Classifications

• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
  • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
  • H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
  • H04M1/72403—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
  • H04M1/72427—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality for supporting games or graphical animations
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
  • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
  • G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
  • G06F3/01—Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer
  • G06F3/048—Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
  • G06F3/0481—Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
  • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
  • H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
  • H04M1/72469—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons

Definitions

• the field of the invention is that of the management of the home screens of mobile telecommunication terminals.
• the invention relates to a method and a device for controlling the display of an information area on such a home screen.
• the home screen of a mobile terminal is the main screen of the latter.
• Such a screen appears when the phone does not perform any transaction or function, such as a telephone conversation or the execution of an application, such as sending an SMS message.
• Such a welcome screen is particularly customizable by the user for the choice of the background image, the choice of shortcuts to specific applications, as well as for services offered by an operator and for which the user subscribed (weather, messaging, stock exchange, information flow, etc.).
• the “weather” widget is displayed on the computer's home screen, the representative display area of the "weather” widget including several information items. such as for example the city where the user is located, a cloud, if at the time of the request of the user, the weather is cloudy in the aforementioned city, the day, the date and the temperature.
• the data for the selected widget will all be stored locally in the computer.
• an icon in the form of a progress bar of the music being played, is then displayed in an available location of the home screen.
• Such a progress bar allows the user to perform certain actions such as "pause”, “stop”, “play”, “next”, etc.
• the present invention relates to a method for controlling the display of an information zone on the home screen of a mobile terminal, said method being characterized in that it comprises:
• a step of displaying said information zone at an available location of the home screen in the case where the priority order of displaying data relating to said information zone has been determined as more higher than the data for the running application on the Home screen.
• the invention relates to a device for controlling the display of an information area on the home screen of a mobile terminal, such a device being characterized in that it comprises: means for determining a data display priority order which have been transmitted to the home screen application of the mobile terminal and which have been identified as being relative to the information area, relative to data about an application that might be running on the home screen,
• Such priority management thus makes it possible to display a "widget" on the home screen of a mobile terminal, without hindering the normal behavior of the application that may be running on the screen. Home.
• the data relating to the home screen and the data relating to the information area are respectively contained in first and second files of the same format.
• Such an arrangement allows any application installed in the mobile terminal to transmit, in a simple manner, data and commands to the home screen application of the mobile terminal.
• control method is determined by computer program instructions.
• the invention also relates to a computer program on an information medium, this program being capable of being implemented in a display control device or more generally in a computer, this program comprising instructions adapted to the implementation of the steps of a control method as described above.
• This program can use any programming language, and be in the form of source code, object code, or intermediate code between source code and object code, such as in a partially compiled form, or in any other form desirable shape.
• the invention also relates to a computer-readable information medium, comprising instructions of a computer program as mentioned above.
• the information carrier may be any entity or device capable of storing the program.
• the medium may comprise storage means, such as a ROM, for example a CD ROM or a microelectronic circuit ROM, or a magnetic recording medium, for example a floppy disk or a disk. hard.
• the information medium may be a transmissible medium such as an electrical or optical signal, which may be conveyed via an electrical or optical cable, by radio or by other means.
• the program according to the invention can be downloaded in particular on an Internet type network.
• the information carrier may be an integrated circuit in which the program is incorporated, the circuit being adapted to execute or to be used in the execution of the method in question.
• FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of a mobile terminal that comprises a display control device according to the invention
• FIG. 2A represents a waiting reception screen
• FIG. 2B represents a home screen on which an application is notified while it is running
• FIG. 2C represents a home screen on which a widget is displayed
• FIG. 3 shows a flow chart of a display control method according to the invention.
• FIG. 1 represents a display control device 1 according to the invention, which is implemented in a terminal 2, preferably of the mobile type.
• the terminal 2 is a mobile telephone terminal which conventionally comprises a display device 3, generally a liquid crystal display ("LCD" -Liquid Crystal Display) on which a screen of home when the terminal 2 is waiting as explained in the preamble of this description.
• LCD liquid crystal display
• FIG. 2A one type of idle home screen is shown in Figure 2A.
• the terminal 2 comprises an operating system 4, for example of the Windows mobile type, as well as a memory 5 in which the display control device is stored. 1.
• the display control device 1 comprises:
• the data relating to each application intended to be executed on the welcome screen 3 (eg: indication of the reception of a message, entry of a name in an address book, etc.) are stored in a 8. More specifically, these data are home screen display information 3 and user interaction information on the home screen 3, said data being used by the application 6. Home screen management.
• the home screen 3 When an application is running, for example the interrogation by the user of his mail, the home screen 3 notifies this execution, as can be seen in Figure 2B.
• the corresponding display and interaction data are grouped in a data file in binary language, in association with a specific identifier, under a specific format.
• data files are designated by a name followed by the extension called for example ".tof".
• n display and interaction data files corresponding respectively to these n applications will be assigned respectively numbered identifiers for example from II to In.
• the widget management application 7 is in turn configured to interrogate a dynamic library 9 in which is stored a list of available widgets, for example two in number, and designated respectively by Wl. and
• such widgets are for example files of the DLL type (of the "Dynamic Link Library") which are stored in a specific directory containing at least three fields: a name, a description and a file. picture.
• the widgets W1 and W2 can be either previously stored in the terminal 2, or downloaded at the request of the user from a dedicated server or be created by the user, when the latter presents the required computer knowledge. More particularly, such widgets are written in language
• the aforementioned widgets are programmed to contain in a non-exhaustive manner: data relating to the location that they are likely to occupy on the home screen 3,
• Interactivity with the widget may be contextual, that is, a user action on the widget may be related to the current state of the widget.
• An example of such contextual interactivity is given below.
• the Wl widget entitled for example
• RSS News configured to display news feeds, article by article, every n seconds.
• Such a widget is advantageously set to allow the user, during the display of a given article, to press a configured key to redirect the user to the complete article.
• a key can be tactile or direct access type
• the widget management application 7 is furthermore configured so that, following the extraction of a selected widget file in the dynamic library 9 at the request of the user, it launches a sub-application 7a which retranscribes said file extracted into a data file in binary language, advantageously in the same format ".tof" than that of the aforementioned display and interaction data files.
• Such an arrangement thus allows the user to simply customize the home screen 3 in multiple ways, allowing the display of widgets of very different content and size, without having to recompile each time the management application 6 home screen.
• the widget management application 7 then transmits this ".tof 1 " file to the home screen management application 6 in the form of a series of blocks
• Each ".tof” file obtained by the sub-application 7a contains a specific identifier.
• the two files ".tof, respectively corresponding to the two widgets Wl, W2 contained in the dynamic library 9, will be respectively assigned identifiers numbered for example from In + 1 to In + 2.
• the home screen management application 6 is further configured to launch a sub-application 6a able to read the identifier of the transmitted widget file and to compare it with the identifier of a data file. display and interaction related to an application that may be running on the home screen 3.
• the home screen management application 6 determines that the display of the transmitted widget file has priority and proceeds to display the widget contained. in said file to an available location, the parameters of which are contained previously in said file.
• the priority widget for example the W2 widget entitled for example "weather" is displayed on the home screen 3, bottom right.
• step El the user of the terminal 2 selects from a menu that appears on the home screen 3, the widget W2 "weather".
• the display of such a menu is managed by the widget management application 7.
• the widget management application 7 extracts the widget file "weather" from the dynamic library 9.
• the widget management application 7 launches the sub-application 7a which retranscribes the widget file "weather" into a TOF file associated with a specific identifier, for example In + 2.
• the widget management application 7 transmits this TOF file to the home screen management application 6 in the form of a series of blocks.
• the home screen management application 6 launches the sub-application 6a which reads the identifier of the received TOF file.
• step E6 the sub-application 6a dialog with the application 6 to determine if an application is running on the home screen 3.
• the sub-application 6a determines, during a step E7, that the display of the widget "weather" has priority.
• the home screen management application 6 determines, from the information contained in the "weather" widget file in the TOF format, the location available on the home screen 3 to display the weather widget.
• the home screen management application 6 proceeds, during a step E9, to display the "weather" widget at this location. If, during the step E6, an application is running on the home screen 3, such as, for example, the sending of a text message, the screen management application 6 The host indicates to the sub-application 6a, during a step ElO, that a TOF file, corresponding to this sending of text message and having for example the identifier II, is being executed.
• the sub-application 6a compares the two identifiers II and In + 2, then determines, during a step E12, that the sending of the text message has priority over the display of the weather widget.
• the sub-application 6a starts a delay of a predetermined duration T so that once the predetermined duration has elapsed, the sub-application 6a re-establishes the dialogue with the application 6 , as in the above-mentioned step E6, to determine whether the text message sending application is still running on the home screen 3 or whether another application is running on the Home screen 3.
• Steps ElO to E13 are repeated while an application is running on the Home screen 3.
• the display of the "weather" widget becomes a priority.
• Steps E7 to E9 are then executed as previously described.
• the widget management application 7 could be configured to allow the display of several widgets instead of one, in the case of course where the size of the latter and that of the home screen. 3 of the mobile terminal 2 allow it.

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