WO2012009910A1

WO2012009910A1 - Initiating method and mobile terminal for application programs

Info

Publication number: WO2012009910A1
Application number: PCT/CN2010/078892
Authority: WO
Inventors: 屈国涛; 赵斌
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2010-07-19
Filing date: 2010-11-18
Publication date: 2012-01-26
Also published as: CN101916196A

Abstract

An initiating method and mobile terminal for application programs are provided by the present invention. Said method includes that: an inputting module receives the inputted index information of the application programs; a matching module matches the inputted index information with the prestored correlative information of the application programs; a performing module starts the application programs corresponding to said index information when said index information matches the prestored correlative information of the application programs successfully. By the technical solution of the present invention, the application programs of the mobile terminal are initiated conveniently and swiftly.

Description

Method for starting application and mobile terminal

The present invention relates to the field of mobile terminals, and in particular, to a method for starting an application and a mobile terminal. Background technique

At present, the types of functions in mobile terminals are increasing, the services of the third generation mobile communication technologies are continuously introduced, and Java technologies are constantly developing. With the advent of intelligent mobile terminals, mobile terminals generally include QQ, games, stock trading software, browsers, etc. Multiple applications; Currently, the storage space of the mobile terminal can already store a large number of applications, but because of the screen size of the mobile terminal, the menu of each page can only display a small number of applications, so generally need to enter level 3 The above menu can open an application; this traditional method of opening the application through the menu mode is more and more difficult to meet the user's operation requirements, and now most users want to be able to quickly and easily launch the mobile terminal application.

In the prior art, most mobile terminal manufacturers quickly launch an application by defining some shortcut keys. For example, the left and right buttons of the up, down, left and right buttons represent a short message, and the up key represents a phone book. The application number is 200710165554.7, and the invention is a patent application for realizing a mobile phone and a method for quickly starting up an additional function of a mobile phone. A method for quickly starting an application is to save one or more non-functional alternate keys in a storage module. After the corresponding basic function and the shortcut function of the additional function, when the detecting module detects that the numeric key is pressed, the detecting module sends a query message to the attribute module, and queries the attribute of the alternating flag bit at this time, and if the attribute is valid, the module is activated. Send a message to activate the additional function, and then send a query message to the storage module to query whether the pressed non-functional alternate key corresponds to an additional function shortcut, and if so, activate the additional function. However, the buttons of the mobile terminal are limited, so there is still one in the above method. Some shortcomings, that is, the number of applications that can be quickly started is limited; in addition, the method is not convenient to remember, the user must remember what the button 1 represents, what the button 2 represents, etc., can use this method to quickly start additional functions; If you forget the application corresponding to the button, you will not be able to quickly launch the application you want to use, which will cause inconvenience to the user. Summary of the invention

In view of this, the main object of the present invention is to provide an application startup method and a mobile terminal, which are convenient and quick to start an application of the mobile terminal.

In order to achieve the above object, the technical solution of the present invention is achieved as follows:

The present invention provides a mobile terminal, including: an input module, a matching module, and an execution module;

An input module, configured to receive index information of an input application;

a matching module, configured to match the input index information with related information of the pre-stored application;

And an execution module, configured to: when the index information is successfully matched with the related information of the pre-stored application, open the application corresponding to the index information.

In the above mobile terminal,

The input module is further configured to receive a start command and display an input interface;

The execution module is further configured to: when the index information is not successfully matched with the related information of the pre-stored application, the prompt matching fails.

In the above mobile terminal, the mobile terminal further includes:

a startup module, configured to send a startup command to the input module;

A storage module, configured to store information about an application in the mobile terminal.

The invention also provides a method for starting an application, comprising:

Receiving index information of the input application;

Match the entered index information with information about pre-stored applications, when When the allocation is successful, the application corresponding to the index information is turned on.

In the above method, before receiving the index information of the input application, the method further includes: receiving a startup command, and displaying an input interface.

In the above method, the receiving start command, the display input interface is:

The startup module of the mobile terminal sends an activation command to the input module of the mobile terminal. After receiving the startup command, the input module of the mobile terminal displays an input interface of the input method in the mobile terminal through the screen of the mobile terminal.

In the above method, the index information of the application that receives the input is:

The index information of the application to be opened is input through the input interface, and the input module of the mobile terminal transmits the index information of the application to the matching module of the mobile terminal.

In the above method, the matching index information is matched with information related to the application stored in advance as:

The matching module of the mobile terminal receives the index information sent by the input module, reads the index information of all the applications in the storage module of the mobile terminal, and the matching module sends the input module. The information is compared with the index information in the information about the application stored in advance in the storage module of the mobile terminal.

In the above method, the method further includes:

When the matching of the index information with the related information of the pre-stored application is unsuccessful, the prompt fails to be matched.

In the above method, the application corresponding to the opening of the index information is:

The execution module sends an open command to the application, and the application starts the self-start after receiving the open command; or, the execution module invokes a function provided by the operating system of the mobile terminal to start the application.

The application startup method and the mobile terminal provided by the present invention input index information of the application program through the input module, and when the index information is successfully matched with the related information of the pre-stored application program, the application program is opened, and the application program can be opened conveniently and quickly. Any application in the mobile terminal The number of applications that can be quickly and easily launched is not limited; the index information of the application can be the combination of the first letter of each word in the name of the application, so it is convenient for the user to remember, as long as The user can start the application by remembering the Chinese name of the application. DRAWINGS

1 is a schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to the present invention;

2 is a schematic flow chart of a method for starting an application according to the present invention. detailed description

The basic idea of the present invention is: the input module receives the index information of the input application; the matching module matches the input index information with the related information of the pre-stored application; when the index information is related to the pre-stored application When the information matching is successful, the execution module starts the application corresponding to the index information.

The invention will be further described in detail below with reference to the drawings and specific embodiments.

The present invention also provides a mobile terminal. FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a mobile terminal according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the mobile terminal includes: an input module 11, a matching module 12, and an execution module 13;

The input module 11 is configured to receive index information of the input application;

a matching module 12, configured to match the input index information with related information of a pre-stored application;

The execution module 13 is configured to: when the index information is successfully matched with the related information of the pre-stored application, open the application corresponding to the index information.

The mobile terminal further includes:

The startup module 14 is configured to send a startup command to the input module 11;

a storage module 15 configured to store related information of an application in the mobile terminal; The related information includes index information of the application, the number of times of opening, and the like; when a new application is installed in the mobile terminal, the operating system of the mobile terminal adds related information of the newly installed application to the storage module 15; The index information may be a combination of the first letter of the pinyin of each word in the name of the application; the storage module 15 of the embodiment may be implemented by using a database existing in the mobile terminal.

The input module 11 is further configured to receive a start command and display an input interface;

The execution module 13 is further configured to prompt the matching failure when the index information is unsuccessful in matching the related information of the pre-stored application.

The input module 11 receives the startup command, and the display input interface is specifically: the startup module 14 of the mobile terminal sends an activation command to the input module 11 of the mobile terminal, and after the input module 11 of the mobile terminal receives the startup command, the mobile terminal The screen displays the input interface of the input method in the mobile terminal.

The index information of the input program received by the input module 11 is: inputting index information of an application to be opened through an input interface, and the input module 11 of the mobile terminal sends the index information of the application to the matching module 12 of the mobile terminal. .

The matching module 12 matches the input index information with the related information of the pre-stored application to: the matching module 12 of the mobile terminal receives the index information sent by the input module 11, and reads all the applications in the storage module 15 of the mobile terminal. The indexing information of the program, the matching module 12 compares the index information sent by the input module 11 with the index information in the related information of the application stored in the storage module 15 of the mobile terminal.

The execution module 13 opens the application corresponding to the index information: the execution module 13 sends an open command to the application, and the application program starts after receiving the open command; or, the execution module 13 invokes an operating system provided by the mobile terminal. The function launches the application.

The invention also provides a method for starting an application, and FIG. 2 is a schematic flowchart of a method for starting an application according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the method includes the following steps: Step 201: Receive a startup command, and display an input interface.

Specifically, the embodiment can be separately installed as an application in the mobile terminal, and a shortcut key for opening the application is preset in the mobile terminal, and the shortcut key can be a direction key or a number key; When the hardware circuit of the terminal detects that the shortcut key is pressed, the message is sent to the startup module. When the startup module of the mobile terminal receives the message, the startup command is sent to the input module of the mobile terminal for starting the input module; After receiving the startup command sent by the startup module, the input module displays the input interface of the existing input method in the mobile terminal through the screen of the mobile terminal.

Step 202: Receive index information of an input application.

Specifically, the index information of the application to be opened is input through the input interface. For example, if you want to open the street fighter game in the mobile terminal, you can input the index information "JB" of the game through the input interface; After the information, according to the prompt of the screen of the mobile terminal, the "match" is clicked, and the input module of the mobile terminal sends the index information of the application received through the input interface to the matching module of the mobile terminal.

In step 203, the input index information is matched with the related information of the application stored in advance. If the matching is successful, step 204 is performed. If the matching is unsuccessful, step 205 is performed. Specifically, the storage module of the mobile terminal stores the mobile in advance. The information about the application in the terminal, the related information includes the index information of the application, the number of times of opening, and the like; the storage module of the embodiment can be implemented by using a database existing in the mobile terminal; in an actual application, the database is using the storage. In the embodiment, a storage area is separately set on the storage chip, and the storage area is used for storing an application identification number (ID, IDentity), and an application ID and an index information. Relationship; wherein, according to the number of times of opening, the matching may be prioritized with the application with more open times, thereby shortening the time required for matching and improving the matching efficiency; the index information may be each word in the name of the application. Combination of the first letter of Pinyin; when on the mobile terminal Mobile terminal after installing a new application The operating system adds information about the newly installed application to the storage module; the matching module of the mobile terminal receives the index information sent by the input module, reads the index information of all the applications in the storage module, and the matching module inputs the input information. The index information sent by the module is compared with the index information in the related information of the application stored in the storage module of the mobile terminal; if the index information of the plurality of applications is found, the index identical to the index information sent by the input module is found. If the matching is successful, the step 204 is performed. If the index information of the index information sent by the input module is not found in the index information of the multiple applications, the matching is unsuccessful, and step 205 is performed.

Step 204: Open an application corresponding to the input index information.

Specifically, the matching module of the mobile terminal sends a matching successful command to the execution module, where the command carries the index information of the application to be opened; after the execution module receives the matching successful command, the index information is started according to the index information. Corresponding application; wherein, there are two methods for opening, one is that the execution module finds an ID corresponding to the index information of the application in the storage chip of the mobile terminal, and sends an open command according to the ID of the application. The application, the application starts itself after receiving the open command; the other is, the execution module calls the function provided by the operating system of the mobile terminal to start the application, for example, in the mobile terminal based on the REX operating system, the execution module can be moved The storage chip of the terminal finds the ID corresponding to the index information of the application, and then writes the ID as a parameter into the ISHELL-StartApplet() function, and finally starts the application to be opened by calling the function; here, Use the same function in the same operating system To invoke different applications, but different function parameters as a function of the parameters, the function is called to determine the needs of the application can open.

Step 205, the prompt matching fails;

Specifically, the matching module of the mobile terminal sends an unsuccessful command to the execution module. After the execution module receives the unsuccessful command, the execution module prompts the user to fail to match. For example, a dialog box may pop up, and the dialog box displays "match failure, no Find the word "application". The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Any modifications, equivalent substitutions and improvements made within the spirit and principles of the present invention should be included. Within the scope of protection of the present invention.

Claims

Claim

A mobile terminal, comprising: an input module, a matching module, and an execution module; wherein

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein

The mobile terminal according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the mobile terminal further comprises:

a startup module, configured to send a startup command to the input module;

4. An application startup method, the method comprising:

Receiving index information of the input application;

The input index information is matched with the information related to the pre-stored application, and when the matching is successful, the application corresponding to the index information is turned on.

The method according to claim 4, wherein the receiving the index information of the input application further comprises:

Receive the start command and display the input interface.

The method according to claim 5, wherein the receiving the start command, the display input interface is: The startup module of the mobile terminal sends an activation command to the input module of the mobile terminal. After receiving the startup command, the input module of the mobile terminal displays an input interface of the input method in the mobile terminal through the screen of the mobile terminal.

The method according to claim 4, wherein the index information of the application that receives the input is:

8. The method according to claim 4, wherein the matching the input index information with the pre-stored related information of the application is:

The method according to claim 4, wherein the method further comprises: when the index information is not successfully matched with the related information of the pre-stored application, the matching failure is prompted.

The method according to any one of claims 4 to 9, wherein the application corresponding to the opening of the index information is: