WO2018152734A1

WO2018152734A1 - Method and device for clearing application task list of terminal, and terminal

Info

Publication number: WO2018152734A1
Application number: PCT/CN2017/074556
Authority: WO
Inventors: 修冬阳
Original assignee: 华为技术有限公司
Priority date: 2017-02-23
Filing date: 2017-02-23
Publication date: 2018-08-30
Also published as: CN108701037A

Abstract

A method and device for clearing an application task list of a terminal, and the terminal. The method is: a terminal acquires a first instruction inputted by a user, the first instruction being used for instructing the first terminal to perform type view with respect to at least one first application in an operating state in the background; sorting the at least one first application on the basis of the first instruction, displaying at least one first application type collection according to the sorting result, the first application type collection being a collection of the at least one first application of identical or similar attribute information; acquiring a second instruction inputted by the user, the second instruction being used for instructing the terminal to clear application tasks corresponding to the at least one first application type collection; and clearing the application tasks of applications corresponding to the at least one first application type collection, thus saving time and effort when the user is clearing background applications and taking into account demands of the user.

Description

Method, device and terminal for cleaning application task list of terminal

Technical field

The present application relates to the field of electronic device technologies, and in particular, to a method, an apparatus, and a terminal for cleaning an application task list of a terminal.

Background technique

The current Android smartphone displays a virtual button at the bottom of the screen, or a physical button at the bottom of the phone, where the menu button is a button on the existing phone. With this button, you can easily call up the mobile phone background application list, list the various applications that the user has operated before, display the name of each application and the screenshot when the user leaves the application, so that users can switch back and forth between applications and clean up some Or all background apps.

However, as the memory of the mobile phone increases gradually, the user is allowed to open many applications at the same time. After the mobile phone is used for a long time, a lot of application information is left in the task list, which makes the task list become very large; and, after the Android M version, In order to facilitate the user's operation, even if the phone is re-switched, the previous task list will still be saved.

Currently, there are two ways to clean up the task list:

The first way: to clean up the background applications that the user has not used, not only the operation is cumbersome, but also if the number of applications in the user's task list is large, it is very time consuming to clean up one by one.

The second way: Provide all the one-click cleanup shortcuts for the background application. At this point, click the one-click shortcut to clear all the background applications. Although the one-button cleaning method is easy to operate, it cannot consider the needs of the user, and the user needs to restart the commonly used application to realize the fast switching and affect the user experience.

Therefore, there is a need for a new application task list cleaning solution, which can save time and effort to clean up the background application, and also consider the user's needs while the application is cleaned up.

Summary of the invention

The embodiment of the present invention provides a method, a device, and a terminal for cleaning an application task list of a terminal, so that the cleaning of the background application of the terminal can save time and effort, and take into account the needs of the user.

The first aspect provides a method for cleaning an application task list of a terminal, where the terminal acquires a first instruction input by a user, where the first instruction is used to instruct the terminal to classify and display at least one first application that is in a running state in the background. And categorizing the at least one first application according to the first instruction, and displaying at least one first application type set according to the classification result, where the first application type set is at least one first application whose attribute information is the same or similar a second instruction for instructing the terminal to clear an application task corresponding to the at least one first application type set; and cleaning the at least one first according to the second instruction An application task of the application corresponding to the application type set.

In the embodiment of the present application, the terminal classifies at least one first application that is in the running state in the background, and displays a set of at least one first application that has the same or similar attribute information according to the classification result, and obtains at least one first application type that is obtained for cleaning After the second instruction of the corresponding application task is collected, the application task of the application corresponding to the at least one first application type set is cleaned, so that the user can save time and effort according to the user's usage requirements. Display the results to clean up the background application, without having to clean up one by one, saving the time-consuming cleaning of the background application.

With reference to the first aspect, in a possible design, when the attribute information is an application type, acquiring an application type of the at least one first application; according to an application type of the at least one first application, the application type is the same or similar The application is classified into the same application type set, so that the at least one first application can be classified according to the application type, so that the user can understand the application type of each first application.

With reference to the first aspect, in a possible design, when acquiring the application type of the at least one first application, acquiring an application type according to the installation package file of the at least one first application; and/or according to the user Pre-setting, obtaining an application type, for example, when acquiring an application type of the at least one first application according to an installation package file of the first application, the first application may perform an application type matching in an application such as an application market, It is easy to operate without the user setting in advance; when the application type is obtained according to the user's preset settings, the user's actual use requirements can be considered to enhance the user experience.

With reference to the first aspect, in a possible design, when the attribute information is the last use time of the at least one first application, acquiring a last use time of the at least one first application; according to the at least one first The last use time of the application, in the time dimension, the application that meets the preset condition at the last use time is classified into the same application type set. When the at least one first application is classified in this way, according to the last use time of the first application The classification is performed, so that the last use time information of each first application can be presented to the user, so that the user can understand the usage of each first application.

With reference to the first aspect, in a possible design, when the attribute information is the usage duration of the at least one first application, acquiring a usage duration of the at least one first application in a preset time period; The usage duration of the at least one first application is classified into the same application type set by using the application whose duration is in accordance with the preset condition. In this manner, the usage of the first application in the preset time period can be classified, thereby considering The user displays the respective first applications in a classified manner for the usage habits of the respective first applications.

In combination with the first aspect, in a possible design, the displaying the at least one first application type set according to the classification result may include the following three situations:

Case 1, displaying an icon of an application included in the first application type set;

In the second case, generating a first type icon corresponding to the first application type set, and displaying an icon of the first type icon and the application included in the first application type set;

In the third case, the first type of text corresponding to the first application type set is generated, and the icon of the first type of text and the application included in the first application type set is displayed.

In this design, when the first application type set is displayed, the icon of the application included in the first application type set is displayed, and the important privacy information of the user can be protected compared to the last used interface of the display application in the prior art. To improve the security of user information.

With reference to the first aspect, in a possible design, before the terminal acquires the second instruction input by the user, displaying the first control, the first control corresponding to the first application type set, the first control An application task for cleaning all applications in the first application type set according to a user's instruction.

With reference to the first aspect, in a possible design, before the terminal acquires the second instruction input by the terminal, the terminal acquires a third instruction input by the user, where the third instruction is used to select the first application type. a first application in the set; when the application task of the application corresponding to the at least one first application type set is cleaned according to the second instruction, the first application type set is cleared according to the second instruction, An application task of the application other than the first application. In this design, if the user cleans up each application in a certain first application type set, according to the actual use requirement, it is determined that a certain first application does not need to be When cleaning, you can choose that the first application is not cleaned, and consider the actual usage requirements of the user to improve the user experience.

In a second aspect, an apparatus for cleaning an application task list of a terminal is provided, the device having the first aspect described above The function of cleaning the application task list of the terminal. The functions may be implemented by hardware or by corresponding software implemented by hardware. The hardware or software includes one or more modules corresponding to the functions described above.

In one possible design, the device includes an acquisition unit, a processing unit, and a display unit. The functions of the acquisition unit, the processing unit, and the display unit may correspond to each method step, and details are not described herein.

In a third aspect, a terminal is provided, the terminal includes a processor, a memory, a display device, and an input device; the input device, the display device, and the memory are all connected to the processor through a bus, where An input device, configured to acquire an instruction input by a user; the memory, configured to store program code executed by the processor; and the processor, configured to invoke the program code stored by the memory, acquired by the input device The instruction acquires a first instruction and a second instruction input by the user, where the first instruction is used to instruct the terminal to perform classification display on at least one first application in a running state, and the second instruction is used to indicate the terminal And clearing the application task corresponding to the at least one first application type set, and classifying the at least one first application according to the first instruction; and cleaning the at least one first application type according to the second instruction An application task of the corresponding application; the display device, configured to display at least one first application type set according to the classification result The first application type is the same or similar set of attribute information of a first set of at least one application.

The method, device, and terminal for clearing an application task list of a terminal according to the embodiment of the present application, classifying at least one first application in a running state in the background, and displaying at least one first application set having the same or similar attribute information according to the classification result. After the second instruction for cleaning the application task corresponding to the at least one first application type set is obtained, the application task of the application corresponding to the at least one first application type set is cleaned, so that the user's use requirement can be balanced. Under the premise, the user can save time and effort, and can clear the background application according to the classification display result, without having to clean one by one, saving the time-consuming cleaning of the background application.

DRAWINGS

1 is a schematic structural diagram of hardware of a terminal in an embodiment of the present application;

2A, 2B, and 2C are schematic diagrams of a task list cleaning method;

3 is a flowchart of a method for cleaning an application task list of a terminal in an embodiment of the present application;

4 is a schematic diagram of a differentiated display process applied in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of drag display applied in an embodiment of the present application; FIG.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a classification implementation of an application in an embodiment of the present application;

7A and FIG. 7B are schematic diagrams showing the classification display applied in the embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a structural diagram of an apparatus for cleaning an application task list of a terminal in an embodiment of the present application.

detailed description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments.

The method for cleaning the application task list of the terminal provided by the embodiment of the present application can be applied to a terminal (Mobile Terminal). It should be understood that the terminals involved in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as a mobile terminal, a mobile station (MS), a user equipment (UE), and the like. The terminal may be a device that provides voice and/or data connectivity to a user, a handheld device with wireless connectivity, or other processing device connected to a wireless modem, such as: the terminal may be a mobile phone (or referred to as " Cellular "telephone", A computer with a terminal, etc., can also be a portable, pocket-sized, hand-held, computer-integrated or in-vehicle mobile device, or of course a wearable device (such as a smart watch, a smart wristband, etc.), a tablet computer, a personal computer ( Personal Computer, PC), Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), POS (Point of Sales), etc.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an optional hardware structure of a terminal 100 according to an embodiment of the present application.

As shown in FIG. 1, the terminal 100 may include a processor 101, a memory 102, a display device 103, and an input device 104 respectively connected to the processor 101. The memory 102 can be used to store programs and data, including programs of various applications involved in the embodiments of the present application, and the processor 101 executes various functions and processing of the terminal 100 by executing a program stored in the memory 102, for example, executing. The cleaning function of the task list of each application of the terminal 100.

The components of the terminal 100 will be specifically described below with reference to FIG. 1 :

The processor 101 is a control center of the terminal 100, and connects various parts of the entire terminal by various interfaces and lines, by running or executing a program (or "module") stored in the memory 102, and calling the memory in the memory 102. The data performs various functions and processing data of the terminal 100, thereby performing overall monitoring of the terminal 100.

Optionally, the processor 101 may include at least one processing unit; optionally, the processor 101 may integrate an application processor and a modem processor, where the application processor mainly processes an operating system, a user interface, an application, and the like. The modem processor primarily handles wireless communications. It can be understood that the above modem processor may not be integrated into the processor 101.

The memory 102 mainly includes a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area can store an operating system (for example, an Android operating system, referred to as "Android system", wherein the operating system can also be simply referred to as "system"), at least one function. a required application (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and a program of at least one first application involved in the embodiment of the present application, the first application refers to a background installed on the terminal 100 is in operation Any application of the state. The storage data area may store data created according to the use of the terminal 100, including related setting information or usage information of the first application involved in the embodiment of the present application. Moreover, memory 102 can include high speed random access memory, and can also include non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device.

The input device 104 can be configured to receive input numeric or character information, and input instructions for generating a key signal input related to user settings and function control of the terminal 100, including the first input by the user involved in the terminal 100 in the embodiment of the present application. instruction. Specifically, the input device 104 can include a touch panel 1041 and other input devices 1042. The touch panel 1041, also referred to as a touch screen, can collect touch operations on or near the user (such as the user using a finger, a stylus, or the like on the touch panel 1041 or near the touch panel 1041. Operation), and drive the corresponding connecting device according to a preset program. Optionally, the touch panel 1041 may include two parts: a touch detection device and a touch controller. Wherein, the touch detection device detects the touch orientation of the user, and detects a signal brought by the touch operation, and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives the touch information from the touch detection device, converts the touch information into contact coordinates, and sends the touch information. The processor 101 is provided and can receive commands from the processor 101 and execute them. In addition, the touch panel 1041 can be implemented in various types such as resistive, capacitive, infrared, and surface acoustic waves. In addition to the touch panel 1041, the input device 104 can also include other input devices 1042. Specifically, other input devices 1042 may include, but are not limited to, one or more of a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control buttons, switch buttons, etc.), trackballs, mice, joysticks, and the like.

The display device 103 can be used to display information input by the user or information provided to the user and each of the terminals 100 The menu includes a first type icon or a first type of text corresponding to the first application type set in the running state involved in the embodiment of the present application, and an icon of the application included in the first application type set, where the first The application type set is a set of at least one first application whose attribute information is the same or similar, and the first application is any application whose background is in a running state. The display device 103 may include a display panel 1031. Alternatively, the display panel 1031 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display (LCD), an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), or the like. Further, the touch panel 1041 may cover the display panel 1031. After the touch panel 1041 detects a touch operation on or near the touch panel 1041, the touch panel 1041 transmits to the processor 101 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 101 according to the touch event. The type provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 1031. Although the touch panel 1041 and the display panel 1031 are two independent components to implement the input and input functions of the terminal 100 in FIG. 1, in some embodiments, the touch panel 1041 and the display panel 1031 may be integrated. The input and output functions of the terminal 100 are implemented.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the internal structure of the terminal 100 shown in FIG. 1 does not constitute a limitation to the terminal, and may include more or less components than those illustrated, or combine some components, or different component arrangements. . For example, the terminal 100 may further include an audio circuit, a speaker, a microphone, and the like that provide an audio interface between the user and the terminal 100. When the terminal 100 communicates with the outside world in a wireless manner, it may also include a radio frequency (RF) circuit and a connected antenna, a wireless fidelity (WiFi) module, and a connected antenna. In addition, the terminal 100 further includes a sensor and a power source for supplying power thereto, etc., which are not enumerated here.

In the embodiment of the present application, the processor 101, by running an operating system stored in the memory 102, calls a program stored in the memory 102, and acquires a first instruction input by the user through the input device 104; according to the first instruction, The at least one first application is classified, and at least one first application type set is displayed on the display device 103 according to the classification result, where the first application type set is a set of at least one first application whose attribute information is the same or similar; Obtaining, by the input device 104, a second instruction input by the user, and clearing, according to the second instruction, an application task of the application corresponding to the at least one first application type set, so that the terminal 100 is applied to the background application in the running state. Cleaning can save time and effort, and take into account the needs of users.

The application involved in the embodiment of the present application refers to an application installed on the terminal, and the background application refers to an application installed on the terminal and running in the background. The first application type set refers to a set of at least one first application whose attribute information is the same or similar, the first application is any application whose background is in a running state, and the first type icon corresponding to the first application type set refers to It is a folder icon corresponding to the folder in which the application icon of each application in the certain application type is displayed. Further, at least one application icon is displayed in the first type icon. The first type of text corresponding to the first application type set refers to the name of the folder corresponding to the folder in which the application icon of each application in the certain application type is displayed.

FIG. 2A is a schematic diagram of a method for clearing a task list before the operating system of the terminal is an Android M version. As shown in FIG. 2A, when the background application is displayed, four background applications are displayed on one screen, and other applications can be seen by sliding left and right. Drag an application to slide up on the display interface to clear the application, and provide a one-click clear shortcut key. Click the one-click clear shortcut key to clear all the currently displayed 4 background applications.

FIG. 2B is a schematic diagram of a task list cleaning mode of the operating system of the terminal being an Android M version. The implementation manner is similar to the previous version, except that the screen display of the four background applications is changed to the horizontal display of all the background applications. Swipe left or right to view each application, drag an application to slide up, you can clear the application, and provide a one-click cleaning shortcut when the application is displayed. Click the one-click cleaning shortcut to clear all background applications.

It can be seen from the above implementation of the task list that if the background application is cleaned one by one, the operation of the user is cumbersome, if When there are a large number of applications in the task list of the user, it is very time-consuming to clean up one by one; while the one-click cleaning function is convenient, the cleaning method does not take into account the actual needs of the user, and needs to be restarted for commonly used applications that users often use. It is only possible to achieve a fast switch of the application. In addition, the task list shows screenshots of the app when it exits, which makes it easy to expose user privacy.

FIG. 2C is a schematic diagram of a task list cleaning mode of the operating system of the terminal being an Android N version. This implementation mode turns the display mode of the task list into a cascading mode, and the background application to be cleaned is swiped left and right to clear the background application. At the same time, the application locking function is provided, and the locked application will not be cleaned up during the cleaning process of the background application. In this implementation, the user needs to manually lock the application that does not need to be closed, and the operation is cumbersome; in addition, the cascading display mode is not intuitive, and it is necessary to drag up and down to see all applications. If the number of background applications is large, the repetitive operation is very many.

In view of various defects and problems in the cleaning method of the task list of the foregoing application, the embodiment of the present application provides a new application task list cleaning solution, which enables the user to distinguish the background application according to his own needs, and simplify the background application. The cleanup operation allows the user to clean up the background application more easily, and to retain the application of interest to the user to switch back and forth.

The processor of the terminal in the embodiment of the present application may classify at least one first application that is in the running state in the background, and display at least one first application type set according to the classification result. In the embodiment of the present application, when the at least one first application in the running state is classified, the first usage time corresponding to each first application may be classified; or the usage frequency of each first application in the preset duration may be used. / or use the length of time to classify; can also be classified according to the pre-set application type database for each first application, it should be noted that the application type database can be obtained from the external application installed by the terminal, for example, the application market installed from the terminal The application type database is obtained in the software; the application type database can also be obtained from the memory of the terminal. At this time, when the terminal first installs an application, the terminal obtains the relevant information of the application for semantic analysis to obtain the application type of the application. The application name of the application and the corresponding application type are stored in the memory of the terminal, and the application type database of the terminal is obtained by performing this operation for each application installed by the terminal.

In the embodiment of the present application, in order to balance the usage habits of the user, the processor of the terminal may follow the order of the time between the last use time and the current time in each first application included in the first application type set, from small to large. The icons of the applications included in the first application type set are displayed on the display device before and after, so that the user can perceive the order of the last use time of each background application.

The implementation flowchart of the method for cleaning the application task list provided by the embodiment of the present application is described below.

As shown in FIG. 3, the embodiment of the present application provides a method for cleaning an application task list of a terminal. The method may be performed by the terminal 100 as described above. The terminal 100 includes a display device. The process of the method is as follows.

Step 301: The terminal acquires a first instruction input by the user, where the first instruction is used to instruct the terminal to perform classified display on the at least one first application that is in the running state in the background.

Optionally, the first instruction in the embodiment of the present application may be a first instruction for the menu key, and the menu key may be a hardware menu key or a functional virtual menu key, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application, wherein The first instruction may be a click operation instruction, including a click operation instruction or a double-click operation instruction; or a long press operation instruction.

Step 302: The terminal classifies the at least one first application according to the first instruction, and displays at least one first application type set according to the classification result, where the first application type set is the same or similar to the attribute information. At least one collection of first applications.

Step 303: The terminal acquires a second instruction input by a user, where the second instruction is used to instruct the terminal to clean up The application task corresponding to the at least one first application type set.

Optionally, the second instruction may be a click operation instruction, including a click operation instruction or a double-click operation instruction; or a long press operation instruction. The first operation instruction and the second operation instruction may be set to be the same or may be set to be different.

Further, the terminal displays a first control, where the first control corresponds to the first application type set, and the first control is used to clean the location according to the user's instruction, before acquiring the second instruction input by the user. An application task of all applications in the first application type set. At this time, the second instruction is an operation instruction for the first control, and specifically, may be a click operation instruction for the first control, including a click operation instruction or a double-click operation instruction; or a long press operation instruction.

Step 304: The terminal clears an application task of the application corresponding to the at least one first application type set according to the second instruction.

In this way, when the user cleans up the background application, the user can classify and clean according to the classification result of the background application, which can not only meet the user's needs but also avoid the cumbersome operation.

Specifically, in the foregoing step 302, when the terminal classifies the at least one first application according to the first instruction, the terminal includes the following three possible implementation manners:

In the first application classification implementation manner, the attribute information is a last use time of the at least one first application; at this time, when the at least one first application is classified, acquiring the at least one first application The last use time; according to the last use time of the at least one first application, in the time dimension, the application whose last use time meets the preset condition is classified into the same application type set.

Specifically, in a possible implementation, when the processor of the terminal detects the first instruction, the last use time of each of the first applications is calculated, and according to the last use time corresponding to each first application, The application that uses the time between the current time and the current time is not greater than the preset time is determined to be the first type of application, and the application whose time between the last use time and the current time is greater than the preset time is determined as the second type of application.

In this implementation manner, the processor of the terminal can divide the application into a common application and an unusable application. Therefore, the memory of the terminal needs to maintain two application lists, which are a common application list and an unusable application list. The first type of application corresponds to a common application, and the second type of application corresponds to an unusable application. For example, when detecting, by the terminal processor, the first operation instruction input by the user through the input device of the terminal, the application that determines the duration between the last use time and the current time in the background application is not more than half an hour is determined as a common application; An application in which the duration between the time and the current time is greater than half an hour is determined to be an infrequently used application. At this time, each time the user uses an application and exits the application to run in the background, the terminal's processor acquires the last use time of the application and records and saves it in the memory. Specifically, the classification implementation process of the background application in this manner can be seen in FIG. 4.

S40: The input device of the terminal receives the first instruction input by the user. Optionally, the first instruction may be, but is not limited to, a click operation for the menu key.

S41: The processor of the terminal acquires the last use time of each first application, and sorts the last use time of all the first applications by the near and far distances from the current time, and the current time is that the input device of the terminal receives the first instruction. time.

S42: The processor of the terminal sequentially determines, according to the foregoing sequence, whether the last use time of each background application is greater than 1 hour from the current time. If yes, execute S43; otherwise, execute S44.

S43: Display the application icon corresponding to the corresponding application in the list of infrequent applications.

S44: Display the application icon corresponding to the corresponding application in the common application list.

It should be noted that, for the above-mentioned common application list and the first application in the unusable application list, Differentiating the result may not meet the user's needs. At this time, the input device of the terminal may receive the user dragging the first application that does not meet the user's expectation to the corresponding list by clicking and dragging. An application will be tagged to indicate that the first application is placed by the user in a list of commonly used or infrequently used applications. For example, as shown in Figure 5, the user will include in the list of infrequent applications displayed on the display device of the terminal. A application, assuming that the QQ application is dragged from the list of unused applications to the list of frequently used applications, the terminal adds a label to the application icon corresponding to the dragged QQ application, so that the user can know that the QQ application is a user artificial Drag to the list of frequently used apps. In this way, the application list is constructed, which is convenient for the user to view the application list, and allows the user to modify the application list where the first application is located, which facilitates the cleaning of the application, wherein the terminal is displayed on the display device mentioned in the embodiment. The displayed application list is a representation of the classified application folder icon introduced in the above embodiment. According to the specific situation, the classified application folder icon mentioned in the embodiment of the present invention may also be expressed in other forms. This is not a limitation.

In the second application classification implementation manner, the attribute information is used by the at least one first application. At this time, when the at least one first application is classified, acquiring the at least one first application is pre- The usage duration in the time period is set; according to the usage duration of the at least one first application, the applications whose usage durations meet the preset conditions are classified into the same application type set.

Specifically, in a possible implementation manner, when the processor of the terminal detects the first instruction, according to the frequency of use and/or the duration of use of each first application in the running state in the preset duration, The first application that uses the frequency and/or the usage duration is greater than the preset threshold is determined to be the first type of application, and the first application that uses the frequency and/or the usage duration is not greater than the preset threshold is determined as the second type of application.

In this implementation manner, similar to the foregoing first implementation manner, the terminal divides the application into a common application and an unusable application. Therefore, the memory of the terminal needs to maintain two application lists, which are a common application list and an infrequently used application list. The first type of application corresponds to a common application, and the second type of application corresponds to an unusable application. As the number of applications used by the user increases, the processor of the terminal counts the frequency and duration of use of each application by the user within a preset duration, and determines the usage frequency and/or the application whose usage duration is greater than a preset threshold as a common application. An application that uses frequency and/or usage time not greater than a preset threshold is determined to be an infrequent application, thereby generating a list of commonly used applications and a list of infrequent applications. In the list of commonly used applications, the applications containing the top X names are used in each application including the terminal, and X is a positive integer. Applications in this list of frequently used apps will remain in the list of frequently used apps unless they are manually switched, and will not change with the last time. In this way, the application habits that the user has cultivated unconsciously are saved, and this usage habit is applied to the application classification of the background list.

It should be noted that, when classifying the background application, the foregoing first application classification implementation manner and the second application classification implementation manner may be used alone or in combination. Specifically, each of the first applications is classified by considering the last use time of each first application, the frequency of use within a preset duration, and the duration of use when classifying the background application. For example, as shown in FIG. 6 , in a possible implementation manner, first, the last use time of each first application is obtained, and for each first application, it is sequentially determined whether the last use time is within a half hour from the current time, and if so, Then determined as a common application; if not, continue to obtain the number of times each remaining first application is started within 2 hours, determine whether the number of startups is greater than 5 times, and if so, determine to be a common application; if not, continue to obtain the remaining The duration of the corresponding process in each of the first applications within 2 hours, determining whether the duration of the process is greater than 1 hour, and if so, determining to be a common application; if not, determining to be an unusable application, this is only an illustrative The implementation manner, of course, may also classify each first application based on the last use time of each first application, the frequency of use within the preset duration, or based on the last use time of each first application, within a preset duration The usage time is used to classify each first application, and there is no limitation here.

In the third application classification implementation manner, the attribute information is an application type. At this time, when the at least one first application is classified, the application type of the at least one first application is acquired; according to the at least one An application type of an application that classifies applications with the same or similar application types as the same application type set.

Specifically, in a possible implementation, when the processor of the terminal detects the first instruction, acquiring, according to a preset application type database, each first application in a running state in the application type database The application type is then classified into the respective first applications in the running state according to the application types corresponding to the acquired first applications in the running state.

In this implementation manner, each of the first applications is classified according to the application type. Specifically, when the application classification is performed according to the application type, the following two possible implementation manners are included:

In a possible implementation manner, the terminal classifies each first application whose background is in operation based on a software platform such as an application market. For example, applications in the application market are broadly divided into: audio-visual entertainment, utility tools, social communication, learning office, news reading, and game entertainment. When the terminal is powered on, the processor of the terminal performs statistics on each first application that the terminal has installed, and after the system application is excluded, the corresponding application type in the application market is matched with the remaining first application, and then the application corresponding to the application is applied. The icon is placed in the application list of the corresponding type, and the application icon corresponding to the application whose application type cannot be successfully matched is divided into the application list corresponding to the application type to be cleaned, and the user checks and matches each time the user newly adds the application. In this way, when the first instruction is detected, the processor of the terminal can directly acquire the application type corresponding to each first application in the running state, thereby dividing the first application of the same application type into the same application list. To display on the display device.

In another possible implementation manner, the processor of the terminal may obtain the attribute information of the application and the related communication interface by means of semantic analysis, determine the application type of the first application, and classify each first application according to the application type. . For example, when the terminal installs an application for the first time, the terminal determines the function of the to-be-installed application through semantic analysis, and divides the application having similar or the same function into the application type corresponding to the function, for example, the terminal is When the China Merchants Bank client application with payment function is installed for the first time, through the semantic analysis, the application has the payment function, and the application is divided into the payment function application type, and the corresponding application of the application type set can be generated. The first type of text is named as a shopping wealth application list or a corresponding first type icon can also be generated for the application of the application type set.

It should be noted that when displaying the first application type set, the icon of the application included in the first application type set needs to be displayed, that is, the icon of the first application type set including at least one application. Further, when displaying the first application type set, generating a first type icon corresponding to the first application type set, displaying the first type icon; or, when displaying the first application type set, generating and The first type of text corresponding to the first application type set is displayed, and the first type of text is displayed.

Specifically, when the terminal displays the icon of the application included in the first application type set, the terminal may be implemented by using the following process:

Determining, by each terminal, a duration between a last use time and a current time in each application included in each first application type set;

The terminal displays the icons of each application sequentially on the display device of the terminal according to the order of the time between the last use time and the current time in each application included in the first application type set.

In this way, the last use time information of each first application can be presented to the user, so that the user can understand the usage of each first application.

Further, before the step 303, that is, before the terminal acquires the second instruction input by the user, the Receiving, by the terminal, a third instruction input by the user, where the third instruction is used to select the first application in the first application type set; and if the terminal acquires the second instruction input by the user, the terminal is configured according to the And a second instruction, when cleaning an application task of the application corresponding to the at least one first application type set, clearing an application task of the application other than the first application in the first application type set.

Through the foregoing implementation manner, if the user clears each application in the first application type set, and determines that a certain first application does not need to be cleaned according to the actual use requirement, the input device of the terminal receives the third instruction input by the user. Optionally, the third may be a long press operation for the icon of the first application. At this time, the display device of the terminal displays the check mark of the icon of the first application on the display interface presented to the user, and subsequently If the processor of the terminal detects the second instruction of the first application type set in which the icon of the first application is located, the selected first application may not be cleaned, and other applications in the first application type set need to be cleaned up. Application tasks.

It should be noted that the first instruction, the second instruction, and the third instruction may be the same operation instruction or different operation instruction.

The specific implementation process of the classification display of each first application provided by the embodiment of the present application is introduced in the following.

For the classification display of each of the first application classification implementation manners and the second application classification implementation manner, reference may be made to FIG. 7A. At this time, the display interface of the background application is divided into upper and lower parts, and the upper part is a common application. The corresponding first application type set contains three application icons: City Bank, WeChat, and China Post, that is, the three applications of City Bank, WeChat, and China Post are frequently used by users, and the following parts are corresponding to the list of unusable applications. The first application type collection, which contains the application icons corresponding to the Hong Kong bank and the mobile banking respectively, that is, the two applications of the Hong Kong bank and the mobile banking are applications that the user does not frequently use. In addition, the terminal displays a cleanup button in the lower right corner of the first application type set corresponding to the common application and the first application type set corresponding to the infrequent application, if the user clicks on the lower right corner of the first application type set corresponding to the unusable application. The cleaning button, at this time, the terminal only cleans up the application tasks of the Hong Kong banking application and the mobile banking application corresponding to the Hong Kong bank and the mobile banking displayed in the first application type set corresponding to the unusable application, and does not affect the corresponding application of the above common application. The background application corresponding to the icon of the application included in the first application type set is cleaned according to the classification result of each first application, and the user can clean each first application that is not concerned without additional setting, while retaining the commonly used user attention. The application takes into account the user's usage habits and enhances the user experience.

It is worth mentioning that in the application settings, users can be provided with the function of managing common applications. Users can migrate an application to a common application by themselves, or remove an application from a common application to an unusable application. To avoid the situation that the application classification result of the statistical display does not conform to the user's demand and make the user dissatisfied, the icon of the application that has been moved by the user, unless the user manually removes the icon of the moved application will always be in a certain The class application corresponds to the first application type set displayed.

For the classification display of each first application in the foregoing third application classification implementation manner, reference may be made to FIG. 7B, where the display interface of the application is based on the comprehensive usage frequency of the user for a preset duration for each application (including use). Frequency and duration of use), the three types of applications with the highest frequency are displayed first, and the last type displays the applications to be cleaned, and includes the first set of application types according to the first application type set when displaying the first application type set corresponding to each type of application. In each application corresponding to the icon of each application, the last use time is arranged in order from the current time in the near and far order.

In this way, when there are many applications used by the user in the background, the application can be classified and displayed according to the classification result of the application, the interface operation is simple and clear, and the classification is clear. Under normal circumstances, the user can directly clean up without additional settings and operations. Apps that don't pay attention, keep the apps you are interested in, so that users can turn the background according to their needs. The application classifies and cleans the application according to the usage information of each application, and simplifies the cleaning operation of the background application, so that the user can clean the background application more easily, and can retain the application of interest to the user to switch back and forth.

The embodiment of the present application may divide the functional unit into the terminal according to the foregoing method example. For example, each functional unit may be divided according to each function, or two or more functions may be integrated into one processing unit. The above integrated unit can be implemented in the form of hardware or in the form of a software functional unit. It should be noted that the division of the unit in the embodiment of the present application is schematic, and is only a logical function division. In actual implementation, there may be another division manner.

In the case of an integrated unit, FIG. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for cleaning an application task list of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application. Referring to FIG. 8, the apparatus 800 includes an acquisition unit 801, a processing unit 802, and a display unit 803, where:

The obtaining unit 801 is configured to: acquire a first instruction that is input by the user, where the first instruction is used to instruct the terminal to perform classified display on the at least one first application that is in the running state in the background;

The processing unit 802 is configured to classify the at least one first application according to the first instruction;

The display unit 803 is configured to display, according to the classification result, at least one first application type set, where the first application type set is a set of at least one first application whose attribute information is the same or similar;

The obtaining unit 801 is further configured to: acquire a second instruction input by the user, where the second instruction is used to instruct the terminal to clear an application task corresponding to the at least one first application type set;

The processing unit 802 is further configured to: clean up an application task of the application corresponding to the at least one first application type set according to the second instruction.

Optionally, the attribute information is an application type; the processing unit 802 is configured to: acquire an application type of the at least one first application; and use the same or similar application type according to the application type of the at least one first application. The application is classified as the same application type collection.

Optionally, the processing unit 802 is configured to: obtain an application type according to the installation package file of the at least one first application; and/or obtain an application type according to a preset setting of the user.

Optionally, the attribute information is a last use time of the at least one first application; the processing unit 802 is configured to: acquire a last use time of the at least one first application; according to the at least one first application The last use time, in the time dimension, classifies the application whose last use time meets the preset condition into the same application type set.

Optionally, the attribute information is used by the at least one first application; the processing unit 802 is configured to: acquire a usage duration of the at least one first application in a preset time period; The usage duration of a first application classifies an application whose duration is consistent with a preset condition into a collection of the same application type.

Optionally, the display unit 803 is configured to: display an icon of an application included in the first application type set; or generate a first type icon corresponding to the first application type set, and display the first a type icon and an icon of the application included in the first application type set; or generating a first type of text corresponding to the first application type set, displaying the first type of text and the first application type set The icon of the included app.

Optionally, the display unit 803 is further configured to: display a first control, the first control corresponds to the first application type set, and the first control is configured to clean the first according to a user instruction Application tasks for all apps in the application type collection.

Optionally, before the acquiring, by the terminal, the second instruction input by the user, the acquiring unit 801 is further configured to: acquire a third instruction input by the user, where the third instruction is used to select the first application type set. The first application; the processing unit 802 is further configured to: according to the second instruction, clear the corresponding one of the at least one first application type set The application task includes: clearing, according to the second instruction, an application task of the application other than the first application in the first application type set.

The device 800 provided by the embodiment of the present application has all the functions in the process of the method for cleaning the application task list of the terminal involved in the foregoing method embodiments. For the specific implementation process, refer to the related descriptions of the foregoing embodiments and the drawings. Let me repeat.

It should be noted that the drawings in the drawings in the embodiments of the present application are only for illustrative purposes, and do not limit the form of the terminal in the actual implementation process, for example, FIG. 2A to FIG. 2C, FIG. 5, FIG. In FIG. 7B, only the first application displayed on the terminal display interface is schematically illustrated, and the casing and the like of the terminal are omitted. In actual implementation, the display interface is displayed on a physical structure having a terminal casing, and the terminal is The specific content displayed on the display interface and the application name are not limited.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that all or part of the steps of implementing the above embodiments may be performed by a program, and the program may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, which is non-transitory ( English: non-transitory) media, such as random access memory, read-only memory, flash memory, hard disk, solid state disk, magnetic tape (English: magnetic tape), floppy disk (English: floppy disk), CD (English: optical disc) And any combination thereof.

The present application is described with reference to the respective flowcharts and block diagrams of the method and apparatus of the embodiments of the present application. It will be understood that each flow and block of the flowchart illustrations. FIG. These computer program instructions can be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing device to produce a machine for the execution of instructions for execution by a processor of a computer or other programmable data processing device. A device that implements the functions specified in one or more blocks of a flowchart or a plurality of flows and block diagrams.

The foregoing is only an optional embodiment of the present application, but the scope of protection of the present application is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think of changes or within the technical scope disclosed in the present application. Replacement should be covered by the scope of this application. Therefore, the scope of protection of the present application should be determined by the scope of protection of the claims.

Claims

A method for cleaning an application task list of a terminal, the method comprising:

The terminal acquires a first instruction input by the user, where the first instruction is used to instruct the terminal to perform classified display on the at least one first application that is in the running state in the background;

The terminal classifies the at least one first application according to the first instruction, and displays at least one first application type set according to the classification result, where the first application type set is at least one of the same or similar attribute information. a collection of applications;

The terminal acquires a second instruction input by the user, where the second instruction is used to instruct the terminal to clear an application task corresponding to the at least one first application type set;

The terminal clears an application task of the application corresponding to the at least one first application type set according to the second instruction.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the attribute information is an application type; and the classifying the at least one first application comprises:

Obtaining an application type of the at least one first application;

The applications of the same or similar application type are classified into the same application type set according to the application type of the at least one first application.
The method according to claim 2, wherein the acquiring an application type of the at least one first application comprises:

Obtaining an application type according to the installation package file of the at least one first application; and/or,

Get the application type based on the user's preset settings.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the attribute information is a last use time of the at least one first application; and the classifying the at least one first application comprises:

Obtaining a last use time of the at least one first application;

And according to the last use time of the at least one first application, in the time dimension, the applications whose last use time meets the preset condition are classified into the same application type set.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the attribute information is a usage duration of the at least one first application; and the classifying the at least one first application comprises:

Obtaining a usage duration of the at least one first application in a preset time period;

The applications that use the durations according to the preset conditions are classified into the same application type set according to the usage duration of the at least one first application.
The method according to any one of claims 1-5, wherein the displaying the at least one first application type set according to the classification result comprises:

Displaying an icon of an application included in the first application type set; or

Generating a first type icon corresponding to the first application type set, displaying an icon of the first type icon and an application included in the first application type set; or

Generating a first type of text corresponding to the first application type set, and displaying an icon of the first type of text and an application included in the first application type set.
The method of claim 6 wherein the method further comprises:

The terminal displays a first control, the first control corresponds to the first application type set, and the first control The device is configured to clean up application tasks of all applications in the first application type set according to a user's instruction.
The method according to any one of claims 1-6, wherein before the acquiring the second instruction input by the user, the method further comprises:

The terminal acquires a third instruction input by the user, where the third instruction is used to select the first application in the first application type set;

The device clears, according to the second instruction, an application task of the application corresponding to the at least one first application type set, including:

And the terminal clears, according to the second instruction, an application task of the application other than the first application in the first application type set.
An apparatus for cleaning an application task list of a terminal, the device comprising:

An acquiring unit, configured to acquire a first instruction input by a user, where the first instruction is used to instruct the terminal to perform classified display on at least one first application that is in a running state in the background;

a processing unit, configured to classify the at least one first application according to the first instruction;

a display unit, configured to display, according to the classification result, at least one first application type set, where the first application type set is a set of at least one first application whose attribute information is the same or similar;

The acquiring unit is further configured to acquire a second instruction input by the user, where the second instruction is used to instruct the terminal to clear an application task corresponding to the at least one first application type set;

The processing unit is further configured to: clean up an application task of the application corresponding to the at least one first application type set according to the second instruction.
The device according to claim 9, wherein the attribute information is an application type; and the processing unit is configured to:

Obtaining an application type of the at least one first application;

The applications of the same or similar application type are classified into the same application type set according to the application type of the at least one first application.
The device according to claim 10, wherein the processing unit is configured to:

Obtaining an application type according to the installation package file of the at least one first application; and/or,

Get the application type based on the user's preset settings.
The device according to claim 9, wherein the attribute information is a last use time of the at least one first application; the processing unit is configured to:

Obtaining a last use time of the at least one first application;

And according to the last use time of the at least one first application, in the time dimension, the applications whose last use time meets the preset condition are classified into the same application type set.
The device according to claim 9, wherein the attribute information is a usage duration of the at least one first application; the processing unit is configured to:

Obtaining a usage duration of the at least one first application in a preset time period;

The applications that use the durations according to the preset conditions are classified into the same application type set according to the usage duration of the at least one first application.
The device according to any one of claims 9-13, wherein the display unit is configured to:

Displaying an icon of an application included in the first application type set; or

Generating a first type icon corresponding to the first application type set, displaying the first type icon and the first An icon of an application included in an application type collection; or,

Generating a first type of text corresponding to the first application type set, and displaying an icon of the first type of text and an application included in the first application type set.
The device according to claim 14, wherein the display unit is further configured to:

Displaying a first control, the first control corresponding to the first application type set, the first control is configured to clean up an application task of all applications in the first application type set according to a user instruction.
The device according to any one of claims 9-14, wherein before the acquiring the second instruction input by the user, the acquiring unit is further configured to:

Obtaining a third instruction input by the user, where the third instruction is used to select the first application in the first application type set;

The processing unit is further configured to: according to the second instruction, the application task of the application corresponding to the at least one first application type set is cleared, including:

And clearing, according to the second instruction, an application task of the application other than the first application in the first application type set.
A terminal, comprising: a processor, a memory, a display device, and an input device;

The input device, the display device, and the memory are all connected to the processor through a bus, where

The input device is configured to acquire an instruction input by a user;

The memory is configured to store program code executed by the processor;

The processor is configured to invoke the program code stored in the memory, and acquire, by using an instruction acquired by the input device, a first instruction and a second instruction input by a user, where the first instruction is used to indicate that the terminal is in the background And displaying, by the terminal, the application task corresponding to the at least one first application type set, and according to the first instruction, the at least one first application is configured to perform classification display And classifying, by the first application, the application task of the application corresponding to the at least one first application type set according to the second instruction;

The display device is configured to display at least one first application type set according to the classification result, where the first application type set is a set of at least one first application whose attribute information is the same or similar.
The terminal according to claim 17, wherein the attribute information is an application type; and the processor is configured to:

Obtaining an application type of the at least one first application;

The applications of the same or similar application type are classified into the same application type set according to the application type of the at least one first application.
The terminal according to claim 18, wherein said processor is configured to:

Obtaining an application type according to the installation package file of the at least one first application; and/or,

Get the application type based on the user's preset settings.
The terminal according to claim 17, wherein the attribute information is a last use time of the at least one first application; the processor is configured to:

Obtaining a last use time of the at least one first application;

And according to the last use time of the at least one first application, in the time dimension, the applications whose last use time meets the preset condition are classified into the same application type set.
The terminal according to claim 17, wherein the attribute information is a usage duration of the at least one first application; the processor is configured to:

Obtaining a usage duration of the at least one first application in a preset time period;

The applications that use the durations according to the preset conditions are classified into the same application type set according to the usage duration of the at least one first application.
The terminal according to any one of claims 17-21, wherein the display device is configured to:

Displaying an icon of an application included in the first application type set; or

If the processor generates a first type icon corresponding to the first application type set, displaying an icon of the first type icon and an application included in the first application type set; or

And if the processor generates the first type of text corresponding to the first application type set, displaying an icon of the first type of text and an application included in the first application type set.
The terminal according to claim 22, wherein the display device is further configured to:

Displaying a first control, the first control corresponding to the first application type set, the first control is configured to clean up an application task of all applications in the first application type set according to a user instruction.
The terminal according to any one of claims 17-22, wherein the processor is further configured to:

Obtaining, by the input device, a third instruction input by the user, where the third instruction is used to select the first application in the first application type set, before the terminal acquires the second instruction input by the user;

And clearing, according to the second instruction, an application task of the application corresponding to the at least one first application type set, including:

And clearing, according to the second instruction, an application task of the application other than the first application in the first application type set.