CN113867765A

CN113867765A - Application management method, intelligent terminal and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN113867765A
Application number: CN202111144912.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张建静
Original assignee: Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-09-28
Filing date: 2021-09-28
Publication date: 2021-12-31

Abstract

The application discloses an application management method, an intelligent terminal and a storage medium, wherein the application management method comprises the following steps: determining at least one icon in the target icon area and a target display area corresponding to the target icon area; acquiring updating information of an application corresponding to at least one icon; the update information is displayed in the target display area. By the method, the update information of the application corresponding to at least one icon in the target icon area can be displayed in the target display area, so that the update information of the application corresponding to at least one icon in the target icon area can be simply and conveniently displayed.

Description

Application management method, intelligent terminal and storage medium

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of intelligent terminals, in particular to an application management method, an intelligent terminal and a storage medium.

Background

In some implementations, if a user wants to obtain update information of an application corresponding to an icon in the icon area, the update information may be generally displayed in the notification bar, and optionally, the update information may be push information generated by the application corresponding to the icon within a certain time range. Because each application generates more and more update information, the display of the update information of the application corresponding to each icon is complicated, and the user is difficult to find the update information of some applications. Based on this, how to display the update information of each application conveniently so that the user can search the update information of some applications quickly becomes a problem which is urgently to be solved and affects the user experience.

The foregoing description is provided for general background information and is not admitted to be prior art.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the foregoing technical problems, the present application provides an application management method, an intelligent terminal, and a storage medium, which can display update information of an application corresponding to at least one icon in a target icon area in a target display area, so as to simply and conveniently display the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon in the target icon area, and facilitate a user to quickly search the update information of the application corresponding to the icon included in the target icon area.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the present application provides an application management method, including:

determining at least one icon in the target icon area and a target display area corresponding to the target icon area;

acquiring updating information of an application corresponding to at least one icon;

the update information is displayed in the target display area.

Optionally, the target icon area comprises at least two icon sub-areas; determining a target display area corresponding to the target icon area, including: determining a target display sub-area corresponding to at least one icon sub-area in the at least two icon sub-areas, wherein the target display area comprises at least one target display sub-area;

displaying the update information in the target display area, including: and displaying the updating information of the application corresponding to the icon displayed in the at least one icon sub-area in the target display sub-area corresponding to the at least one icon sub-area.

Optionally, the method further comprises: performing layout processing on the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon to obtain the laid update information corresponding to the at least one icon;

displaying the update information in the target display area, including: and displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to at least one icon in the target display area.

Optionally, performing layout processing on the update information applied to the at least one icon to obtain the laid-out update information corresponding to the at least one icon, including: performing layout processing on the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon according to the update time of the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon to obtain the laid-out update information corresponding to the at least one icon; or determining the weight of the update information corresponding to the at least one icon, and performing layout processing on the update information corresponding to the at least one icon according to the weight to obtain the laid-out update information corresponding to the at least one icon.

Optionally, displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to the at least one icon in the target display area, including: determining an application priority of at least one icon; and displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to the first icon in the at least one icon in the target display area according to the application priority, wherein the first icon is the icon with the highest application priority in the at least one icon.

Optionally, displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to the first icon in the at least one icon in the target display area according to the application priority includes: displaying the arranged updating information corresponding to at least one icon at different display positions of the target display area according to the application priority, wherein the arranged updating information corresponding to a first icon is positioned in front of the arranged updating information corresponding to a second icon in the at least one icon, and the application priority of the first icon is higher than that of the second icon.

Optionally, the method further comprises: triggering an update information switching instruction in a target display area; and responding to the update information switching instruction, and displaying the update information after the layout corresponding to the third icon in the target display area, wherein the application priority of the third icon is lower than that of the first icon.

Optionally, the method further comprises: performing layout processing on the update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon to obtain the laid update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon;

displaying the update information in the target display area, including: and displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to all the icons in the target display area.

Optionally, displaying the update information in the target display area includes: triggering an area expansion instruction in the target icon area, responding to the area expansion instruction, displaying all icons in the target icon area to obtain an icon display interface of the target icon area, triggering a first update information display instruction on the icon display interface, and responding to the first update information display instruction to display the update information in the target display area; or triggering a second update information display instruction in the target icon area, and displaying the update information in the target display area in response to the second update information display instruction.

Optionally, displaying, in a target display sub-region corresponding to at least one icon sub-region, update information applied to the icon displayed in the at least one icon sub-region, including: triggering a third update information display instruction in a target icon subarea in the target icon area; and responding to the third update information display instruction, and displaying the update information applied to the icon displayed in the target icon sub-region in the target display sub-region corresponding to the target icon sub-region, wherein the target icon sub-region is any one of the at least two icon sub-regions.

Optionally, displaying, in a target display sub-area corresponding to the target icon sub-area, update information applied to the icon displayed in the target icon sub-area, includes: determining that the icon displayed in the target icon sub-area is any icon in at least one icon; and displaying the updating information of the application corresponding to the icon displayed in the target icon sub-area in the target display sub-area corresponding to the target icon sub-area.

Optionally, the method further comprises: triggering a full-screen display instruction in a target display area; and responding to the full-screen display instruction, and displaying the updated information in the target display area in a full-screen mode.

Optionally, determining at least one icon in the target icon area comprises: determining application parameters of an application corresponding to at least one icon in the target icon area; and taking the icon with the application parameter meeting the preset parameter threshold value in the target icon area as at least one icon.

Optionally, the method further comprises: triggering an update information display canceling instruction on a display screen; and responding to the update information display canceling instruction, and displaying the target icon area in the target display area.

The application also provides an intelligent terminal, including: the system comprises a memory and a processor, wherein the memory stores an application management program, and the application management program realizes the steps of the method when being executed by the processor.

The present application also provides a readable storage medium, which stores a computer program that, when executed by a processor, performs the steps of the method as described above.

As described above, the application management method of the present application is applied to an intelligent terminal, and includes the steps of: determining at least one icon in the target icon area and a target display area corresponding to the target icon area; acquiring updating information of an application corresponding to at least one icon; the update information is displayed in the target display area. By the technical scheme, the updating information of the application corresponding to at least one icon in the target icon area can be displayed in the target display area, so that the updating information of the application corresponding to at least one icon in the target icon area can be simply and conveniently displayed, and a user can conveniently and quickly search the updating information of the application corresponding to the icon included in the target icon area.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the present application and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the application. In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without inventive exercise.

Fig. 1 is a schematic hardware structure diagram of a mobile terminal implementing various embodiments of the present application;

fig. 2 is a communication network system architecture diagram according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a schematic flowchart of an application management method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an icon provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of another icon provided in embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of another icon provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of another icon provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a schematic flowchart of another application management method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a schematic view of another icon provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of another icon provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 11 is a schematic flowchart of another application management method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 12 is a schematic diagram of a unit of an application management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application.

The implementation, functional features and advantages of the objectives of the present application will be further explained with reference to the accompanying drawings. With the above figures, there are shown specific embodiments of the present application, which will be described in more detail below. These drawings and written description are not intended to limit the scope of the inventive concepts in any manner, but rather to illustrate the inventive concepts to those skilled in the art by reference to specific embodiments.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description refers to the accompanying drawings, like numbers in different drawings represent the same or similar elements unless otherwise indicated. The embodiments described in the following exemplary embodiments do not represent all embodiments consistent with the present application. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with certain aspects of the present application, as detailed in the appended claims.

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, the recitation of an element by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of additional like elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element, and further, where similarly-named elements, features, or elements in different embodiments of the disclosure may have the same meaning, or may have different meanings, that particular meaning should be determined by their interpretation in the embodiment or further by context with the embodiment.

It should be understood that although the terms first, second, third, etc. may be used herein to describe various information, such information should not be limited to these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one type of information from another. For example, first information may also be referred to as second information, and similarly, second information may also be referred to as first information, without departing from the scope herein. The word "if" as used herein may be interpreted as "at … …" or "when … …" or "in response to a determination", depending on the context. Also, as used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms "comprises," "comprising," "includes" and/or "including," when used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, elements, components, items, species, and/or groups, but do not preclude the presence, or addition of one or more other features, steps, operations, elements, components, species, and/or groups thereof. The terms "or," "and/or," "including at least one of the following," and the like, as used herein, are to be construed as inclusive or mean any one or any combination. For example, "includes at least one of: A. b, C "means" any of the following: a; b; c; a and B; a and C; b and C; a and B and C ", again for example," A, B or C "or" A, B and/or C "means" any of the following: a; b; c; a and B; a and C; b and C; a and B and C'. An exception to this definition will occur only when a combination of elements, functions, steps or operations are inherently mutually exclusive in some way.

It should be understood that, although the steps in the flowcharts in the embodiments of the present application are shown in order as indicated by the arrows, the steps are not necessarily performed in order as indicated by the arrows. The steps are not performed in the exact order shown and may be performed in other orders unless explicitly stated herein. Moreover, at least some of the steps in the figures may include multiple sub-steps or multiple stages that are not necessarily performed at the same time, but may be performed at different times, in different orders, and may be performed alternately or at least partially with respect to other steps or sub-steps of other steps.

The words "if", as used herein, may be interpreted as "at … …" or "at … …" or "in response to a determination" or "in response to a detection", depending on the context. Similarly, the phrases "if determined" or "if detected (a stated condition or event)" may be interpreted as "when determined" or "in response to a determination" or "when detected (a stated condition or event)" or "in response to a detection (a stated condition or event)", depending on the context.

It should be noted that, step numbers such as 310, 320, etc. are used herein for the purpose of more clearly and briefly describing the corresponding content, and do not constitute a substantial limitation on the sequence, and those skilled in the art may perform 320 first and then 310, etc. in the specific implementation, but these should be within the protection scope of the present application.

It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the present application and are not intended to limit the present application.

In the following description, suffixes such as "module", "component", or "unit" used to denote elements are used only for the convenience of description of the present application, and have no specific meaning by themselves. Thus, "module", "component" or "unit" may be used mixedly.

The application management method herein may be applied to an intelligent terminal, which may be implemented in various forms. Alternatively, the smart terminal described in the present application may include mobile terminals such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palmtop computer, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a Portable Media Player (PMP), a navigation device, a wearable device, a smart band, a pedometer, and the like, and fixed terminals such as a Digital TV, a desktop computer, and the like.

The following description will be given taking a mobile terminal as an example, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the configuration according to the embodiment of the present application can be applied to a fixed type terminal in addition to elements particularly used for mobile purposes.

Referring to fig. 1, which is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a mobile terminal for implementing various embodiments of the present application, the mobile terminal 100 may include: RF (Radio Frequency) unit 101, WiFi module 102, audio output unit 103, a/V (audio/video) input unit 104, sensor 105, display unit 106, user input unit 107, interface unit 108, memory 109, processor 110, and power supply 111. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the mobile terminal architecture shown in fig. 1 is not intended to be limiting of mobile terminals, which may include more or fewer components than those shown, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components.

The following describes each component of the mobile terminal in detail with reference to fig. 1:

the radio frequency unit 101 may be configured to receive and transmit signals during information transmission and reception or during a call, and specifically, receive downlink information of a base station and then process the downlink information to the processor 110; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. Typically, radio frequency unit 101 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like. In addition, the radio frequency unit 101 can also communicate with a network and other devices through wireless communication. The wireless communication may use any communication standard or protocol, including but not limited to GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), CDMA2000(Code Division Multiple Access 2000), WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), FDD-LTE (Frequency Division duplex-Long Term Evolution), TDD-LTE (Time Division duplex-Long Term Evolution, Time Division Long Term Evolution), 5G, and so on.

WiFi belongs to short-distance wireless transmission technology, and the mobile terminal can help a user to receive and send e-mails, browse webpages, access streaming media and the like through the WiFi module 102, and provides wireless broadband internet access for the user. Although fig. 1 shows the WiFi module 102, it is understood that it does not belong to the essential constitution of the mobile terminal, and may be omitted entirely as needed within the scope of not changing the essence of the application.

The audio output unit 103 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 101 or the WiFi module 102 or stored in the memory 109 into an audio signal and output as sound when the mobile terminal 100 is in a call signal reception mode, a call mode, a recording mode, a voice recognition mode, a broadcast reception mode, or the like. Also, the audio output unit 103 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the mobile terminal 100 (alternatively, a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 103 may include a speaker, a buzzer, and the like.

The a/V input unit 104 is used to receive audio or video signals. The a/V input Unit 104 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 1041 and a microphone 1042, the Graphics processor 1041 Processing image data of still pictures or video obtained by an image capturing device (e.g., a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 106. The image frames processed by the graphic processor 1041 may be stored in the memory 109 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 101 or the WiFi module 102. The microphone 1042 may receive sounds (audio data) via the microphone 1042 in a phone call mode, a recording mode, a voice recognition mode, or the like, and may be capable of processing such sounds into audio data. The processed audio (voice) data may be converted into a format output transmittable to a mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 101 in case of a phone call mode. The microphone 1042 may implement various types of noise cancellation (or suppression) algorithms to cancel (or suppress) noise or interference generated in the course of receiving and transmitting audio signals.

The mobile terminal 100 also includes at least one sensor 105, such as a light sensor, a motion sensor, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor that may optionally adjust the brightness of the display panel 1061 according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that may turn off the display panel 1061 and/or the backlight when the mobile terminal 100 is moved to the ear. As one of the motion sensors, the accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in each direction (generally, three axes), can detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when stationary, and can be used for applications of recognizing the posture of a mobile phone (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer posture calibration), vibration recognition related functions (such as pedometer and tapping), and the like; as for other sensors such as a fingerprint sensor, a pressure sensor, an iris sensor, a molecular sensor, a gyroscope, a barometer, a hygrometer, a thermometer, and an infrared sensor, which can be configured on the mobile phone, further description is omitted here.

The display unit 106 is used to display information input by a user or information provided to the user. The Display unit 106 may include a Display panel 1061, and the Display panel 1061 may be configured in the form of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED), or the like.

The user input unit 107 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the mobile terminal. Specifically, the user input unit 107 may include a touch panel 1071 and other input devices 1072. The touch panel 1071, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect a touch operation performed by a user on or near the touch panel 1071 (e.g., an operation performed by the user on or near the touch panel 1071 using a finger, a stylus, or any other suitable object or accessory), and drive a corresponding connection device according to a predetermined program. The touch panel 1071 may include two parts of a touch detection device and a touch controller. Optionally, the touch detection device detects a touch orientation of a user, detects a signal caused by a touch operation, and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives touch information from the touch sensing device, converts the touch information into touch point coordinates, sends the touch point coordinates to the processor 110, and can receive and execute commands sent by the processor 110. In addition, the touch panel 1071 may be implemented in various types, such as a resistive type, a capacitive type, an infrared ray, and a surface acoustic wave. In addition to the touch panel 1071, the user input unit 107 may include other input devices 1072. In particular, other input devices 1072 may include, but are not limited to, one or more of a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, and the like, and are not limited to these specific examples.

Alternatively, the touch panel 1071 may cover the display panel 1061, and when the touch panel 1071 detects a touch operation thereon or nearby, the touch panel 1071 transmits the touch operation to the processor 110 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 110 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 1061 according to the type of the touch event. Although the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 are shown in fig. 1 as two separate components to implement the input and output functions of the mobile terminal, in some embodiments, the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the mobile terminal, and is not limited herein.

The interface unit 108 serves as an interface through which at least one external device is connected to the mobile terminal 100. Alternatively, the external device may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power supply (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio input/output (I/O) port, a video I/O port, an earphone port, and the like. The interface unit 108 may be used to receive input (optionally, data information, power, etc.) from external devices and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the mobile terminal 100 or may be used to transmit data between the mobile terminal 100 and external devices.

The memory 109 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 109 may mainly include a program storage area and a data storage area, and optionally, the program storage area may store an operating system, an application program (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, and the like) required by at least one function, and the like; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, a phonebook, etc.) created according to the use of the cellular phone, and the like. Further, the memory 109 may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, optionally at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device.

The processor 110 is a control center of the mobile terminal, connects various parts of the entire mobile terminal using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the mobile terminal and processes data by operating or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 109 and calling data stored in the memory 109, thereby performing overall monitoring of the mobile terminal. Processor 110 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 110 may integrate an application processor and a modem processor, optionally, the application processor mainly handles operating systems, user interfaces, application programs, etc., and the modem processor mainly handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 110.

The mobile terminal 100 may further include a power supply 111 (e.g., a battery) for supplying power to various components, and preferably, the power supply 111 may be logically connected to the processor 110 via a power management system, so as to manage charging, discharging, and power consumption management functions via the power management system.

Although not shown in fig. 1, the mobile terminal 100 may further include a bluetooth module or the like, which is not described in detail herein.

In order to facilitate understanding of the embodiments of the present application, a communication network system on which the mobile terminal of the present application is based is described below.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is an architecture diagram of a communication Network system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, where the communication Network system is an LTE system of a universal mobile telecommunications technology, and the LTE system includes a UE (User Equipment) 201, an E-UTRAN (Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network) 202, an EPC (Evolved Packet Core) 203, and an IP service 204 of an operator, which are in communication connection in sequence.

Optionally, the UE201 may be the terminal 100 described above, and is not described herein again.

The E-UTRAN202 includes eNodeB2021 and other eNodeBs 2022, among others. Optionally, the eNodeB2021 may be connected with other enodebs 2022 through a backhaul (optionally, an X2 interface), the eNodeB2021 is connected to the EPC203, and the eNodeB2021 may provide the UE201 access to the EPC 203.

The EPC203 may include an MME (Mobility Management Entity) 2031, an HSS (Home Subscriber Server) 2032, other MMEs 2033, an SGW (Serving gateway) 2034, a PGW (PDN gateway) 2035, and a PCRF (Policy and Charging Rules Function) 2036, and the like. Optionally, the MME2031 is a control node that handles signaling between the UE201 and the EPC203, providing bearer and connection management. HSS2032 is used to provide registers to manage functions such as home location register (not shown) and holds subscriber specific information about service characteristics, data rates, etc. All user data may be sent through SGW2034, PGW2035 may provide IP address assignment for UE201 and other functions, and PCRF2036 is a policy and charging control policy decision point for traffic data flow and IP bearer resources, which selects and provides available policy and charging control decisions for a policy and charging enforcement function (not shown).

The IP services 204 may include the internet, intranets, IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), or other IP services, among others.

Although the LTE system is described as an example, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the present application is not limited to the LTE system, but may also be applied to other wireless communication systems, such as GSM, CDMA2000, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, and future new network systems, and the like.

Based on the above mobile terminal hardware structure and communication network system, various embodiments of the present application are provided.

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.

The embodiment of the application management method is used for simply and conveniently displaying the update information of the application corresponding to at least one icon in the target icon area, so that a user can conveniently and quickly search the update information of the application corresponding to the icon in the target icon area. Optionally, the application management apparatus in this embodiment of the present application may be applied to an intelligent terminal such as a Mobile terminal or a fixed terminal, and for convenience of description, the embodiment of the present application takes an execution main body as an example of the Mobile terminal, and the Mobile terminal may be a smart phone (such as an Android phone), a tablet computer, a Mobile Internet Device (MID), and the like.

Referring to the embodiment shown in fig. 3, fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an application management method provided in the embodiment of the present application, where the method may be applied to an intelligent terminal such as a mobile terminal or a fixed terminal, and for convenience of description, an execution subject is taken as a mobile terminal in the embodiment of the present application for illustration. Optionally, the application management method shown in this embodiment includes:

310. and determining at least one icon in the target icon area and a target display area corresponding to the target icon area.

The mobile terminal may include at least one icon area, wherein each of the at least one icon area may refer to a large folder or an application card, etc. It is understood that the icon area in the mobile terminal includes at least one icon sub-area, and any one of the at least one icon sub-area may display any one icon in the icon area. Optionally, different icon regions may have different region identifiers, where the region identifiers of the different icon regions may be set by the mobile terminal or by the user.

Optionally, the icon included in the icon area may refer to one or more of the following: an icon for indicating an application (i.e., an icon corresponding to the application), an icon for indicating a function of the application (optionally, a collection icon or a scanning icon, etc.), an icon for indicating a function of the mobile terminal (optionally, a flashlight icon or a setting icon, etc.), and an icon for indicating content (optionally, an icon for notifying information or an icon for conversation content, etc.).

For convenience of explanation, the icon area refers to a large folder, and icons in the icon area refer to icons indicating applications. It is understood that the icon area is distinguished from the small folder by: the user can operate the icon displayed in the icon sub-area of the icon area or the application corresponding to the icon without expanding the icon area. Optionally, the user may click any icon displayed in each icon sub-area of the icon area without expanding the icon area, and the mobile terminal may respond to the click operation of the user and start the application corresponding to the icon indicated by the click operation of the user.

Alternatively, the mobile terminal may include a locked icon area, and the user may only perform a start operation on an icon in the locked icon area to start a program corresponding to the icon indicated by the start operation, such as starting an application corresponding to the icon. However, the user cannot perform other operations, such as a move-out or unload operation, on the icon in the lock icon area.

Optionally, the mobile terminal may use a preset icon region as the target icon region, where the preset icon region may be an icon region set by the mobile terminal or an icon region set as desired by the user. Optionally, if the user performs an update information display operation on any icon area in the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal may use any icon area as the target icon area in response to the update information display operation performed by the user, where the update information display operation may be a sliding operation performed by the user on the target icon area, or a continuous clicking operation performed by the user on the target icon area, and this is not limited in this application. It is to be understood that the update information display operation in the embodiment of the present application may refer to a first update information display operation, a second update information display operation, or a third update information display operation in the following description. For another example, if the user performs the region setting operation on the setting interface of the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal may take the icon region indicated by the region setting operation as the target icon region in response to the region setting operation performed by the user. The specific determination method of the target icon area is not limited in the present application.

Optionally, when determining at least one icon in the target icon area, the mobile terminal may determine an application parameter of an application corresponding to the at least one icon in the target icon area, and use an icon in the target icon area, of which the application parameter meets a preset parameter threshold, as the at least one icon. It can be understood that, when the mobile terminal uses an icon in the target icon area whose application parameter meets the preset parameter threshold as at least one icon, it may determine an application in the target icon area whose application parameter meets the preset parameter threshold, and use the icon corresponding to the application as the at least one icon. Optionally, the icon with the application parameter meeting the preset parameter threshold may refer to an icon with the application parameter greater than the preset parameter threshold, and may also refer to an icon with the application parameter less than or equal to the preset parameter threshold, which is not limited in the present application.

The application parameter may be a use frequency or a use duration of an application corresponding to the icon, and optionally, the mobile terminal may determine the use frequency by using a start frequency of the application corresponding to the icon within a preset duration, or may determine the use frequency by performing comprehensive calculation on the start frequency, the use duration, and other factors of the application corresponding to the icon within the preset duration. Optionally, the mobile terminal determines the use frequency of the application corresponding to the icon according to the start frequency of the application corresponding to the icon, and when the use frequency is used as the application parameter of the application corresponding to the icon, the start frequency of the application corresponding to the icon within a preset time period may be used as the application parameter of the application corresponding to the icon, that is, the mobile terminal may use the start frequency of the application corresponding to the icon within the same time period as the application parameter of the application corresponding to the icon. Optionally, the preset time duration may be a preset time period of the mobile terminal, or may also be a time period set by the user according to will, optionally a day or a week, and the like, which is not limited in the present application.

The preset parameter threshold may be set by the mobile terminal, or may be set by the user as desired, which is not limited in the present application. Optionally, assuming that the application parameter refers to a usage frequency of an application corresponding to the icon, the mobile terminal determines the usage frequency of the application corresponding to the icon according to a start frequency of the application corresponding to the icon, and the icon whose application parameter meets a preset parameter threshold refers to an icon whose application parameter is greater than the preset parameter threshold, in other words, the icon whose application parameter meets the preset parameter threshold may refer to an icon corresponding to an application with a higher usage frequency, if the target icon area includes icons A, B and C, the application parameter of the application corresponding to the icon a is 8, the application parameter of the application corresponding to the icon B is 6, the application parameter of the application corresponding to the icon C is 2, and the preset parameter threshold is 3, the mobile terminal may use the icon a and the icon B whose application parameters are greater than the preset parameter threshold in the target icon area as at least one icon, that is, the mobile terminal may regard, as at least one icon, the icon a and the icon B in the target icon area, for which the application parameter satisfies the preset parameter threshold.

Optionally, the mobile terminal may trigger an icon setting instruction in the target icon area, and in response to the icon setting instruction, use an icon indicated by the icon setting instruction as the at least one icon. Alternatively, if the user performs an icon setting operation on the target icon area, the mobile terminal may trigger an icon setting instruction in the target icon area. The icon setting operation may be an icon selection operation performed by the user on the target icon area, and may also refer to a long-press operation performed by the user on an icon in the target icon area, which is not limited in the present application. Specifically, the user may perform a long-press operation on the target icon area, and then the mobile terminal may respond to the long-press operation performed by the user and display an icon selection interface corresponding to the target icon area, where the icon selection interface includes all icons in the target icon area, and the user may perform the icon selection operation on the icon selection interface, and then the mobile terminal may respond to the icon selection operation performed by the user and use an icon selected by the icon selection operation as the at least one icon; the user can also perform long-press operation on the icons in the target icon area, and the mobile terminal can respond to the long-press operation performed by the user and take the icon acted by each long-press operation as the at least one icon.

The target display area may be a display area for displaying update information, where the update information is update information of an application corresponding to at least one icon in the target icon area, and the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon may refer to application information generated within a preset time period by the application corresponding to the at least one icon. Optionally, the preset time length may be a time period set by the mobile terminal, or may also be a time period set by the user as desired, which is not limited in the present application.

Optionally, the method for the mobile terminal to determine the target display area corresponding to the target icon area may include the following three ways:

the mobile terminal can trigger an area expansion instruction in a target icon area, respond to the area expansion instruction, display all icons in the target icon area to obtain an icon display interface of the target icon area, and take a display area which can display all icons in the target icon area in the icon display interface as the target display area.

Optionally, fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of an icon provided in this embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 4, 410 is a display interface of the mobile terminal, the display interface 410 may include an icon area 411, an area identifier of the icon area 411 may be "entertainment", and the number of the icon sub-areas is 9, taking the target icon area as the icon area 411 as an example, the mobile terminal may trigger an area expansion instruction in the target icon area, so as to obtain an icon display interface (i.e., a display interface 420) of the target icon area, the icon display interface may display all icons in the target icon area, and assuming that the display area in the icon display interface that can display icons is the display area 421, the mobile terminal may use the display area 421 as the target display area.

And secondly, the mobile terminal can take the area display position where the target icon area is located as a target display area.

Optionally, fig. 5 is a schematic view of another icon provided in the embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 5, the display interface 510 may include an icon area 511, and taking the target icon area as the icon area 511 as an example, the mobile terminal may use an area display position where the target icon area is located as the target display area.

And thirdly, the target icon area comprises at least two icon sub-areas, when the mobile terminal determines the target display area corresponding to the target icon area, the mobile terminal can determine the target display sub-area corresponding to at least one icon sub-area in the at least two icon sub-areas, and the target display area comprises at least one target display sub-area.

Optionally, fig. 6 is a schematic view of another icon provided in the embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 6, the display interface 610 may include an icon region identified by a region identifier "entertainment", and taking the target icon region as the icon region identified by the region identifier "entertainment", as an example, the mobile terminal may use a display region where at least one icon sub-region in the target icon region is located as a target display sub-region corresponding to the at least one icon sub-region, and the target display region may include a target display sub-region corresponding to the at least one icon sub-region in the target icon region. Optionally, in the display interface 610, a display area where the icon sub-area where the icon J is displayed is the display area 611, so that the mobile terminal may use the display area 611 as a target display sub-area corresponding to the icon sub-area where the icon J is located, in other words, the target display area may include the display area 611.

The specific determination method of the target display area corresponding to the target icon area is not limited in the present application.

320. And acquiring the update information of the application corresponding to at least one icon.

Optionally, the mobile terminal may obtain, from the notification message column, a notification message of an application corresponding to the at least one icon, and use the obtained notification message of the at least one application as the update information of the at least one application.

Optionally, the mobile terminal may receive, through a related data interface of at least one application, application information sent by a server corresponding to the at least one application, and use the application information as update information.

The update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon may be application information generated within a preset time period by the application corresponding to the at least one icon, and the specific obtaining mode of the update information is not limited in the present application.

Optionally, assuming that at least one icon includes an icon a and an icon B, the mobile terminal may obtain a notification message that is applied within a preset time period and corresponds to the icon a and the icon B, and use the notification message that is applied within the preset time period and corresponds to the icon a as the update information of the application corresponding to the icon a, and use the notification message that is applied within the preset time period and corresponds to the icon B as the update information of the application corresponding to the icon B, so as to obtain the update information of the application corresponding to at least one icon, that is, obtain the update information of the application corresponding to the icon a and the update information of the application corresponding to the icon B.

330. The update information is displayed in the target display area.

After obtaining the update information of the application corresponding to at least one icon in the target icon area, the mobile terminal may display the obtained update information in the target display area corresponding to the target icon area.

Optionally, the manner in which the mobile terminal displays the update information in the target display area may include the following three ways:

the mobile terminal can trigger an area expansion instruction in a target icon area, respond to the area expansion instruction, display all icons in the target icon area to obtain an icon display interface of the target icon area, trigger a first update information display instruction in the icon display interface, and respond to the update information display instruction to display the update information in the target display area.

Optionally, if the user performs the area expansion operation on the target icon area, the mobile terminal may trigger an area expansion instruction in the target icon area, so as to obtain an icon display interface of the target icon area, and when the user performs the first update information display operation on the icon display interface, the mobile terminal may trigger the first update information display instruction in the icon display interface. Optionally, the area expansion operation may be a click operation of the user on a blank area in the target icon area, or a click operation of the user on a preset sub-area in the target icon area, and the specific embodiment of the area expansion operation is not limited in the present application. Optionally, the first update information display operation may be a sliding operation of the user on the icon display interface, or a continuous clicking operation of the user on the icon display interface, and a specific implementation of the first update information display operation is not limited in this application.

Alternatively, as shown in fig. 4, taking the target icon area as the icon area 411 as an example, if the user performs an area expansion operation on the target icon area, the mobile terminal may trigger an area expansion instruction in the target icon area, in response to the area expansion instruction, display all icons (i.e., icons D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L and M) in the target icon area, obtain an icon display interface (i.e., display interface 420) in the target icon area, when the user performs a first update information display operation on the icon display interface, the mobile terminal may trigger a first update information display instruction in the icon display interface, and display the update information in the target display area (i.e., display area 431) in response to the first update information display instruction.

And secondly, the mobile terminal can trigger a second updating information display instruction in the target icon area and respond to the second updating information display instruction to display the updating information in the target display area.

Alternatively, if the user performs the second update information display operation on the target icon area, the mobile terminal may trigger a second update information display instruction in the target icon area. Optionally, the second update information display operation may be a sliding operation of the target icon area by the user, or may also be a continuous clicking operation of the target icon area by the user, which is not limited in this application.

Alternatively, as shown in fig. 5, taking the target icon area as the icon area 511 as an example, when the user performs a sliding operation on the target icon area, that is, the user performs a second update information display operation on the target icon area, the mobile terminal may trigger a second update information display instruction on the target icon area, and display the update information in the target display area (i.e., the display area 521) in response to the second update information display instruction, so as to obtain the display interface 520.

And after the target display area comprises at least one target display sub-area, the update information applied to the icon displayed in the at least one icon sub-area can be displayed in the target display sub-area corresponding to the at least one icon sub-area.

Optionally, the displaying, by the mobile terminal, the update information of the application corresponding to the icon displayed in the at least one icon sub-area in the target display sub-area corresponding to the at least one icon sub-area includes: and triggering a third update information display instruction on a target icon sub-area in the target icon area, responding to the third update information display instruction, and displaying the update information applied to the icon displayed in the target icon sub-area in the target display sub-area corresponding to the target icon sub-area, wherein the target icon sub-area is any one of at least two icon sub-areas. Optionally, if the user triggers a third update information display operation on the target icon sub-area in the target icon area, the mobile terminal may trigger a third update information display instruction on the target icon sub-area in the target icon area. Optionally, the third update information display operation may be a sliding operation of the user on the target icon sub-region in the target icon region, or a continuous clicking operation of the user on the target icon sub-region in the target icon region, which is not limited in this application.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 6, taking the target icon area as the area to identify the icon area identified by "entertainment", assuming that the target icon sub-area in the target icon area is the icon sub-area where the icon J is located, if the user performs a third update information display operation on the target icon sub-area, the mobile terminal may trigger a third update information display instruction in the target icon sub-area, and in response to the third update information display instruction, display the update information applied to the icon J in the target display sub-area (i.e., the display area 621) corresponding to the target icon sub-area, so as to obtain the display interface 620.

Optionally, the displaying, by the mobile terminal, the update information of the application corresponding to the icon displayed in the target icon sub-region in the target display sub-region corresponding to the target icon sub-region includes: determining that the icon displayed in the target icon sub-area is any icon in at least one icon; and displaying the updating information of the application corresponding to the icon displayed in the target icon sub-area in the target display sub-area corresponding to the target icon sub-area.

Optionally, the mobile terminal may determine whether the icon displayed in the target icon sub-region is any icon in the at least one icon, and if so, may display update information applied to the icon displayed in the target icon sub-region in the target display sub-region corresponding to the target icon sub-region; if not, no action may be performed.

Optionally, the mobile terminal may trigger a display closing instruction in the target icon area, and respond to the display closing instruction without displaying the update information in the target display area. It can be understood that, after the mobile terminal and the target icon area trigger the display closing instruction, if the mobile terminal triggers the target update information display instruction in the target icon area, the mobile terminal does not respond, that is, the mobile terminal does not display the update information in the target display area, where the target update information display instruction is any one of the first update information display instruction, the second update information display instruction, and the third update information display instruction. Alternatively, if the user performs a display closing operation on the target icon area, the mobile terminal may trigger a display closing instruction in the target icon area. The display closing operation may refer to a selection operation performed by a user in the area editing menu, specifically, the user may perform a long-press operation on the target icon area, and the mobile terminal displays an area editing menu of the target icon area in response to the long-press operation performed by the user, where the area editing menu includes a display closing option, and then the user may perform a selection operation on the display closing option in the area editing menu to implement a display closing operation on the target icon area; the display closing operation may also be a continuous clicking operation of the user on a blank area in the target icon area. The present application is not limited to the specific embodiment of the display closing operation.

Optionally, after the target icon area triggers the display closing instruction, the mobile terminal may trigger a display opening instruction in the target icon area, and respond to the display opening instruction to display the update information in the target display area. Alternatively, if the user performs a display-on operation on the target icon area, the mobile terminal may trigger a display-on instruction in the target icon area. The display starting operation may be a selection operation instructed by a user in the area editing menu, specifically, the user may perform a long-press operation on the target icon area, the mobile terminal responds to the long-press operation performed by the user, and displays an area editing menu of the target icon area, where the area editing menu includes a display starting option, and then the user may perform a selection operation on the display starting option in the area editing menu to implement the display starting operation on the target icon area; the display opening operation may also be a continuous clicking operation of the blank area in the target icon area by the user. The present application is not limited to the specific embodiment of the display opening operation.

Alternatively, the display opening operation and the display closing operation may both be continuous clicking operations of the blank area in the target icon area by the user. When the target icon area is in a display opening state, namely the target icon area can display updated information in the target display area, the continuous clicking operation performed by the user on the blank area in the target icon area is a display closing operation; when the target icon area is in a display-off state, that is, the target icon area cannot display updated information in the target display area, the continuous clicking operation performed by the user on the blank area in the target icon area is the display-on operation.

Optionally, the mobile terminal may trigger a full-screen display instruction in the target display area, and respond to the full-screen display instruction to display the updated information in the target display area in a full-screen manner. Optionally, if the user performs a full-screen display operation on the target display area, the mobile terminal may trigger a full-screen display instruction in the target display area. The full-screen display operation may be a click operation of a user on a preset display area in the target display area, or an amplification operation of the user on the target display area, where the preset display area may be set by the mobile terminal or may be set by the user, and the application does not limit a specific implementation manner of the full-screen display operation. The zoom-in operation may refer to a first multi-finger touch operation performed by the user on the target display area, and the mobile terminal obtains a plurality of sliding tracks indicated by the first multi-finger touch operation in response to the first multi-finger touch operation performed by the user, where sliding directions of different sliding tracks in the plurality of sliding tracks are opposite.

Optionally, fig. 7 is a schematic view of another icon provided in the embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 7, assuming that a target display area (i.e., the display area 712) in the display interface 710 includes a preset display area 711, when a user performs a click operation on the preset display area 711, that is, the user performs a full-screen display operation on the target display area, the mobile terminal may trigger a full-screen display instruction in the target display area, and in response to the full-screen display instruction, full-screen display is performed on update information in the target display area in the display interface 720.

Optionally, after the mobile terminal displays the update information in the target display area in full screen, the mobile terminal may trigger a full screen display cancellation instruction according to the update information in full screen display, and display the update information in the target display area in response to the full screen display cancellation instruction. Optionally, if the user performs a full-screen display cancellation operation on the full-screen displayed update information, the mobile terminal may trigger a full-screen display cancellation instruction on the full-screen displayed update information, where the full-screen display cancellation operation may be a zoom-out operation of the user on a display interface where the full-screen displayed update information is located, or a continuous click operation of the user on the display interface where the full-screen displayed update information is located, and the like. The zoom-out operation may refer to a second multi-touch operation performed by the user on the updated information displayed in the full screen, and the mobile terminal obtains a plurality of sliding tracks indicated by the second multi-touch operation in response to the second multi-touch operation performed by the user, where sliding directions of different sliding tracks in the plurality of sliding tracks are opposite directions.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 7, taking the display interface where the update information displayed in full screen is located as the display interface 720 as an example, when the user performs a full screen display cancellation operation on the update information displayed in full screen, the mobile terminal may trigger a full screen display cancellation instruction according to the update information displayed in full screen, and in response to the full screen display cancellation instruction, the update information is displayed in the target display area, in other words, the mobile terminal may quit full screen display of the update information in the target display area, so as to obtain the display interface 730.

Optionally, the mobile terminal may trigger an update information cancellation display instruction on the display screen, and display the target icon area in the target display area in response to the update information cancellation display instruction. Optionally, if the user performs an update information cancellation display operation on the display screen, the mobile terminal may trigger an update information cancellation display instruction on the display screen, where the update information cancellation display operation may be a sliding operation of the user on the target display area, or a continuous clicking operation of the user on the target display area, and the update information cancellation display operation is not limited in the present application.

Alternatively, as shown in fig. 5, taking the target icon area as the icon area 511 as an example, the icon area 511 corresponds to the icon area 531, and if the user performs an update information cancellation display operation on the target display area (i.e., the display area 521) in the display interface 520, the mobile terminal may trigger an update information cancellation display instruction on the display screen, and in response to the update information cancellation display instruction, display the target icon area (i.e., the icon area 531) in the target display area (i.e., the area display position where the icon area 531 is located), so as to obtain the display interface 530.

By the embodiment of the application, the mobile terminal can display the update information corresponding to the at least one icon in the target icon area in the target display area, can display the update information displayed in the target display area in a full screen mode, or can cancel the display of the update information, so that a user can conveniently adjust the display of the update information according to will, and can quickly search the update information corresponding to the at least one icon in the target icon area.

Referring to the embodiment shown in fig. 8, fig. 8 is a flowchart illustrating another application management method provided in the embodiment of the present application, where the method may be applied to an intelligent terminal such as a mobile terminal or a fixed terminal, and for convenience of description, an execution subject is taken as an example in the embodiment of the present application for description. Optionally, the application management method shown in this embodiment includes:

810. and performing layout processing on the updating information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon to obtain the laid updating information corresponding to the at least one icon.

The layout processing may refer to sorting processing, position display processing between at least one icon and update information applied to the at least one icon, and the like, and specific contents of the layout processing are not limited in the present application. The position display processing may refer to processing of a display position between at least one icon and update information of an application corresponding to the at least one icon by the mobile terminal, and optionally, as shown in fig. 5, the mobile terminal may display an icon before the update information of the application corresponding to the icon; for another example, fig. 9 is a schematic view of another icon provided in this embodiment, and as shown in fig. 9, the mobile terminal may display the icon on top of the update information of the application corresponding to the icon, and this application does not limit the specific implementation of the position display processing.

The method for the mobile terminal to perform layout processing on the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon to obtain the laid update information corresponding to the at least one icon includes the following two modes:

the mobile terminal can perform layout processing on the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon according to the update time of the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon to obtain the laid-out update information corresponding to the at least one icon.

Optionally, the mobile terminal may determine an update time of the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon, where the update time may refer to a generation time of the update information, and then the mobile terminal may sort the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon according to an order from late to early of the update time, or sort the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon according to an order from early to late of the update time, which is not limited in this application.

Alternatively, assuming that at least one icon includes icon a and icon B, and the update information of the application corresponding to icon a includes update information a1 and update information a2, and the update information of the application corresponding to icon B includes update information B1, B2 and B3, if the update time of update information a1 is later than the update time of update information a2, the update time of update information B1 is later than the update times of update information B2 and update information B3, and the update time of update information B2 is later than the update time of update information B3, when the mobile terminal sorts the update information of the applications corresponding to at least one icon in order of update time from late to early, update information a1 may be arranged before update information a2, so that the post-layout update information corresponding to icon a is obtained, and update information B1 may be arranged before update information B2 and update information B3, the update information B2 is arranged before the update information B3, so that the post-layout update information corresponding to the icon B is obtained.

The mobile terminal can determine the weight of the update information corresponding to the at least one icon, and perform layout processing on the update information corresponding to the at least one icon according to the weight to obtain the laid update information corresponding to the at least one icon.

Optionally, the mobile terminal may determine a weight of the update information corresponding to the at least one icon, where the weight may refer to a result of comprehensive calculation of generation time, reading amount, forwarding amount, and the like of the update information by the mobile terminal, and then the mobile terminal may sort the update information corresponding to the at least one icon according to a descending order of the weight, or sort the update information corresponding to the at least one icon according to a descending order of the weight, which is not limited in this application.

Alternatively, assuming that at least one icon includes an icon a and an icon B, and the update information of the application corresponding to the icon a includes update information a1 and update information a2, if the weight of the update information a1 is greater than the weight of the update information a2, when the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon is sorted in the order of the weights from large to small, the mobile terminal may arrange the update information a1 before the update information a2, so as to obtain the post-layout update information corresponding to the icon a. Similarly, the mobile terminal may sort the update information applied to the icon B according to the order of the weights from large to small, so as to obtain the update information after the layout corresponding to the icon B.

820. And displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to at least one icon in the target display area.

Optionally, the mobile terminal may determine an application priority of the at least one icon, and display the updated information after the layout corresponding to a first icon in the at least one icon in the target display area according to the application priority, where the first icon is an icon with the highest application priority in the at least one icon.

When determining the application priority of at least one icon, the mobile terminal may determine the application priority according to the application parameter of the application corresponding to the at least one icon, that is, the mobile terminal may use the icon corresponding to the application with the larger application parameter as the icon with the higher application priority, optionally, if the at least one icon includes an icon a and an icon B, the application parameter of the application corresponding to the icon a is greater than the application parameter of the application corresponding to the icon B, and then the application priority of the icon a is higher than the application priority of the icon B; the mobile terminal may also determine the latest update time among the update times of all the update information applied corresponding to the at least one icon, and use the latest update time as the update time corresponding to the at least one icon, and then the mobile terminal may determine the application priority according to the update time corresponding to the at least one icon, in other words, the mobile terminal may use the icon with the later update time as the icon with the higher application priority, and optionally, assuming that the at least one icon includes icon a and icon B, the update information applied corresponding to icon a includes update information a1 and thinner information a2, and the update time of update information a1 is later than the update time of update information a2, then the mobile terminal may use the update time of update information a1 as the update time corresponding to icon a, and similarly, the mobile terminal may determine the update time corresponding to icon B, assuming that the update time corresponding to the icon a is later than the update time corresponding to the icon B, the application priority of the icon a is higher than that of the icon B. The application does not limit the specific determination manner of the application priority of at least one icon.

After determining the application priority of the at least one icon, the mobile terminal may determine, according to the application priority of the at least one icon, a first icon of the at least one icon, where the first icon is an icon with the highest application priority among the at least one icon, so as to display the updated information after the layout corresponding to the first icon in the target display area. Alternatively, as shown in fig. 9, taking the target icon area as an area to identify the icon area identified by "entertainment", the target icon area includes icons D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K and L, the mobile terminal may determine the application priority of the icons H, I and L if at least one icon in the target icon area includes the icon H, I and L, and the mobile terminal may display the updated information after the layout corresponding to the icon H in the target display area (i.e., the display area 921) if the icon with the highest application priority among the icons H, I and L is the first icon (i.e., the icon H).

Optionally, the mobile terminal may trigger an update information switching instruction in the target display area, and respond to the update information switching instruction to display the updated information after the layout corresponding to the third icon in the target display area, where the application priority of the third icon is lower than that of the first icon. Optionally, if the user performs an update information switching operation on the target display area, the mobile terminal may trigger an update information switching instruction in the target display area, where the update information switching operation may refer to a sliding operation of the user on the target display area, or may refer to a continuous clicking operation of the user on the target display area, and the specific implementation of the update information switching operation is not limited in this application.

Alternatively, as shown in fig. 9, assuming that at least one icon includes icons H, I and L, the application priority of icon H is higher than the application priorities of icon I and icon L, the application priority of icon I is higher than the application priority of icon L, and the post-layout update information corresponding to the first icon (i.e., icon H) is displayed in the target display area (i.e., display area 921), if the user performs an update information switching operation on the target display area (i.e., display area 921), the mobile terminal may trigger an update information switching instruction in the target display area (i.e., display area 921), and in response to the update information switching instruction, display the post-layout update information corresponding to the third icon (i.e., icon I) in the target display area (i.e., display area 931).

Optionally, the displaying, by the mobile terminal, the updated information after the layout corresponding to the first icon in the at least one icon in the target display area according to the application priority includes: displaying the arranged updating information corresponding to at least one icon at different display positions of the target display area according to the application priority, wherein the arranged updating information corresponding to a first icon is positioned in front of the arranged updating information corresponding to a second icon in the at least one icon, and the application priority of the first icon is higher than that of the second icon.

Alternatively, fig. 10 is a schematic diagram of another icon provided in this embodiment of the application, as shown in fig. 10, taking a target icon area as an area to identify an icon area identified by "entertainment", where the target icon area includes icons D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K and L, and assuming that at least one icon in the target icon area includes an icon H and an icon I, the mobile terminal may determine application priorities of the icon H and the icon I, and assuming that the application priority of the icon H is higher than that of the icon I, the mobile terminal may display the post-layout update information corresponding to the at least one icon at different display positions in the target display area (i.e., display area 1021) according to the application priorities, where the post-layout update information corresponding to a first icon (i.e., icon H) is located before the post-layout update information corresponding to a second icon (I), resulting in display interface 1020.

According to the embodiment of the application, the mobile terminal can perform layout processing on the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon, and display the laid update information corresponding to the at least one icon in the target display area, so that the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon is sequentially displayed in the target display area, and a user can conveniently and rapidly search the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon.

Referring to the embodiment shown in fig. 11, fig. 11 is a flowchart illustrating another application management method provided in the embodiment of the present application, where the method may be applied to an intelligent terminal such as a mobile terminal or a fixed terminal, and for convenience of description, an execution subject is taken as an example in the embodiment of the present application for description. Optionally, the application management method shown in this embodiment includes:

1110. and performing layout processing on the update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon to obtain the laid update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon.

Similarly, the method for the mobile terminal to perform layout processing on the update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon to obtain the laid-out update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon includes the following two methods:

the mobile terminal can perform layout processing on the update information of the applications corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon according to the update time of the update information of the applications corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon, so as to obtain the laid update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon.

Optionally, the mobile terminal may determine update times of the update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon, and then the mobile terminal may sort the update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon according to an order from late to early of the update times, or sort the update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon according to an order from early to late of the update times, which is not limited in this application.

Alternatively, assuming that at least one icon includes icon a and icon B, and the update information of the application corresponding to icon a includes update information a1 and update information a2, and the update information of the application corresponding to icon B includes update information B1 and update information B2, if the update time of update information a1 is later than the update times of update information B2, B1 and a2, the update time of update information B2 is later than the update times of update information B1 and update information a2, and the update time of update information B1 is later than the update time of update information a2, when the mobile terminal sorts the update information of the applications corresponding to all icons in the at least one icon in order of update time from late to early, update information B1 may be arranged before update information a2, update information B2 may be arranged before update information B1, and update information a1 may be arranged before update information B2, thereby obtaining the updated information after the layout corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon.

The mobile terminal can determine the weight of the update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon, and perform layout processing on the update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon according to the weight to obtain the laid update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon.

Optionally, the mobile terminal may determine a weight of the update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon, where the weight may refer to a result of comprehensive calculation of generation time, reading amount, forwarding amount, and the like of the update information by the mobile terminal, and then the mobile terminal may sort the update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon according to a descending order of the weight, and may also sort the update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon according to a descending order of the weight, which is not limited in this application.

Optionally, it is assumed that at least one icon includes icon a and icon B, and the update information of the application corresponding to icon a includes update information a1 and update information a2, the update information corresponding to the icon B comprises update information B1 and update information B2, if the weight of the update information A1 is greater than the weights of the update information B2, B1 and A2, the weight of the update information B2 is greater than the weights of the update information B1 and the update information A2, and the weight of the update information B1 is greater than the weight of the update information A2, when the mobile terminal sorts the update information corresponding to all the icons in at least one icon in the order of the weights from big to small, the update information B1 may be ranked before the update information a2, the update information B2 may be ranked before the update information B1, and the update information a1 is arranged before the update information B2, so that the arranged update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon is obtained.

1120. And displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to all the icons in the target display area.

Alternatively, as shown in fig. 4, assuming that the at least one icon includes an icon H and an icon I, the mobile terminal may display the updated information after the layout corresponding to all icons (i.e., the icon H and the icon I) in the at least one icon in the target display area (i.e., the display area 431).

Through the embodiment of the application, the mobile terminal can perform layout processing on the update information of the applications corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon, and display the update information after the layout corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon in the target display area, so that the update information of the applications corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon is sequentially displayed in the target display area, and a user can conveniently and quickly search the update information of the applications corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon.

Referring to fig. 12, fig. 12 is a schematic diagram of a unit of an application management device according to an embodiment of the present application. The application management apparatus shown in fig. 12 may be used to perform some or all of the functions in the method embodiments described in fig. 3, fig. 8, and fig. 11 above. The device can be an intelligent terminal such as a mobile terminal or a fixed terminal, can also be a device in the intelligent terminal, or can be a device matched with the intelligent terminal for use. The logical structure of the apparatus may include: a processing unit 1210 and an output unit 1220. Optionally:

a processing unit 1210, configured to determine at least one icon in a target icon area and a target display area corresponding to the target icon area;

the processing unit 1210 is further configured to obtain update information of an application corresponding to at least one icon;

an output unit 1220, configured to: the update information is displayed in the target display area.

Optionally, the target icon area comprises at least two icon sub-areas; when determining the target display area corresponding to the target icon area, the processing unit 1210 is configured to: determining a target display sub-area corresponding to at least one icon sub-area in the at least two icon sub-areas, wherein the target display area comprises at least one target display sub-area; the output unit 1220, when displaying the update information in the target display region, is configured to: and displaying the updating information of the application corresponding to the icon displayed in the at least one icon sub-area in the target display sub-area corresponding to the at least one icon sub-area.

Optionally, the processing unit 1210 is further configured to perform layout processing on the update information applied to the at least one icon to obtain the laid-out update information corresponding to the at least one icon; the output unit 1220, when displaying the update information in the target display region, is configured to: and displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to at least one icon in the target display area.

Optionally, when performing layout processing on the update information applied to the at least one icon to obtain the updated information after the layout corresponding to the at least one icon, the processing unit 1210 is configured to: performing layout processing on the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon according to the update time of the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon to obtain the laid-out update information corresponding to the at least one icon; or determining the weight of the update information corresponding to the at least one icon, and performing layout processing on the update information corresponding to the at least one icon according to the weight to obtain the laid-out update information corresponding to the at least one icon.

Optionally, the output unit 1220, when displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to the at least one icon in the target display area, is configured to: determining an application priority of at least one icon; and displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to the first icon in the at least one icon in the target display area according to the application priority, wherein the first icon is the icon with the highest application priority in the at least one icon.

Optionally, the output unit 1220, when displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to the first icon in the at least one icon in the target display area according to the application priority, is configured to: displaying the arranged updating information corresponding to at least one icon at different display positions of the target display area according to the application priority, wherein the arranged updating information corresponding to a first icon is positioned in front of the arranged updating information corresponding to a second icon in the at least one icon, and the application priority of the first icon is higher than that of the second icon.

Optionally, the processing unit 1210 is further configured to trigger an update information switching instruction for the target display area; the output unit 1220 is further configured to respond to the update information switching instruction, and display the updated information after the layout corresponding to the third icon in the target display area, where the application priority of the third icon is lower than that of the first icon.

Optionally, the processing unit 1210 is further configured to perform layout processing on the update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon to obtain the laid-out update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon; the output unit 1220, when displaying the update information in the target display region, is configured to: and displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to all the icons in the target display area.

Alternatively, the output unit 1220 is configured to, when displaying the update information in the target display area: triggering an area expansion instruction in the target icon area, responding to the area expansion instruction, displaying all icons in the target icon area to obtain an icon display interface of the target icon area, triggering a first update information display instruction on the icon display interface, and responding to the first update information display instruction to display the update information in the target display area; or triggering a second update information display instruction in the target icon area, and displaying the update information in the target display area in response to the second update information display instruction.

Optionally, when the update information of the application corresponding to the icon displayed in the at least one icon sub-region is displayed in the target display sub-region corresponding to the at least one icon sub-region, the output unit 1220 is configured to: triggering a third update information display instruction in a target icon subarea in the target icon area; and responding to the third update information display instruction, and displaying the update information applied to the icon displayed in the target icon sub-region in the target display sub-region corresponding to the target icon sub-region, wherein the target icon sub-region is any one of the at least two icon sub-regions.

Optionally, when the update information of the application corresponding to the icon displayed in the target icon sub-region is displayed in the target display sub-region corresponding to the target icon sub-region, the output unit 1220 is configured to: determining that the icon displayed in the target icon sub-area is any icon in at least one icon; and displaying the updating information of the application corresponding to the icon displayed in the target icon sub-area in the target display sub-area corresponding to the target icon sub-area.

Optionally, the output unit 1220 is further configured to trigger a full-screen display instruction in the target display area; and responding to the full-screen display instruction, and displaying the updated information in the target display area in a full-screen mode.

Optionally, the processing unit 1210 is configured to, when determining at least one icon in the target icon region: determining application parameters of an application corresponding to at least one icon in the target icon area; and taking the icon with the application parameter meeting the preset parameter threshold value in the target icon area as at least one icon.

Optionally, the output unit 1220 is further configured to trigger an update information cancellation display instruction for the display screen; and responding to the update information display canceling instruction, and displaying the target icon area in the target display area.

It can be understood that the functions of each functional unit of the application management apparatus in the embodiment of the present application can be specifically implemented according to the method in the foregoing method embodiment, and the specific implementation process of the method can refer to the relevant description of the foregoing method embodiment, which is not described herein again.

The application also provides an intelligent terminal, which comprises a memory and a processor, wherein the memory is stored with an application management program, and the application management program is executed by the processor to realize the steps of the application management method in any embodiment.

The present application further provides a computer-readable storage medium, in which an application management program is stored, and when the application management program is executed by a processor, the steps of the application management method in any of the above embodiments are implemented.

In the embodiments of the intelligent terminal and the computer-readable storage medium provided in the present application, all technical features of any one of the embodiments of the application management method may be included, and the expanding and explaining contents of the specification are basically the same as those of the embodiments of the method, and are not described herein again.

Embodiments of the present application also provide a computer program product, which includes computer program code, when the computer program code runs on a computer, the computer is caused to execute the method in the above various possible embodiments.

Embodiments of the present application further provide a chip, which includes a memory and a processor, where the memory is used to store a computer program, and the processor is used to call and run the computer program from the memory, so that a device in which the chip is installed executes the method in the above various possible embodiments.

It is to be understood that the foregoing scenarios are only examples, and do not constitute a limitation on application scenarios of the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present application, and the technical solutions of the present application may also be applied to other scenarios. For example, as can be known by those skilled in the art, with the evolution of system architecture and the emergence of new service scenarios, the technical solution provided in the embodiments of the present application is also applicable to similar technical problems.

The above-mentioned serial numbers of the embodiments of the present application are merely for description and do not represent the merits of the embodiments.

The steps in the method of the embodiment of the application can be sequentially adjusted, combined and deleted according to actual needs.

The units in the device in the embodiment of the application can be merged, divided and deleted according to actual needs.

In the present application, the same or similar term concepts, technical solutions and/or application scenario descriptions will be generally described only in detail at the first occurrence, and when the description is repeated later, the detailed description will not be repeated in general for brevity, and when understanding the technical solutions and the like of the present application, reference may be made to the related detailed description before the description for the same or similar term concepts, technical solutions and/or application scenario descriptions and the like which are not described in detail later.

In the present application, each embodiment is described with emphasis, and reference may be made to the description of other embodiments for parts that are not described or illustrated in any embodiment.

The technical features of the technical solution of the present application may be arbitrarily combined, and for brevity of description, all possible combinations of the technical features in the embodiments are not described, however, as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features, the scope of the present application should be considered as being described in the present application.

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 (e.g., ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal device (e.g., a mobile phone, a computer, a server, a controlled terminal, or a network device) to execute the method of each embodiment of the present application.

In the above embodiments, the implementation may be wholly or partially realized by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. The procedures or functions according to the embodiments of the present application are all or partially generated when the computer program instructions are loaded and executed on a computer. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a network of computers, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored on a computer readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer readable storage medium to another, for example, the computer instructions may be transmitted from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center by wire (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, digital subscriber line) or wirelessly (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device, such as a server, a data center, etc., that incorporates one or more of the available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., floppy Disk, memory Disk, magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., DVD), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., Solid State Disk (SSD)), among others.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present application, and not intended to limit the scope of the present application, and all modifications of equivalent structures and equivalent processes, which are made by the contents of the specification and the drawings of the present application, or which are directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are included in the scope of the present application.

Claims

1. An application management method, characterized in that it comprises the following steps:

s10: determining at least one icon in a target icon area and a target display area corresponding to the target icon area;

s20: acquiring updating information of an application corresponding to the at least one icon;

s30: and displaying the updated information in the target display area.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the target icon area comprises at least two icon sub-areas; the determining of the target display area corresponding to the target icon area includes:

determining a target display sub-area corresponding to at least one icon sub-area in the at least two icon sub-areas, wherein the target display area comprises at least one target display sub-area;

the displaying the update information in the target display area includes:

and displaying the updating information of the application corresponding to the icon displayed in the at least one icon sub-area in the target display sub-area corresponding to the at least one icon sub-area.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the method further comprises the steps of:

performing layout processing on the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon to obtain the updated information after the layout corresponding to the at least one icon;

the displaying the update information in the target display area includes:

and displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to the at least one icon in the target display area.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the performing layout processing on the update information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon to obtain the post-layout update information corresponding to the at least one icon includes at least one of:

according to the updating time of the updating information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon, performing layout processing on the updating information of the application corresponding to the at least one icon to obtain the laid updating information corresponding to the at least one icon;

determining the weight of the update information corresponding to the at least one icon, and performing layout processing on the update information corresponding to the at least one icon according to the weight to obtain the laid-out update information corresponding to the at least one icon.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the displaying the updated information corresponding to the at least one icon after the layout in the target display area comprises:

determining an application priority of the at least one icon;

and displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to the first icon in the at least one icon in the target display area according to the application priority, wherein the first icon is the icon with the highest application priority in the at least one icon.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to the first icon in the at least one icon in the target display area according to the application priority comprises:

displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to the at least one icon at different display positions of the target display area according to the application priority, wherein the updated information after the layout corresponding to the first icon is positioned in front of the updated information after the layout corresponding to the second icon in the at least one icon, and the application priority of the first icon is higher than that of the second icon.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising the steps of:

triggering an update information switching instruction in the target display area;

and responding to the update information switching instruction, and displaying the update information after the layout corresponding to a third icon in the target display area, wherein the application priority of the third icon is lower than that of the first icon.

8. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the method further comprises the steps of:

performing layout processing on the update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon to obtain the laid update information corresponding to all the icons in the at least one icon;

the displaying the update information in the target display area includes:

and displaying the updated information after the layout corresponding to all the icons in the target display area.

9. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the displaying the updated information in the target display area comprises at least one of:

triggering an area expanding instruction in the target icon area, responding to the area expanding instruction, displaying all icons in the target icon area to obtain an icon display interface of the target icon area, triggering a first updating information display instruction in the icon display interface, and responding to the first updating information display instruction to display the updating information in the target display area;

and triggering a second updating information display instruction in the target icon area, and displaying the updating information in the target display area in response to the second updating information display instruction.

10. The method according to claim 2, wherein the displaying the update information of the application corresponding to the icon displayed in the at least one icon sub-area in the target display sub-area corresponding to the at least one icon sub-area comprises:

triggering a third update information display instruction in a target icon subarea in the target icon area;

and responding to the third update information display instruction, and displaying the update information applied to the icon displayed in the target icon sub-region in the target display sub-region corresponding to the target icon sub-region, wherein the target icon sub-region is any one of the at least two icon sub-regions.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the displaying the update information of the application corresponding to the icon displayed in the target icon sub-region in the target display sub-region corresponding to the target icon sub-region comprises:

determining that the icon displayed in the target icon sub-area is any icon in the at least one icon;

and displaying the updating information of the application corresponding to the icon displayed in the target icon sub-area in the target display sub-area corresponding to the target icon sub-area.

12. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the method further comprises the steps of:

triggering a full-screen display instruction in the target display area;

and responding to the full-screen display instruction, and displaying the updated information in the target display area in a full-screen mode.

13. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the determining at least one icon in the target icon area comprises:

determining application parameters of an application corresponding to at least one icon in the target icon area;

and taking the icon with the application parameter meeting a preset parameter threshold value in the target icon area as the at least one icon.

14. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the method further comprises the steps of:

triggering an update information display canceling instruction on a display screen;

and responding to the update information display canceling instruction, and displaying the target icon area in the target display area.

15. An intelligent terminal, characterized in that, intelligent terminal includes: memory, a processor, wherein said memory has stored thereon an application management program, which when executed by said processor implements the steps of the application management method according to any of claims 1 to 14.

16. A readable storage medium, characterized in that the readable storage medium has stored thereon a computer program which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the application management method according to any one of claims 1 to 14.