CN113836427A

CN113836427A - Information searching method and device

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Publication number: CN113836427A
Application number: CN202111156292.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 欧鹏
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-09-29
Filing date: 2021-09-29
Publication date: 2021-12-24

Abstract

The application discloses an information searching method and device, and belongs to the technical field of communication. Wherein the method comprises the following steps: in response to a first input, obtaining first search information associated with the first input; in response to a second input, determining at least two applications associated with the second input; searching in the at least two applications based on the first search information; and respectively outputting search results obtained by searching based on the at least two application programs.

Description

Information searching method and device

Technical Field

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

Background

In the electronic device, a plurality of application programs are installed. The functionality that can be implemented by different applications varies. In some application scenarios, a user needs to switch back and forth between multiple applications to complete a task.

For example, during the course of a trip, the user may query some fun places in the local area in advance. Firstly, a user needs to inquire which playful places are in the tourism application program, then the user inquires about where to go in the navigation application program based on the inquired place names, and meanwhile, the user inquires about how to go in the weather application program based on the inquired place names.

Therefore, in the prior art, when a user inquires relevant items in different application programs of the electronic device, the user needs to switch the different application programs back and forth, which results in complicated operation.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the embodiments of the present application is to provide an information search method, which can solve the problem in the prior art that when a user queries related items in different application programs of an electronic device, the operation is complicated due to the need to switch the different application programs back and forth.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an information search method, where the method includes: in response to a first input, obtaining first search information associated with the first input; in response to a second input, determining at least two applications associated with the second input; searching in the at least two applications based on the first search information; and respectively outputting search results obtained by searching based on the at least two application programs.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an information search apparatus, including: an obtaining module, configured to obtain, in response to a first input, first search information associated with the first input; a determination module for determining, in response to a second input, at least two applications associated with the second input; a search module, configured to search among the at least two applications based on the first search information; and the output module is used for respectively outputting search results obtained by searching based on the at least two application programs.

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 this way, in the embodiment of the application, the user may input the first search information in the search input control (e.g., the search input box) through the first input, and select at least two applications through the second input, thereby obtaining the first search information, and determine the at least two applications, so as to perform a search in the selected at least two applications based on the first search information, and further output a search result obtained by performing the search based on each application. Therefore, in the embodiment of the application, for the related matters of a matter, the search results of searching a plurality of application programs can be obtained based on the input of the user to a problem, so that the problem of complicated operation caused by switching different application programs back and forth by the user is solved.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of an information search method according to an embodiment of the present application;

2-7 are schematic display interfaces of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a block diagram of an information search apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is one of the hardware configuration diagrams of the electronic device according to the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a second schematic diagram of a hardware structure of the electronic device according to the embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

Technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments that can be derived by one of ordinary skill in the art from the embodiments given herein are intended to be within the scope of the present disclosure.

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 necessarily 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 a relationship in which a front and rear related objects are one kind of "or".

The information searching 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.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart illustrating an information search method according to an embodiment of the present application, which is applied to an electronic device, and includes:

step 110: in response to a first input, first search information associated with the first input is obtained.

The first input comprises touch input performed by a user on a screen, and is not limited to input of clicking, sliding, dragging and the like; the first input may also be a blank input, a gesture action, a face action, and the like of the user, and the first input further includes an input of a physical key on the device by the user, and is not limited to an input of a press and the like. Furthermore, the first input includes one or more inputs, wherein the plurality of inputs may be continuous or intermittent.

The first input is for first search information entered by a user based on the specified search input control.

The control in the present application serves as a carrier for displaying information, and includes but is not limited to text marks, symbol marks, and image marks.

Referring to fig. 2, in the illustrated search input box, a user inputs first search information "XXXXXX" to be searched.

Optionally, the first input is also used for triggering the link-based search function provided by the present embodiment by the user through a specified input manner.

Referring to fig. 2, the user may perform a long press operation or the like on the illustrated search input box or the illustrated "search" option (zoom icon), the "link search" option is displayed below the search input box (as shown in fig. 3), and the user clicks the "link search" option.

Further, based on a first input by the user, a linked search function is activated to display a plurality of application options below the search input box.

Alternatively, the plurality of application options displayed may be all application options already downloaded in the electronic device.

Optionally, the displayed plurality of application options may also be all application options that support the link-based search function in applications that have been offline in the electronic device.

Optionally, the displayed multiple application options may also be all application options for starting a link-based search function preset by a user in an offline application in the electronic device.

Alternatively, the plurality of application options displayed may also be all application options that have been downloaded in the electronic device to support the search function.

The number of the displayed plurality of application options is at least two, and includes at least two applications in step 120.

Correspondingly, in this step, in the case of responding to the first input, the first search information input in the first input is acquired for use in the subsequent step.

Step 120: in response to the second input, at least two applications associated with the second input are determined.

The second input comprises touch input performed by a user on the screen, and is not limited to input of clicking, sliding, dragging and the like; the second input may also be a blank input, a gesture action, a face action, etc. of the user, and the second input further includes an input of a physical key on the device by the user, and is not limited to an input of a press, etc. Also, the second input includes one or more inputs, wherein the plurality of inputs may be continuous or intermittent.

The second input is for a user to select at least two of the plurality of application options displayed previously.

Under the action of the second input, the displayed application program options can be changed from the unselected state to the selected state and can also be changed from the selected state to the unselected state.

Optionally, the second input is also used for the user to trigger a search action by specifying the input.

For example, after selecting at least two application options among the displayed plurality of application options, the user clicks a search option, such as the magnifying glass icon shown in fig. 2.

Correspondingly, in this step, in the case of responding to the second input, at least two applications selected in the second input are determined.

The first input and the second input are mainly used for inputting target search information and selecting at least two application programs, and other user inputs for activating functions, triggering actions and the like can be part of the first input or the second input and can also be other preset user inputs.

For example, the user may also trigger the display of a plurality of application options via a second input.

For another example, the user may also trigger the display of multiple application options through other preset inputs.

Step 130: a search is conducted among the at least two applications based on the first search information.

In this step, in case of triggering a search action, a search is performed among at least two applications based on first search information input by a user.

Illustratively, one way of searching is: a search is conducted simultaneously among at least two applications.

For example, the user inputs "which place of the XX city is good at", as the first search information, and the user selects the browser and the weather application by the second input, so that in this step, a search is made in the browser and the weather application based on "which place of the XX city is good at", respectively, and finally the place of the XX city listed in the browser and the weather condition of the city provided by the weather application are obtained.

Illustratively, another search method is as follows: the search is performed sequentially in at least two applications in order.

For example, the user inputs "which place of the XX city is good as the first search information, and the user selects the browser and the navigation application through the second input, so that in this step, the place of the XX city listed in the browser is obtained first based on" which place of the XX city is good ", and then the navigation route provided by the navigation application is obtained based on the place of the XX city listed in the browser.

Step 140: and respectively outputting search results obtained by searching based on at least two application programs.

Alternatively, the output mode is not limited to: displayed on a screen, played in a device, etc.

Alternatively, the form of the search results is not limited to: text, images, speech, etc.

Referring to fig. 4, for example, search results are displayed below the illustrated search input box, and the search results obtained by searching based on each application may be displayed as a separate window.

Furthermore, each independent window has an editing function, so that a user can perform operations such as copying and the like on any window, and can also control to directly jump to an interface of a corresponding application program so as to display a search result in the interface.

In the flow of the information search method according to another embodiment of the present application, between step 110 and step 120, the method further includes:

step A1: at least two application options are displayed based on the first search information.

Wherein, at least two application program options are arranged in sequence according to the relevance of the indicated application program and the first search information from strong to weak.

Optionally, according to the first search information, a keyword included in the first search information is acquired, the relevance between each application program and the keyword is determined, and the application program with the strong relevance is preferentially displayed in front for the user to select quickly.

For example, the first search information includes: "where is the best place in city XX? Want to play in the tomorrow. "thus," where "can be obtained based on the keyword extraction of the first search information, the keyword expresses a question, and thus a certain browser with strong relevance to the question is preferentially recommended to the user; based on the keyword extraction of the first search information, a 'place' can be obtained, the expression of the keyword is related to an address, and therefore a certain map application program with strong address relevance is preferentially recommended to a user; based on the keyword extraction of the first search information, the behavior of 'want to play in tomorrow' and the behavior of going out expressed by the keywords can be obtained, so that certain weather application program with strong relevance to the going out behavior is preferentially recommended to the user.

Optionally, the analysis of the strength of the correlation between the arbitrary application and the first search information is determined based on the proportion of the same type of keywords in the first search information, the keywords representing the subject, the semantics expressed by the keywords, and the like.

For example, the first search information includes: "where is the best place in city XX? "is the keyword indicating the subject" where? ", so that some browser is most relevant compared to other applications.

In the embodiment, a method for recommending an application program for a user is provided. In the method, the options of the application programs to be displayed are judged in combination with the first search information, and the relevance between the indicated application programs and the first search information is arranged and displayed in the sequence from strong relevance to if relevance. Therefore, the user can quickly screen out the application programs expected to be used, the user is prevented from blindly selecting from a large number of application programs, and the user operation is further simplified.

In the flow of the information search method according to another embodiment of the present application, step 130 includes:

substep B1: a search is conducted among the at least two applications in a first order associated with the second input.

Optionally, in the implementation process of the second input, among the plurality of application options displayed, the user may sequentially select at least two application options according to the first order.

For example, among the displayed application options, the user first clicks on the option of application one, then clicks on the option of application two, and finally clicks on the option of application three, so that the first order is: application program one, application program two, application program three.

Further, in the implementation process of the second input, after the user completes selection of the application program options, the selected application program options are arranged in sequence, and then, the user may further adjust the arrangement position between the application program options, for example, interchanging the positions of two adjacent application program options, so that the embodiment may obtain the adjusted first sequence.

Correspondingly, in this step, the relevant searches are performed in the at least two applications in sequence in the first order.

For example, referring to fig. 5, the search is performed in three applications in sequence, as indicated by the arrows, to obtain the final search result.

In the present embodiment, in the search function, an application linked search function is provided. Wherein a user can customize an application link.

It should be noted that the application link includes a path composed of a plurality of nodes. For example, in fig. 5, an application program one, an application program two, and an application program three are respectively located on three nodes in an application link, and the three nodes form a path according to a certain sequence.

Alternatively, in this embodiment, the search results obtained by performing the search based on the respective application programs may be sequentially output and displayed in the order of the search.

Alternatively, in this embodiment, the search results obtained by performing the search based on each application program may be sequentially output in the order of the search, and the search results obtained by performing the search based on each application program may be synchronously displayed.

In this embodiment, a user may select a plurality of applications from the electronic device to add into the electronic device to form an application link, the sequence of the applications on the link is the sequence of the applications to add into the electronic device, if the electronic device is batch one-time addition, the sequence of the applications on the link may be the sequence of the applications when batch selection is performed, and the maximum length of the link does not exceed the total number of the applications that can be added. Further, based on the application program link provided by this embodiment, the relevant search is sequentially performed in each application program in the link according to the first order, and particularly, based on such ordered search, the application program may perform the search based on the search result obtained by performing the search by the previous application program, so that the search information is gradually enriched, the search result is more detailed, and the effect of intelligent search is achieved.

In a flow of an information search method according to another embodiment of the present application, the at least two application programs include a first application program and a second application program arranged in a first order; step B1, comprising:

substep C1: and searching in the second application program based on a first search result obtained by searching in the first application program.

In this embodiment, a progressive search method is provided based on the application program link provided in the previous embodiment.

Referring to the first search information input by the user as the original information I (0), the original information I (0) is input to the first node a (0) of the link, a (0) searches I (0) to obtain the information I (1), I (1) is input to the next node a (1) to search again, and so on until the searched information transmission reaches the last node a (n) of the link.

For example, the first search information includes: "is the best place in city XX? Want to play in the tomorrow. First search information is input into a certain browser to obtain information of an AA scenic spot, the information of the AA scenic spot is input into a certain navigation to obtain a route from a current position to the AA scenic spot and passing places on the route, and position information of the passing places is input into certain weather to obtain weather conditions on the passing places.

If the search fails in one of the middle nodes, the search process can be ended.

In this embodiment, a plurality of application programs form an application program link for information search, each node on the application program link can search for information, and a result searched by a previous link node is used as information of a next node for searching until the information search process is finished. Therefore, the search information is continuously expanded, so that the obtained search results are continuously comprehensive and rich, most requirements of the user can be considered, the user is prevented from manually searching again, and the user operation is further simplified.

In a flow of an information search method according to another embodiment of the present application, the at least two application programs include a third application program and a fourth application program arranged in a first order; step 140, comprising:

substep D1: and outputting at least two third search results obtained by searching based on the third application program.

Substep D2: a third input is received for at least one third search result.

The third input includes a touch input by the user on the screen, and is not limited to input such as clicking, sliding, dragging and the like; the third input may also be a blank input, a gesture action, a face action, etc. of the user, and the third input further includes an input of a physical key on the device by the user, and is not limited to an input of a press, etc. Also, the third input includes one or more inputs, wherein the plurality of inputs may be continuous or intermittent.

Substep D3: and responding to the third input, and outputting a fourth search result obtained by searching in the fourth application program based on the at least one third search result.

The third input is used for selecting one or more search results as search information of a next application program by the user in the case that a plurality of search results are obtained by searching based on one application program.

For example, referring to fig. 6, two search results of "a scene" and "B scene" are displayed in a window corresponding to the first application (i.e., the third application in this embodiment), and the user may select "a scene", so that the second application (i.e., the fourth application) may search for the "driving route B" to the "a scene" based on the "a scene", and further the third application may search for the weather situation of the passing position of the "driving route B" based on the "driving route B".

Optionally, in the searching process of this embodiment, when there are multiple results obtained by searching based on the application program on a certain node, the multiple search results are defaulted to be combined as the search information of the next node, so that the search results obtained by searching based on all the application programs can be synchronously displayed without the need of user selection. Further, after the synchronous display, the search results displayed on the node at the later time can be updated accordingly based on the selection of any piece of search results in any application program by the user.

Optionally, in the search process of this embodiment, when there are multiple results obtained by performing a search based on an application on a certain node, only the multiple search results on the node are output and displayed to be selected by a user, and after the user selects the result, the subsequent search process is continued to be completed.

In this embodiment, when there are multiple search results obtained by searching based on an application on a certain node, the user may also manually select any one of the search results as search information of the application on the next node. Therefore, based on the user-defined selection, the subsequently obtained search result is closer to the requirement of the user.

In a flow of the information search method according to another embodiment of the present application, the at least two application programs include a fifth application program and a sixth application program, and the fifth application program and the sixth application program belong to the same type of application program; step a1, comprising:

sub-step E1: a search is conducted in the fifth application and the sixth application simultaneously.

In this embodiment, the number of applications on one node is not limited, and may be one or more.

Wherein, the application programs on one node are the same type of application programs.

For example, if the user selects two video applications through the second input, the two video applications are set on the same node.

In the searching process, the searching can be simultaneously performed in the two video applications on the node based on the searching result obtained by searching the application on the previous node.

In the implementation process of the second input, after the application program link is preliminarily formed, the user can add the same type of application program on any node through the specified input to generate a final link.

For example, referring to FIG. 7, on the third node of the link, the user may increase the number of applications to three.

In this embodiment, on the basis of the unidirectional link type information search, the method may be adjusted to a plurality of parallel applications on a certain node, and the added applications have the same property as the original applications on the node, such as applications that are all music-like applications or applications that are all video-like applications. Furthermore, the search can be performed based on a plurality of application programs which are parallel on the same node to respectively obtain corresponding search results, a user can manually select a most appropriate result from the search results, and the search results can be automatically combined together by a system to be used as search information for inputting the next node. Therefore, the embodiment enables the search process to be diversified and improves the search efficiency.

In summary, an object of the present application is to provide an information search method that can be performed by a plurality of applications. The user can drag a plurality of application program icons to form an application program link so as to realize link-type search; in addition, the user can also dynamically adjust the sequential structure of the links to achieve the best search effect.

It should be noted that, in the information search method provided in the embodiment of the present application, the execution main body may be an information search apparatus, or a control module for executing the information search method in the information search apparatus. In the embodiment of the present application, an information search method executed by an information search apparatus is taken as an example, and the information search apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application is described.

Fig. 8 is a block diagram showing an information search apparatus according to another embodiment of the present application, the apparatus including:

an obtaining module 10, configured to obtain, in response to a first input, first search information associated with the first input;

a determining module 20 for determining, in response to the second input, at least two applications associated with the second input;

a search module 30, configured to perform a search among at least two applications based on the first search information;

and the output module 40 is configured to output search results obtained by performing search based on at least two application programs, respectively.

Optionally, a search module 30, comprising;

a search unit for searching among the at least two applications in a first order associated with the second input.

Optionally, the at least two applications include a first application and a second application arranged in a first order;

a search unit comprising:

and the first searching subunit is used for searching in the second application program based on a first searching result obtained by searching in the first application program.

Optionally, the at least two applications include a third application and a fourth application arranged in a first order;

an output module 40, comprising:

the output unit is used for outputting at least two third search results obtained by searching based on the third application program;

a receiving unit, configured to receive a third input of at least one third search result;

and the response unit is used for responding to the third input and outputting a fourth search result obtained by searching in the fourth application program based on at least one third search result.

Optionally, the at least two applications include a fifth application and a sixth application, the fifth application and the sixth application belong to the same type of application;

a search unit comprising:

and the second searching subunit is used for simultaneously searching in the fifth application program and the sixth application program.

The information search device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device, or may 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 embodiment of the present application is not particularly limited.

The information search device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device having an action system. The action system may be an Android (Android) action system, an iOS action system, or other possible action systems, and the embodiment of the present application is not particularly limited.

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

Optionally, as shown in fig. 9, an electronic device 100 is further provided in this embodiment of the present application, and includes a processor 101, a memory 102, and a program or an instruction stored in the memory 102 and capable of running on the processor 101, where the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 101 to implement each process of any one of the above embodiments of the information search method, 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. 10 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an electronic device implementing an embodiment of the present application.

The electronic device 1000 includes, but is not limited to: a radio frequency unit 1001, a network module 1002, an audio output unit 1003, an input unit 1004, a sensor 1005, a display unit 1006, a user input unit 1007, an interface unit 1008, a memory 1009, and a processor 1010.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the electronic device 1000 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 1010 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. 10 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.

Wherein, the processor 1010 is configured to, in response to a first input, obtain first search information associated with the first input; in response to a second input, determining at least two applications associated with the second input; searching in the at least two applications based on the first search information; and respectively outputting search results obtained by searching based on the at least two application programs.

In this way, in the embodiment of the application, a user may input first search information in a search input control (e.g., a search input box) through a first input and select at least two applications through a second input, thereby obtaining the first search information, determine the at least two applications, perform a search in the selected at least two applications based on the first search information, and further output a search result obtained by performing the search based on each application. Therefore, in the embodiment of the application, for the related matters of a matter, the search results of searching a plurality of application programs can be obtained based on the input of a user to a problem, so that the problem of complicated operation caused by switching different application programs back and forth by the user is solved.

Optionally, the processor 1010 is further configured to search among the at least two applications in the first order associated with the second input.

Optionally, the at least two applications include a first application and a second application arranged in the first order; the processor 1010 is further configured to search in the second application based on a first search result obtained by the first application performing the search.

Optionally, the at least two applications include a third application and a fourth application arranged in the first order; the processor 1010 is further configured to output at least two third search results obtained by searching based on the third application program; controlling the user input unit 1007 to receive a third input for at least one of the third search results; and a control display unit 1006, responsive to the third input, for outputting a fourth search result obtained by searching in the fourth application based on the at least one third search result.

Optionally, the at least two applications include a fifth application and a sixth application, and the fifth application and the sixth application belong to the same type of application; a processor 1010, further configured to search in the fifth application and the sixth application simultaneously.

It should be understood that in the embodiment of the present application, the input Unit 1004 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 10041 and a microphone 10042, and the Graphics Processing Unit 10041 processes image data of a still picture or a video image obtained by an image capturing device (such as a camera) in a video image capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The display unit 1006 may include a display panel 10061, and the display panel 10061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 1007 includes a touch panel 10071 and other input devices 10072. The touch panel 10071 is also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 10071 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 10072 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 an action stick, which are not described in detail herein. The memory 1009 may be used to store software programs as well as various data, including but not limited to applications and action systems. Processor 1010 may integrate an application processor that handles primarily action systems, user pages, applications, etc. and a modem processor that handles primarily wireless communications. It is to be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into processor 1010.

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 the processes of the information 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 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.

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 information search method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, the 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 a system-on-chip, or a system-on-chip.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the above embodiment method 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 embodiment. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present application may be embodied in the form of a computer software product stored in a storage medium (e.g., ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk), and including instructions for enabling a terminal (e.g., mobile phone, computer, server, or network device) to execute the methods 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 scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims

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

in response to a first input, obtaining first search information associated with the first input;

in response to a second input, determining at least two applications associated with the second input;

searching in the at least two applications based on the first search information;

and respectively outputting search results obtained by searching based on the at least two application programs.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said searching among said at least two applications comprises;

a search is conducted among the at least two applications in a first order associated with the second input.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the at least two applications include a first application and a second application arranged in the first order;

the searching in the at least two applications includes:

and searching in the second application program based on a first search result obtained by searching in the first application program.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the at least two applications include a third application and a fourth application arranged in the first order;

the respectively outputting search results obtained by searching based on the at least two application programs includes:

outputting at least two third search results obtained by searching based on the third application program;

receiving a third input of at least one of the third search results;

and responding to the third input, and outputting a fourth search result obtained by searching in the fourth application program based on the at least one third search result.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the at least two applications include a fifth application and a sixth application, the fifth application and the sixth application belonging to a same type of application;

the searching in the at least two applications includes:

searching in the fifth application and the sixth application simultaneously.

6. An information search apparatus, characterized in that the apparatus comprises:

the acquisition module is used for responding to a first input and acquiring first search information associated with the first input;

a determination module for determining, in response to a second input, at least two applications associated with the second input;

a search module, configured to search among the at least two applications based on the first search information;

and the output module is used for respectively outputting the search results obtained by searching based on the at least two application programs.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the search module comprises;

a search unit to search among the at least two applications in a first order associated with the second input.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the at least two applications comprise a first application and a second application arranged in the first order;

the search unit includes:

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the at least two applications comprise a third application and a fourth application arranged in the first order;

the output module includes:

a response unit, configured to output, in response to the third input, a fourth search result obtained by searching in the fourth application based on the at least one third search result.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the at least two applications comprise a fifth application and a sixth application, and wherein the fifth application and the sixth application belong to a same type of application;

the search unit includes:

a second searching subunit, configured to search in the fifth application program and the sixth application program at the same time.