WO2018018706A1

WO2018018706A1 - Application program freezing method and device

Info

Publication number: WO2018018706A1
Application number: PCT/CN2016/097474
Authority: WO
Inventors: 文立新
Original assignee: 宇龙计算机通信科技(深圳)有限公司
Priority date: 2016-07-28
Filing date: 2016-08-31
Publication date: 2018-02-01
Also published as: CN106292997A

Abstract

An application freezing method and device, applied to a terminal. The method comprises the following steps: monitoring changes in battery level of the terminal itself (S110); determining a current freezable application program set if the battery level tends to decrease and reaches a predetermined freezing threshold (S120); obtaining power consumption information of each application program in the freezable application program set (S130); determining application programs to be frozen according to the power consumption information of each application program (S140); and freezing the determined application programs (S150). The method is capable of decreasing the consumption rate of the battery level of the terminal, prolonging the service time of the terminal for a user, and improving user experience.

Description

Application freezing method and device

The present application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201610606210.4, entitled "Application Freezing Method and Apparatus", filed on July 28, 2016, the entire contents of in.

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of terminal technologies, and in particular, to an application freezing method and apparatus.

Background technique

With the rapid development of terminal technologies, terminals such as mobile phones, tablet computers, desktop computers, and notebook computers have become more and more popular, and have gradually become an important tool in people's daily work and life. Users can install various applications in the terminal as needed.

During the process of using the terminal, the user may switch the application, and some applications will be in the background. For example, after using the application A at a certain moment, the user does not exit the application A, and directly opens the application B, so that the application A will be in the background running state. After the application is installed, even if the user is not using it, it will be awake constantly to push messages to the user.

For these applications running in the background and self-wake-up applications, even if the user is not currently using them, these applications still consume the battery power of the terminal, making the terminal's battery power consumption too fast, when it is exhausted, it is inevitable It will affect the normal use of the terminal by the user, and the user experience is not good.

Summary of the invention

To solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides an application freezing method and device, which can slow down the consumption of the battery power of the terminal, prolong the user's use time of the terminal, and improve the user experience.

An application freezing method is applied to a terminal, and the method includes:

Monitor your battery's battery power changes;

Determining a currently freezeable application set when the battery power is in a downward trend and a predetermined freeze threshold is reached;

Obtaining power consumption information of each application in the set of freezeable applications;

Determine the application to be frozen according to the power consumption information of each application;

Freeze the identified application.

In a specific implementation manner of the present invention, the determining, according to the power consumption information of each application, the application to be frozen, including:

Sorting the applications in the set of freezeable applications according to the order of power consumption according to the power consumption information of each application;

Selecting from an application that consumes the least amount of power, determining an application of a preset ratio in the set of freezeable applications as an application to be frozen, the preset ratio being the number of selected applications and a ratio of a total number of applications in the set of freezeable applications, the preset ratio having a preset correspondence with the predetermined freeze threshold.

In a specific implementation of the present invention, after determining the application to be frozen according to the power consumption information of each application, the method further includes:

A prompt message for the application to be frozen is output.

In a specific implementation of the present invention, after the freezing the determined application, the method further includes:

The step of monitoring the change in battery power of itself is repeatedly performed until there is no freezeable application in the terminal system.

The defrosting operation is performed on the currently frozen application when it is detected that the battery power changes from a downward trend to an upward trend.

In a specific embodiment of the present invention, the application in the set of freezeable applications is an application that is in a background running state.

An application freezing device is applied to a terminal, the device comprising:

A battery fuel gauge module for monitoring the change in battery power of the battery;

The freezeable application determining module is configured to determine a current freezeable application set when the battery power is in a downward trend and reaches a predetermined freeze threshold;

a power consumption information obtaining module, configured to obtain power consumption information of each application in the set of freezeable applications;

An application determining module to be frozen, configured to determine an application to be frozen according to power consumption information of each application;

An application freeze module that freezes the identified application.

In a specific implementation manner of the present invention, the power consumption information obtaining module is specifically configured to:

In a specific embodiment of the present invention, the device further includes:

The prompt information output module is configured to output prompt information for the application to be frozen after the application to be frozen determines that the application to be frozen is determined by the application to be frozen.

In a specific embodiment of the present invention, the device further includes:

And repeating the execution module, after the application freezing module freezes the determined application, triggering the battery fuel gauge module until there is no freezeable application in the terminal system.

In a specific embodiment of the present invention, the device further includes:

The application defrosting module is configured to perform a defrosting operation on the currently frozen application when it is detected that the battery power changes from a downward trend to an upward trend.

In a specific embodiment of the invention, the application in the set of freezeable applications is in a background running state.

According to the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present invention, in the process of monitoring the battery power change, if the battery power is in a downward trend and reaches a predetermined freeze threshold, the current freezeable application set may be determined, and according to the obtained The power consumption information of each application in the freezeable application set, determining the application to be frozen, and freezing the determined application. In this way, the frozen application no longer consumes the battery power of the terminal, can slow down the consumption of the battery power of the terminal, prolong the user's use time of the terminal, and enhance the user experience.

DRAWINGS

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the prior art, the drawings used in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described below. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are merely Some embodiments of the present invention may also be used to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without departing from the art.

1 is a flowchart of an implementation of an application freezing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a flowchart of another implementation of an application freezing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an application freezing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

The core of the present invention is to provide an application freezing method, which can be applied to terminals such as mobile phones, tablet computers, notebook computers, and desktop computers. The terminal can provide the user with the ability to freeze the application, or provide the user with the ability to freeze the application through a functional application.

During the user's use of the terminal, the terminal can monitor the battery power change condition, determine the current freezeable application set when the battery power is in a downward trend, and reach a predetermined freeze threshold, according to each of the freezeable application sets. The power consumption information of the application, determine the application to be frozen, and freeze the determined application. The frozen application no longer consumes the battery power of the terminal, which can slow down the consumption of the battery power of the terminal, prolong the user's use time of the terminal, and improve the user experience.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the application program does not include a system key application that provides basic functions provided by the terminal, such as telephone dialing, text messaging, and data service.

The present invention will be further described in detail below in conjunction with the drawings and embodiments. It is apparent that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without creative efforts are within the scope of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of an implementation of an application freezing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. The method may include the following steps:

S110: Monitor the change of its own battery power.

In practical applications, users can install various applications in the terminal according to actual needs. The user consumes the battery power of the terminal when using the application installed in the terminal. If the battery is exhausted, it will affect the normal use of the basic functions of the terminal, which will cause inconvenience to the user.

Therefore, during the user's use of the terminal, the terminal can monitor the change of its own battery power.

S120: Determine a currently freezeable application set when the battery power is in a downward trend and a predetermined freeze threshold is reached.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the freeze threshold may be determined in advance. Specifically, the freeze threshold corresponding to the battery power may be determined according to the current battery power. For example, three thresholds, a first threshold, a second threshold, and a third threshold are preset, and the relationship between the three is: first threshold > second threshold > third threshold. When monitoring the change of the battery power, if the current battery power is not less than the first threshold, the first threshold may be determined to be a freeze threshold, and if the current battery power is between the first threshold and the second threshold, the first The second threshold is a freeze threshold. If the current battery power is between the second threshold and the third threshold, the third threshold may be predetermined to be a freeze threshold.

The preset number and size of the thresholds can be set and adjusted according to the actual situation, and can be set by the user by providing a setting entry, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present invention.

During the monitoring of battery power changes, when the battery power is in a downward trend and a predetermined freeze threshold is reached, the current set of freezeable applications can be determined.

According to the running state of the application during the process of using the terminal, the applications installed in the terminal can be divided into the following types:

The first type: an application running in the foreground, which is the application currently being used by the user, consuming the battery power of the terminal;

Second: an application that is running in the background. This application may be an application that was previously used by the user, not closed, or it may be a self-starting, self-wake-up type application that is running in the background. , consuming the battery power of the terminal;

Third: An application that is not running, this application does not consume the battery power of the terminal.

In practical applications, all applications installed in the terminal can be directly determined as the currently freezeable application.

Or, because the application that is not running does not consume the battery power of the terminal, there is no need to perform a freeze operation for these applications, so all applications that are in the foreground running state and the background running state can be directly determined to be currently freezeable. s application.

Or, because the application in the foreground running state is the application that the user is using, if it is frozen, it will affect the user's use, and the application can also not perform the freezing operation, so the application running in the background can be directly used. The program is determined to be the currently freezeable application. This is a preferred way, in which the applications in the currently freezeable application collection are all in the back. The running state of the application.

It can be understood that when the battery power is at a downward trend at different times and reaches a predetermined freeze threshold, the determined freezeable applications may be the same may be different in view of the fact that the user actually uses the application.

S130: Obtain power consumption information of each application in the set of freezeable applications.

During the user's use of the application through the terminal, the terminal system can continuously monitor and record the power consumption of each application. For example, the list of application power consumption maintained by the terminal system is shown in Table 1:

序号Serial number	应用程序application	耗电量power consumption
11	视频应用程序Video application	10％10%
22	音乐应用程序Music app	8％8%
33	游戏应用程序Game application	6％6%
44	社交应用程序Social application	5％5%
55	……......	……......

Table 1

The power consumption information maintained by the terminal system can be dynamically updated in real time according to the actual usage of each application.

When the terminal detects that the battery power is in a downward trend and reaches a predetermined freeze threshold, the total power consumption information of each application installed in the terminal can be obtained directly from the terminal system, and the current freezeable application set is determined. After that, the power consumption information of each application in the freezeable application set can be obtained from the total information.

Alternatively, when the terminal detects that the battery power is in a downward trend and reaches a predetermined freeze threshold, and determines the currently freezeable application set, the power consumption of each application in the freezeable application set is obtained from the terminal system. information.

S140: Determine an application to be frozen according to the power consumption information of each application.

Understandably, users use different frequencies and durations for different applications, and different applications may consume different amounts of power per unit of time. Therefore, each application consumes less power. In step S130, the power consumption information of each application in the freezeable application set is obtained, and the application to be frozen can be determined according to the power consumption information of each application.

In practical applications, according to the power consumption information of each application, the power consumption is small. The applications to be frozen are randomly determined in the application.

In a specific implementation manner of the present invention, step S140 may include the following steps:

Step 1: According to the power consumption information of each application, the applications in the freezeable application set are sorted according to the order of power consumption;

Step 2: Select from the application with the lowest power consumption, and determine the preset application in the freezeable application set as the application to be frozen. The preset ratio is the number of selected applications and can be frozen. The proportion of the total number of applications in the application collection, the preset ratio has a preset correspondence with a predetermined freeze threshold.

For the convenience of description, the above two steps are combined for explanation.

According to the obtained power consumption information of each application, the applications in the freezeable application set can be sorted according to the order of power consumption, and the selection from the application with the lowest power consumption will be freezeable. The application of the preset scale in the application collection is determined to be the application to be frozen.

The preset ratio here is a ratio of the number of selected applications to be frozen to the total number of applications in the freezeable application set, and the preset ratio has a preset correspondence with a predetermined freeze threshold.

For ease of understanding, an example is given.

Assume that the freeze threshold is predetermined to be 30% when monitoring battery power changes. When the battery power is in a downward trend and reaches the freeze threshold of 30%, it is determined that the currently freezeable application set is {Application A, Application B, Application C, Application D, Application E, Application F} Get the power consumption information of each application, sorted according to the order of power consumption, as shown in Table 2:

序号Serial number	应用程序application	耗电量power consumption
11	应用程序AApplication A	10％10%
22	应用程序BApplication B	8％8%
33	应用程序CApplication C	6％6%
44	应用程序DApplication D	5％5%
55	应用程序EApplication E	4％4%
66	应用程序FApplication F	2％2%

Table 2

Assuming that the preset threshold of 30% of the freeze threshold is 1/3, the application with the lowest power consumption is used. F starts the selection and determines the application E and the application F as the application to be frozen.

When monitoring battery power changes continuously, the freeze threshold is predetermined to be 15%. When the battery power is in a downward trend and reaches the freezing threshold of 15%, it is determined that the currently freezeable application set is {Application A, Application B, Application C, Application D}, and the consumption of each application is obtained. The power information is sorted according to the order of power consumption, as shown in Table 3:

序号Serial number	应用程序application	耗电量power consumption
11	应用程序AApplication A	10％10%
22	应用程序BApplication B	8％8%
33	应用程序CApplication C	6％6%
44	应用程序DApplication D	5％5%

table 3

Assuming that the preset ratio corresponding to the freeze threshold of 15% is 1/2, the selection is started from the application D having the lowest power consumption, and the application D and the application C are determined as the applications to be frozen.

If the number of applications to be frozen determined according to the preset ratio is not an integer, the number of applications to be frozen may be determined according to the rounding up or down rounding rules.

Selecting an application that is to be frozen from an application that consumes a small amount of power can avoid affecting the normal use of the user, because an application that consumes a large amount of power may be frequently used by the user. If it is frozen first, it may be Affect the normal use of the user.

S150: Freeze the determined application.

After the application to be frozen is determined in step S140, the determined application may be frozen. This way, the frozen application will no longer consume the battery power of the terminal.

According to the method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, in the process of monitoring the battery power change, if the battery power is in a downward trend and reaches a predetermined freeze threshold, the current freezeable application set may be determined, and according to the obtained The power consumption information of each application in the freezeable application collection, determining the application to be frozen, and freezing the determined application. In this way, the frozen application no longer consumes the battery power of the terminal, can slow down the consumption of the battery power of the terminal, prolong the user's use time of the terminal, and enhance the user experience.

In an embodiment of the present invention, after determining the application to be frozen according to the power consumption information of each application in step S140, the method may further include the following steps:

Outputs prompts for applications to be frozen.

After determining the application to be frozen, the prompt information may be output first, prompting the user to perform a freeze operation on the determined application. If the user does not want to freeze the determined application, the output may be provided through the terminal provided by the terminal or the terminal. The reject button cancels the freeze operation. This will avoid affecting the user's normal use of the application.

In an embodiment of the present invention, after the determined application is frozen in step S150, the method may further include the following steps:

Repeat the steps to monitor your battery's battery level until there are no freezeable applications in the terminal system.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of freeze thresholds may be preset. As shown in FIG. 2, in step S110, the battery power change condition is monitored, and the corresponding freeze threshold may be determined according to the battery power at this time; when the battery power is in a downward trend and reaches a predetermined freeze threshold in step S120, Determining a currently freezeable application set; obtaining power consumption information of each application in the freezeable application set in step S130; determining an application to be frozen according to the power consumption information of each application in step S140 The determined application is frozen in step S150; if there is a freezeable application in the terminal system, if it exists, step S110 is repeatedly executed to monitor its own battery power change, and if not, it ends.

For ease of understanding, an example is given.

Assume that there are three freeze thresholds, 30%, 15%, and 5%. When monitoring the battery power change, when the battery power is in a downward trend and reaches 30%, the first application freeze operation is performed. At this time, according to the power consumption information of the currently freezeable application, from small to large. Select 1/3 of the application to freeze. By analogy, when the battery power is declining and reaches 15%, the second application freeze operation is performed. At this time, according to the power consumption information of the currently freezeable application, 1/2 is selected from small to large. The app is frozen. When the battery power is still in a downward trend and reaches 5%, the third and last application freeze operation is performed. At this time, the currently freezeable applications can all be frozen, and then there is no freezeable application in the terminal system. program.

In practical applications, the user will charge the battery of the terminal according to the battery power condition. When the battery level is detected to change from a downward trend to an upward trend, the current frozen application can be thawed to avoid affecting the user's normal use of the application.

Specifically, the terminal may gradually unfreeze the frozen application according to the increase of the battery power, or the terminal may perform a defrosting operation on the currently frozen application when the battery power is detected to rise to a preset threshold.

Corresponding to the above method embodiment, the embodiment of the invention further provides an application freezing device, which is applied to the terminal.

Referring to Figure 3, the device can include the following modules:

The battery fuel gauge module 310 is configured to monitor a change in battery power of the battery;

The freezeable application determining module 320 is configured to determine a current freezeable application set when the battery power is in a downward trend and reaches a predetermined freeze threshold;

The power consumption information obtaining module 330 is configured to obtain power consumption information of each application in the set of freezeable applications;

The to-be-freeze application determining module 340 is configured to determine an application to be frozen according to the power consumption information of each application;

The application freeze module 350 is configured to freeze the determined application.

In a specific implementation manner of the present invention, the power consumption information obtaining module 330 is specifically configured to:

According to the power consumption information of each application, the applications in the freezeable application set are sorted according to the order of power consumption;

Select from the application with the lowest power consumption, and determine the preset application in the freezeable application collection as the application to be frozen. The preset ratio is the number of selected applications and the freezeable application. The ratio of the total number of applications in the collection, the preset ratio has a preset correspondence with a predetermined freeze threshold.

In a specific embodiment of the invention, the device may further comprise the following modules:

The prompt information output module is configured to output, after the application to be frozen, the application determining module 340 determines the application to be frozen, the prompt information for the application to be frozen.

The repetitive execution module is configured to trigger the battery fuel gauge module 310 after the application freeze module 350 freezes the determined application until there is no freezeable application in the terminal system.

The application defrost module is used to perform a thaw operation on the currently frozen application when it detects that the battery level has changed from a downward trend to an upward trend.

In one embodiment of the invention, the application in the set of freezeable applications is in a background running state.

When the device provided by the embodiment of the present invention is used to monitor the battery power change, if the battery power is in a downward trend and reaches a predetermined freeze threshold, the current freezeable application set may be determined, and according to the obtained The power consumption information of each application in the freezeable application collection, determining the application to be frozen, and freezing the determined application. In this way, the frozen application no longer consumes the battery power of the terminal, can slow down the consumption of the battery power of the terminal, prolong the user's use time of the terminal, and enhance the user experience.

The various embodiments in the specification are described in a progressive manner, and each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same or similar parts of the respective embodiments may be referred to each other. For the device disclosed in the embodiment, since it corresponds to the method disclosed in the embodiment, the description is relatively simple, and the relevant parts can be referred to the method part.

A person skilled in the art will further appreciate that the elements and algorithm steps of the various examples described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented in electronic hardware, computer software or a combination of both, in order to clearly illustrate the hardware and software. Interchangeability, the composition and steps of the various examples have been generally described in terms of function in the above description. Whether these functions are performed in hardware or software depends on the specific application and design constraints of the solution. A person skilled in the art can use different methods for implementing the described functions for each particular application, but such implementation should not be considered to be beyond the scope of the present invention.

The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented directly in hardware, a software module executed by a processor, or a combination of both. The software module can be placed in random access memory (RAM), memory, read only memory (ROM), electrically programmable ROM, electrically erasable programmable ROM, registers, hard disk, removable disk, CD-ROM, or technical field. Any other form of storage medium known.

The application freezing method and device provided by the present invention are described in detail above. The principles and embodiments of the present invention have been described herein with reference to specific examples, and the description of the above embodiments is only to assist in understanding the method of the present invention and its core idea. It should be noted that those skilled in the art can make various modifications and changes to the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Claims

An application freezing method is characterized in that it is applied to a terminal, and the method includes:

Monitor your battery's battery power changes;

Determining a currently freezeable application set when the battery power is in a downward trend and a predetermined freeze threshold is reached;

Obtaining power consumption information of each application in the set of freezeable applications;

Determine the application to be frozen according to the power consumption information of each application;

Freeze the identified application.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the determining the application to be frozen according to the power consumption information of each application comprises:

Sorting the applications in the set of freezeable applications according to the order of power consumption according to the power consumption information of each application;

Selecting from an application that consumes the least amount of power, determining an application of a preset ratio in the set of freezeable applications as an application to be frozen, the preset ratio being the number of selected applications and a ratio of a total number of applications in the set of freezeable applications, the preset ratio having a preset correspondence with the predetermined freeze threshold.
The method according to claim 1, wherein after the determining the application to be frozen according to the power consumption information of each application, the method further comprises:

A prompt message for the application to be frozen is output.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein after the freezing the determined application, the method further comprises:

The step of monitoring the change in battery power of itself is repeatedly performed until there is no freezeable application in the terminal system.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein after the freezing the determined application, the method further comprises:

The defrosting operation is performed on the currently frozen application when it is detected that the battery power changes from a downward trend to an upward trend.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the application in the set of freezeable applications is an application that is in a background running state.
An application freezing device is characterized in that it is applied to a terminal, and the device includes:

A battery fuel gauge module for monitoring the change in battery power of the battery;

The freezeable application determining module is configured to determine a current freezeable application set when the battery power is in a downward trend and reaches a predetermined freeze threshold;

a power consumption information obtaining module, configured to obtain power consumption information of each application in the set of freezeable applications;

An application determining module to be frozen, configured to determine an application to be frozen according to power consumption information of each application;

An application freeze module that freezes the identified application.
The device according to claim 7, wherein the power consumption information obtaining module is specifically configured to:

Sorting the applications in the set of freezeable applications according to the order of power consumption according to the power consumption information of each application;

Selecting from an application that consumes the least amount of power, determining an application of a preset ratio in the set of freezeable applications as an application to be frozen, the preset ratio being the number of selected applications and a ratio of a total number of applications in the set of freezeable applications, the preset ratio having a preset correspondence with the predetermined freeze threshold.
The device according to claim 7, wherein the device further comprises:

The prompt information output module is configured to output prompt information for the application to be frozen after the application to be frozen determines that the application to be frozen is determined by the application to be frozen.

And repeating the execution module, after the application freezing module freezes the determined application, triggering the battery fuel gauge module until there is no freezeable application in the terminal system.
The device according to any one of claims 7 to 9, wherein the device further comprises:

The application defrosting module is configured to perform a defrosting operation on the currently frozen application when it is detected that the battery power changes from a downward trend to an upward trend.