WO2009021432A1

WO2009021432A1 - A method and apparatus for activating application program by mobile terminal, and system thereof

Info

Publication number: WO2009021432A1
Application number: PCT/CN2008/071876
Authority: WO
Inventors: Huifa Qiu; Jing Dai; Yong Yang; Kui Fang; Haifang Niu
Original assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
Priority date: 2007-08-10
Filing date: 2008-08-05
Publication date: 2009-02-19
Also published as: CN101106576B; CN101106576A

Abstract

A method for activating application by mobile terminal is disclosed, it includes: analysising and displaying an obtained web page file, wherein the web page file contains one or more links with a special label; while the link of the special label within the web page file is clicked, inquiring the corresponding relation mapping table between the special label and the application program or function module, obtaining the application program or function module corresponding to the special label; activating the application program or the function module to execute the special label content. The invention also discloses a mobile terminal, a background server and a system for realizing activation application program by mobile terminal. The technique scheme of the present invention can improve the function of the wireless browser of the mobile terminal.

Description

Method, device and system for mobile terminal to activate application

The present invention relates to the field of wireless communication applications, and in particular, to a method for a mobile terminal to activate an application, a mobile terminal, a background server, and a system for implementing a mobile terminal activation application. Background of the invention

Mobile media, as the fifth media after newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet, has been widely used in life. At the same time, various mobile phone applications have emerged, such as the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) service and mobile application software.

In the existing network environment, the mobile phone WAP service has the following characteristics: short development cycle, convenient operation, single performance, wide support, and suitable for pure information services, such as news browsing. The characteristics of the mobile application software are: high development cost, rich performance, powerful function, and maximum potential for tapping mobile phones. It is suitable for high-end application services with complex operation, such as IM (Instant Messenger), video, music, etc. .

With the development of wireless communication technology, a mobile application that combines mobile application software with a WAP browser has emerged. For example, when selecting certain operations during mobile phone use, the application software automatically activates the external browser and accesses the corresponding address; or directly implements the browser inside the mobile application software, so as to effectively reduce the switching between the application software and the external browser. . These mobile apps offer a wealth of information browsing as well as a rich set of high-end features that greatly improve service quality.

However, the above-mentioned mobile application still uses the WAP browser and the mobile application as two separate parts, and the interaction between the mobile application and the browser is one-way, that is, the browser can only be activated in the application to access the webpage. The file cannot be activated and used in the web file. Summary of the invention

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for a mobile terminal to activate an application, a mobile terminal, a background server, and a system for implementing a mobile terminal to activate an application.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for a mobile terminal to activate an application, which includes the following steps:

Parsing and displaying the obtained webpage file, wherein the webpage file contains one or more links with specific tags;

When the link of the specific tag in the webpage file is clicked, querying the correspondence mapping table of the specific tag and the application program or the function module, and acquiring an application program or a function module corresponding to the specific tag;

The acquired application or function module is activated and the valley of the specific tag is executed.

The embodiment of the invention further provides a mobile terminal, which includes:

a wireless browser that parses and displays web page files obtained from a background server that contains one or more links with specific tags;

a mapping table unit storing a mapping table of correspondence between the specific tag and an application or a function module;

a specific tag query unit, which is respectively connected to the wireless browser and the mapping table unit, and configured to query the mapping table to obtain an application corresponding to the specific tag when the link of the specific tag in the webpage file is clicked Program or function module;

a program execution unit that is coupled to the particular tag query unit and activates an application or function module obtained by the particular tag query unit to cause the activated application or function module to execute the content of the particular tag.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a background server, including: a first unit, configured to provide a webpage file to a mobile terminal, where the webpage file includes one or more links with a specific label, So that the mobile terminal is based on the specific tag Query and activate the corresponding application or function module to execute the inner valley of the specific tag label.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a system for implementing a mobile terminal activation application, which includes:

A background server having a web page file containing one or more links with specific tags;

a mobile terminal, which parses and displays a webpage file obtained from the background server, and when the link with a specific label is clicked, queries an application or a function module corresponding to the specific label, and activates the obtaining An application or function module to execute the content of the particular tag.

A method, a device, and a system for implementing a mobile terminal to activate an application provided by a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, by using a specific label in a webpage file to indicate content to be executed by an application or a function module of the mobile terminal, and The application or function module that directly activates the mobile terminal in the wireless browser performs the content indicated by the specific tag described above, thereby enhancing the function of the wireless browser of the mobile terminal. For example, you can activate the ΙΜ dialog box, activate the music player, activate the log software edit box, activate camera photos, and other mobile phone-owned applications or separately developed function modules by clicking the link on the web file in the wireless browser. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

1 is a schematic diagram of a mobile terminal activation application system in a first embodiment of the present invention. 2 is a schematic diagram of a web page file displayed by a wireless browser in the first embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a flow chart showing a method of activating a mobile terminal by an application in the first embodiment of the present invention. Mode for carrying out the invention

As shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 1 is a mobile application activation application system in a first embodiment of the present invention. Schematic diagram of the system. In FIG. 1, the system includes: a mobile terminal 10 and a background server 20. The mobile terminal 10 may preferably be a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA) or the like. The mobile terminal 10 performs data interaction with the background server 20 through a wireless network such as GSM, CDMA, GPRS, WiMax, etc., and acquires data in the background server 20.

In the first embodiment of the present invention, the background server 20 can be used to provide a web page file, a multimedia file, and the like, and a server-side program running the application thereon. In the first embodiment of the present invention, the background server 20 includes: a first unit 21, configured to provide a webpage file to the mobile terminal 10, wherein the webpage file includes one or more links with a specific label; Unit 22 is for editing the particular tag and adding the edited tag to a web page file. The second unit 22 is an optional unit. In the preferred case, the second unit 22 may not be present in the background server 20.

In the first embodiment of the present invention, the script of the webpage file provided by the first unit 21 includes one or more links with a specific label, wherein the content of the specific label indicates that the webpage file needs to pass The content executed by the application or function module of the mobile terminal 10. When the wireless browser of the mobile terminal 10 parses the above-mentioned link with a specific tag, the link with the specific tag is displayed as a normal link. When the link with the specific tag is clicked, the wireless browser also processes the link as a normal link, that is, opens the corresponding page. The specific tags described above include tags useful for executing different applications (e.g., software editor, photo/recording program, making a call/sending a short message program, a multimedia player, etc.), each application corresponding to one of the particular tags. The content indicated by the specific label is the execution data of the corresponding application or function module. For example, when the application or function module corresponding to a specific label is a multimedia player, the content marked by the specific label may be a link to a multimedia file. Preferably, the content of the specific tag labeling may further include some executed command parameters. Preferably, in a specific implementation, the specific tag may also be similar to the tag structure in the HTML script.

In the first embodiment of the present invention, the mobile terminal 10 includes: a wireless browser 11, a specific tag query unit 12, a program execution unit 13, and a mapping table unit 14. The following is the web page file shown in Figure 2. The page is taken as an example to introduce a system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a webpage file displayed by a wireless browser in the first embodiment of the present invention. The web page file is a song page, where "ring" is marked with a first specific label; "auditory" and "MV" are marked with a second specific label. Of course, other specific tags may also be included in other webpage files.

Mapping table unit 14 A mapping table for storing correspondences between specific tags and applications or functional modules. For example, the webpage file shown in FIG. 2 corresponds to a short message ordering program; the second specific label corresponds to a multimedia playing program. Through the mapping table unit 14, a specific tag can be used to query to obtain an application or a function module corresponding to a specific tag. In the first embodiment, different functions can be implemented by different tags corresponding to different functional modules of the same application.

The wireless browser 11 acquires a webpage file from the background server 20 using a wireless network protocol such as WAP, and parses and displays the obtained webpage file. The wireless browser 11 can be any known wireless browser, such as a WAP browser or the like. When the web browser file displays the webpage file, the content marked by the label in the webpage file is highlighted. For example, the content indicated by the label is displayed in an underlined manner in FIG. 2: ringtone, audition, MV.

The specific tag query unit 12 is configured to query the mapping table unit 14 to obtain a corresponding application or function module when the link containing the specific tag in the web page file is clicked. For example, when the link "listening" with a specific tag in Fig. 2 is clicked, the specific tag query unit 12 queries the application corresponding to the first specific tag, that is, the multimedia player.

The program execution unit 13 is for activating an application or a function module to perform content marked by a specific tag. After the specific tag query unit 12 obtains the application or function module corresponding to the specific tag, the program execution unit 13 activates the obtained application or function module, and then causes the application or function module to execute the content of the specific tag. For example, in FIG. 2, the program execution unit 13 activates the multimedia player and uses the multimedia player to play the multimedia file indicated in the specific tag. If the specific tag query unit 12 does not obtain the application or function module corresponding to the specific tag, the wireless browser 11 processes the tag content as a link, that is, opens the corresponding web page file. When an application or function module performs the content of a specific label, it can be different depending on the specific label. Different graphical user interfaces are used at the wireless communication terminal. When the application or function module is activated, the program execution unit 13 automatically generates an instruction to execute the application or the function module, and executes the above instruction by the central processing unit (CPU) with the content indicated by the specific label as a parameter, thereby making the corresponding application Or the function module performs the content of the specific label indication. Preferably, the content of the specific label label may further include some command parameters, which may be produced together into an instruction to be executed by the CPU.

For example, when the application corresponding to the specific tag is an external browser and the content of the specific tag is "http://XXX", the specific tag query unit 12 acquires the browser application through the query mapping table unit 14, and generates the following operations. The instruction, and send the operation instruction to the CPU to execute: midlet.platformRequest ( "http://XXX" ).

For example, when the application corresponding to the specific tag is a phone and the content of the specific tag is "86xxx", the specific tag query unit 12 acquires the phone application through the query mapping table unit 14, and generates the following operation instruction, and the operation is performed. The instruction is sent to the CPU for execution:

midlet.platformRequest ( "tel:+86xxx" ).

As shown in FIG. 3, it is a flow chart of a method for a mobile terminal to activate an application in the first embodiment of the present invention. The method specifically includes the following steps:

Step S31: Obtain a webpage file from the background server 20 through the wireless browser 11, the webpage file includes one or more links with a specific label, wherein the content of the specific label indicates that the webpage file needs to pass through the mobile terminal The content of the application or function module execution. The specific label may be a label for executing different applications or function modules (such as a software editor, a photographing/recording program, a calling/sending short message program, a multimedia player, etc.), and each application or function module corresponds to a specific label; The content marked by a specific tag is the execution data of the corresponding application or function module.

Step S32: The web page file acquired in step S31 is parsed and displayed by the wireless browser 11. When displaying a webpage file, one or more links with a specific label included in the webpage file are highlighted. For example, the content indicated by the label is displayed by an underline in FIG. 2: ringtone, ringtone, audition, MV. Step S33: When the link containing the specific tag is clicked, the mapping table in the query mapping table unit 14 obtains an application or a function module corresponding to the specific tag, where the mapping table includes a plurality of specific tags and their corresponding applications or The correspondence of functional modules. For example, when the link "listening" with a specific tag in FIG. 2 is clicked, the specific tag query unit 12 queries the application corresponding to the specific tag of "audit", and the application corresponding to the specific tag is a multimedia player.

Step S34: Activate the application or function module acquired in step S33 and execute the content marked by the specific tag using the above application program or function module. When the application or function module is activated, the program execution unit 13 automatically generates an instruction to execute the application or the function module, and executes the above instruction by the central processing unit (CPU) with the content indicated by the specific label as a parameter, thereby making the corresponding application Or the function module performs the content of the specific label. For example, in Fig. 2, the program execution unit 13 activates the multimedia player and plays the corresponding song using the multimedia player. If the specific tag query unit 12 does not obtain the application or function module corresponding to the specific tag, the wireless browser 11 processes the content indicated by the specific tag as a normal link, that is, opens the corresponding web page file.

Preferably, before step S31, the specific tag is edited in the background server 20, and the edited specific tag is added to the webpage file.

The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think of changes or within the technical scope disclosed by the present invention. Alternatives are intended to be covered by the scope of the present invention.

Claims

Claim

A method for activating a mobile terminal by a mobile terminal, comprising the steps of: parsing and displaying an acquired webpage file, wherein the webpage file comprises one or more links with a specific label;

The acquired application or function module is activated and the inner valley of the particular tag is executed.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the webpage file is obtained from a background server;

And the method further includes the background server adding the specific tag to the web page file.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the application or function module comprises:

Software editor, photo/recording program, call/send SMS program and/or multimedia player.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the acquired webpage file is parsed and displayed by a wireless browser in the mobile terminal.

5. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a specific tag query unit, which is respectively connected to the wireless browser and the mapping table unit, and is configured to query the mapping table when a link of a specific tag in the webpage file is clicked Obtaining an application or a function module corresponding to the specific tag;

The mobile terminal according to claim 5, wherein the wireless browser comprises a WAP browser.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 5, wherein the application or function module comprises: a software editor, a photographing/recording program, a calling/sending short message program, and/or a multimedia playing program.

The mobile terminal according to claim 5, wherein the program execution unit is further configured to:

When the specific tag query unit does not query the application or the function module corresponding to the specific tag, the content marked by the specific tag is processed as a link, and the corresponding webpage file is opened.

9. A background server, comprising:

a first unit, configured to provide a webpage file to a mobile terminal, wherein the webpage file includes one or more links with a specific tag, so that the mobile terminal queries and activates a corresponding application according to the specific tag or A functional module to perform the inner valley of the particular tag designation.

10. The background server according to claim 9, further comprising: a second unit for editing a specific tag and adding the edited specific tag to the webpage file in the first unit.

11. A system for implementing a mobile terminal activation application, comprising: a background server having a webpage file containing one or more links with a specific label;

a mobile terminal that parses and displays a webpage file obtained from the background server, When the link with the specific tag is clicked, the query acquires an application or a function module corresponding to the specific tag, and activates the acquired application or function module to execute the content marked by the specific tag.

The system according to claim 11, wherein the background server is further used to edit a specific tag and add an edited specific tag to the network file.

13. The system according to claim 11, wherein the mobile terminal is further configured to:

When the application or the function module corresponding to the specific tag is not obtained by querying, the content marked by the specific tag is processed as a link, and the corresponding webpage file is opened.