WO2024096159A1

WO2024096159A1 - Method and electronic device for displaying application icon

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Publication number: WO2024096159A1
Application number: PCT/KR2022/017013
Authority: WO
Inventors: 홍성민; 김상률; 임병후; 문인주
Original assignee: 쿠팡 주식회사
Priority date: 2022-10-31
Filing date: 2022-11-02
Publication date: 2024-05-10
Also published as: KR20240060983A

Abstract

An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present disclosure may comprise a display, a memory, a communication circuit, and one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to: acquire status information for a specific application; determine icon information for the specific application according to the status information; and display an icon of the specific application through the display on the basis of the icon information.

Description

Methods and electronic devices for displaying app icons

This disclosure relates to technology for displaying app icons.

Previously, app changes or notification information were simply expressed as numbers in the upper right corner of the app icon so that users could recognize them. However, because the number of app icons is limited to only indicating the number of unread messages, there is a limitation in not being able to inform users of various changes in the app's status. Additionally, with this conventional method, there was the inconvenience of requiring the user to directly run the app to check for changes in the app's status.

This disclosure provides technology for displaying app icons.

Electronic devices according to various embodiments of the present disclosure may include a display, memory, communication circuitry, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to obtain status information about a specific app, determine icon information about the specific app according to the status information, and display an icon of the specific app on the display based on the icon information. It can be configured.

In one embodiment, the status information includes at least one of computing resource information used by the specific app, last notification time information of the specific app, category information of the specific app, or last usage time information of the specific app. It can be included.

In one embodiment, the icon information may be information indicating at least one of an icon image, an icon border color, an icon background color, an icon background image, icon transparency, or icon saturation.

In one embodiment, the status information includes first service status information, which is one of a plurality of service status information regarding services provided by the specific app, and the processor operates based on the first service status information. The icon information can be determined.

In one embodiment, the plurality of service state information each corresponds to a plurality of icon images, and the one or more processors may determine that the icon information includes a first icon image corresponding to the first service state information. there is.

In one embodiment, the specific app may be an application whose connected page is determined based on the first service status information.

In one embodiment, the one or more processors may obtain the status information regarding the specific app at specific intervals.

In one embodiment, the one or more processors may obtain the state information from the memory every specific cycle.

In one embodiment, the one or more processors may request inquiry of the status information regarding the specific app from an external device through the communication circuit at each specific cycle and obtain the status information from the external device. .

In one embodiment, the one or more processors may receive the status information regarding the specific app from an external device through the communication circuit at specific intervals.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, a method for displaying an app icon may be provided. The method according to the present disclosure can be performed on a computer including one or more processors, one or more memories storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors, a communication circuit, and a display, wherein the one or more processors execute according to the instructions. , obtaining status information about a specific app; determining icon information about the specific app according to the status information; and displaying the icon of the specific app on the display based on the icon information.

In one embodiment, the status information includes first service status information, which is one of a plurality of service status information regarding services provided by the specific app, and determining the icon information includes selecting the first service status information. It may include determining the icon information based on status information.

In one embodiment, the plurality of service status information each corresponds to a plurality of icon images, and the step of determining the icon information includes the icon information including a first icon image corresponding to the first service status information. It may include the step of deciding to do so.

In one embodiment, the step of obtaining the status information may include obtaining the status information about the specific app at specific intervals.

In one embodiment, the step of the one or more processors acquiring the state information every specific cycle includes the one or more processors transmitting the state information about the specific app to an external device through the communication circuit every specific cycle. Requesting an inquiry; and obtaining, by the one or more processors, the status information from the external device.

In one embodiment, the step of the one or more processors acquiring the status information every specific period includes the one or more processors receiving the status information about the specific app from an external device through the communication circuit every specific period. It may include steps.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, a computer-readable recording medium may be disclosed. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform an operation, wherein the instructions cause the one or more processors to obtain state information about a specific app. It may be configured to determine icon information about the specific app according to the status information and display the icon of the specific app on the display based on the icon information.

An electronic device according to the present disclosure can easily and quickly recognize the current progress stage of a service provided by an app without running the app.

The electronic device according to the present disclosure allows quick access to necessary pages according to the current progress stage of the service provided by the app.

The electronic device according to the present disclosure can save consumption of computing power for periodically checking status information of a specific app.

The electronic device according to the present disclosure can simultaneously improve usability and computational efficiency by quickly updating status information for frequently used apps and relatively slowly for infrequently used apps.

1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen displayed through a display of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a system including a user terminal, a server, and a communication network according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Figure 3 is a block diagram of a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Figure 4 is a block diagram of a server according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Figure 5 is a flowchart of the operation of a user terminal displaying an app icon according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 6A is a diagram illustrating various embodiments in which the icon border color of a specific app is expressed according to the present disclosure.

FIG. 6B is a diagram illustrating various embodiments in which the icon background color of a specific app is expressed according to the present disclosure.

FIG. 6C is a diagram illustrating various embodiments in which icon transparency of a specific app is expressed according to the present disclosure.

FIG. 6D is a diagram illustrating various embodiments in which icon saturation of a specific app is expressed according to the present disclosure.

FIG. 7A is a diagram illustrating an app icon image determined based on service status information in an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 7B is a diagram illustrating an app icon image determined based on service status information in another embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 7C is a diagram illustrating an app icon image determined based on service status information in another embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 7D is a diagram illustrating an app icon image determined based on service status information in another embodiment of the present disclosure.

Figure 8 is a flowchart explaining a method for a user terminal to obtain status information from a server according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Figure 9 is a flowchart explaining a method for a user terminal to obtain status information from a server according to another embodiment of the present disclosure.

Embodiments of the present disclosure are illustrated for the purpose of explaining the technical idea of the present disclosure. The scope of rights according to the present disclosure is not limited to the embodiments presented below or the specific description of these embodiments.

All technical terms and scientific terms used in this disclosure, unless otherwise defined, have meanings commonly understood by those skilled in the art to which this disclosure pertains. All terms used in this disclosure are selected for the purpose of more clearly explaining this disclosure and are not selected to limit the scope of rights according to this disclosure.

Expressions such as “comprising,” “comprising,” “having,” and the like used in the present disclosure are open terms that imply the possibility of including other embodiments, unless otherwise stated in the phrase or sentence containing the expression. It should be understood as (open-ended terms).

Singular terms used in this disclosure may include plural terms unless otherwise stated, and this also applies to singular terms used in the claims.

Expressions such as “first” and “second” used in the present disclosure are used to distinguish a plurality of components from each other and do not limit the order or importance of the components.

The term “unit” used in this disclosure refers to software or hardware components such as a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). However, “wealth” is not limited to hardware and software. The “copy” may be configured to reside on an addressable storage medium and may be configured to reproduce on one or more processors. Thus, as an example, “part” refers to software components, such as object-oriented software components, class components, and task components, processors, functions, properties, procedures, subroutines, Includes segments of program code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuits, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables. The functionality provided within components and “parts” may be combined into smaller numbers of components and “parts” or may be further separated into additional components and “parts”.

As used in this disclosure, the expression "based on" is used to describe one or more factors that influence the act or action of decision, judgment, or action described in the phrase or sentence containing the expression, and this expression It does not exclude additional factors that may influence the decision, act or action of judgment.

In this disclosure, when a component is referred to as being “connected” or “connected” to another component, it means that the component can be directly connected or connected to the other component, or as a new component. It should be understood that it can be connected or connected through other components.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present disclosure will be described with reference to the attached drawings. In the accompanying drawings, identical or corresponding components are given the same reference numerals. Additionally, in the description of the following embodiments, overlapping descriptions of identical or corresponding components may be omitted. However, even if descriptions of components are omitted, it is not intended that such components are not included in any embodiment.

1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen displayed through a display of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. In one embodiment, the electronic device may include a display for receiving user input, a processor and memory for processing calculations based on the user input. A user can identify a specific application corresponding to an icon through an icon displayed on the display of the electronic device. In the example of FIG. 1, the user can select (for example, touch or click) the icon 10 on the screen displayed through the display to run a specific application connected to the icon 10. Hereinafter, in this specification, the term “application” may be used interchangeably with the term “app.” Electronic devices can run specific apps using a processor or memory. Additionally, the electronic device may additionally have a communication circuit, transmit/receive data with another electronic device (eg, a server), and run a specific app based on the transmitted data.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a system including a user terminal 100, a server 200, and a communication network 300 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The user terminal 100 and the server 200 may send or receive information to each other through the communication network 300.

The user terminal 100 may be a user terminal on which an app icon is displayed. The user terminal 100 may be, for example, a smartphone, a tablet computer, a personal computer (PC), a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), an audio player, or a wearable device. It may be at least one of (Wearable Device).

The server 200 may be an electronic device of an app icon display service provider. The server 200 may transmit information or data to the user terminal 100 connected wired or wirelessly. The server 200 may be, for example, an application server, proxy server, cloud server, etc.

When describing the configuration or operation of a device in the disclosure of this specification, the term “device (or electronic device)” is a term to refer to the device that is the subject of description, and “external device (or external electronic device)” The term "can be used as a term to refer to a device that exists externally from the perspective of the device that is the subject of explanation. For example, when the user terminal 100 is described as a “device,” the server 200 may be called an “external device” from the perspective of the user terminal 100. Additionally, for example, when the server 200 is described as an “device,” the user terminal 100 may be called an “external device” from the perspective of the server 200. That is, the user terminal 100 and the server 200 may each be referred to as “device” and “external device” or “external device” and “device”, respectively, depending on the perspective of the operating entity.

The communication network 300 may include both a wired or wireless communication network. The communication network 300 can enable data to be exchanged between the user terminal 100 and the server 200. A wired communication network may include, for example, a communication network based on a method such as USB (Universal Serial Bus), HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface), RS-232 (Recommended Standard-232), or POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service). . Wireless communication networks include, for example, enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC), Massive Machine Type Communications (MMTC), Long-Term Evolution (LTE), LTE Advance (LTE-A), and NR ( New Radio), UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), WCDMA (Wideband CDMA), WiBro (Wireless Broadband), WiFi (Wireless Fidelity), Bluetooth ), NFC (Near Field Communication), GPS (Global Positioning System), or GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System). The communication network 300 of this specification is not limited to the examples described above, and may include various types of communication networks that allow data to be exchanged between a plurality of subjects or devices without limitation.

Figure 3 is a block diagram of a user terminal 100 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, the user terminal 100 may include a processor 110, a communication circuit 120, a memory 130, and/or a display 140 as components. In some embodiments, at least one of these components of the user terminal 100 may be omitted, or other components may be added to the user terminal 100. In some embodiments, additionally or alternatively, some components may be integrated and implemented, or may be implemented as a single or plural entity. In this disclosure, one or more processors 110 may be referred to as processor 110. That is, the expression processor 110 may mean a set of one or more processors, unless the context clearly expresses otherwise. Additionally, in the present disclosure, one or more memories 130 may be referred to as memory 130 . In other words, the expression memory 130 may mean a set of one or more memories, unless clearly expressed differently in context.

At least some of the internal and external components of the user terminal 100 are connected to each other through a bus, general purpose input/output (GPIO), serial peripheral interface (SPI), or mobile industry processor interface (MIPI), etc. , data and/or signals can be exchanged.

The processor 110 may control at least one component of the user terminal 100 connected to the processor 110 by running software (eg, commands, programs, etc.). Additionally, the processor 110 may perform various operations related to the present disclosure, such as calculation, processing, data generation, and processing. Additionally, the processor 110 may load data, etc. from the memory 130 or store it in the memory 130 .

The communication circuit 120 may perform wireless or wired communication between the user terminal 100 and the server 200 or other devices. For example, the communication circuit 120 may include enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC), Massive Machine Type Communications (MMTC), Long-Term Evolution (LTE), and LTE Advance (LTE-A). , NR (New Radio), UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), WCDMA (Wideband CDMA), WiBro (Wireless Broadband), WiFi (Wireless Fidelity), Wireless communication can be performed using methods such as Bluetooth, NFC (Near Field Communication), GPS (Global Positioning System), or GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System). For example, the communication circuit 120 provides wired communication according to a method such as Universal Serial Bus (USB), High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), Recommended Standard-232 (RS-232), or Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS). It can be done.

Memory 130 can store various data. Data stored in the memory 130 is data acquired, processed, or used by at least one component of the user terminal 100, and may include software (eg, commands, programs, etc.). Memory 130 may include volatile and/or non-volatile memory. In the present disclosure, commands or programs are software stored in the memory 130, and various operating systems, applications, and/or applications for controlling the resources of the user terminal 100 can utilize the resources of the user terminal 100. It may include middleware that provides functions to the application. In one embodiment, the memory 130 may store instructions that, when executed by the processor 110, cause the processor 110 to perform an operation.

The display 140 is a component that can interface with the user, and can display various screens based on control of the processor 110 and receive user input from the user. In the present disclosure, the screen displayed through the display 140 may include one or more app icons. For example, in the present disclosure, the description “select an app icon” means “touching (or clicking) the app icon displayed on the display screen to transmit a user input for selecting the app icon to the user terminal 100. "It should be understood as In one embodiment, the display 140 may be implemented in the form of a touch sensor panel that can recognize the contact or proximity of various external objects (eg, fingers). The touch sensor panel may have various structures and types, and the present disclosure can be applied regardless of the structure and type of the touch sensor panel. In one embodiment, the display 140 may include a capacitive sensor to recognize contact or proximity of various external objects. A capacitance sensor may be composed of a plurality of capacitors, and the capacitance sensor may apply an electric signal to the capacitors. A capacitor can charge and discharge charge in response to the application of an electrical signal. When an electrical signal is applied to a capacitor, the capacitor may be charged depending on the magnitude of the voltage of the electrical signal. The display 140 may receive a touch input based on signals collected from the capacitive sensor. However, the display 140 according to the present disclosure is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and can also receive user input by providing a separate input device (eg, mouse, keyboard).

The user terminal 100 may be a device of various types. For example, the user terminal may be a portable communication device, a portable multimedia device, a wearable device, a home appliance device, or a device based on one or more of the above-described devices. However, the user terminal of the present disclosure is not limited to the above-described devices.

Figure 4 is a block diagram of the server 200 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The server 200 may include a processor 210, a communication circuit 220, or a memory 230 as components.

The processor 210 may control at least one component of the server 200 connected to the processor 210 by running software (eg, commands, programs, etc.). Additionally, the processor 210 may perform various operations such as calculation, processing, data generation or processing. Additionally, the processor 210 may load data, etc. from the memory 230 or store it in the memory 230 .

The communication circuit 220 may perform wireless or wired communication between the server 200 and another device (eg, a user terminal). For example, the communication circuit 220 may be used for wireless communication such as eMBB, URLLC, MMTC, LTE, LTE-A, NR, UMTS, GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, WiBro, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, GPS or GNSS. can be performed. Additionally, for example, the communication circuit 220 may perform wired communication using USB, HDMI, RS-232, or POTS.

Memory 230 can store various data. Data stored in the memory 230 is data acquired, processed, or used by at least one component of the server 200, and may include software (eg, commands, programs, etc.). Memory 230 may include volatile or non-volatile memory. The term memory 230 may refer to a set of one or more memories, unless the context clearly expresses otherwise. As used herein, the expression “a set of instructions stored in the memory 230” or “a program stored in the memory 230” refers to an operating system, application, or application for controlling the resources of the server 200. It can be used to refer to middleware that provides various functions to an application so that it can utilize the resources of the server 200. In one embodiment, when the processor 210 performs a specific operation, the memory 230 may store instructions performed by the processor 210 and corresponding to the specific operation.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the operation of the user terminal 100 to display an app icon according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The user terminal 100 can obtain status information about a specific app (S510). In the present disclosure, the status information may include at least one of computing resource information used by a specific app, information on the last notification time of a specific app, category information of a specific app, or information on the last usage time of a specific app. Computing resource information used by a specific app may be, for example, information about CPU (Central Processing Unit) usage, RAM (Random Access Memory) usage, or hard disk usage used by a specific app. For example, the last notification time information of a specific app may be information about the time when the specific app last provided a notification (eg, push notification) through the user terminal 100. Category information for a specific app may be information assigned by the app developer, and may be, for example, art, business, comics, games, entertainment, finance, food and beverage, etc. Information on the last use time of a specific app may be, for example, information about the last time the specific app was run on the user terminal 100.

Next, the user terminal 100 may determine icon information for a specific app according to the acquired status information (S520).

In the present disclosure, icon information regarding a specific app may be information for determining a display method when the icon of a specific app is displayed on the display 140. For example, icon information may be information indicating at least one of an icon image, icon border color, icon background color, icon background image, icon transparency, or icon saturation.

The icon image included in the icon information of the present disclosure may indicate a representative image (or representative logo) of a specific app displayed on the display 140. In the present disclosure, embodiments in which the app icon is displayed on the display 140 according to the icon image included in the icon information will be described below with reference to FIGS. 7A to 7D.

FIG. 6A is a diagram illustrating various embodiments in which the icon border color of a specific app is expressed according to the present disclosure. The icon border color included in the icon information of the present disclosure may indicate the border color of the app icon displayed on the display 140.

FIG. 6B is a diagram illustrating various embodiments in which the icon background color of a specific app is expressed according to the present disclosure. The icon background color included in the icon information of the present disclosure may indicate the background color of the app icon displayed on the display 140.

FIG. 6C is a diagram illustrating various embodiments in which icon transparency of a specific app is expressed according to the present disclosure. The icon transparency included in the icon information of the present disclosure may indicate the transparency of the app icon displayed on the display 140.

FIG. 6D is a diagram illustrating various embodiments in which icon saturation of a specific app is expressed according to the present disclosure. Icon saturation included in the icon information of the present disclosure may indicate the saturation of the app icon displayed on the display 140.

The user terminal 100 according to the present disclosure can determine icon information according to the acquired status information about a specific app.

For example, the processor 110 obtains the CPU usage information of a specific app from the status information about the app, and if the CPU usage of the app is more than a predetermined threshold usage (for example, 50%), the processor 110 obtains the icon information of the app. The border color of the icon included in can be determined as the first color. In addition, the processor 110 uses a plurality of predetermined thresholds to adjust the icon border color included in the icon information of the app when the CPU usage of the app is greater than the first threshold usage (for example, 50%). 1 color is determined, and if the CPU usage of the app is greater than the second threshold usage (for example, 70%), the icon border color included in the icon information of the app can be determined as the second color.

In another example, the processor 110 obtains information on the last notification time of a specific app from status information about the app, and determines that the last notification time of the app is a predetermined threshold time (for example, 24 hours before the current time). In the previous case, the icon transparency included in the icon information of the app may be determined as the first transparency (for example, 50%). In addition, the processor 110 uses a plurality of predetermined threshold times, so that if the last notification time of the app is before the first threshold time (for example, 24 hours before the current time), it is included in the icon information of the app. The icon transparency is determined as the first transparency (for example, 50%), and if the last notification time of the app is before the second threshold time (for example, one week before the current time), the icon transparency is set to the second transparency. It can be determined by transparency (e.g., 90%).

As another example, the processor 110 obtains category information of a specific app from status information about the app, and when the category information of the app indicates a specific category (for example, food), the processor 110 obtains the icon information of the app. The icon background color included can be determined to be a specific color. Additionally, the processor 110 may determine not only the icon background color but also the icon background image to be a specific image according to a specific category.

In another example, the processor 110 obtains information on the last use time of a specific app from status information about the app, and determines that the last use time of the app is a predetermined threshold time (for example, 24 hours before the current time). ) If it is before, the icon saturation included in the icon information of the app can be determined as the first saturation (for example, the ratio of primary colors is 50%). In addition, the processor 110 uses a plurality of predetermined threshold times, so that if the last use time of the app is before the first threshold time (for example, 24 hours before the current time), it is included in the icon information of the app. The icon saturation is determined as the first saturation (e.g., 50% of the primary color ratio), and if the last notification time of the app is before the second threshold time (e.g., 1 week before the current time), the icon saturation Can be determined as the second saturation (for example, 10% of the primary color ratio).

As described above, some specific embodiments in which the user terminal 100 determines icon information based on status information are merely exemplary descriptions for explaining the present disclosure and do not limit the present disclosure, and the user terminal 100 may use the status information Based on the at least one information included in , at least one value included in the icon information can be determined according to various methods.

Next, the user terminal 100 may display the icon of a specific app on the display based on the determined icon information (S530). The user terminal 100 may display an app icon through the display 140 based on icon information. As described above, the user terminal 100 according to the present disclosure determines icon information based on the status information of the app and displays the icon of the app through the display 140 based on the determined icon information, so the user terminal ( Users using 100) can easily and quickly recognize the status of the app in a more intuitive way.

Status information about a specific app according to the present disclosure may include first service status information, which is one of a plurality of service status information about services provided by the specific app. In the present disclosure, service status information may be information for indicating one or more steps included in a service provided by a specific app. For example, if a specific app provides a “goods delivery service,” the plurality of service status information may include strings such as “goods received,” “goods in transit,” and “delivery destination arrived.” For another example, if a specific app provides a “water drinking notification service,” the plurality of service status information may include strings such as “immediately after drinking water,” “1 hour after drinking water,” and “2 hours after drinking water.” This may be included. For another example, if a specific app provides a “weather notification service,” the plurality of service status information may include strings such as “clear,” “cloudy,” and “rain.” For another example, if a specific app provides a “stopwatch service,” the plurality of service status information may include strings such as “60 minutes remaining,” “45 minutes remaining,” and “30 minutes remaining.”

The user terminal 100 may determine icon information for a specific app based on service status information included in status information for the specific app. Specifically, the processor 110 may determine that the icon information includes an icon image corresponding to the service status information. For example, a plurality of service status information (i.e., first service status information, second service status information, ...) regarding a service provided by a specific app may contain a plurality of icon images (i.e., first icon image, (second icon image, ...), respectively, and when the level of the service currently provided by the app is indicated by the first service status information, the processor 110 adds a second icon image corresponding to the first service status information to the icon information. 1 You can decide to include an icon image.

FIG. 7A is a diagram illustrating an app icon image determined based on service status information in an embodiment of the present disclosure. As mentioned above, assuming that a specific app provides a "goods delivery service", the first icon image 711 is an icon image corresponding to the first service status information indicating "acceptance of the product", and a second icon image ( 713) may be an icon image corresponding to the second service status information indicating “product in transit”, and the third icon image 715 may be an icon image corresponding to the third service status information indicating “arrival at delivery location.”

FIG. 7B is a diagram illustrating an app icon image determined based on service status information in another embodiment of the present disclosure. As mentioned above, assuming that a specific app provides a “water drinking notification service,” the first icon image 721 is an icon image corresponding to the first service status information indicating “immediately after drinking water,” and the second icon Image 723 is an icon image corresponding to second service status information indicating “1 hour has passed since drinking water,” and third icon image 725 is a third service status indicating “2 hours have passed since drinking water.” It may be an icon image corresponding to information.

FIG. 7C is a diagram illustrating an app icon image determined based on service status information in another embodiment of the present disclosure. As mentioned above, assuming that a specific app provides a “weather notification service,” the first icon image 731 is an icon image corresponding to the first service status information indicating “sunny,” and the second icon image 733 ) may be an icon image corresponding to the second service status information indicating “cloudy,” and the third icon image 735 may be an icon image corresponding to the third service status information indicating “rain.”

FIG. 7D is a diagram illustrating an app icon image determined based on service status information in another embodiment of the present disclosure. As mentioned above, assuming that a specific app provides a "stopwatch service", the first icon image 741 is an icon image corresponding to the first service status information indicating "60 minutes remaining", and the second icon image 743 is an icon image corresponding to the second service status information indicating “45 minutes remaining,” and the third icon image 745 is an icon image corresponding to the third service status information indicating “30 minutes remaining.” You can.

Some specific embodiments described above with reference to FIGS. 7A to 7D are merely exemplary descriptions for explaining the operation of the user terminal 100 that determines the icon image of the app based on service status information, and do not limit the present disclosure. . As described above, the user terminal 100 according to the present disclosure determines an icon image based on the service status information included in the app status information, and displays the app icon including the determined icon image through the display 140. Therefore, you can quickly and easily recognize the current progress of the service provided by the app without running the app.

A specific app according to some embodiments of the present disclosure may be an application in which a connected page is determined based on service status information. For example, as shown in FIG. 7A, the icon of a specific app providing “goods delivery service” is displayed on the display 140 as the first icon image 711 corresponding to service status information indicating “acceptance of product.” If displayed, the page connected when running the app may be a “product description page.” In addition, if the icon of the app is displayed on the display 140 as a second icon image 713 corresponding to service status information indicating “product moving,” the page connected when running the app is “product It may be a “page indicating the current location.” In addition, when the icon of the app is displayed on the display 140 as a third icon image 715 corresponding to service status information indicating “delivery destination arrived,” the page connected when running the app is “Delivery completed.” It could be a “photo page”. As described above, the user terminal 100 not only determines the icon image included in the icon information based on the service status information of the specific app, but also determines the page connected when the icon of the app with the corresponding icon image is driven. . Accordingly, users can quickly access the necessary pages according to the current progress stage of the service provided by the app.

The user terminal 100 according to the present disclosure can obtain status information about a specific app at specific intervals. The specific period may be set to any arbitrary time interval, such as 1 second, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, or 1 hour. The user terminal 100 can update the icon information of a specific app by obtaining status information about the specific app at specific intervals. Additionally, the user terminal 100 can modify the icon of a specific app displayed through the display 140 by updating the icon information of the specific app at specific intervals.

In one embodiment, the processor 110 may obtain state information of a specific app from the memory 130 at specific cycles. For example, the processor 110 may obtain the RAM usage of a specific app every hour. The processor 110 may determine icon information (for example, icon background color, etc.) of the app according to the acquired RAM usage. The processor 110 may change the background color of the icon displayed through the display 140 when the background color of the icon included in the icon information of the app changes. As another example, the processor 110 may obtain service status information of a specific app every 10 minutes. The processor 110 may determine icon information (for example, icon image, etc.) of the app according to the obtained service status information. The processor 110 may cause the image of the icon displayed through the display 140 to change when the icon image included in the icon information of the app changes.

In another embodiment, the processor 110 may obtain status information by communicating with an external server at specific intervals. FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating a method for the user terminal 100 to obtain status information from the server 200 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Specifically, the user terminal 100 may check whether a specific period (eg, 10 minutes, etc.) has elapsed (S810). If the specific period has not elapsed, the user terminal 100 can re-check whether the specific period has elapsed after a predetermined time. At this time, the predetermined time for rechecking the specific cycle is shorter than the specific cycle and can be set in various ways, such as 1 millisecond, 1 second, 1 minute, or 5 minutes. If a specific period has elapsed as a result of performing step S810, the user terminal 100 may request the server 200 to inquire status information regarding the specific app (S830). Specifically, the processor 110 may request an inquiry of status information regarding a specific app from the server 200, which is an external device, through the communication circuit 120. The server 200 may transmit the status information of the corresponding app as a response to the inquiry request received from the user terminal 100 (S850). That is, the user terminal 100 can obtain status information about a specific app from the server 200, which is an external device. According to this embodiment, the status information of a specific app is managed outside the user terminal 100, and the user terminal 100 can operate to obtain the corresponding status information according to the passage of a specific cycle.

In another embodiment, the processor 110 may obtain status information by communicating with an external server at specific intervals. FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating a method for the user terminal 100 to obtain status information from the server 200 according to another embodiment of the present disclosure. Specifically, the server 200 may check whether a specific period (eg, 10 minutes, etc.) has elapsed (S810). If the specific period has not elapsed, the server 200 can check again whether the specific period has elapsed after a predetermined time. At this time, the predetermined time for rechecking the specific cycle is shorter than the specific cycle and can be set in various ways, such as 1 millisecond, 1 second, 1 minute, or 5 minutes. If a specific period has elapsed as a result of performing step S810, the server 200 may transmit status information regarding the specific app to the user terminal 100 (S830). Specifically, the server 200 may transmit status information about a specific app to the user terminal 100 corresponding to the registered ID using push notification technology, etc. According to this embodiment, the user terminal 100 can save the consumption of computing power for periodically checking the status information of a specific app, and can obtain the status information of the app at a specific period from the external server 200. there is.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, a specific period during which the user terminal 100 acquires status information about a specific app may change depending on the frequency of use of the app. For example, when the frequency of use of the app is high (for example, the average running time of the app per day is more than 12 hours), a specific cycle (i.e., the first cycle) of acquiring status information about the app is used for the app. If the frequency is low (for example, the average running time of the app per day is less than 1 hour), it may be shorter than the specific cycle (i.e., the second cycle) for acquiring status information about the app. That is, the first cycle when the app is used frequently may be set shorter than the second cycle when the app is used less frequently. Through this, the user terminal 100 can simultaneously improve usability and computational efficiency by quickly updating status information for frequently used apps and relatively slowly for infrequently used apps.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the specific period at which the user terminal 100 acquires status information regarding a specific app may be set differently for each app when a plurality of apps exist. For example, it may be assumed that the first cycle for the first app is set differently from the second cycle for the second app. At this time, if the first app is of higher importance than the second app, the first cycle may be set shorter than the second cycle. The importance of each app may be set by the user or may be determined by the processor 110 based on the app's memory usage, app usage frequency, etc.

Although each step of the method or algorithm according to the present disclosure is described in sequential order in each flowchart shown in the present disclosure, each step may be performed in an order that can be arbitrarily combined by the present disclosure in addition to being performed sequentially. It may be possible. The description according to this flow chart does not exclude making changes or modifications to the method or algorithm, nor does it imply that any step is required or desirable. In one embodiment, at least some of the steps may be performed in parallel, iteratively, or heuristically. In one embodiment, at least some steps may be omitted or other steps may be added.

Various embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented as software on a machine-readable storage medium. The software may be software for implementing various embodiments of the present disclosure. Software can be inferred from various embodiments of the present disclosure by programmers in the technical field to which this disclosure pertains. For example, software may be a program that contains instructions (e.g., code or code segments) that can be read by a device. A device is a device that can operate according to instructions called from a storage medium, and may be, for example, a computer. In one embodiment, the device may be an electronic device according to embodiments of the present disclosure. In one embodiment, the device's processor may execute a called instruction to cause the device's components to perform a function corresponding to the instruction. In one embodiment, the processor may be processor 110 according to embodiments of the present disclosure. A storage medium may refer to any type of recording medium in which data is stored that can be read by a device. Storage media may include, for example, ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage, etc. In one embodiment, the storage medium may be memory 130. In one embodiment, the storage medium may be implemented in a distributed form, such as in a computer system connected to a network. Software may be distributed, stored, and executed on a computer system, etc. The storage medium may be a non-transitory storage medium. Non-transitory storage media refers to a tangible medium regardless of whether data is stored semi-permanently or temporarily, and does not include signals that are transmitted temporarily.

Although the technical idea of the present disclosure has been described above through various embodiments, the technical idea of the present disclosure includes various substitutions, modifications, and changes that can be made within a range that can be understood by those skilled in the art in the technical field to which the present disclosure pertains. Includes. Additionally, it is to be understood that such substitutions, modifications and alterations may be included within the scope of the appended claims.

Claims

In electronic devices,

display;

Memory;

communication circuit; and

Contains one or more processors,

The one or more processors:

Obtain status information about a specific app,

Determine icon information for the specific app according to the status information,

An electronic device configured to display the icon of the specific app on the display based on the icon information.
According to paragraph 1,

The status information is,

An electronic device comprising at least one of computing resource information used by the specific app, information on the last notification time of the specific app, category information of the specific app, and information on the last use time of the specific app.
According to paragraph 1,

The icon information above is,

An electronic device, which is information indicating at least one of an icon image, an icon border color, an icon background color, an icon background image, icon transparency, or icon saturation.
According to paragraph 1,

The status information includes first service status information, which is one of a plurality of service status information regarding services provided by the specific app,

The processor,

An electronic device that determines the icon information based on the first service status information.
According to paragraph 4,

The plurality of service status information respectively correspond to a plurality of icon images,

The one or more processors:

Determining that the icon information includes a first icon image corresponding to the first service status information.
According to paragraph 4,

The specific app is an application whose connected page is determined based on the first service status information.
According to paragraph 1,

The one or more processors:

An electronic device that acquires the status information regarding the specific app at specific intervals.
In clause 7,

The one or more processors:

An electronic device that obtains the status information from the memory at each specific cycle.
In clause 7,

The one or more processors:

Requesting an inquiry of the status information regarding the specific app from an external device through the communication circuit at each specific period,

An electronic device that acquires the status information from the external device.
According to paragraph 1,

The one or more processors:

An electronic device that receives the status information regarding the specific app from an external device through the communication circuit at a specific period.
A method performed in an electronic device comprising one or more processors, a memory storing instructions to be executed by the one or more processors, a communication circuit, and a display,

The one or more processors, in accordance with the instructions,

Obtaining status information about a specific app;

determining icon information about the specific app according to the status information; and

A method of displaying the icon of the specific app on the display based on the icon information.
According to clause 11,

The status information is,

A method comprising at least one of computing resource information used by the specific app, information on the last notification time of the specific app, category information of the specific app, or information on the last use time of the specific app.
According to clause 11,

The icon information above is,

A method, which is information indicating at least one of an icon image, an icon border color, an icon background color, an icon background image, icon transparency, or icon saturation.
According to clause 11,

The status information includes first service status information, which is one of a plurality of service status information regarding services provided by the specific app,

The step of determining the icon information is,

Method comprising determining the icon information based on the first service status information.
According to clause 14,

The plurality of service status information respectively correspond to a plurality of icon images,

The step of determining the icon information is,

A method comprising determining that the icon information includes a first icon image corresponding to the first service status information.
According to clause 14,

The method wherein the specific app is an application whose connected page is determined based on the first service status information.
According to clause 11,

The step of obtaining the status information is,

A method comprising acquiring the status information regarding the specific app at specific intervals.
According to clause 17,

The step of the one or more processors acquiring the state information at the specific period,

requesting, by the one or more processors, to inquire the status information regarding the specific app from an external device through the communication circuit at each specific period; and

Method comprising: the one or more processors acquiring the state information from the external device.
According to clause 17,

The step of the one or more processors acquiring the state information at the specific period,

The method comprising the step of receiving, by the one or more processors, the status information regarding the specific app from an external device through the communication circuit at a specific period.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform an operation, comprising:

The instructions cause the one or more processors to:

Obtain status information about a specific app,

Determine icon information for the specific app according to the status information,

A computer-readable recording medium configured to display an icon of the specific app on a display based on the icon information.