CN117032872A

CN117032872A - Message display method and message display device

Info

Publication number: CN117032872A
Application number: CN202311054312.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 苏娉平
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2023-08-21
Filing date: 2023-08-21
Publication date: 2023-11-10

Abstract

The application discloses a message display method and a message display device, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The method comprises the following steps: displaying a time dial, the time dial comprising a time scale, the time scale comprising M time scales; receiving a first message of a first application program; displaying a message identifier corresponding to the first message in a first sub-area of the time dial; the time dial comprises an identification display area, the identification display area comprises M sub-areas, each time scale corresponds to one sub-area, the first sub-area corresponds to a first time scale in the M time scales, the time corresponding to the first time scale is the receiving time of the first message, and the message identification corresponding to the first message comprises any one of the following items: the first message corresponds to a contact identifier of a contact, an application icon of a first application program, and M is a positive integer.

Description

Message display method and message display device

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of communication, and particularly relates to a message display method and a message display device.

Background

Currently, when an electronic device receives a message of a phone, a short message, social software or other applications, the electronic device pushes the message based on the time sent by the message, and if the user does not view the message in time within the preset time sent by the message, the message is displayed on a notification list later, so that the user can view the required message on the notification list.

However, if the user subsequently wants to view a message sent at a certain time, or a message of a certain application, it is necessary to slide in the notification list to find a desired message from among a plurality of messages in the list. As such, the electronic device is less efficient at displaying messages desired by the user.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application aims to provide a message display method and a message display device, which can improve the efficiency of displaying a message required by a user by electronic equipment.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a message display method, including: displaying a time dial, the time dial comprising a time scale, the time scale comprising M time scales; receiving a first message of a first application program; displaying a message identifier corresponding to the first message in a first sub-area of the time dial; the time dial comprises an identification display area, wherein the identification display area comprises M sub-areas, each time scale corresponds to one sub-area, the first sub-area corresponds to a first time scale in the M time scales, the time corresponding to the first time scale is the receiving time of a first message, and the message identification corresponding to the first message comprises any one of the following items: the first message corresponds to a contact identifier of a contact, an application icon of a first application program, and M is a positive integer.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a message display apparatus, including: a display module and a receiving module. The display module is used for displaying a time dial, the time dial comprises a time dial, and the time dial comprises M time scales. And the receiving module is used for receiving the first message of the first application program. The display module is further used for displaying a message identifier corresponding to the first message in the first sub-area of the time dial; the time dial comprises an identification display area, the identification display area comprises M sub-areas, each time scale corresponds to one sub-area, the first sub-area corresponds to a first time scale in the M time scales, the time corresponding to the first time scale is the receiving time of the first message, and the message identification corresponding to the first message comprises any one of the following items: the first message corresponds to a contact identifier of a contact, an application icon of a first application program, and M is a positive integer.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an electronic device comprising a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the method as described in the first aspect.

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

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

In a sixth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer program product stored in a storage medium, the program product being executable by at least one processor to implement the method according to the first aspect.

In an embodiment of the application, an electronic device displays a time dial, the time dial comprising a time scale, the time scale comprising M time scales; receiving a first message of a first application program; displaying a message identifier corresponding to the first message in a first sub-area of the time dial; the time dial comprises an identification display area, wherein the identification display area comprises M sub-areas, each time scale corresponds to one sub-area, the first sub-area corresponds to a first time scale in the M time scales, the time corresponding to the first time scale is the receiving time of a first message, and the message identification corresponding to the first message comprises any one of the following items: the first message corresponds to a contact identifier of a contact, an application icon of a first application program, and M is a positive integer. In the scheme, when the time dial is displayed, if the first message is received, the electronic device can display the message identifier of the first message in the first sub-area corresponding to the first time scale corresponding to the message receiving time of the first message in the time dial according to the receiving time of the first message, so that a user can quickly select a certain message identifier through the time dial to view the corresponding message, and the message is not required to be searched in a notification list of the electronic device, thereby improving the efficiency of displaying the message by the electronic device.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a message display method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is one example schematic diagram of a display time plate provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is one example schematic diagram of a display message identifier provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a second flow chart of a message display method according to the embodiment of the application;

FIG. 5 (A) is one example schematic diagram of inputting a message identifier according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 (B) is a schematic diagram of an example of a message corresponding to a display message identifier according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a third flow chart of a message display method according to an embodiment of the application;

FIG. 7 (A) is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a notification bar according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 (B) is a second exemplary diagram illustrating an example of a message identifier according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a second example of a time plate according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 (A) is a schematic diagram of an example of input to a slider control provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 (B) is one example schematic diagram showing an updated time dial provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 (A) is a schematic diagram of an example of input of a time control provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 (B) is a diagram showing a second example of an updated time dial according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 11 is a third exemplary diagram illustrating an example of a message identifier provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 12 (A) is a second exemplary diagram of an embodiment of the present application for inputting a message identifier;

FIG. 12 (B) is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a lock message identifier according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 12 (C) is one example schematic diagram of a delete message identifier provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 13 (A) is a third exemplary diagram of an embodiment of the present application for inputting a message identifier;

FIG. 13 (B) is a second exemplary diagram of a delete message identifier according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a message display device according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 15 is a second schematic diagram of a message display device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 16 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 17 is a second schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application will be clearly described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which are obtained by a person skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present application, fall within the scope of protection of the present application.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims, are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the terms so used are interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein, and that the objects identified by "first," "second," etc. are generally of a type not limited to the number of objects, for example, the first object may be one or more. Furthermore, in the description and claims, "and/or" means at least one of the connected objects, and the character "/", generally means that the associated object is an "or" relationship.

The message display method provided by the embodiment of the application is described in detail below through specific embodiments and application scenes thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The message display method in the embodiment of the application can be applied to the scene of looking up the message.

At present, if the electronic equipment directly opens the message without disturbing, important messages are easily shielded; if the single application needs to be set to allow the notification, a switch for opening or closing the notification in the single application needs to be set, and the operation is complicated; therefore, the electronic device receives various messages every day, when the electronic device receives a message of a telephone, a short message, social software or other application, the electronic device pushes the message based on the time when the message is sent, and if the user does not view the message in time within the preset time when the message is sent, the message is displayed on the notification list later, so that the user can view the required message on the notification list. However, if the user subsequently wants to view a message sent at a certain time, or a message of a certain application, it is necessary to slide in the notification list to find a desired message from among a plurality of messages in the list. As such, the electronic device is less efficient at displaying messages desired by the user.

In the message display method and the message display device provided by the embodiment of the application, when the time dial is displayed, if the first message is received, the electronic device can display the message identifier of the first message in the first sub-area corresponding to the first time scale corresponding to the message receiving time of the first message in the time dial according to the receiving time of the first message, so that a user can quickly select a certain message identifier through the time dial to view the corresponding message without searching the message in the notification list of the electronic device, thereby improving the efficiency of displaying the message by the electronic device.

The execution body of the message display method provided by the embodiment of the application can be a message display device, and the message display device can be an electronic device or a functional module or entity in the electronic device. The technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present application is described below by taking an electronic device as an example.

An embodiment of the application provides a message display method, and fig. 1 shows a flowchart of the message display method provided by the embodiment of the application, and the method can be applied to electronic equipment. As shown in fig. 1, the message display method provided by the embodiment of the present application may include the following steps 201 to 203.

Step 201, the electronic device displays a time dial.

Wherein the time dial comprises a time scale comprising M time scales.

In some embodiments of the present application, the time scale may be a circular scale or a square scale. The embodiments of the present application are not limited in this regard.

In some embodiments of the application, the time scale may be a 12 hour scale or a 1 hour scale. The embodiments of the present application are not limited in this regard.

It will be appreciated that in the case where the time scale is a 12 hour system scale, the time scale indicates a time range of 12 hours; when the time scale is a 1-hour scale, the time range indicated by the time scale is 1 hour.

In some embodiments of the present application, in the case that the time scale is a 12-hour system scale, the time scale may be a time scale every 3 hours, and M has a value of 4; or, a time scale is set every 1 hour, and the value of M is 12; alternatively, a time scale is provided every 20 minutes, with M being 60.

In some embodiments of the present application, in the case that the time scale is a 1 hour system scale, the time scale may be a time scale for each minute, and the value of M is 4; or, a time scale is arranged every 10 minutes, and the value of M is 12; alternatively, a time scale is provided every 1 minute, and M is 60.

Step 202, the electronic device receives a first message of a first application.

In some embodiments of the present application, the first application may be any one of the following: communication-type applications, game-type applications, shopping-type applications, payment-type applications, music-type applications, etc. The embodiments of the present application are not limited in this regard.

In some embodiments of the present application, the first message may be any one of the following: communication information, campaign marketing messages, notification messages, etc., to which embodiments of the present application are not limited.

In some embodiments of the present application, the first message may include at least one of: text messages, picture messages, voice messages, video messages, etc., to which embodiments of the present application are not limited.

Step 203, the electronic device displays a message identifier corresponding to the first message in a first sub-area of the time plate.

The time dial comprises an identification display area, wherein the identification display area comprises M sub-areas, each time scale corresponds to one sub-area, the first sub-area corresponds to a first time scale in the M time scales, and the time corresponding to the first time scale is the receiving time of the first message.

The message identifier corresponding to the first message includes any one of the following: the first message corresponds to a contact identifier of a contact, an application icon of a first application program, and M is a positive integer.

For example, as shown in fig. 2, taking an electronic device as an example of a smart watch, the smart watch displays a time dial 21, the time dial 21 includes a time dial 22 made of 12 hours and an identification display area 23, and the time dial 22 has 12 time scales for each hour; with the time dial 22 as a boundary, the logo display area 23 outside the time dial 22 may be understood as the outer ring display area of the smart watch, and the display area inside the time dial 22 may be understood as the inner ring display area of the smart watch; the stripe region in fig. 2 is only for schematically indicating the display region 23, and the indication display region 23 does not display stripes in the actual interface.

It may be understood that, when the electronic device displays the time dial, if the electronic device receives the first message, the message identifier corresponding to the first message may be added and displayed in the first sub-area corresponding to the first time scale corresponding to the receiving time of the first message in the time dial according to the receiving time of the first message.

In some embodiments of the present application, in the case where the first message is a plurality of messages, the reception time of the first message is the reception time of a latest received one of the plurality of messages.

For example, referring to fig. 2, as shown in fig. 3, the smart watch displays a time plate 21, and the indication display area 23 included in the time plate 21 displays a plurality of message identifications, when the smart watch receives the message 1 at 9 points, that is, the first message, the message identification 31 of the message 1 may be displayed in the sub-area 32 corresponding to the time scale identification "9" corresponding to "9 points". The circular dotted-line box in fig. 3 is merely for illustrating the sub-region 32, and the mark display region 23 is not displayed in the actual interface. It should be noted that, for the description of displaying the other message identifiers in fig. 3 by the smart watch, reference may be made to the description of displaying the application identifier 31 by the smart watch, which is not repeated herein.

In some embodiments of the present application, the electronic device may distinguish the message identifier corresponding to the display message according to the priority of the application to which the message belongs, for example: the application to which the message belongs is a high-priority application, and the message identifier corresponding to the message can be displayed with high saturation; the application to which the message belongs is a low priority application, and the message identifier corresponding to the message can be displayed with low saturation.

In some embodiments of the application, the electronic device defaults to displaying the message identification corresponding to the message received currently within 12 hours in the time dial.

It can be understood that, in the case that the current time is within the time range of 0:00-12:00, the electronic device displays the message identifier corresponding to the received message in the time dial of 0:00-12:00; and under the condition that the current time is in the time range of 12:00-24:00, the electronic equipment displays the message identifier corresponding to the received message in the time dial of 12:00-24:00.

In some embodiments of the present application, when the electronic device displays the message identifier corresponding to the received message in the time dial within different time ranges, the background color of the time dial is correspondingly different, so that the user can distinguish the time range corresponding to the message identifier displayed in the time dial.

In some embodiments of the present application, in a case where the message corresponding to the message identifier is a plurality of messages, the electronic device may display a digital identifier on the upper right of the message identifier, where the digital identifier is used to indicate the number of messages of the message corresponding to the message identifier.

In some embodiments of the application, the electronic device may incorporate a scene dimension, such as: and displaying the corresponding message identification in the time dial by combining the place and the time.

For example: under the condition that the electronic equipment determines that the train station is currently at the train station, the electronic equipment can display application identifiers of applications for purchasing train tickets in the time dial, and a user can conveniently check related notification messages.

In the message display method provided by the embodiment of the application, when the time dial is displayed, if the first message is received, the electronic device can display the message identifier of the first message in the first sub-area corresponding to the first time scale corresponding to the message receiving time of the first message in the time dial according to the receiving time of the first message, so that a user can quickly select a certain message identifier through the time dial to check the corresponding message without searching the message in the notification list of the electronic device, thereby improving the efficiency of displaying the message by the electronic device.

In some embodiments of the present application, the time plate further includes a message display area; referring to fig. 1, as shown in fig. 4, after the step 203, the message display method provided by the embodiment of the present application further includes the following steps 301 and 302.

Step 301, the electronic device receives a first input of a message identifier corresponding to a first message.

In some embodiments of the present application, the first input is used to view a message corresponding to a message identifier.

In some embodiments of the application, the first input includes, but is not limited to: the user performs touch input on the message identifier corresponding to the first message through a touch device such as a finger or a stylus pen, or inputs a voice command input by the user, or inputs a specific gesture input by the user, or inputs a click, or inputs other feasibility. The specific determination may be determined according to actual use requirements, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

In some embodiments of the present application, the specific gesture may be any one of a single click gesture, a swipe gesture, a drag gesture, a pressure recognition gesture, a long press gesture, an area change gesture, a double press gesture, and a double click gesture.

In some embodiments of the present application, the click input may be a single click input, a double click input, or any number of click inputs, and may also be a long press input or a short press input.

In step 302, the electronic device responds to the first input, and displays a message corresponding to the message identifier in a message display area.

In some embodiments of the present application, the message display area may be a display area within a time dial.

In some embodiments of the present application, the electronic device may display a window on the time dial, where the window includes a message corresponding to the message identifier, or the electronic device may hover display the message corresponding to the message identifier on the time dial.

In some embodiments of the application, where the first message is a single message, the electronic device may display the first message in the message display area in response to the first input.

In some embodiments of the present application, in the case where the first message is a plurality of messages, the electronic device may display a latest received one of the plurality of messages based on a time of receipt of the plurality of messages; or displaying one message containing the preset keyword in the plurality of messages.

In some embodiments of the application, the user may enter an input to the time dial to trigger the electronic device to display other ones of the plurality of messages.

For example: the time dial is slid to trigger the electronic device to display other ones of the plurality of messages.

In some embodiments of the present application, when the electronic device displays the first message and the message content of the first message is not completely displayed, the user may perform sliding input on the time dial to trigger the electronic device to display the remaining message content of the first message; or, performing scaling input on the first message, so that the font of the first message is reduced to display the complete message content.

In some embodiments of the present application, when the electronic device displays a message corresponding to the message identifier in the message display area, the electronic device may synchronously display the name of the contact that sends the message.

For example, referring to fig. 3, as shown in fig. 5 (a), if the user wants to view the message corresponding to the message identifier 31, the user may click on the message identifier 31 in the identifier display area 23, as shown in fig. 5 (B), and trigger the smart watch to display the message 1 corresponding to the message identifier 31 in the message display area 41, for example: the contact sends a reddish "good morning".

In this way, through the input of the message identifier corresponding to the first message by the user, the electronic device displays the message corresponding to the message identifier in the message display area of the time dial, so that the diversity of the message display of the electronic device is improved.

In some embodiments of the present application, when the electronic device displays a message corresponding to the message identifier, the message identifier may be displayed in a first display manner, so as to remind the user that the message currently displayed in the message display area is a message corresponding to the message identifier.

In some embodiments of the present application, the first display mode includes at least one of: the outline of the message identification is bolded, the outline of the message identification is highlighted, the message identification blinks, etc. The embodiments of the present application are not limited in this regard.

In some embodiments of the present application, after the electronic device displays the message corresponding to the message identifier, the electronic device may cancel displaying the message identifier in the time dial, or display the message identifier in a second display manner, so as to prompt the user that the message corresponding to the message identifier has been viewed.

In some embodiments of the present application, the second display mode includes at least one of the following: the outline of the message identification is bolded, the outline of the message identification is highlighted, the message identification blinks, etc. The embodiments of the present application are not limited in this regard.

In some embodiments of the present application, after the electronic device displays the first message in the message display area, the user may enter the first message to trigger the electronic device to display a first control, the first control including at least one of: and replying the control and opening the application control.

In some embodiments of the present application, the reply control is configured to reply to the first message.

It can be appreciated that the user can input the reply control to trigger the electronic device to display a reply interface of the first message in the message display area so as to reply to the first message.

In some embodiments of the present application, the opening application control is used to open an application to which the first message belongs.

It will be appreciated that the user may enter an open application control as described above to trigger the electronic device to open the first application.

In some embodiments of the present application, as shown in fig. 6 in conjunction with fig. 1, before the step 201, the method for displaying a message provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes the following steps 401 and 402, and the "electronic device display time dial" in the step 201 may be specifically implemented by the following step 201 a.

Step 401, the electronic device displays N messages in the notification bar.

In some embodiments of the present application, the N messages may include at least one of: communication information, campaign marketing messages, notification messages, etc. The embodiments of the present application are not limited in this regard.

In some embodiments of the present application, each of the N messages may include at least one of: text messages, picture messages, voice messages, video messages, etc. The embodiments of the present application are not limited in this regard.

In some embodiments of the present application, the N messages may include: the read message, or the unread message, or the read message and the unread message. The embodiments of the present application are not limited in this regard.

Step 402, the electronic device receives a second input.

In some embodiments of the application, the second input is for viewing a message received by the electronic device through a time dial.

In some embodiments of the present application, the second input may be an input of the notification bar by the user or an input of a certain message in the notification bar by the user in a case where the notification bar is displayed on the electronic device.

In some embodiments of the application, the second input includes, but is not limited to: the user inputs through a touch device such as a finger or a stylus, or a voice command input by the user, or a specific gesture input by the user, or a click input, or other feasibility inputs. The specific determination may be determined according to actual use requirements, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

In step 201a, the electronic device responds to the second input, displays the time dial, and displays a message identifier corresponding to the second message in the second sub-area.

In some embodiments of the present application, the second sub-area corresponds to a second time scale of the M time scales, a time corresponding to the second time scale is a receiving time of the second message, and the N messages include the second message, where N is a positive integer.

It may be appreciated that the electronic device may display the time plate after receiving the second input, and display the message identifier corresponding to the second message in the second sub-area corresponding to the second time scale corresponding to the receiving time of the second message according to the receiving time of the second message.

It should be noted that, for the message identifiers corresponding to the messages except the second message in the N messages, the description when the identifier display area in the time dial is displayed may refer to the description when the message identifier corresponding to the second message is displayed, which is not repeated herein.

For example, as shown in fig. 7 (a), the smart watch displays a notification bar 51, where the notification bar 51 includes N messages, and if the user wants to view a message of the N messages, the user can press the notification bar 51 for a long time, as shown in fig. 7 (B), and trigger the smart watch to display a time dial 21, where a message identifier 52, a message identifier 53, and a message identifier 54 corresponding to the N messages are displayed in the time dial 21, and a message identifier 53 corresponding to the message 2, that is, a message identifier corresponding to the second message is displayed in a second sub-area 55 of the identifier display area 23.

Therefore, the user can quickly find the message identifier corresponding to the message to be checked based on the time dial in the time dial, and then can input the message identifier corresponding to the message to be checked so as to trigger the electronic device to display the message corresponding to the message identifier without looking up in the N messages, thereby improving the efficiency of the electronic device to display the message.

In some embodiments of the present application, when the electronic device displays the time dial, a default message may be displayed in the message display area, where the default message may be a message that is received recently from among the N messages, or a message that includes a preset keyword, or a message of an application with a high priority.

In some embodiments of the present application, after the electronic device responds to the second input and displays the time plate, if the electronic device receives other messages, for example, the first message, a message identifier corresponding to the message may be displayed in a sub-area corresponding to a time scale corresponding to the message receiving time of the message directly based on the receiving time of the message.

In some embodiments of the present application, the above step 201 may be specifically implemented by the following step 201 a; after the step 202, the message display method provided by the embodiment of the present application further includes the following step 501; and, the above step 203 may be specifically implemented by the following step 203 a.

Step 201a, the electronic device displays a first time plate.

In some embodiments of the present application, the first time plate may be a time plate displayed in a certain interface of the electronic device, for example: the time dial displayed on the alarm clock interface or the time dial displayed on the home page of the electronic equipment.

It will be appreciated that the first time plate described above is a time plate that normally displays time, and includes a time dial, excluding the logo display area.

Step 501, the electronic device updates the first time plate to the second time plate.

The second time dial comprises a time dial and an identification display area.

In some embodiments of the present application, when the electronic device displays the first time plate and receives the first message, the electronic device may update the first time plate to a second time plate, where the second time plate includes a time dial and an identifier display area, so as to display a message identifier corresponding to the first message in the identifier display area.

For example, as shown in fig. 8, the first page of the smart watch displays a first time plate 56, the first time plate 56 comprising a 12-hour time scale 22, the time scale 22 being a time scale for each hour and comprising 12 time scales; upon receipt of message 1, as shown in fig. 2, the electronic device may update the first time plate 56 to a second time plate 21, the second time plate 21 including the logo display area 23.

Step 203a, the electronic device displays a message identifier corresponding to the first message in the first sub-area of the second time plate.

For example, as shown in fig. 3, when the smart watch receives the message 1 at 9 points, that is, the first message, the message identifier 31 of the message 1 may be displayed in the sub-area 32 corresponding to the time scale identifier "9" corresponding to the "9 points".

Therefore, when the electronic device displays the first time plate, if the first message is received, the electronic device can update the first time plate to be the second time plate, and the message identifier of the first message is displayed in the first subarea included in the second time plate, so that the flexibility of the electronic device for displaying the message identifier is improved.

In some embodiments of the present application, the M time scales in the time scale indicate M times within the first time period; after the step 201, the message display method provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes the following step 601.

Step 601, the electronic device receives a third input to the time dial.

In some embodiments of the application, the third input is used to view messages received by the electronic device during other time periods.

In some embodiments of the application, the third input includes, but is not limited to: the user performs touch input on the time dial through a touch device such as a finger or a stylus pen, or inputs a voice command input by the user, or inputs a specific gesture input by the user, or inputs a click, or inputs other feasibility. The specific determination may be determined according to actual use requirements, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

In some embodiments of the present application, the duration corresponding to the first period may be 12 hours, or 1 hour, or 24 hours. The embodiment of the present application is not limited thereto.

Step 602, the electronic device updates the time dial in response to the third input.

The M time scales in the updated time dial indicate M moments in a second time period corresponding to the third input, and the message identification corresponding to at least one third message received in the second time period is displayed in the updated time dial.

It is understood that, in the case where the electronic device displays, on the time dial, a message identifier corresponding to at least one message received during the first time period, the user may enter an input to the time dial to trigger the electronic device to display, on the time dial, a message identifier corresponding to at least one third message received during the second time period.

In some embodiments of the present application, the duration corresponding to the second period is the same as the duration corresponding to the first period.

In some embodiments of the present application, the second period may be a period adjacent to the first period, or a period not adjacent to the first period. The embodiments of the present application are not limited in this regard.

For example: the first time period is 0:00-12:00 of today, and the second time period can be 12:00-24:00 of yesterday, namely, the time period adjacent to the first time period; alternatively, the second time period may be 0:00-12:00 yesterday, i.e. a time period not adjacent to the first time period.

In this way, through the input of the time dial, the electronic device displays the message identifier corresponding to the at least one third message received in other time periods by the time dial, so that the flexibility of the electronic device for displaying the message identifier is improved.

In some embodiments of the present application, the time plate includes at least one time control, and each time control corresponds to a time period; the above step 601 may be specifically implemented by the following step 601 a.

Step 601a, the electronic device receives a third input to a first time control of the at least one time control.

The second time period is a time period corresponding to the first time control.

In some embodiments of the present application, the shape of the at least one time control may include at least one of: circular controls, rectangular controls, arrow shape controls, irregular controls, and the like. The embodiments of the present application are not limited in this regard.

In some embodiments of the present application, the at least one time control may include at least one of: a slide control within the time dial, a left arrow control in the time dial, a right arrow control in the time dial.

In some embodiments of the present application, the at least one time control is configured to display a message identifier corresponding to a message received in a time period other than the first time period.

In some embodiments of the present application, the time dial includes a sliding control, the sliding control may slide within the time dial, and the third input may be a sliding input of the sliding control by a user.

In some embodiments of the present application, the left arrow control is configured to display a message identifier corresponding to a message received in a time period subsequent to the first time period, the right arrow control is configured to display a message identifier corresponding to a message received in a time period prior to the first time period,

in some embodiments of the present application, in the case where the first time control is a sliding control within the time dial, the electronic device may determine the second time period based on the input parameter of the third input and the first time period in response to the third input to the first time control.

In some embodiments of the present application, the input parameter of the third input includes at least one of: the method comprises the steps of inputting a direction, inputting a track, inputting a time length, inputting a starting position and inputting an ending position.

In some embodiments of the application, the input direction includes a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction.

Illustratively, in the case that the first period is today 0:00-12:00, and the input direction of the user is counterclockwise, and the input duration is 1 second, the second period may be 12:00-24:00 of yesterday, that is, a period adjacent to the first period; alternatively, yesterday's 0:00-12:00, i.e., the time period that is not adjacent to the first time period.

For example, in the case where the first period is 0:00-12:00 today and the input direction of the user is counterclockwise, and the input duration is 2 seconds, the second period may be 12:00-24:00 on the previous day, or 0:00-12:00 on the previous day, that is, a period not adjacent to the first period.

For example, in the case that the first period is today 0:00-12:00 and the input direction of the user is counterclockwise, and the input track of the sliding control is one turn around the time dial, the second period may be 12:00-24:00 of yesterday, that is, a period adjacent to the first period; alternatively, yesterday's 0:00-12:00, i.e., the time period that is not adjacent to the first time period.

For example, in the case where the first time period is 0:00-12:00 today and the input direction is counterclockwise, the input track of the sliding control is two circles around the time scale, the second time period may be 12:00-24:00 on the previous day, or 0:00-12:00 on the previous day, that is, a time period not adjacent to the first time period.

For example, in the case where the first period is 0:00-12:00 today and the input direction of the user is counterclockwise, the input start position and the input end position are the same, the second period may be 12:00-24:00 yesterday, that is, a period adjacent to the first period; alternatively, yesterday's 0:00-12:00, i.e., the time period that is not adjacent to the first time period.

It should be noted that, regarding to the correspondence between the input parameter of the third input and the second time period, flexible setting may be performed, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

For example, as shown in fig. 9 (a), the message identifier corresponding to the message received in the first period of time is displayed in the time dial 21 in 0:00-12:00 today, and if the time dial 22 includes a sliding control 61, and if the user wants to view the message identifier corresponding to the message received in other periods of time, for example, the message identifier corresponding to the message received in yesterday, the sliding control 61 may slide in the time dial 22 in a counterclockwise direction for one circle, so that the smart watch may determine that the message identifier that the user wants to view is the message identifier corresponding to the message received in yesterday, as shown in fig. 9 (B), the smart watch is triggered to display the updated time dial 21, and the message identifier 62 corresponding to the message received in the second period of time is displayed in 0:00-12:00 yesterday in the time dial 21.

In some embodiments of the present application, in the case where the first time period is today 0:00-12:00 and the input direction is clockwise, the input distance of the sliding control is one or two circles around the time dial, the electronic device may display a prompt message, for example: only today and today's previous messages can be viewed.

In some embodiments of the present application, in the case where the first time control is a left arrow control, the electronic device may display, in response to a third input to the left arrow control, a message identifier corresponding to a message received in a second time period adjacent to the first time period before the first time period.

In some embodiments of the present application, in the case where the first time control is a right arrow control, the electronic device may display, in response to a third input to the right arrow control, a message identifier corresponding to a message received in a second time period adjacent to the first time period after the first time period.

For example, referring to fig. 9 (B), as shown in fig. 10 (a), the message identifier 62 corresponding to the message received in the first time period is displayed in the time dial 21 from 0:00 to 12:00 yesterday, and if the user wants to view the message received in the other time period, the user may click the right arrow control 63, that is, the first time control, as shown in fig. 10 (B), to trigger the smart watch to display the updated time dial 21, where the message identifiers corresponding to the messages received in the second time period are displayed in the time dial 21 from 12:00 to 24:00 yesterday.

In some embodiments of the present application, when the current time is within a time range of 0:00-12:00 and the time dial displays a message identifier corresponding to a message received within the time range of 0:00-12:00, the right arrow control is gray, that is, the electronic device cannot display the message identifier corresponding to the message received at the future time.

In some embodiments of the application, the at least one time control comprises a calendar control; the user can input the left arrow control or the right arrow control to trigger the electronic device to display the calendar control; the user may enter a date in the calendar control to trigger the electronic device to determine a second time period and update the time dial based on a message identification corresponding to at least one third message received during the second time period.

For example: the first time period is 0:00-12:00 of today, the user can input the left arrow control to trigger the electronic device to display a calendar control, the calendar control displays the date before the today, the user can input the date of the previous day to trigger the electronic device to determine a second time period, the second time period can be 12:00-24:00 of the previous day, or 0:00-12:00 of the previous day, and then the electronic device can update the time dial based on the message identifier corresponding to at least one third message received in the second time period.

In some embodiments of the present application, a specific time period, for example, 0:00-12:00 of 6 months and 7 days, may be displayed in the date control, so that a user may directly input a specific time period identifier, so as to trigger the electronic device to update the time dial based on a message identifier corresponding to at least one third message received in a time period corresponding to the time period identifier.

In this way, through inputting the first time control in the time dial, the electronic equipment is triggered to display the message identifier corresponding to the at least one third message received in other time periods, so that the diversity and flexibility of the message identifier displayed by the electronic equipment are improved.

In some embodiments of the present application, the first message of the first application includes a plurality of sub-messages; after the step 203, the message display method provided by the embodiment of the present application further includes the following steps 701 and 702.

Step 701, the electronic device receives a fourth input of a message identifier corresponding to the first message.

In some embodiments of the application, the fourth input is for viewing a plurality of sub-messages.

In some embodiments of the application, the fourth input includes, but is not limited to: the user performs touch input on the message identifier corresponding to the first message through a touch device such as a finger or a stylus pen, or inputs a voice command input by the user, or inputs a specific gesture input by the user, or inputs a click, or inputs other feasibility. The specific determination may be determined according to actual use requirements, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

In step 702, the electronic device displays, in response to the fourth input, identifiers of the plurality of sub-messages in a plurality of sub-regions of the M sub-regions, respectively.

Wherein the sub-region displayed by the identifier of each sub-message corresponds to the time of receipt of the sub-message.

In some embodiments of the present application, the sub-message may be any of the following: a message sent by a contact, a notification message, a promotion message, a reminder message, etc. The embodiment of the present application is not limited thereto.

In some embodiments of the present application, in the case where the sub-message is a message sent by a contact, the identifier of the message may be a header of the contact or a name of the contact.

In some embodiments of the present application, in the case where the sub-message is a notification message, the identifier of the message may be an application identifier of the first application, a preset identifier, a keyword in the message, and a picture including a "notification" font.

In some embodiments of the present application, in the case where the sub-message is a promotion message, the identifier of the message may be an application identifier of the first application, a preset identifier, a keyword in the message, and a picture including a "promotion" font.

In some embodiments of the present application, in the case where the sub-message is a reminder message, the identifier of the message may be an application identifier of the first application, a preset identifier, a keyword in the message, and a picture including a "reminder" font.

It can be understood that when the first message includes a plurality of sub-messages, if the user inputs a message identifier corresponding to the first message, the electronic device may display the identifier of each sub-message in the identifier display area, and the user may input the identifier of a certain sub-message to trigger the electronic device to display the corresponding message in the message display area.

For example, as shown in fig. 5 (a), when the user wants to view a message corresponding to the application identifier 31, the user may click on the application identifier 31, and as shown in fig. 11, the smart watch is triggered to display, in the identifier display area 23, identifiers of a plurality of sub-messages received by a first application program corresponding to the application identifier 31, for example: a contact identifier 71 corresponding to a message 1 sent by a certain contact and an identifier 72 corresponding to a notification message 2.

In some embodiments of the present application, when the electronic device displays the identifiers of the plurality of sub-messages in the plurality of M sub-regions, a default message may also be displayed in the message display region, where the default message may be any one of the plurality of sub-messages, or a message that is received last in the plurality of sub-messages, or a message that includes a preset keyword in the plurality of sub-messages.

Therefore, when the number of the sub-messages included in the first message is large, the identification of each sub-message is displayed in the identification display area, so that a user can conveniently select the identification of a certain sub-message, and the message to be checked can be quickly checked, and the efficiency of displaying the message by the electronic equipment is improved.

In some embodiments of the present application, after the step 201, the method for displaying a message provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes the following steps 801 and 802.

Step 801, the electronic device receives a fifth input.

In some embodiments of the application, the fifth input is used to delete a message identifier.

In some embodiments of the application, the fifth input includes, but is not limited to: the user inputs through a touch device such as a finger or a stylus, or a voice command input by the user, or a specific gesture input by the user, or a click input, or other feasibility inputs. The specific determination may be determined according to actual use requirements, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

In some embodiments of the present application, before the user performs the fifth input, the user may input the message identifier corresponding to the second message, so as to trigger the electronic device to lock the message identifier corresponding to the second message.

In some embodiments of the present application, the message identifier corresponding to the locked second message may be understood as protecting the message identifier from deleting the message identifier by the electronic device.

In some embodiments of the present application, the message identifier corresponding to the second message may be one or more message identifiers corresponding to the messages.

In some embodiments of the present application, in the case where the electronic device locks the message identifier corresponding to the second message, the electronic device may display the message identifier corresponding to the second message in a third display manner, so as to remind the user that the message identifier is locked.

In some embodiments of the present application, the third display mode includes at least one of the following: the outline of the message identification is bolded, the outline of the message identification is highlighted, the message identification blinks, etc. The embodiments of the present application are not limited in this regard.

Step 802, the electronic device responds to the fifth input to delete other message identifications displayed in the time dial except the message identification corresponding to the second message.

And the message identifier corresponding to the second message is a locked message identifier.

In some embodiments of the present application, the fifth input may be an input that the user shakes the electronic device, or an input to the time dial, so as to trigger the electronic device to delete the message identifier other than the message identifier corresponding to the second message displayed in the time dial.

In some embodiments of the present application, in the process of shaking the electronic device by the user, the electronic device may combine and overlap other message identifiers, and gradually increase transparency of the other message identifiers until the other message identifiers are cancelled from being displayed in the time dial.

In some embodiments of the present application, in the case that the electronic device deletes other message identifiers displayed in the time dial, the message corresponding to the other message identifiers may be deleted at the same time.

For example, in conjunction with fig. 3, if the user wants to delete the message identifier other than the message identifier 31, that is, the message identifier other than the message identifier of the second message, as shown in fig. 12 (a), the message identifier 31 may be clicked to trigger the smart watch to lock the message identifier 31, as shown in fig. 12 (B), the identifier profile of the message identifier 31 is thickened, and then the user may shake the smart watch, as shown in fig. 12 (C), so that the smart watch deletes the message identifier other than the message identifier 31 displayed in the time dial 21.

Therefore, when the user wants to delete more message identifications, the user can lock the message identifications corresponding to the second message first, then trigger the electronic equipment to delete other message identifications except the message identifications corresponding to the second message, and the user does not need to execute one-time deleting operation on each message identification which is wanted to be deleted, so that the efficiency of deleting the message identifications by the electronic equipment is improved.

In some embodiments of the present application, the user may drag and input a message identifier corresponding to the third message in the time dial, and trigger the electronic device to delete the message identifier corresponding to the third message when dragging the message identifier corresponding to the third message to the edge of the time dial.

For example, referring to fig. 3, if the user wants to delete the application identifier 31, i.e. the third message identifier, the user may drag the application identifier 31 to the edge of the time dial 21, as shown in fig. 13 (B), and trigger the smart watch to remove the application identifier 31 displayed in the time dial 21.

In some embodiments of the present application, a user may drag input overlapping message identifications, and when dragging to the edge of the time dial, trigger the electronic device to delete the message identifications.

It will be appreciated that when the times of receipt of the plurality of messages are the same or similar, the message identifications corresponding to the plurality of messages are displayed overlapping.

In some embodiments of the present application, when the electronic device displays the application management interface, the application management interface may include a time dial and an identifier display area, where the time dial includes M time scale identifiers, the identifier display area includes M sub-areas, each time scale identifier corresponds to one sub-area, and the application identifier may be displayed in the identifier display area according to a priority of the corresponding application, for example: the application identification of the application of the first priority is displayed in the subarea corresponding to the first time scale identification; alternatively, the application identifier may be displayed in the identifier display area according to the frequency of use of the corresponding application. To facilitate the user in finding applications and in offloading unwanted applications.

It should be noted that, in the message display method provided by the embodiment of the present application, the execution body may be a message display device. In the embodiment of the application, a message display device is taken as an example to execute a message display method.

Fig. 14 shows a schematic diagram of one possible configuration of a message display apparatus involved in an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 14, the message display device 70 may include: a display module 71 and a receiving module 72.

Wherein, display module 71 is used for showing the time dial plate, and this time dial plate includes the time scale, and the time scale contains M time scales.

A receiving module 72 is configured to receive a first message of a first application program.

The display module 71 is further configured to display, in the first sub-area of the time dial, a message identifier corresponding to the first message received by the receiving module 72; the time dial comprises an identification display area, the identification display area comprises M sub-areas, each time scale corresponds to one sub-area, the first sub-area corresponds to a first time scale in the M time scales, the time corresponding to the first time scale is the receiving time of the first message, and the message identification corresponding to the first message comprises any one of the following items: the first message corresponds to a contact identifier of a contact, an application icon of a first application program, and M is a positive integer.

The embodiment of the application provides a message display device, when a time dial is displayed, if a first message is received, the message display device can display the message identifier of the first message in a first subarea corresponding to a first time scale corresponding to the message receiving time of the first message in the time dial according to the receiving time of the first message, so that a user can quickly select a certain message identifier through the time dial to check the corresponding message without searching the message in a notification list of the message display device, thereby improving the efficiency of the message display device for displaying the message.

In one possible implementation, the time plate further includes a message display area; the receiving module 72 is further configured to receive a first input of a message identifier corresponding to the first message after the display module 71 displays the message identifier corresponding to the first message in the first sub-area of the time plate. The display module 71 is further configured to display a message corresponding to the message identifier in the message display area in response to the first input received by the receiving module 72.

In a possible implementation, the display module 71 is further configured to display N messages on the notification bar before displaying the time dial. The receiving module 72 is further configured to receive a second input. The display module 71 is specifically configured to respond to the second input received by the receiving module 72, display a time dial, and display a message identifier corresponding to a second message in a second sub-area, where the second sub-area corresponds to a second time scale of the M time scales, the time corresponding to the second time scale is a receiving time of the second message, the N messages include the second message, and N is a positive integer.

In a possible implementation manner, in conjunction with fig. 14, as shown in fig. 15, an interface display device 70 provided in an embodiment of the present application further includes: an update module 73; the display module 71 is specifically configured to display the first time plate. The updating module 73 is configured to update the first time plate to a second time plate after the receiving module 72 receives the first message of the first application program, where the second time plate includes a time dial and an identifier display area. The display module 71 is specifically configured to display, on the first sub-area of the second time plate, a message identifier corresponding to the first message.

In one possible implementation, the M time scales in the time scale indicate M times within the first time period; the receiving module 72 is further configured to receive a third input to the time dial after the display module 71 displays the time dial. The updating module 73 is configured to update the time dial in response to the third input received by the receiving module 72; the M time scales in the updated time dial indicate M moments in a second time period corresponding to the third input, and the message identification corresponding to at least one third message received in the second time period is displayed in the updated time dial.

In one possible implementation, the time dial comprises at least one time control, and each time control corresponds to a time period; the receiving module 72 is specifically configured to receive a third input to a first time control of the at least one time control; the second time period is a time period corresponding to the first time control.

In one possible implementation, the first message of the first application includes a plurality of sub-messages; the receiving module 72 is further configured to receive a fourth input of a message identifier corresponding to the first message after the display module 71 displays the message identifier corresponding to the first message in the first sub-area of the time plate; the display module 71 is further configured to display identifiers of a plurality of sub-messages in a plurality of sub-regions of the M sub-regions, respectively, in response to the fourth input received by the receiving module 72, where each sub-message identifier displays a sub-region corresponding to a receiving time of the sub-message.

In one possible implementation manner, the interface display device 70 provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes: deleting the module; the receiving module 72 is further configured to receive a fifth input after the display module 71 displays the time plate. And a deleting module, configured to delete, in response to the fifth input received by the receiving module 72, other message identifiers displayed in the time-plate except for the message identifier corresponding to the second message, where the message identifier corresponding to the second message is the locked message identifier.

The message display device in the embodiment of the application can be an electronic device or a component in the electronic device, such as an integrated circuit or a chip. The electronic device may be a terminal, or may be other devices than a terminal. By way of example, the electronic device may be a mobile phone, tablet, notebook, palmtop, vehicle-mounted electronic device, mobile internet appliance (Mobile Internet Device, MID), augmented Reality (Augmented Reality, AR)/Virtual Reality (VR) device, robot, wearable device, ultra-Mobile Personal Computer, UMPC, netbook or personal digital assistant (Personal Digital Assistant, PDA), etc., but may also be a server, network attached storage (Network Attached Storage, NAS), personal computer (Personal Computer, PC), television (TV), teller machine or self-service machine, etc., and the embodiments of the present application are not limited in particular.

The message display device in the embodiment of the application can be a device with an operating system. The operating system may be an Android operating system, an ios operating system, or other possible operating systems, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited specifically.

The message display device provided by the embodiment of the application can realize each process realized by the embodiment of the method, and in order to avoid repetition, the description is omitted here.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 16, the embodiment of the present application further provides an electronic device 900, which includes a processor 901 and a memory 902, where a program or an instruction capable of being executed on the processor 901 is stored in the memory 902, and the program or the instruction when executed by the processor 901 implements each step of the embodiment of the method, and the steps can achieve the same technical effect, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here.

The electronic device in the embodiment of the application includes the mobile electronic device and the non-mobile electronic device.

Fig. 17 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an electronic device implementing an embodiment of the present application.

The electronic device 100 includes, but is not limited to: radio frequency unit 101, network module 102, audio output unit 103, input unit 104, sensor 105, display unit 106, user input unit 107, interface unit 108, memory 109, and processor 110.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the electronic device 100 may further include a power source (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, and that the power source may be logically coupled to the processor 110 via a power management system to perform functions such as managing charging, discharging, and power consumption via the power management system. The electronic device structure shown in fig. 17 does not constitute a limitation of the electronic device, and the electronic device may include more or less components than those shown in the drawings, or may combine some components, or may be arranged in different components, which will not be described in detail herein.

Wherein, the display unit 106 is used for displaying the time dial, and this time dial includes the time scale, and the time scale contains M time scales.

The radio frequency unit 101 is configured to receive a first message of a first application program.

The display unit 106 is further configured to display, in a first sub-area of the time dial, a message identifier corresponding to the first message received by the radio frequency unit 101; the time dial comprises an identification display area, the identification display area comprises M sub-areas, each time scale corresponds to one sub-area, the first sub-area corresponds to a first time scale in the M time scales, the time corresponding to the first time scale is the receiving time of the first message, and the message identification corresponding to the first message comprises any one of the following items: the first message corresponds to a contact identifier of a contact, an application icon of a first application program, and M is a positive integer.

The embodiment of the application provides electronic equipment, when a time dial is displayed, if a first message is received, the electronic equipment can display the message identifier of the first message in a first subarea corresponding to a first time scale corresponding to the message receiving time of the first message in the time dial according to the receiving time of the first message, so that a user can quickly select a certain message identifier through the time dial to check the corresponding message without searching the message in a notification list of the electronic equipment, and the efficiency of displaying the message by the electronic equipment is improved.

In some embodiments of the present application, the time plate further includes a message display area; a user input unit 107, configured to receive a first input of a message identifier corresponding to a first message after the display module 71 displays the message identifier corresponding to the first message in the first sub-area of the time dial.

The display unit 106 is further configured to display a message corresponding to the message identifier in the message display area in response to the first input received by the user input unit 107.

In some embodiments of the present application, the display unit 106 is further configured to display N messages in the notification bar before displaying the time dial.

The user input unit 107 is further configured to receive a second input.

The display unit 106 is specifically configured to respond to the second input received by the user input unit 107, display a time dial, and display a message identifier corresponding to the second message in a second sub-area, where the second sub-area corresponds to a second time scale of the M time scales, the time corresponding to the second time scale is the receiving time of the second message, the N messages include the second message, and N is a positive integer.

In some embodiments of the present application, the display unit 106 is specifically configured to display the first time plate.

The processor 110 is configured to update the first time dial to a second time dial after the user input unit 107 receives the first message of the first application program, the second time dial including the time dial and the logo display area.

The display unit 106 is specifically configured to display, on the first sub-area of the second time plate, a message identifier corresponding to the first message.

In some embodiments of the application, the M time scales in the time scale indicate M times within the first time period; the user input unit 107 is further configured to receive a third input to the time dial after the display unit 106 displays the time dial.

A processor 110 for updating the time dial in response to a third input received by the user input unit 107; the M time scales in the updated time dial indicate M moments in a second time period corresponding to the third input, and the message identification corresponding to at least one third message received in the second time period is displayed in the updated time dial.

In some embodiments of the present application, the time dial includes at least one time control, each time control corresponding to a time period; a user input unit 107, specifically configured to receive a third input to a first time control of the at least one time control; the second time period is a time period corresponding to the first time control.

In some embodiments of the application, the first message of the first application includes a plurality of sub-messages; the user input unit 107 is further configured to receive a fourth input of a message identifier corresponding to the first message after the display unit 106 displays the message identifier corresponding to the first message in the first sub-area of the time dial.

The display unit 106 is further configured to, in response to the fourth input received by the user input unit 107, display identifiers of a plurality of sub-messages in a plurality of sub-regions, respectively, where each sub-message identifier displays a sub-region corresponding to a receiving time of the sub-message.

In some embodiments of the present application, the user input unit 107 is further configured to receive a fifth input after the display unit 106 displays the time dial.

The processor 110 is further configured to delete, in response to the fifth input received by the user input unit 107, a message identifier displayed in the time dial and other than the message identifier corresponding to the second message, where the message identifier corresponding to the second message is the locked message identifier.

The electronic device provided by the embodiment of the application can realize each process realized by the embodiment of the method and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, the description is omitted here.

The beneficial effects of the various implementation manners in this embodiment may be specifically referred to the beneficial effects of the corresponding implementation manners in the foregoing method embodiment, and in order to avoid repetition, the description is omitted here.

It should be appreciated that in embodiments of the present application, the input unit 104 may include a graphics processor (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 display unit 106 may include a display panel 1061, and the display panel 1061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 107 includes at least one of a touch panel 1071 and other input devices 1072. The touch panel 1071 is also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 1071 may include two parts of a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 1072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, and so forth, which are not described in detail herein.

Memory 109 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 109 may mainly include a first memory area storing programs or instructions and a second memory area storing data, wherein the first memory area may store an operating system, application programs or instructions (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.) required for at least one function, and the like. Further, the memory 109 may include volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or the memory 109 may include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile Memory may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash Memory. The volatile memory may be random access memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), static RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double Data Rate SDRAM (ddr SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (Enhanced SDRAM), synchronous DRAM (SLDRAM), and Direct RAM (DRRAM). Memory 109 in embodiments of the present application includes, but is not limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

Processor 110 may include one or more processing units; optionally, the processor 110 integrates an application processor that primarily processes operations involving an operating system, user interface, application programs, etc., and a modem processor that primarily processes wireless communication signals, such as a baseband processor. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 110.

The embodiment of the application also provides a readable storage medium, on which a program or an instruction is stored, which when executed by a processor, implements each process of the above method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effects, and in order to avoid repetition, the description is omitted here.

Wherein the processor is a processor in the electronic device described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes computer readable storage medium such as computer readable memory ROM, random access memory RAM, magnetic or optical disk, etc.

The embodiment of the application further provides a chip, which comprises a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is coupled with the processor, and the processor is used for running programs or instructions to realize the processes of the embodiment of the method, and can achieve the same technical effects, so that repetition is avoided, and the description is omitted here.

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

Embodiments of the present application provide a computer program product stored in a storage medium, where the program product is executed by at least one processor to implement the respective processes of the above method embodiments, and achieve the same technical effects, and for avoiding repetition, a detailed description is omitted herein.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising one … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element. Furthermore, it should be noted that the scope of the methods and apparatus in the embodiments of the present application is not limited to performing the functions in the order shown or discussed, but may also include performing the functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in an opposite order depending on the functions involved, e.g., the described methods may be performed in an order different from that described, and various steps may be added, omitted, or combined. Additionally, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

From the above description of the embodiments, it will be clear to those skilled in the art that the above-described embodiment method may be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, but of course may also be implemented by means of hardware, but in many cases the former is a preferred embodiment. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application may be embodied essentially or in a part contributing to the prior art in the form of a computer software product stored in a storage medium (e.g. ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) comprising instructions for causing a terminal (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to perform the method according to the embodiments of the present application.

The embodiments of the present application have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present application is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which are merely illustrative and not restrictive, and many forms may be made by those having ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit of the present application and the scope of the claims, which are to be protected by the present application.

Claims

1. A message display method, the method comprising:

displaying a time dial, the time dial comprising a time scale, the time scale comprising M time scales;

receiving a first message of a first application program;

displaying a message identifier corresponding to the first message in a first sub-area of the time dial;

the time dial comprises an identification display area, wherein the identification display area comprises M sub-areas, each time scale corresponds to one sub-area, the first sub-area corresponds to a first time scale in the M time scales, the time corresponding to the first time scale is the receiving time of the first message, and the message identification corresponding to the first message comprises any one of the following items: the first message corresponds to a contact person identifier of a contact person, an application icon of the first application program is applied, and M is a positive integer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the time dial further comprises a message display area; after the first sub-area of the time plate displays the message identifier corresponding to the first message, the method further includes:

receiving a first input of a message identifier corresponding to the first message;

And responding to the first input, and displaying a message corresponding to the message identification in the message display area.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to displaying the time plate, the method further comprises:

displaying N messages in a notification bar;

receiving a second input;

the display time dial includes:

and responding to the second input, displaying the time dial, and displaying a message identifier corresponding to a second message in a second subarea, wherein the second subarea corresponds to a second time scale in the M time scales, the time corresponding to the second time scale is the receiving time of the second message, the N messages comprise the second message, and N is a positive integer.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying the time plate comprises:

displaying a first time plate;

after the receiving the first message of the first application, the method further comprises:

updating the first time dial to be a second time dial, wherein the second time dial comprises the time dial and the identification display area;

the displaying, in the first sub-area of the time plate, a message identifier corresponding to the first message includes:

And displaying the message identifier corresponding to the first message in the first sub-area of the second time dial.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the M time scales in the time scale indicate M times within a first time period; after the time dial is displayed, the method further comprises:

receiving a third input to the time dial;

updating the time dial in response to the third input;

the updated M time scales in the time dial indicate M times in a second time period corresponding to the third input, and the updated message identifier corresponding to at least one third message received in the second time period is displayed in the time dial.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the time dial comprises at least one time control, and each time control corresponds to a time period;

the receiving a third input to the time dial, comprising:

receiving a third input to a first time control of the at least one time control;

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first message of the first application comprises a plurality of sub-messages;

after the first sub-area of the time plate displays the message identifier corresponding to the first message, the method further includes:

receiving a fourth input of a message identifier corresponding to the first message;

and responding to the fourth input, respectively displaying identifiers of the plurality of sub-messages in a plurality of sub-regions in the M sub-regions, wherein the displayed sub-region of the identifiers of each sub-message corresponds to the receiving time of the sub-message.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein after the displaying the time plate, the method further comprises:

receiving a fifth input;

and deleting other message identifications displayed in the time dial except for the message identification corresponding to the second message in response to the fifth input, wherein the message identification corresponding to the second message is the locked message identification.

9. A message display apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a display module and a receiving module;

the display module is used for displaying a time dial, the time dial comprises a time dial, and the time dial comprises M time scales;

The receiving module is used for receiving a first message of a first application program;

the display module is further configured to display, in a first sub-area of the time dial, a message identifier corresponding to the first message received by the receiving module;

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the time dial further comprises a message display area; the receiving module is further configured to receive a first input of a message identifier corresponding to the first message after the display module displays the message identifier corresponding to the first message in a first sub-area of the time dial;

the display module is further configured to display a message corresponding to the message identifier in the message display area in response to the first input received by the receiving module.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the display module is further configured to display N messages in a notification bar prior to displaying the time dial;

the receiving module is also used for receiving a second input;

the display module is specifically configured to respond to the second input received by the receiving module, display the time dial, and display a message identifier corresponding to a second message in a second sub-area, where the second sub-area corresponds to a second time scale in the M time scales, a time corresponding to the second time scale is a receiving time of the second message, the N messages include the second message, and N is a positive integer.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the apparatus further comprises: updating a module; the display module is specifically used for displaying the first time plate;

the updating module is used for updating the first time dial into a second time dial after the receiving module receives the first message of the first application program, and the second time dial comprises the time dial and the identification display area;

the display module is specifically configured to display, on a first sub-area of the second time plate, a message identifier corresponding to the first message.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the M time scales in the time scale indicate M times within a first time period; the apparatus further comprises: updating a module;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a third input to the time dial after the display module displays the time dial;

the updating module is used for responding to the third input received by the receiving module and updating the time dial;

14. The device according to claim 13, wherein the time dial comprises at least one time control, and each time control corresponds to a time period;

the receiving module is specifically configured to receive a third input to a first time control of the at least one time control;

15. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the first message of the first application comprises a plurality of sub-messages;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a fourth input of a message identifier corresponding to the first message after the display module displays the message identifier corresponding to the first message in the first sub-area of the time dial;

the display module is further configured to, in response to the fourth input received by the receiving module, display identifiers of the plurality of sub-messages in a plurality of sub-regions of the M sub-regions, respectively, where the identifier of each sub-message displays a sub-region corresponding to a receiving time of the sub-message.

16. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the apparatus further comprises: deleting the module; the receiving module is further used for receiving a fifth input after the display module displays the time dial;

the deleting module is configured to delete, in response to the fifth input received by the receiving module, other message identifiers displayed in the time dial except for the message identifier corresponding to the second message, where the message identifier corresponding to the second message is a locked message identifier.