WO2019000724A1

WO2019000724A1 - Search method, electronic device, and non-volatile storage medium

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Publication number: WO2019000724A1
Application number: PCT/CN2017/107104
Authority: WO
Inventors: 许奔
Original assignee: 联想(北京)有限公司
Priority date: 2017-06-26
Filing date: 2017-10-20
Publication date: 2019-01-03
Also published as: CN107220377A; CN107220377B

Abstract

Provided are a search method, an electronic device, and a non-volatile storage medium. The search method comprises: responding to a search instruction (S110); acquiring a key character entered in a search box by a user (S120); acquiring multiple windows in an active state, the multiple windows in the active state having respective corresponding displayed contents which have been loaded for output therefrom (S130); performing a search operation on the basis of the key character and the multiple windows to generate a first search result (S140); and outputting the first search result (S150), the first search result indicating, among the multiple windows in the active state, a first window having the corresponding displayed content which matches the key character.

Description

Search method, electronic device, and non-volatile storage medium

Technical field

The present disclosure relates to the field of information technology, and in particular, to a search method, an electronic device, and a non-volatile storage medium.

Background technique

With the development of information technology, more and more applications appear inside electronic devices, and the desktop pages displaying application icons and windows are also increasing with the increase of applications, so that if users need to search for a certain information, they need to go to the corresponding window or Searching one by one in the application, obviously this will lead to various problems such as frequent switching of windows, long time for information search, low efficiency, and cumbersome user operations.

Summary of the invention

In view of this, embodiments of the present disclosure are expected to provide a search method, an electronic device, and a non-volatile storage medium, at least partially solving the problem of long information search time and low efficiency.

To achieve the above object, the technical solution of the present disclosure is implemented as follows:

A first aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure provides a search method, where the foregoing method includes:

Respond to search instructions:

Get the key characters entered by the user in the search box;

Obtaining a plurality of windows in an active state, each of the plurality of windows in the active state respectively corresponding to the display content that has been loaded for window output;

Searching based on the above key characters and the plurality of windows, generating a first search result;

And outputting the first search result, where the first search result is used to indicate a first window that matches the key character on the display content corresponding to the plurality of windows in the active state.

Optionally, the foregoing method further includes:

The above search box independent of the plurality of windows in the active state described above is called in a preset manner.

Optionally, the foregoing method further includes:

Obtaining a second search result based on the above key characters and an application identifier of the unactivated application;

And outputting the second search result, where the second search result is used to indicate the first application identifier in the un-activated application identifier, where the server corresponding to the first application identifier has content that matches the key character.

Optionally, the foregoing method further includes:

Detecting user input selection operations;

According to the above selection operation, a plurality of windows corresponding to the search instruction corresponding to the search box are determined.

Optionally, the foregoing multiple windows in an active state include:

At least two windows of the same application that are active;

and / or,

At least two windows of an active state of different applications.

Optionally, the foregoing obtaining multiple windows in an active state includes:

Obtaining the first display position of the above search box;

Obtaining a second display position of a plurality of active windows;

Determining whether a relative positional relationship between the first display position and the second display position of the nth active window satisfies a preset positional relationship;

When the relative positional relationship between the first display position and the second display position of the nth active window satisfies the preset positional relationship, determining that the nth active window is in response to the search box a window of the search command; wherein, n is an integer integer less than N; and N is the total number of windows in the active state.

Optionally, determining whether the relative positional relationship between the first display position and the second display position of the nth active window meets the preset positional relationship includes:

Determining, when the coverage of the frame is displayed on the at least one application window of the first application, that the display ratio is greater than a preset ratio, determining a second display position of all the active windows of the first application and the first display position The preset positional relationship is satisfied; wherein, the display area of the N active windows is smaller than the display area of the display screen.

Optionally, determining whether the relative positional relationship between the first display position and the second display position of the nth active window is satisfying the preset position, includes:

Determining, according to the first display position and the second display position, whether the search box is overlaid on the nth active window;

When the search box is overlaid on the nth active window, it is determined that the first display position of the search and the second display position of the nth active window satisfy the preset position relationship.

Optionally, the foregoing method further includes:

Detecting a movement operation of moving the above search box;

The first display position of the search box is changed in response to the moving operation.

A second aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure provides an electronic device, including:

a display for displaying information;

A processor coupled to the display for performing one or more of the search methods of the foregoing techniques by executing a computer program.

A third aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure provides an electronic device, including: a processor and a computer program;

The above processor is configured to perform one or more of the foregoing methods in the foregoing embodiments by executing the above computer program.

A fourth aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure provides a nonvolatile storage medium, wherein the nonvolatile storage medium stores a computer program, and after the computer program is executed, one or more of the foregoing methods can be executed.

A fifth aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure provides another electronic device, including:

A detection unit for responding to search instructions:

a first obtaining unit, configured to obtain a key character input by a user in the search box;

a second obtaining unit, configured to obtain a plurality of windows in an active state, where each of the plurality of windows in the active state respectively corresponds to a display content that has been loaded for window output;

a searching unit, configured to perform a search based on the key characters and the plurality of windows, to generate a first search result;

And an output unit, configured to output the first search result, where the first search result is used to indicate a first window that matches the key character on the display content corresponding to the plurality of windows in the active state.

Optionally, the electronic device further includes: an invoking unit, configured to invoke, in a preset manner, the search box that is independent of the plurality of windows in the active state.

Optionally, the multiple windows in the active state include: at least two windows in an active state of the same application; and/or at least two windows in an active state of different applications.

Optionally, the searching unit is further configured to obtain a second search result based on the key characters and the application identifier of the unactivated application;

Optionally, the foregoing electronic device further includes:

a first detecting unit, configured to detect a selection operation input by the user;

And a determining unit, configured to determine, according to the foregoing selecting operation, a plurality of windows corresponding to the search instruction corresponding to the search box.

The output unit is further configured to output the second search result, where the second search result is used to indicate the first application identifier in the un-activated application identifier, where the server corresponding to the first application identifier has the foregoing The key characters match the content.

Optionally, the second acquiring unit may be configured to acquire a first display position of the search box, obtain a second display position of the plurality of active windows, and determine the first display position and the nth active state. Whether the relative positional relationship of the second display position of the window satisfies the preset positional relationship; when the relative positional relationship between the first display position and the second display position of the nth active window satisfies the preset positional relationship And determining that the nth active window is a window responsive to the search instruction corresponding to the search box.

The search method, the electronic device and the non-volatile storage medium provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure obtain key characters according to the content acquired in the search box; and then match the key characters with the display contents of the plurality of windows in an active state. , thereby obtaining search results; outputting corresponding search results. It is apparent that in the present embodiment, cross-window search within the electronic device is achieved. In this way, the user only needs to input the content to be searched in the search box, and the electronic device automatically searches in these windows and returns the search result. Obviously, the user does not need to switch windows one by one, and input search keywords one by one to search, greatly improving The search efficiency reduces the time consumed by the search and simplifies the user operation; thereby improving the intelligence of the electronic device and the satisfaction of the user.

DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic flowchart diagram of a search method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

2A is a schematic diagram of display of a first search box according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

2B is a schematic diagram showing display of a second search box according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of display of a third search box according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

4 is a schematic diagram of displaying a fourth search box according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5 is a schematic flowchart diagram of another search method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of another electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed ways

The technical solutions of the present disclosure are further elaborated below in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments. It should be understood, however, that the description is only illustrative, and is not intended to limit the scope of the disclosure. In addition, descriptions of well-known structures and techniques are omitted in the following description in order to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the concept of the present disclosure.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing the particular embodiments, The use of the terms "comprising", "comprising" or "an"

All terms (including technical and scientific terms) used herein have the meaning commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art, unless otherwise defined. It should be noted that the terms used herein are to be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the context of the present specification and should not be interpreted in an ideal or too rigid manner.

Where an expression similar to "at least one of A, B, and C, etc." is used, it should generally be interpreted in accordance with the meaning of the expression as commonly understood by those skilled in the art (for example, "having A, B, and C" At least one of the systems" It should include, but is not limited to, A alone, B alone, C alone, A and B, A and C, B and C, and/or systems with A, B, C, etc.). Where an expression similar to "at least one of A, B or C, etc." is used, it should generally be interpreted according to the meaning of the expression as commonly understood by those skilled in the art (for example, "having A, B or C" "Systems of at least one of" shall include, but are not limited to, systems having A alone, B alone, C alone, A and B, A and C, B and C, and/or A, B, C, etc. ). Those skilled in the art will also appreciate that transitional conjunctions and/or phrases that are arbitrarily arbitrarily representing two or more optional items, whether in the specification, claims, or drawings, are to be construed as The possibility of one of the projects, either or both of these projects. For example, the phrase "A or B" should be understood to include the possibility of "A" or "B", or "A and B."

Some block diagrams and/or flowcharts are shown in the drawings. It will be understood that some blocks or combinations of the block diagrams and/or flowcharts can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer or a processor of other programmable data processing apparatus such that when executed by the processor, the instructions may be used to implement the functions illustrated in the block diagrams and/or flowcharts. / operating device.

Thus, the techniques of this disclosure may be implemented in the form of hardware and/or software (including firmware, microcode, etc.). Additionally, the techniques of this disclosure may take the form of a computer program product on a computer readable medium storing instructions for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system. In the context of the present disclosure, a computer readable medium can be any medium that can contain, store, communicate, propagate or transport the instructions. For example, a computer readable medium can include, but is not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, device, or propagation medium. Specific examples of the computer readable medium include: a magnetic storage device such as a magnetic tape or a hard disk (HDD); an optical storage device such as a compact disk (CD-ROM); a memory such as a random access memory (RAM) or a flash memory; and/or a wired /Wireless communication link.

As shown in FIG. 1 , this embodiment provides a search method, where the method includes:

Operation S110: responding to the search instruction.

Operation S120: Acquire key characters input by the user in the search box.

Operation S130: Acquiring a plurality of windows in an active state, each of the plurality of windows in the active state respectively corresponding to the display content for window output that has been loaded.

Operation S140: performing a search based on the key characters and the plurality of windows to generate a first search result.

Operation S150: outputting the first search result, where the first search result is used to indicate a first window that matches the key character on the display content corresponding to the plurality of windows in the active state.

The search method provided by this embodiment may be a search method applied to various user terminals. The user terminal may include a wearable device such as a desktop personal computer (PC), a notebook computer, a tablet computer, or a mobile phone.

The operation S110 may include:

Displaying a search box, and the search box enters a preliminary state to receive content input by the user from a human-computer interaction interface (eg, a physical keyboard, a virtual keyboard, a voice collection interface);

An automatic search command that detects the user input of the search or detects a new content in the search box to obtain a trigger.

The operation S120 may specifically include:

After the search instruction is acquired, the key character is acquired based on the content input by the user, for example, the subject matter of the content input by the user is extracted.

In some embodiments, all of the content received by the box can be searched for as the key character. In other embodiments, the content input by the user is processed by a word bag method or the like to extract key information as the key character.

A window that is turned on and in an active state in the current state of the electronic device is acquired in operation S130.

The window in the active state in this embodiment may include: a window in which the device starts and completes content loading. In this case, if the electronic device detects switching from one window A to another window B in an active state, the electronic device directly displays the window B after the switching operation, and can display the display content in the window B without regenerating one. The window fills the display with the contents of the window.

In summary, the window in the active state in the embodiment may be a window in which the electronic device has been started and the content is loaded. Generally, the electronic device does not have processing threads allocated by the windows, and the processing threads are active or In the standby state, if window switching or processing related to the window operation is performed, the electronic device does not need to additionally allocate resources (for example, storage resources and/or computing resources) to the window, and may utilize the already allocated resources (for example, The established thread) operates directly on the window.

In the embodiment, the window in the active state may be a window in the foreground of the electronic device, for example, displayed on the topmost layer of the display interface, a window that can be directly viewed and operated by the user, or may be in a window in the background. The user can switch through the window without having to re-create the created window with the window re-established.

Of course, the display state of the active windows may include: displaying on the desktop in the form of a window, displaying on the desktop in the form of an icon, or displaying the minimized window on the taskbar of the desktop.

If the electronic device is a mobile device such as a mobile phone, the background window in an active state may not be displayed at present. If the current electronic device is in the small window display mode, that is, the display area of the window provided by the electronic device is smaller than the display area of the display screen, the background window in the active state may be the window covered by the foreground window.

In the operation S140 in the embodiment, the key characters in the search box are matched and searched with the display contents in the plurality of windows in the active state to obtain the first search result.

The first search result herein may include: information such as search success, search failure, and the like. For example, when the search is successful, the first search result may include: a window identifier matching the key character, and a display content matching the key character in the window.

After the search is completed, the first search result is output. The outputting the first search result herein includes: displaying the first search result, and/or outputting the first search result by voice.

For example, the operation S150 may include:

When the search is successful, (ie, at least one window of the plurality of active windows has a display content and the key characters satisfy a preset matching relationship), the window successfully matched with the key character can be directly displayed. Corresponding part of the content; the first window herein may be a window having a display content and the key character satisfying the preset matching relationship. In other embodiments, the first window may be a newly generated dedicated window for displaying a search result, for example, displaying a matching relationship with the key character in the first window (ie, satisfying the preset matching relationship) ) A dedicated window for displaying content. Of course, the first window may also be a display window displaying the search box. When the search is successful, the display content having a matching relationship with the key character may be directly displayed below the search box.

The operation S150 may further include: when the search fails, the prompt information of the search failure may be displayed on the search page displaying the search box.

With the search method described in this embodiment, when a plurality of applications are opened, or a window of an application is opened, the user can search for other content in the other internal window through the search window in the electronic device. For example, user A is using a computer to write a thesis, writing a thesis opens the document window 1, and also opens the document window 2 and the document window 3 and the webpage window 1. In the document windows 1 to 3 and the webpage window 1, there may be a user A writing a thesis. Required reference material. If in the prior art, the user A needs to find the corresponding content to provide reference for the paper writing, the user may need to switch the foreground window to the document window 2 and the document window 3 and the webpage window 1 in turn, and then view in the window. And / or search, this is obviously inefficient, if the user does not currently know which window has the content that he wants, then you need to switch to search one by one window, obviously the user operation is cumbersome. In this embodiment, the user can directly input the content related to the search by using the search box, and the electronic device acquires the key characters, and automatically searches the document window 2 and the document window 3 and the web window 1 to generate corresponding search results. And the search results are outputted. Obviously, the user does not need to manually switch each window and view and search one by one in the corresponding window, which obviously improves the efficiency and intelligence of the search, simplifies the user operation, and improves the user experience and Electronic device intelligence.

Optionally, the searching method further includes:

The search box that is independent of the plurality of windows in the active state is called in a preset manner.

In the embodiment, the search box is independent of the searched window, and is not belonging to any of the active windows, and is an external search box of the window in the active state. The external search box can be a search box for searching for an application within a device installed within the operating system, or a system search box within the operating system.

The active window includes an externally called search interface, and the external search box can be docked with the window through the search interface to deliver key characters to the window for information related to the displayed content in the window. Matching the search and returning to the search program corresponding to the external search box through the search interface to correspond to the search result of the single window of the window. Of course, the correspondence between the search box and the window is not limited thereto.

In some embodiments, the search box may be a system search box set in an operating system of the electronic device; when searching by the operating system, there may be no need to set a search for information interaction between the search box and the window on each window. interface. The operating system may obtain a storage area of the display content of each window in an active state, and the operating system matches the key characters of the search box to the corresponding storage area and the display contents of the active windows, and then generates The first search result. In still other embodiments, the operating system may copy the display content in the active window to the search cache area, mark the source window of each display content, and then unify the key character and the search cache. The display content in the area is search-matched, and then a search matching result with the display content of each window is obtained, thereby generating the first search result.

In summary, in the present embodiment, the search box is independent of each searched window, and is an external search box of the searched windows in an active state. The external search box can be a search box provided for the search application inside the device, or an internal search component of the operating system. The operating system here can be a widows operating system or an Android operating system or an Apple (iOS) operating system.

In the embodiment, the preset mode is invoked, which may be various ways of starting the search box. Several options are provided below:

Optional one:

The search box may be a sliding frame or an upper sliding frame; the display of the sliding frame or the upper sliding frame may include: detecting a sliding operation on the desktop of the operating system, and displaying the sliding frame if a sliding operation is detected; or On the desktop of the operating system, the sliding operation is detected, and if the sliding operation is detected, the upper sliding frame is displayed.

Option 2:

When the search box is a search box provided by the device internal search application, invoking the search box may include: launching the in-device search application.

FIG. 2A is a schematic diagram showing the display of a sliding frame; FIG. 2B is a schematic diagram showing the display of an upper sliding frame.

Option 3:

When the search box is a system search box, the system search box is invoked through a pull-down menu of the operating system, or through a pull-up menu of the operating system.

As shown in FIG. 3, the drop-down menu here may be in a window, the user pops up a drop-down menu by clicking on a blank space in the document window 1 as described above, and a control for calling the search box may be set in the drop-down menu. This drop-down menu is a drop-down menu within the app. In this embodiment, after the search box is called, at least part of the search box is suspended and displayed on the uppermost layer of the electronic device display interface, so that the user can input the content that he wants to search at any time, thereby facilitating all subsequent searches. Search for content. For example, when the user wants to search, the user can search for the content inside the electronic device by inputting the search box to activate the search box and input the content that he wants to search in the search box.

As shown in FIG. 4, a control for scheduling the search box may be set in a pull-up menu of the operating system.

In summary, the search box is scheduled in a preset manner, and is a window formed by a program module that is independent of the window in the active state, and the scheduling manner is not limited to any one of the above.

Optionally, as shown in FIG. 5, the method further includes:

Operation S160: obtaining a second search result based on the key character and an application identifier of the unactivated application;

Operation S170: outputting the second search result, where the second search result is used to indicate the first application identifier in the un-activated application identifier, where the server corresponding to the first application identifier has The content of the key characters is matched.

In this embodiment, in order to facilitate the search, the second search result is obtained based on the search box and the application identifier that is not activated. The second search result is output. For example, the content currently searched by the user may be in an application that is not started, but since the application is not activated, the electronic device may not have a way to directly return the display content having a matching relationship with the key character, so that the application identifier of the corresponding application is used as The second search result is outputted, so that the user can obtain the information that he wants to search by starting the corresponding application.

Optionally, the method further includes:

Detecting user input selection operations;

And determining, according to the selecting operation, a plurality of windows corresponding to the search instruction corresponding to the search box.

In this embodiment, the method further includes detecting a selection operation input by the user, where the selecting operation may be selecting a window that responds to the search instruction corresponding to the search box. The window corresponding to the search instruction is the object to be searched, that is, the window to be searched.

For example, the window in the active state of the current electronic device includes M, and according to the selection operation input by the user, N of them may be used as the searched window in response to the search instruction.

In some embodiments, the window identifier of the currently active window may be displayed on the display page of the search box, and some or all of the active states may be selected by detecting a check box of the corresponding window that is input by the user. The window serves as a window for responding to the search command corresponding to the search box. If the user does not check the corresponding window, by default, the search command searches all windows that have a corresponding relationship with the search box, that is, searches all windows.

Optionally, the multiple windows in the active state include:

At least two windows of the same application that are active;

and / or,

At least two windows of an active state of different applications.

In this embodiment, the plurality of windows may be different windows of the same application, for example, multiple windows opened by the word application respectively.

In some embodiments, the plurality of windows may be windows of different applications, such as a webpage window of a webpage, an application window of a social application, or a reading window of a reading application, and the like.

The window that is searched once in this embodiment may include: at least two windows of one application, and different windows of at least two applications.

Obviously, in the embodiment, the search instruction corresponding to the search box may be directed to multiple or multiple windows, and has a wide searchable range.

In some embodiments, the operation S130 may further include:

Obtaining a first display position of the search box;

Obtaining a second display position of a plurality of active windows;

When the relative positional relationship between the first display position and the second display position of the nth active window satisfies the preset positional relationship, determining that the nth active window is a response The window of the search instruction corresponding to the search box, n is a positive integer smaller than N, and N is the total number of windows in an active state.

In the former embodiment, the window of the response search instruction is determined based on the user's selection operation, that is, the searched window is determined based on the user's selection operation. In this embodiment, the electronic device automatically determines the window being searched. For example, first obtaining a first display position of the search box, and then acquiring a second display position of the plurality of active windows, and automatically determining the searched window based on the relative positional relationship between the first display position and the second display position. .

For example, the search box can be a search box that is displayed in a hover. The floating display here can be displayed on the top layer. The window being searched for may be a window that is at least partially covered by the search box.

In other embodiments, when the user operates a plurality of windows, if the user wants to search for the contents of some windows, the user may be accustomed to moving the search boxes to the corresponding window attachments, so in the present embodiment, the search box may be used. The distance from the window determines whether the corresponding window is a window that needs to respond to the search instruction.

In some embodiments, determining whether the relative positional relationship between the first display position and the second display position of the nth active window satisfies a preset positional relationship includes:

Determining, when the overlay of the cable frame is displayed on the at least one application window of the first application, determining that the second display location of the active window of the first application and the first display location meet the pre- A positional relationship is set; wherein a display area of the N active states is smaller than a display area of the display screen.

At this point, if a search box covers a window of the document application, then all of the document applications are considered active. The lower windows belong to the window that needs to be searched in response to the search command.

Further, in order to avoid unnecessary search, the erroneous search is reduced, and when the display ratio of the coverage of the cable frame displayed on the at least one application window of the first application is greater than a preset ratio, determining that all the first applications are in the The second display position of the active state window and the first display position satisfy the preset position relationship; wherein, the display area of the N active windows is smaller than the display area of the display screen.

For example, the preset ratio is 0.3. If the current application A has 3 active windows, wherein the search box is overlaid on one or more windows of the application A, the maximum window of the current coverage area of the search box is selected, and the calculation is performed. The display scale is displayed. For example, if the search box has a 50% coverage on the window, it can be considered that, if it is greater than the preset ratio of 0.3, it can be considered that all the currently active windows of the application A are windows to be searched.

By setting the preset ratio, you can further reduce the unnecessary search caused by the inadvertent small part of the search box covering the application that does not need to be searched. In this embodiment, the display ratio may be 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, preferably 0.5 or more.

In other embodiments, determining whether the relative positional relationship between the first display position and the second display position of the nth active window meets a preset positional relationship includes:

Determining that the first display position of the search and the second display position of the nth active window satisfy the preset when the search box is overlaid on the nth active window Positional relationship.

In this embodiment, instead of focusing on which applications the current search box is overlaid on the window of the application, the confidant is concerned with which windows the search box covers, and all the windows that are covered and in an active state are windows that need to be searched.

In some embodiments, the method further includes:

Detecting a movement operation of moving the search box;

In this embodiment, the search box is movable, and the search box may be moved based on a user's finger sliding operation, a mouse moving operation, etc., and then based on the position of the search box, it may be automatically determined which windows are needed. The window of the search instruction is responsive to enable automatic confirmation of the searched window.

Optionally, the method may further include:

Detecting a first operation of moving the search box to obtain a first operation parameter;

And moving the search box into a display area of the first application according to the first operation parameter, and displaying the search box overlay on the first application. Here, the operation of moving the search box may be one of the aforementioned selection operations.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the selection of the window in response to the search instruction corresponding to the search box may also be implemented directly by selecting an application. For example, the method further includes: detecting a second operation of selecting the specified application, obtaining a second operation parameter; determining, according to the second operation parameter, an application that responds to the search instruction corresponding to the search box, the application is at The window of the active state is the window that needs to respond to the search instruction corresponding to the search box.

Optionally, in some embodiments, the application that responds to the search instruction corresponding to the box may be configured based on user input, or may be remotely configured based on a server, so the method may further include:

Sending a query request to the server;

Receiving the query request to receive the application identifier returned by the server, so as to obtain an application that needs to respond to the search instruction corresponding to the search box, so as to further determine, according to the application identifier, all the active identifiers corresponding to the application identifier The windows are all windows that need to respond to the search command corresponding to the search box.

As shown in FIG. 6, the embodiment provides an electronic device, including:

The detecting unit 110 is configured to respond to the search instruction:

a first obtaining unit 120, configured to obtain a key character input by a user in the search box;

a second obtaining unit 130, configured to obtain a plurality of windows in an active state, each of the plurality of windows in the active state respectively corresponding to the display content that has been loaded for window output;

The searching unit 140 is configured to perform a search based on the key characters and the plurality of windows to generate a first search result;

The output unit 150 is configured to output the first search result, where the first search result is used to indicate a first window that matches the key character on the display content corresponding to the plurality of windows in the active state.

The embodiment provides an electronic device, which can search for a plurality of display contents in a window in an active state by using a window in the electronic device, and output a response search result, so that the user can implement multiple in one search box. Window cross-window information search to improve the efficiency of information search and the intelligence of electronic devices.

The detecting unit 110 and the first obtaining unit 120 may include: a human-computer interaction interface, and may include: a keyboard, a mouse, a voice collection and recognition module, or a touch panel, etc., and may be used to extract content input by the user. In some embodiments, the first obtaining unit 120 may further include: a processor or a processing circuit that extracts the key characters by information processing.

The second obtaining unit 130 and the searching unit 140 may correspond to a processor or a processing circuit, and may correspond to a processor or a processing circuit, and may be used to implement confirmation of the window in an active state, and the key The characters are the search basis, and the display contents in these windows are searched, and corresponding search results are generated.

The output unit 150 may correspond to a display screen, and the display screen may be an electronic ink display screen, an organic light-emitting secondary light OLED display frequency, a projection display screen or a liquid crystal display screen, etc., and the first search may be output through display result.

In some embodiments, the electronic device further includes:

a calling unit, configured to invoke the search that is independent of the plurality of windows in an active state according to a preset manner frame.

Optionally, the searching unit 140 is further configured to obtain a second search result based on the key characters and an application identifier of the unactivated application;

The output unit 150 is further configured to output the second search result, where the second search result is used to indicate a first application identifier in the unactivated application identifier, where the first application identifier corresponds to The server has content that matches the key characters.

Optionally, the electronic device further includes:

And a determining unit, configured to determine, according to the selecting operation, a plurality of windows corresponding to the search instruction corresponding to the search box.

Optionally, the plurality of windows in an active state include: at least two windows in an active state of the same application; and/or at least two windows in an active state of different applications.

Optionally, the second obtaining unit may be configured to acquire a first display position of the search box, acquire a second display position of the plurality of active windows, and determine that the first display position and the nth position are Whether a relative positional relationship of the second display position of the active state window satisfies a preset positional relationship; a relative positional relationship of the first display position and the second display position of the nth active window is satisfied When the preset positional relationship is determined, determining that the nth active window is a window that responds to the search instruction corresponding to the search box.

As shown in FIG. 7, the embodiment of the present disclosure further provides another electronic device, including:

a display 210 for displaying information;

The processor 220 is coupled to the display 210 for performing one or more of the search methods provided by the foregoing embodiments by executing a computer program.

The display 210 can be a display device that can display information, such as a liquid crystal display, an electronic ink display, a projection display, or an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, and can be specifically used to display the window and the search box.

In some embodiments, the electronic device further includes: a memory, which may be a non-volatile storage medium storing various information, for example, may be used to store the computer program, or store each active state The display content in the window below, the status mark of each window, and so on.

The processor 220 can be a central processing unit, a microprocessor, a digital signal processor, a programmable array or an application processor, etc., and the processing circuit can be an application specific integrated circuit or the like.

The display 210 and the processor 220 are connected by a bus interface 230 such as an integrated circuit bus, and can realize the interworking of information and instructions.

The processor can implement one or more of the foregoing search methods by computer level execution.

In some embodiments, the electronic device further includes an external communication interface 240 that can be used for information interaction between the electronic device and other electronic devices, the external communication interface 240 can correspond to a network interface or the like.

The electronic device provided in this embodiment may be various electronic devices such as a mobile phone, a notebook computer, a desktop computer, a tablet computer, or an e-book.

This embodiment further provides another electronic device, including: a processor and a computer program;

The processor is configured to execute one or more search methods provided by the foregoing embodiments by executing the computer program.

In this embodiment, the processor may also be a central processing unit, a microprocessor, a digital signal processor, a programmable array or an application processor, etc., and the processing circuit may be an information processing function device such as an application specific integrated circuit. And / or circuit.

The computer program is executable code running on the processor, and the processor can implement the search method provided by one or more of the foregoing technical solutions by executing the computer program to implement an internal electronic device. The information search in the window of the search box in multiple active states realizes the search of information inside the electronic device across the window, and has the characteristics of high search efficiency and simple implementation.

Optionally, the embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a non-volatile storage medium, where the non-volatile storage medium stores a computer program, and after the computer program is executed, one or more of the foregoing embodiments may be provided. Search method.

The non-volatile storage medium provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure may be a mobile storage device, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk. A medium or the like that can store program code.

The non-volatile storage medium may be a non-transitory storage medium, and the computer program may be non-volatilely stored to ensure that the computer program can still be read and executed after power-off and power-on.

Several specific examples are provided below in connection with any of the above embodiments:

Example 1:

This example provides a quick way to match a search within a window, including:

For multi-window, you can set the hover search box. After the user enters the content to be searched in the search box, drag the search box directly to the top of the window, and then search the inside of the window directly, which is very convenient.

Furthermore, if the user needs to search for multiple windows, it is very convenient to simply drag the search box and hover over multiple windows to perform simultaneous search in multiple windows.

After the search method provided by the example, the information search operation is simple and more suitable for existing needs, the operation mode is rich, the amount of interactive information is large, the search is more humanized, and the intelligent characteristics of electronic devices such as mobile phones are added.

Example 2:

This example provides a search method primarily in that the search is for at least one running program that has already been run. For example, When writing a thesis, you need to find a lot of information, and open multiple web pages or multiple different application interfaces to view the content. If the user writes a certain point of view when writing, the search function is started, and the keyword is input, and the result of the search will be the part related to the keyword corresponding to the content displayed on the plurality of web pages or the plurality of different applications. In order to simplify the search, in the embodiment, a search box that can search across windows is provided, and when a key character input by the user in the search box is detected, the key character is combined with multiple web pages and/or multiple applications. The displayed content is subjected to comparison of key characters, and the information content satisfying the matching degree requirement after the comparison is output as a search result of the cross-window search in the electronic device.

The plurality of windows may be a plurality of different windows corresponding to an application. For example, the browser application may correspond to a plurality of different windows, and the document editing application (for example, word) may start a plurality of words corresponding to one window; It can be a separate window for multiple different applications. In some embodiments, multiple windows searched at one time may also include different windows of different applications, and cross-application search may be implemented. Of course, this search can also search for a combination of the above two cases. 1. A window of a plurality of different pages that have been loaded in an application that is already in a working state (a window corresponding to different pages that can be loaded by multiple operations of the user), that is, an application spans multiple different pages. Window; 2, the window corresponding to the application that is already working, that is, the window across different applications. The result of the search is also a display of matching the display of the successful application or/and the corresponding content of the successfully matched application in the screen for at least one running program that has been run.

In the several embodiments provided by the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus and method may be implemented in other manners. The device embodiments described above are merely illustrative. For example, the division of the unit is only a logical function division. In actual implementation, there may be another division manner, such as: multiple units or components may be combined, or Can be integrated into another system, or some features can be ignored or not executed. In addition, the coupling, or direct coupling, or communication connection of the components shown or discussed may be indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or units, and may be electrical, mechanical or other forms. of.

The units described above as separate components may or may not be physically separated, and the components displayed as the unit may or may not be physical units, that is, may be located in one place or distributed to multiple network units; Some or all of the units may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.

In addition, each functional unit in each embodiment of the present disclosure may be integrated into one processing module, or each unit may be separately used as one unit, or two or more units may be integrated into one unit; The unit can be implemented in the form of hardware or in the form of hardware plus software functional units.

A person skilled in the art can understand that all or part of the operations of implementing the foregoing method embodiments may be performed by hardware related to program instructions, and the foregoing programs may be stored in a computer readable non-volatile storage medium. At the time of execution, the operations including the above method embodiments are performed.

The above description is only a specific embodiment of the present disclosure, but the scope of protection of the present disclosure is not limited thereto, and any familiarity A person skilled in the art can easily conceive changes or substitutions within the scope of the present disclosure. Therefore, the scope of protection of the present disclosure should be determined by the scope of the claims.

Claims

A search method that includes:

Respond to search instructions:

Get the key characters entered by the user in the search box;

Acquiring a plurality of windows in an active state, each of the plurality of windows in an active state respectively corresponding to the display content for window output that has been loaded;

Generating a search based on the key characters and the plurality of windows to generate a first search result;

And outputting the first search result, where the first search result is used to indicate a first window that matches the key character on the display content corresponding to the plurality of windows in the active state.
The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises:

The search box that is independent of the plurality of windows in the active state is called in a preset manner.
The method of claim 2, wherein the method further comprises:

Obtaining a second search result based on the key character and an application identifier of the un-launched application;

And outputting the second search result, where the second search result is used to indicate the first application identifier in the un-activated application identifier, where the server corresponding to the first application identifier has the key character Matching content.
The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises:

Detecting user input selection operations;

And determining, according to the selecting operation, a plurality of windows corresponding to the search instruction corresponding to the search box.
The method of claim 1 wherein said plurality of windows in an active state comprises:

At least two windows of the same application that are active;

and / or,

At least two windows of an active state of different applications.
The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining a plurality of windows in an active state comprises:

Obtaining a first display position of the search box;

Obtaining a second display position of a plurality of active windows;

Determining whether a relative positional relationship between the first display position and the second display position of the nth active window satisfies a preset positional relationship;

When the relative positional relationship between the first display position and the second display position of the nth active window satisfies the preset positional relationship, determining that the nth active window is a response a window of a search instruction corresponding to the search box, wherein the n is an integer integer less than N; and the N is a total of windows in the active state number.
The method of claim 6 wherein

Determining whether the relative positional relationship between the first display position and the second display position of the nth active window meets the preset positional relationship includes:

Determining, when the overlay of the cable frame is displayed on the at least one application window of the first application, determining that the second display location of the active window of the first application and the first display location meet the pre- A positional relationship is set; wherein a display area of the N active states is smaller than a display area of the display screen.
The method of claim 6 wherein

Determining whether the relative positional relationship between the first display position and the second display position of the nth active window meets the preset position, includes:

Determining, according to the first display position and the second display position, whether the search box is overlaid on the nth active window;

Determining that the first display position of the search and the second display position of the nth active window satisfy the preset when the search box is overlaid on the nth active window Positional relationship.
The method of claim 6, 7 or 8, wherein the method further comprises:

Detecting a movement operation of moving the search box;

The first display position of the search box is changed in response to the moving operation.
An electronic device comprising:

a display for displaying information;

A processor coupled to the display for performing the search method of any one of claims 1 to 9 by executing a computer program.
A non-volatile storage medium having stored thereon a computer program capable of executing the search method provided in any one of claims 1 to 9 after being executed.
An electronic device comprising:

A detection unit for responding to search instructions:

a first obtaining unit, configured to obtain a key character input by a user in the search box;

a second obtaining unit, configured to obtain a plurality of windows in an active state, each of the plurality of windows in the active state respectively corresponding to the display content that has been loaded for window output;

a searching unit, configured to perform a search based on the key characters and the plurality of windows to generate a first search result;

An output unit, configured to output the first search result, where the first search result is used to indicate that the The first window corresponding to the key character on the display content corresponding to the plurality of windows.