WO2009046650A1

WO2009046650A1 - A method and device for displaying the download tasks

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Publication number: WO2009046650A1
Application number: PCT/CN2008/072329
Authority: WO
Inventors: Huateng Ma; Bo Wu; Ruisheng Huang
Original assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
Priority date: 2007-09-25
Filing date: 2008-09-11
Publication date: 2009-04-16
Also published as: CN101119282A

Abstract

A method and device for displaying the download tasks are provided. The invention sorts the download tasks to display distinctively, so that a user quickly understands the change of the task status and manages the download tasks easily. The method for displaying the download tasks includes that: acquiring the status of each download task in the download sorts; distinctively displaying the download tasks of the different download status using the different display form according to the acquired download status of each download task. The method for displaying download tasks further includes: acquiring the status of each download task in the download sorts; determining the number of the download tasks which are in the preset state in the download sorts; displaying the determined number of the download tasks which are in the preset state; wherein the preset state is one of the download status in the download sorts.

Description

Download task display method and device

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to network data downloading technologies in network communication technologies, and in particular, to a downloading task display method and apparatus in a downloading tool. Background technique

As a way of obtaining information, the Internet has been accepted and used by more and more people. Through the network to store various data resources, such as software, music, games, movies and other data files, people can download the data files they need from the network through the download tool. The downloading tool is a tool software that can be installed on a device connected to a network and used exclusively to download data files on the network. The typical use of the download tool is: The user clicks on a downloadable link in the browser, the download tool captures the clickable link that is clicked, and automatically generates a confirmation of the new download task. After the user confirms, the download will be downloaded in the download tool. The link generates a download task that the user can initiate, pause, or cancel at any time. Compared to the browser's own download function, the download tool is fast and stable, and some download tools can simultaneously download multiple data resources and provide management functions for downloaded tasks.

In the prior art, a classification management method is generally adopted for a downloaded task. For example, to create a classification of download tasks, such as "software", "game", "movie", "music", etc., tasks downloaded from the network can be assigned to corresponding categories according to file categories. When classifying and managing download tasks, it is generally managed by a tree structure. Each node in the tree structure can have multiple child nodes. For example, the big category is "movie", and there are several small categories under the "movie" category: For example, "European and American movies", "Japanese and Korean movies", "Continental movies" and so on. A download task will be recorded on a node. For example, a download task for downloading a movie file "Transformers" can be assigned to the category of "European Movies". Each of the nodes may correspond to a file directory in the local terminal device memory. For example, the downloaded files can be classified into sub-categories such as "movie", "software", "music", and "game". when When the user downloads a movie file, the information of the movie file can be attributed to the sub-category of "movie" to facilitate subsequent search and management.

However, in the existing download tool, there is no identifier on the download category showing the status of the download task, and the user cannot quickly understand the change of the task status in the download category. For example, when a file is downloaded and downloaded, the file is moved to the corresponding category, but no identifier is displayed indicating the status of the download task. The user cannot quickly find the file just downloaded. Summary of the invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a method and a device for displaying a download task, so that the user can quickly understand the change of the task state, and the user is more convenient to manage the download task.

A method for displaying a download task according to an embodiment of the present invention includes:

Obtain the download status of each download task in the download category;

The download tasks in different download states are displayed in different display forms according to the download status of the obtained download tasks.

A download task display device provided by the embodiment of the invention includes:

The first unit is configured to obtain a state in which each download task in the download category is located;

And a second unit, configured to display, according to the state of each download task acquired by the first unit, the download tasks in different states in different display forms.

Obtain the download status of each download task in the download category;

Determining the number of download tasks that are in a preset state in the download category;

And displaying the determined number of download tasks in a preset state; wherein the preset state is any one of download states included in the download category.

a second unit, configured to determine, according to a state of each download task acquired by the first unit, a number of download tasks in a preset state; The third unit is configured to display the number of download tasks determined by the second unit in a preset state.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the status of each download task in the download category is obtained, and the download tasks in different states in the download category are displayed in different display forms, so that the real-time status of the download task can be more conveniently distinguished. For example, for a downloaded file, the "read" status and the "unread" status are displayed or identified differently. When the user manages multiple files at the same time, the tasks that have already been viewed can be recognized.

The embodiment of the present invention obtains the state of each download task in the download category, determines the number of download tasks in the preset state, and displays the number, for example, displayed next to the download category. Therefore, the user can quickly learn the change of the status of each download classification task through the number of download tasks in the preset state, and facilitate the user to manage the download task. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for displaying a download task according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flow chart showing a state change of a download task in an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3A is a specific interface diagram showing the number of download tasks in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3B is a specific interface diagram showing the number of download tasks in another embodiment of the present invention. The specific interface diagram of the task.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a download task display device according to an embodiment of the present invention. Mode for carrying out the invention

The present invention will be further described in detail below by way of specific embodiments and the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for managing display of a download task according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Figure 1, the method includes:

Step 101: Obtain the status of each download task in the download category.

Step 102: Determine the number of download tasks that are in a preset state in the download category, where the preset is preset The status is any of the states that are in the download category.

Step 103: Display the determined number of download tasks in the preset state, such as displaying the determined number of download tasks in the preset state in the corresponding positions of the download category.

The download categories described in the present invention mainly include "downloading" categories and "downloaded" categories. The present invention manages the download classification using a tree-like classification structure, and classifies the files into corresponding categories. For example, the file that is being downloaded is classified into the "Downloading" category. When the user creates a new download task, the download task will be classified into the "Downloading" category. When the download is completed, the download task will be classified into a sub-category of "Downloaded". The user can Set the category to be classified after the download is completed when creating a new task. Further, the download category can also include the "deleted" category, the user can also delete the download task at any time, the deleted task will be placed in the "deleted" category, of course, the user can also restore the task from the "deleted" category Under the original classification.

For the "Downloading" category, the status of the download task includes the following:

1) The status is being downloaded. If the download task belongs to the downloading state, the download task is connecting to the download server or is acquiring data from the download server, and the process of accepting the data by the download task has not been completed yet.

2) Waiting state. Since the download tool has a limit on the number of tasks to be downloaded at the same time, if a download task has been started, but the download server is not currently connected, it needs to wait for other download tasks to complete before the connection server is in the wait state. When the connection server starts downloading, the download task is converted from the wait state to the download state.

3) Pause status. If a download task has been started and the download has not been completed, and the user is suspended during the middle of the download, the download task is paused. When the user restarts the suspended download task, the download task is switched from the paused state to the downloading state or the waiting state.

4) Error status. If a download task has been initiated and an error has occurred during the download and the download has not been completed, the download task is in an error state.

If a download task has all been downloaded and verified correctly, it is in the completed state, at which point the download task is transferred to the "already downloaded" category.

For the "already downloaded" category, the status of the download task mainly includes the unread status and the read status. After the download task is switched from the downloading state to the completed state, if the user has not viewed the download task, it is in an unread state. When the download task is switched from the downloading state to the completed state and the user has viewed it, it is in the read state.

2 is a flow chart showing the state change of a download task according to the present invention. In step 101, the status change of each download task can be monitored to obtain the status of each download task. Referring to Figure 2, the process includes:

Step 201: Start a download task.

Step 202: Display the started download task in the "Downloading" category, and its status is the downloading status. For a newly created download task, the default state after the new creation is the downloading state.

Then, the status of the download task is obtained according to the running status of the download task. For details, refer to the following steps 203 to 206. The execution order of the steps 203 to 206 is not strictly defined, and may be performed in parallel.

Step 203: Determine whether the download task is normal and all the downloads are completed and pass the integrity check. If yes, execute step 207; otherwise, return to step 202.

Step 204: Determine whether the download task is faulty and fail to complete the download. If not, return to step 202; if yes, the status of the download task is changed to an error state, and in the error state, it is determined whether the download task is restarted. If there is no restart, the error state continues to be maintained, and if it is restarted, it returns to step 202.

Step 205: Determine whether the user's pause operation is received. If not, return to step 202; if received, the status of the download task changes to a pause state, and in the pause state, determine whether the download task is restarted. If it is not restarted, continue to maintain the pause state, and if it restarts, return to step 202.

Step 206: Determine whether the number of tasks currently being downloaded reaches the upper limit set by the user. If the upper limit is not reached, return to step 202. If the upper limit is reached, the status of the download task is changed to a waiting state, and the waiting state is determined. Whether the number of tasks currently being downloaded reaches the upper limit set by the user, and if the upper limit is reached, the waiting state continues, otherwise returning to step 202.

Step 207: The status of the download task is changed to the completed state, and moved to the "downloaded" point. In the class. If the "Downloaded" category includes sub-categories, the download task will be categorized into a sub-category of "Downloaded", and the user can set the sub-category to be classified after the download is completed when creating a new task.

Step 208: After the download task moves to the "Downloaded" category, its status is unread. Step 209 to step 210, determining whether the download task is operated by a user, for example, clicking a download task, double-clicking to view task information, or opening a file corresponding to the download task, and if the user has been operated, performing step 210, The download task status changes to the read status; otherwise, it remains unread.

In the present invention, the state change of each download task is obtained by monitoring the state change of each download task. When the status of any one of the download tasks is changed, the step 102 and the step 103 are triggered, which specifically includes:

a. Traverse the download task in the download category, and statistically determine the number of download tasks in the preset state in each download category. The preset state of the present invention is corresponding to the download category. For example, for the "downloading" category, the preset state may be set to a non-completed state, so it is required to count all the "downloading" categories are not completed. The number of download tasks for the status, including the number of download tasks in the download status, error status, pause status, and wait status; for the "Downloaded" category, the preset status can be set to the unread status, and the statistics "Downloaded" are required. The number of download tasks in the classification that are in an unread state. The present invention can also specify a download category that needs to display the number of download tasks in the preset state, and can only count and display the number of download tasks in the specified download category in the preset state.

b. Display the number of files in the preset state in each of the downloaded download categories corresponding to the corresponding download category, for example, display the number next to the download category.

FIG. 3A is a specific interface diagram showing the number of download tasks in a preset state next to the download category. Referring to FIG. 3A, in the "Downloading" category, the number of downloads is displayed as the number of tasks being downloaded, assuming that the number of downloading tasks at this time is 10; in "Downloaded", the category is displayed in the category. The number of tasks in the read state, assuming that the number of download tasks in the unread state is 15.

For the download classification having the sub-category, the present invention further includes: determining a status of each download task in each sub-category, and calculating a number of download tasks in the preset state in each sub-category And displaying the determined number of download tasks in the preset state in the corresponding positions of the corresponding sub-categories; and then determining the number of download tasks in the preset state in the download category, that is, in all sub-categories in the download category The sum of the number of download tasks in the preset state, and the sum of the number of download tasks is displayed in the corresponding position of the download category.

Figure 3Β shows the specific interface diagram showing the number of download tasks in the preset state next to the download category and sub-categories. As shown in Figure 3, the "Downloaded" category is further divided into "software", ", music", ", "game", ", "movie", ", and Subcategories such as "others". For the "software" sub-category in the "Downloaded" category, determine the number of download tasks in the "software" sub-category that are in a preset state, assuming that the preset state is unread. After determining the number of download tasks in the unread state, for example, the number of download tasks in the unread state in the "software" subcategory is 10, the number is displayed in "software". "The corresponding position of the sub-category, for example, displayed next to the "software" sub-category; using the same method, the number of download tasks in the unread state of other sub-categories can be determined and displayed, for example, "music" The number of download tasks in the unread state in the sub-category is two, and the number of download tasks in the unread state in the "movie" sub-category is three, "game" and "others" sub-categories The number of download tasks in the unread state is 0. Here, the classification of the number of download tasks in the preset state is 0, and the corresponding ones may not be displayed. Download number of tasks.

As shown in FIG. 3B, for the "Downloaded" category, the number of download tasks in the unread state is the sum of the number of download tasks in the unread state in each sub-category, for example, 15 here, The number is displayed next to the "Downloaded" category.

The present invention may also provide a modification interface to the user, and the preset state may be modified by the user setting, for example, for the "downloaded" classification, or the read state may be set to a preset state; the download classification may also be The user specifies that, when displayed, only the number of download tasks in the download category that are in the preset state is displayed next to the specified download category.

When the download task in the download category is displayed, the present invention may further include: displaying the download tasks in the same state in the download category in the same display form, which will be different The status download task is displayed differently in different display forms. For example, when the download task in the "Downloaded" category is displayed, the download task in the read state and the download task in the unread state are different in the task list, such as the download task in the read state is black, not The download task in the read state is blue; or the download task in the read state is non-bold, the download task in the unread state is bold, etc., or in other different ways, not here - enumerated.

In this way, the embodiment of the present invention uses the same display form in the downloading task in the same state in the downloading category, as compared with the prior art, which lacks the identifiers of the status of the "read" or "unread". Displaying, the download tasks in different states are displayed differently in different display forms, so that the real-time status of the download task can be more conveniently distinguished. When a user manages multiple files at the same time, the tasks that have been viewed can be recognized in a convenient manner.

Figure 3C shows a specific interface diagram for downloading tasks in different states that are displayed differently in different display formats. Referring to Fig. 3C, in the downloaded task file, the unread status download files 301, 303, 305 are shown in bold, and the read status download files 302, 304, 306 are non-bold.

Based on the above method, the present invention also discloses a download task display device, which is suitable for downloading tools for classifying management and display of download tasks by using download categories. Figure 4 is a schematic illustration of the device. Referring to Figure 4, the device mainly includes:

The status obtaining module 401 is configured to obtain a status of each download task in the download category of the download tool.

The number determining module 402 is configured with a preset state corresponding to each download category, and is configured to determine, according to the obtaining result of the state acquiring module 401, the number of downloading tasks in the download category corresponding to the downloading category corresponding to the preset state;

The number display module 403 is configured to display the determined number of download tasks in a preset state, such as displaying the determined number of download tasks in a preset state at corresponding positions of the download category.

In another embodiment, the device further includes a difference display module 431, configured to display, according to the acquisition result of the state obtaining module 401, the download tasks in different states in the download category in different display forms, further Can also download tasks in the same state Display in the same display format. For example, when a download task in the "Downloaded" category is displayed, the download task in the read state is non-bold, and the download task in the unread state is bold.

In another embodiment, the apparatus may further include a modification interface 404 for performing setting modification on the preset state in the number determining module 402. Therefore, the preset state is set to a state that the user wants to intuitively understand, which is more suitable for the actual needs of the user, and is more convenient for managing the download task.

The embodiment of the invention further provides a download task display method, including:

Obtain the status of each download task in the download category, as shown in Figure 2;

Download tasks in different states are displayed in different display formats.

Further, it is also possible to determine whether the download status of each download task changes; when the download status of the download task changes, the display form of the download task is switched to the display form corresponding to the changed download status.

Further, download tasks in the same state can also be displayed in the same display form.

Take the "Downloading" category as an example to distinguish between downloading tasks under "Downloading Status", "Wait Status", "Pause Status", and "Error Status". Taking the "Downloaded" classification as an example, the area displays "Unread Status" and "Read Status".

On this basis, the embodiment of the present invention may further determine the number of download tasks that are in a preset state in the download category; and display the determined number of download tasks in the preset state.

Based on the above method, the present invention also discloses a download task display device, which is suitable for downloading tools for classifying management and display of download tasks by using download classification. The device includes:

The status obtaining module is configured to obtain the status of each download task in the download category of the download tool.

The distinguishing display module is configured to display, according to the obtaining result of the state acquiring module, the downloading tasks in different states in the downloading category in different display forms.

The apparatus may further include a number determining module and a number display module, and may further include a modifying interface, the functions of the three modules being the same as the corresponding modules in FIG. The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of protection of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think of changes or replacements within the technical scope of the present invention. All should be covered by the scope of the present invention.

Claims

Claim

A download task display method, comprising:

Obtain the download status of each download task in the download category;

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

Download tasks that are in the same download state are displayed in the same display format.

The method according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising: determining a number of download tasks in a preset state in the download category;

4. The method according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the download classification comprises one or a combination of "downloading" classification and "downloaded" classification;

The state in which the download task is in the "Downloading" category includes: a combination of any one or more of a downloading state, a waiting state, a pause state, and an error state;

The status of the download task in the "Downloaded" category includes: a combination of either or both of the read status and the unread status.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the download classification further includes a "deleted" classification.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein when the download is classified into a "downloaded" category, obtaining a download status of a download task includes:

Determining whether the download task has been operated by the user after moving from the "downloading" category to the "downloaded" category, and if so, determining that the status of the download task is the read status, otherwise determining that the status of the download task is not Read status.

7. The method according to claim 4, wherein when the download is classified into a "downloading" category, obtaining a download status of a download task includes: Determining the operation of the download task after startup:

If the download task fails to complete the download during the download process and does not restart at present, the download task is in an error state;

If the download task receives a pause operation performed by the user during the download process and does not restart at present, the download task is in a pause state;

If the number of tasks currently being downloaded reaches an upper limit and the download task fails to link to the server, the download task is in a waiting state;

The download task is in the download state if the download task is running normally but not all of the downloads have been completed.

The method according to any one of claims 1 to 7, further comprising: determining whether a download status of the download task is changed;

When the download status of the download task changes, the display form of the download task is switched to the display form corresponding to the changed download status.

9. A download task display device, comprising:

10. The device according to claim 9, comprising:

a third unit, configured to determine, according to a state of each download task acquired by the first unit, a number of download tasks in a preset state, where the preset state is a download state in the download category Any of them;

The fourth unit is configured to display the number of download tasks determined by the third unit in a preset state.

The device according to claim 10, comprising:

a fifth unit, configured to set a preset state in the second unit.

12. A download task display method, comprising:

Obtain the download status of each download task in the download category; Determining the number of download tasks that are in a preset state in the download category;

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the download classification comprises one or a combination of two of "downloading" classification and "downloaded" classification;

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the download classification further comprises a "deleted" classification.

The method according to claim 13, wherein when the download is classified into a "downloaded" category, obtaining a download status of a download task includes:

Determining whether the download task is operated by the user after moving from the "downloading" category to the "downloaded" category, and if so, determining that the status of the download task is the read status, otherwise determining that the status of the download task is unread. status.

The method according to claim 13, wherein when the download is classified as "downloading", the download status of obtaining a download task includes:

Determining the operation of the download task after startup:

17. A download task display device, comprising:

a second unit, configured to determine, according to a state of each download task acquired by the first unit, a number of download tasks in a preset state in the download category, where the preset state is in the download category Any of the download statuses;

The third unit is configured to display the number of download tasks determined by the second unit in a preset state.

The device according to claim 17, comprising:

The fourth unit is configured to set a preset state in the second unit.