related to the first information is obtained by searching one of the N applications corresponding to the one second interface, wherein the N applications are applications of the M applications. According to the scheme, the M first interfaces corresponding to the M application programs running simultaneously can be triggered and displayed through input of a user, so that N second interfaces including content related to the first information obtained through N application program searching can be respectively displayed under the condition that the first search frame is displayed and the first information is included in the first search frame, therefore, the user can view all results obtained after the N application programs search the first information at one time through each second interface in the N second interfaces, the user does not need to frequently trigger the electronic equipment to be switched to different application programs to search the content, and the function of searching the multiple application programs simultaneously is achieved. Thus, the operation of searching the content through the electronic equipment is simplified, and the searching efficiency is improved.

The searching method, the searching device and the electronic device provided by the embodiment of the present application are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings through specific embodiments and application scenarios thereof.

As shown in fig. 1, an embodiment of the present application provides a search method, which includes the following steps S101 to S103.

S101, receiving a first input of a user by a search device.

Optionally, the first input may be a touch input, a voice input, or a gesture input. For example, the touch input is a click input of icons of M application programs. Of course, the first input may also be other possible inputs, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

S102, the searching device responds to the first input and displays M first interfaces corresponding to M application programs.

The M application programs are determined through first input, and M is a positive integer larger than 1.

Alternatively, the M applications may be search applications or other applications with search functions. In addition, the M applications may be system applications or third party applications. The method is determined according to actual use conditions, and the method is not limited in the embodiment of the application.

Further, the M applications may be applications belonging to the same type, or applications belonging to different types.

In addition, each first interface may be a home interface, or other interface including a search function of one of the M applications.

Optionally, the step of "displaying M first interfaces corresponding to M applications" in S102 includes: the electronic equipment simultaneously runs the M application programs in the foreground, and displays a first interface of each application program in the M application programs in a windowing mode.

Optionally, the first input may be used to select P applications, and the M applications are the same type of application in the P applications. Therefore, when the P application programs are selected through the first input, the M application programs belonging to the same type in the P application programs can be triggered to be obtained firstly, and then M first interfaces corresponding to the M application programs are displayed, namely the M application programs belonging to the same type can be triggered to run by the electronic equipment at the same time through the first input.

S103, under the condition that the first search box is displayed and comprises first information, the search device displays N second interfaces corresponding to the N application programs.

Wherein one of the N second interfaces comprises: and searching the content related to the first information through one of the N application programs corresponding to the one second interface, wherein the N application programs are application programs in the M application programs. N is a positive integer less than or equal to M.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the first search box is a fusion search entry for the electronic device to search according to the first information through each application program of the M application programs.

Optionally, a search control may be included in the first search box. Specifically, in the case that the user triggers the search control, whether the first search box includes the first information is monitored through the first search box. If the first search box comprises the first information, triggering to search according to the first information; if the first search box does not include any information, no operation is performed.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, the first information may include at least one of: text information, picture information, identification information or other possible information, which is not limited in the embodiments of the present application.

Specifically, when the first information is text information, the first information may be keyword information or a name, for example, the first information is "headphone"; when the first information is picture information, the first information may be a real picture, for example, the first information is "one earphone picture"; when the first information may be identification information, the first information may be an icon or a trademark, for example, the first information is "a certain brand logo".

Optionally, the first information may be any one of the following items: information input in the first search box, content displayed in the M first interfaces.

Further, in the case that the first information is content displayed in M first interfaces, the first information may be one or more content displayed in one first interface, or content displayed in a plurality of first interfaces. The method can be determined according to actual use conditions, and is not limited in the embodiment of the application.

Specifically, one possible scenario is: when the first information is information input in the first search box, in a case that the first search box is displayed, the search method provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include: an input is received that a user entered first information in a first search box.

Another possible scenario is: when the first information is content displayed in M first interfaces, after S102 and before S103, the search method provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include: the searching device receives second input aiming at a first interface in the M first interfaces; the search means displays the first information in the first search box in response to the second input. Wherein, the first information is the content in the first interface. In this way, without the need for the user to click a keyboard to input information in the first search box, information of content in a certain first interface can be directly displayed in the first search box, i.e., another way of inputting first information in the first search box is provided.

Optionally, the second input may be touch input, voice input, or gesture input to the first interface. For example, the touch input is an input of a user dragging content in the first interface to the first search box. Of course, the second input may also be other possible inputs, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the content related to the first information included in one of the N second interfaces may include at least one of: text content, picture content, and file content.

Further, when the content related to the first information included in one second interface is file content, the file content may be in a txt text format, a word document format, or a powerpoint presentation format.

Illustratively, assume that the first information is "butterfly orchid" and one of the N applications is a browser. The content searched by the browser according to the first information comprises the butterfly orchid introduction and the butterfly orchid live-action picture.

Illustratively, assume that the first information is "xx headphones," and one of the N applications is a shopping-class application. The content searched by the shopping application program according to the first information comprises earphone configuration information, price and other content.

Illustratively, assume that the first information is "graduation paper" and one of the N applications is a cloud disk class application. And the content searched by the cloud disk application program according to the first information is a word document named as a graduation paper.

Optionally, the N application programs are selected application programs among the M application programs. That is, before displaying N second interfaces corresponding to the N application programs, the search method provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include: the searching device receives user input on N first interfaces in the M first interfaces; and responding to the input, and selecting N application programs corresponding to the N first interfaces. In this way, the user can select an application program that wants to search for the first information from the M application programs provided at will.

Alternatively, the S103 may specifically include the following S103A to S103C.

S103A, in case that the first search box is displayed and includes the first information, the search means sends the first information to each of the N applications.

S103B, the searching device searches the first information through each application program.

Optionally, after the above S102A and before S102B, the search method provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include: the search means receives the first information through each application.

S103C, the searching device displays N second interfaces.

It should be noted that, because the search logic of each of the N applications may be the same or different, each application may search the first information according to the respective search logic and display the respective search result, that is, display the N second interfaces.

Illustratively, the search apparatus is a mobile phone, and N is 3. If the user wants to search for content that the user wants to query using multiple applications, the user can select icon 1, icon 2, and icon 3 displayed on the cell phone. After receiving an input of selecting the icon 1, the icon 2, and the icon 3, in response to the input, as shown in (a) of fig. 2, the mobile phone displays the interface 01, the interface 02, and the interface 03. Interface 01 is the interface of shopping application 1 indicated by icon 1, interface 02 is the interface of shopping application 2 indicated by icon 2, and interface 03 is the interface of shopping application 3 indicated by icon 3. The handset also displays a search box 04. If the user wants to buy a headset, the user can enter "headset" (i.e., the first information) in this search box 04 (i.e., the first search box). The mobile phone may acquire the first information "headset" in the search box 04 and transmit the first information to the shopping application 1, the shopping application 2, and the shopping application 3 so that the mobile phone may receive the first information through each application. Next, the mobile phone can search for "headset" through the shopping application 1, the shopping application 2, and the shopping application 3, respectively, and display the interface 06, the interface 07, and the interface 08 as shown in (b) of fig. 2. The interface 06 comprises contents such as 'brand A earphone, brand B earphone and brand C earphone' and price searched according to the first information; the interface 07 comprises contents of 'A brand earphones, B brand earphones and C brand earphones', price and the like which are obtained through searching according to the first information; the interface 08 includes contents such as "brand a headphones, brand B headphones, and brand D headphones" and price searched based on the first information.

The embodiment of the application provides a searching method, and because the M first interfaces corresponding to the M applications running simultaneously can be triggered and displayed through input of a user, N second interfaces including content related to first information obtained through searching of the N applications can be respectively displayed under the condition that a first search frame is displayed and the first search frame includes the first information, a user can view all results of the N applications after searching the first information at one time through each second interface in the N second interfaces, the user does not need to frequently trigger the electronic device to be switched to different applications to search the content, and therefore the function of searching the multiple applications simultaneously is achieved. Thus, the operation of searching the content through the electronic equipment is simplified, and the searching efficiency is improved.

Optionally, the first input is for selecting P applications. Before the above S101, the search method provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes the following S104. Accordingly, the above S102 may be implemented by the following S102A.

And S104, displaying the icon by the search device.

The application programs corresponding to the icons comprise M application programs.

Optionally, a plurality of icons are displayed on the electronic device, and the icon is an icon of the plurality of icons. Further, icons of different types of applications or icons of the same type of applications may be included in the icon. The method is determined according to actual use conditions, and the method is not limited in the embodiment of the application.

Optionally, when the first input is used to select P applications, and if there are other applications that belong to the target type and are not selected in the applications corresponding to the icons displayed on the electronic device, after S101, the search method provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include: the searching device responds to the first input and displays first prompt information, and the first prompt information is used for prompting a user whether to select to add the application program belonging to the target type. In this way, the user may need to trigger the addition of the same type of application as the M applications, thereby starting the function of searching for content simultaneously by more applications.

S102A, the searching device responds to the first input, obtains the target type and displays M first interfaces corresponding to M application programs.

Wherein, the number of M application programs belonging to the target type in the P application programs is the largest. When the application programs corresponding to the icons except the P icons in the icons have application programs belonging to the target type, the M application programs comprise the application programs belonging to the target type in the P application programs and the application programs belonging to the target type in the application programs corresponding to the icons except the P icons in the icons, and each icon in the P icons is used for indicating one application program in the P application programs.

Optionally, in a case that the P applications include other applications that do not belong to the target type, the search method provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include: the search means displays second prompt information for prompting the user whether to deselect or remove an application not belonging to the target type. As such, the user may need to trigger the removal of other applications of the P applications that are not of the same type as the M applications.

According to the searching method provided by the embodiment of the application, under the condition that P application programs are selected through the first input, the application program with the largest number and belonging to the target type in the P application programs can be obtained, so that more application programs can be selected as much as possible to operate simultaneously, and content searching is facilitated to be carried out simultaneously; further, if the application program corresponding to the icon displayed on the electronic device further includes an application program that belongs to the target type and is other than the P application programs, the M application programs include an application program that belongs to the target type in the P application programs and an application program that belongs to the target type in the application programs corresponding to the icon other than the P icon in the icon, that is, other application programs that are not selected may be automatically added.

Optionally, after S102, the search method provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes S105 to S107 described below.

S105, the searching device receives a third input aiming at a third interface in the M first interfaces.

Optionally, the third interface is any one of the M first interfaces.

Optionally, the third input may be a touch input, a voice input, or a gesture input. For example, the touch input is an input that the user drags the content in the third interface to the fourth interface of the M first interfaces. Of course, the third input may also be other possible inputs, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

S106, the searching device responds to the third input, displays the target identification and updates the display position of the target identification.

The target mark is used for indicating second information in the third interface.

Optionally, the target identification may include at least one of: text, symbols, icons, thumbnails, and the like.

Optionally, for the description of the second information, reference may be made to the detailed description of the first information in the foregoing embodiments, and details of this description are not repeated in this embodiment of the application.

S107, under the condition that the display position of the target mark is at least partially overlapped with a fourth interface in the M first interfaces, the searching device updates the display content of the fourth interface.

And the updated display content of the fourth interface is related to the second information.

Optionally, the fourth interface and the third interface are two different interfaces, and for the description of the fourth interface and the third interface, reference may be made to the detailed description of the first interface in the foregoing embodiment. In addition, for the description of the updated display content of the fourth interface, reference may also be made to the detailed description of the display content of the N second interfaces in the foregoing embodiments, and details of this embodiment are not described herein again.

It can be understood that the third interface of the M first interfaces corresponds to one application of the M applications, and the fourth interface of the M first interfaces corresponds to another application of the M applications that is different from the one application. In this way, when the user triggers and updates the display position in the third interface to at least partially coincide with the fourth interface through input, the application program corresponding to the fourth interface can search for the information in the M application programs.

According to the searching method provided by the embodiment of the application, under the condition that M first interfaces are displayed, because a user can trigger that the display content of the fourth interface is updated under the condition that the display position of the target identifier for indicating the second information in the third interface is at least partially overlapped with the fourth interface in the M first interfaces through inputting to the third interface in the M first interfaces, the updated display content of the fourth interface is related to the second information, so that the information in another application program can be searched through one application program to obtain the desired content, namely, another content searching implementation mode is provided.

Optionally, before the step S102, the search method provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes the step S108. Accordingly, "displaying N second interfaces corresponding to N applications" in S103 may be specifically realized by S103a or S103b described below.

S103a, under the condition that the types of the N application programs belong to a first preset type, the searching device displays the first content in each second interface according to a first preset sorting mode.

The first preset sorting mode corresponds to a first preset type, and the first preset type corresponds to first content.

Optionally, in the electronic device provided in the embodiment of the present application, at least one preset type including a first preset type and a second preset type, and at least one sorting manner including a first preset sorting manner and a second preset manner are stored in advance, where one preset sorting manner corresponds to one preset type.

Further, each of the N second interfaces may include a plurality of contents, and the plurality of contents includes a first content and a second content. Each preset sorting manner may sort target contents among the plurality of contents. I.e. a preset type corresponding to a specific content of the plurality of contents.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the first content and the second content may respectively include at least one of the following: text content, picture content and identification content.

Illustratively, the at least one preset type may include a ticket purchase type, a shopping type, a communication type, and the like. The at least one ordering may include ordering by time, price, ordering by brand, price, ordering by name, time, etc. The ticket purchasing types correspond to a sorting mode according to time and price sorting, namely, the time and the price are sorted; the shopping type corresponds to a sorting mode according to brand and price sorting, namely, the brand and the price are sorted; the communication type corresponds to a sorting mode according to name and time sorting, namely, the name and the time are sorted.

Illustratively, the search apparatus is a mobile phone, and N is 3. It is assumed that the mobile phone stores preset types of the 3 ticket purchasing types, shopping types and communication types in advance. If the mobile phone determines that the type of the 3 applications is the ticket purchasing type, the time and the price in the search result included in the second interface of each ticket purchasing type application can be displayed according to the sorting mode of sorting time and price.

S103b, when the type of the N application programs belongs to a second preset type, the searching device displays the second content in each second interface according to a second preset sorting mode.

The second preset sorting mode corresponds to a second preset type, and the second preset type corresponds to second content.

Illustratively, the search apparatus is a mobile phone, and N is 3. It is assumed that the mobile phone stores preset types of the 3 ticket purchasing types, shopping types and communication types in advance. If the mobile phone determines that the type of the 3 applications is shopping type, the brand and the price in the search result included in the second interface of each shopping application can be displayed according to the sorting mode of time and price sorting.

According to the searching method provided by the embodiment of the application, after the types of the N applications are determined, because the first content in each second interface can be displayed according to the first preset sorting mode under the condition that the types of the N applications belong to the first preset type, or the second content in each second interface can be displayed according to the second preset sorting mode under the condition that the types of the N applications belong to the second preset type, the content in each second interface can be automatically displayed in different sorting modes according to the types of the N applications, and therefore a user can better view a searching result obtained after searching for the first information.

Optionally, when the user is not satisfied with the sorting manner of the contents in the second interfaces, the user may trigger to adjust the sorting manner of the contents in each second interface according to the desire. For example, after the above S103a or S103b, the search method provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include the following S108 to S110.

And S108, receiving fourth input of the target control by the user through the searching device.

And the target control is used for indicating a target sorting mode.

Optionally, the fourth input may be a touch input, a voice input, or a gesture input. For example, the touch input is a click input of the target control by the user. Of course, the first input may also be an input to a physical key or other possible inputs, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

Optionally, the target sorting manner may include at least one of: ordering from high to low, ordering from low to high, ordering from far to near, ordering from near to far, and the like.

And S109, responding to the fourth input by the searching device, and sending the target sorting mode to each application program.

And S110, the searching device adjusts the sorting mode of the content in each second interface through each application program based on the target sorting mode.

Illustratively, the search apparatus is a mobile phone, and N is 3. And assuming that the mobile phone displays the brand and the price in the search result included in the second interface of each shopping application program according to the sorting mode of time and price sorting. Because the user is not satisfied with the sort pattern, the user may click on a target control that indicates a high to low sort. After the mobile phone receives the click input, the sorting mode of sorting from high to low is sent to each application program in response to the click input. And receiving the sorting mode sorted from high to low by each application program, and adjusting the sorting mode of the prices in each second interface through each application program by the mobile phone based on the sorting mode sorted from high to low, namely sorting the prices in each second interface according to the sorting mode sorted from high to low.

According to the searching method provided by the embodiment of the application, the user can trigger and adjust the sequencing mode of the content in each second interface through the input of the target control according to own will. Therefore, the autonomous selectivity of the user is improved, and the sequencing mode of the content in each second interface can be adjusted more finely.

Optionally, before the step S103, the search method provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes the following steps S111 and S112, or includes the following steps S111 and S113. I.e., S112 and S113 are alternatively performed.

And S111, the searching device receives a fifth input of the target control.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the fifth input may be a touch input, a voice input, or a gesture input. For example, the touch input is a drag input of a target control by a user, and the target control is a slider bar for triggering interface sliding. Of course, the fifth input may also be other possible inputs, for example, the touch input is an input of a user's finger sliding up and moving to the right on a second interface.

Further, the fifth input may also include an input direction. It is understood that the input direction of the fifth input is different, and the direction for controlling the sliding of each second interface is also different.

And S112, the searching device responds to the fifth input and controls each second interface to slide.

It is to be understood that "controlling each second interface sliding" means: the interfaces of the M applications may be controlled to slide (or scroll) simultaneously to view all of the content included in each second interface.

Illustratively, the search apparatus is a mobile phone, and N is 3. After the mobile phone updates and displays each first interface in the 3 first interfaces as a second interface, if a user slides down a slider displayed on a screen of the mobile phone, after the mobile phone receives a slide input, each second interface can be controlled to slide down in response to the slide input; if the user slides up the slider bar displayed on the screen of the mobile phone, after the mobile phone receives the slide input, each of the second interfaces may be controlled to slide up in response to the slide input.

According to the searching method provided by the embodiment of the application, after the N second interfaces are displayed, if a user wants to view all the searching results, the user can trigger the searching device to control each second interface to slide through input. Therefore, in the sliding process of each second interface, a user can browse the results of the first information search by different application programs at one time and compare the differences among different results.

And S113, in response to the second input, the searching device controls and displays the content, which is included in each second interface and is associated with the parameter corresponding to the input position, according to the input position of the second input on the target control.

It should be noted that a second interface may include a plurality of contents including the first content, each corresponding to an input location on the target control. Further, different input positions on the target control correspond to different parameters, so that different contents in the second interface can be determined according to the different parameters.

Illustratively, the search apparatus is a mobile phone, and N is 3. After the mobile phone displays each of the 3 first interfaces as the second interface update, the user clicks an index letter "z" in a slider displayed on a screen of the mobile phone, and then, after the mobile phone receives a click input, according to an input position of the click input on the slider, the display of "zhangxiaohong" in the second interface 01 associated with the index letter "z" corresponding to the input position, the display of "zhanghai" in the second interface 02 associated with the index letter "z" corresponding to the input position, and the display of "zhanghai" in the second interface 03 associated with the index letter "z" corresponding to the input position may be controlled.

According to the searching method provided by the embodiment of the application, after each first interface in the N first interfaces is updated and displayed as the second interface, a user can trigger the searching device to display the content associated with the parameter corresponding to the input position in each second interface according to the input position of the input on the target control through input, namely, the user can simultaneously view the specific content in each second interface by supporting the simultaneous positioning of the specific content in the plurality of interfaces.

It should be noted that, in the search method provided in the embodiment of the present application, the execution main body may be a search apparatus (for example, the search apparatus is an electronic device or an external device on the electronic device), or a control module in the search apparatus for executing the search method. The embodiment of the present application takes a search device executing a search method as an example, and the search device provided in the embodiment of the present application is described.

As shown in fig. 3, an embodiment of the present application provides a search apparatus 200, which includes a receiving module 201 and a display module 202. The receiving module 201 is configured to receive a first input of a user. A display module 202, configured to display, in response to the first input received by the receiving module 201, M first interfaces corresponding to M applications, where the M applications are determined through the first input, and M is a positive integer greater than 1; displaying N second interfaces corresponding to N application programs under the condition that a first search box is displayed and comprises first information, wherein N is a positive integer less than or equal to M; wherein one of the N second interfaces comprises: and the content related to the first information is obtained by searching one of the N applications corresponding to the one second interface, wherein the N applications are applications of the M applications.

Optionally, the receiving module is further configured to receive a second input for a first interface of the M first interfaces. And the display module is further used for responding to the second input received by the receiving module and displaying first information in the first search box, wherein the first information is content in the first interface.

Optionally, the first input is used to select P applications, and M applications are the same type of application in the P applications.

Optionally, the first input is for selecting P applications. The searching device also comprises an acquisition module. The display module is further used for displaying icons, and the application programs corresponding to the icons comprise M application programs. An obtaining module, configured to obtain a target type, where the number of the M application programs belonging to the target type is the largest among the P application programs; and the number of the M application programs belonging to the target type in the P application programs is the largest. When the application programs corresponding to the icons except the P icons in the icons have application programs belonging to the target type, the M application programs comprise the application programs belonging to the target type in the P application programs and the application programs belonging to the target type in the application programs corresponding to the icons except the P icons in the icons, and each icon in the P icons is used for indicating one application program in the P application programs.

Optionally, the receiving module is further configured to receive a third input for a third interface of the M first interfaces. The display module is further used for responding to the third input received by the receiving module, displaying a target identifier and updating the display position of the target identifier, wherein the target identifier is used for indicating second information in a third interface; and under the condition that the display position of the target identifier is at least partially overlapped with a fourth interface in the M first interfaces, the updated display content of the fourth interface is related to the second information.

Optionally, the display module is specifically configured to display the first content in each second interface according to a first preset sorting mode when the types of the N application programs belong to a first preset type; or, under the condition that the types of the N application programs determined by the determining module belong to a second preset type, displaying second content in each second interface according to a second preset sorting mode; the first preset sorting mode corresponds to the first preset type, and the first preset type corresponds to the first content; the second preset sorting mode corresponds to the second preset type, and the first preset type corresponds to the second content.

Optionally, the search apparatus may further include a receiving module and a processing module. And the receiving module is used for receiving fourth input of the user to a target control, and the target control is used for indicating a target sorting mode. The processing module is used for responding to the fourth input received by the receiving module and sending the target sorting mode to each application program; and adjusting the sequencing mode of the content in each second interface through each application program based on the target sequencing mode.

The embodiment of the application provides a searching device, which can trigger and display M first interfaces corresponding to M applications running simultaneously through input of a user, so that N second interfaces including content related to first information obtained through search of the N applications can be respectively displayed under the condition that a first search frame is displayed and the first search frame includes the first information, so that the user can view all results obtained after the N applications search the first information at one time through each second interface in the N second interfaces, and the user does not need to frequently trigger the electronic device to switch to different applications to search the content, namely, the function of searching the multiple applications simultaneously is realized. Thus, the operation of searching for contents by the search means is simplified, and the search efficiency is improved.

The searching 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. Illustratively, 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 embodiment of the present application is not particularly limited.

The search 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 search apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiments of fig. 1 and fig. 2, and is not described here again to avoid repetition.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 4, an electronic device 300 is further provided in this embodiment of the present application, and includes a processor 301, a memory 302, and a program or an instruction stored in the memory 302 and capable of being executed on the processor 301, where the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 301 to implement each process of the foregoing search method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and no further description is provided here to avoid repetition.

It should be noted that the electronic devices in the embodiments of the present application include the mobile electronic devices and the non-mobile electronic devices described above.

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an electronic device implementing an embodiment of the present application.

The electronic device 400 includes, but is not limited to: radio 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, and processor 410.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the electronic device 410 may further include a power source (e.g., a battery) for supplying power to various components, and the power source 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. The electronic device structure shown in fig. 5 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 omitted here.

The user input unit 407 is configured to receive a first input from a user. A display unit 406, configured to display, in response to the first input received by the user input unit 407, M first interfaces corresponding to M applications, where the M applications are determined by the first input, and M is a positive integer greater than 1; displaying N second interfaces corresponding to N application programs under the condition that a first search box is displayed and comprises first information, wherein N is a positive integer less than or equal to M; wherein one of the N second interfaces comprises: and the content related to the first information is obtained by searching one of the N applications corresponding to the one second interface, wherein the N applications are applications of the M applications.

Optionally, the user input unit 407 is further configured to receive a second input for a first interface of the M first interfaces. The display unit 406 is further configured to display first information in the first search box in response to the second input received by the user input unit 407, where the first information is content in the first interface.

Optionally, the display unit 406 is further configured to display an icon, where the application program corresponding to the icon includes M application programs. A processor 410, configured to obtain a target type, where a number of the M applications belonging to the target type in the P applications is the largest; wherein, the number of M application programs belonging to the target type in the P application programs is the largest. When the application programs corresponding to the icons except the P icons in the icons have application programs belonging to the target type, the M application programs comprise the application programs belonging to the target type in the P application programs and the application programs belonging to the target type in the application programs corresponding to the icons except the P icons in the icons, and each icon in the P icons is used for indicating one application program in the P application programs.

Optionally, the user input unit 407 is configured to receive a third input for a third interface of the M first interfaces. A display unit 406, further configured to display a target identifier and update a display position of the target identifier in response to the third input received by the user input unit 407, where the target identifier is used to indicate second information in a third interface; and under the condition that the display position of the target identifier is at least partially overlapped with a fourth interface in the M first interfaces, the updated display content of the fourth interface is related to the second information.

Optionally, the display unit 406 is specifically configured to display the first content in each second interface according to a first preset sorting manner when the types of the N application programs belong to a first preset type; or, under the condition that the types of the N application programs determined by the determining module belong to a second preset type, displaying second content in each second interface according to a second preset sorting mode; the first preset sorting mode corresponds to the first preset type, and the first preset type corresponds to the first content; the second preset sorting mode corresponds to the second preset type, and the first preset type corresponds to the second content.

Optionally, the user input unit 407 is configured to receive a fourth input of the target control by the user, where the target control is used to indicate the target sorting manner. A processor 410, configured to send the target sorting mode to each application program in response to the fourth input received by the user input unit 407; and adjusting the sequencing mode of the content in each second interface through each application program based on the target sequencing mode.

The embodiment of the application provides an electronic device, which can trigger and display M first interfaces corresponding to M applications running simultaneously through input of a user, so that N second interfaces including content related to first information obtained through search of the N applications can be respectively displayed under the condition that a first search frame is displayed and the first search frame includes the first information, so that the user can view all results obtained after the N applications search the first information at one time through each second interface in the N second interfaces, and the user does not need to frequently trigger the electronic device to switch to different applications to search the content, namely, the function of searching the multiple applications simultaneously is realized. Thus, the operation of searching the content through the electronic equipment is simplified, and the searching efficiency is improved.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, 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 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 406 may include a display panel 4061, and the display panel 4061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 407 includes a touch panel 4071 and other input devices 4072. A touch panel 4071, also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 4071 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 4072 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 409 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 410 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 410.

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 search 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 in the above embodiment. Readable storage media, including computer-readable storage media such as a computer-read-only memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic or optical disk, and so forth.

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 search method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

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 in 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. A method of searching, the method comprising:

receiving a first input of a user;

responding to the first input, and displaying M first interfaces corresponding to M application programs, wherein the M application programs are determined by the first input, and M is a positive integer larger than 1;

displaying N second interfaces corresponding to N application programs under the condition that a first search box is displayed and comprises first information, wherein N is a positive integer less than or equal to M;

wherein one of the N second interfaces comprises: and content related to the first information is obtained through searching of one of the N application programs corresponding to the one second interface, where the N application programs are application programs of the M application programs.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein after said displaying M first interfaces corresponding to M applications and before said displaying N second interfaces corresponding to N applications, the method further comprises:

receiving a second input for a first interface of the M first interfaces;

and responding to the second input, and displaying the first information in the first search box, wherein the first information is the content in the first interface.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first input is used to select P applications, and wherein the M applications are the same type of application from the P applications.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first input is used to select P applications;

prior to the receiving the first input by the user, the method further comprises:

displaying an icon, wherein the application programs corresponding to the icon comprise the M application programs;

after the receiving the first input and before displaying M first interfaces corresponding to M applications, the method further includes:

acquiring a target type, wherein the number of the M application programs belonging to the target type in the P application programs is the largest;

wherein, when there are applications belonging to the target type in the applications corresponding to the icons other than the P icons in the icons, the M applications include the application belonging to the target type in the P applications and the application belonging to the target type in the applications corresponding to the icons other than the P icons in the icons, and each of the P icons is used to indicate one application in the P applications.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein after displaying the M first interfaces corresponding to the M applications, the method further comprises:

receiving a third input for a third interface of the M first interfaces;

in response to the third input, displaying a target identifier and updating a display position of the target identifier, wherein the target identifier is used for indicating second information in the third interface;

and under the condition that the display position of the target identifier is at least partially overlapped with a fourth interface in the M first interfaces, updating the display content of the fourth interface, wherein the updated display content of the fourth interface is related to the second information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying N second interfaces corresponding to the N applications comprises:

under the condition that the types of the N application programs belong to a first preset type, displaying first content in each second interface according to a first preset sequencing mode; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

under the condition that the types of the N application programs belong to a second preset type, displaying second content in each second interface according to a second preset sequencing mode;

the first preset sorting mode corresponds to the first preset type, and the first preset type corresponds to the first content; the second preset sorting mode corresponds to the second preset type, and the second preset type corresponds to the second content.

7. The searching device is characterized by comprising a receiving module and a display module;

the receiving module is used for receiving a first input of a user;

the display module is configured to display, in response to the first input received by the receiving module, M first interfaces corresponding to M application programs, where the M application programs are determined by the first input, and M is a positive integer greater than 1; displaying N second interfaces corresponding to N application programs under the condition that a first search box is displayed and comprises first information, wherein N is a positive integer less than or equal to M;

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the receiving module is further configured to receive a second input for a first interface of the M first interfaces;

the display module is further configured to display the first information in the first search box in response to the second input received by the receiving module, where the first information is content in the first interface.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the first input is used to select P applications, and wherein the M applications are the same type of application from the P applications.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the first input is for selecting P applications; the searching device also comprises an acquisition module;

the display module is further configured to display an icon, where the application programs corresponding to the icon include the M application programs;

the obtaining module is configured to obtain a target type, where a number of the M application programs belonging to the target type in the P application programs is the largest;

11. The apparatus of claim 7,

the receiving module is further configured to receive a third input for a third interface of the M first interfaces;

the display module is further configured to display a target identifier and update a display position of the target identifier in response to the third input received by the receiving module, where the target identifier is used to indicate second information in the third interface; and updating the display content of the fourth interface under the condition that the display position of the target identifier is at least partially overlapped with the fourth interface in the M first interfaces, wherein the updated display content of the fourth interface is related to the second information.

12. The apparatus of claim 7,

the display module is specifically configured to display the first content in each second interface according to a first preset sorting mode when the types of the N application programs belong to a first preset type; or, under the condition that the types of the N application programs belong to a second preset type, displaying second content in each second interface according to a second preset sorting mode;

13. 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 search method of any one of claims 1-6.

14. A readable storage medium, on which a program or instructions are stored, which when executed by a processor implement the steps of the search method according to any one of claims 1 to 6.