WO2019174466A1 - Message prompting method and apparatus, device, and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

Embodiments of the present application relate to the field of human-machine interaction, and provide a message prompting method and apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium. The method comprises: displaying, in a main display area, a first user interface of a first application in a landscape mode; receiving an unread message of a second application; and if heads-up notification in the landscape mode is blocked, displaying the application icon of the second application on an auxiliary display area, an unread mark corresponding to the unread message being displayed on the application icon of the second application. By means of the present application, the user is prompted about that there is an unread message by additionally displaying an application icon having an unread mark on the auxiliary display area without interrupting the user's normal use of the first user interface of the first application, thereby avoiding or reducing the possibility of the user missing an important unread message.

Description

Message reminding method, device, device and storage medium

The application of the present application claims the priority of the Chinese Patent Application No. 201101201800.8, filed on March 12, 2018, entitled "message reminding method, device, device and storage medium", the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. In the application example.

Technical field

The embodiment of the present invention relates to the field of human-computer interaction, and particularly to a message reminding method, device, device, and storage medium.

Background technique

A variety of messages are received on mobile terminals such as smartphones, tablets, and e-books. When a new message is received, a message alert is made on the screen of the mobile terminal. The reminder form of the message reminder includes at least one of a breathing light, a banner notification at the top of the screen or the center of the screen, a message preview popup, and an unread message corner on the application icon.

A banner notification is a message that displays a strip banner on a partial area of the display, a message reminder on the strip banner, and a preview message reminder. Since the strip banner has a small occupied area for the display screen, when the mobile terminal is in the lock screen interface, the horizontal screen viewing video interface or the horizontal screen playing game interface, the banner notification form is usually used for message reminding.

Summary of the invention

The embodiment of the present application provides a message reminding method, device, device and storage medium. The technical solution is as follows:

In one aspect, a message reminding method is provided, the method comprising:

Displaying a first user interface of the first application in a landscape mode in the main display area;

Receiving an unread message of the second application;

An application icon of the second application is displayed on the secondary display area, and an unread mark corresponding to the unread message is displayed on an application icon of the second application.

In another aspect, a message alerting device is provided, the device comprising:

a display module, configured to display, in the main display area, a first user interface of the first application in a landscape mode;

a receiving module, configured to receive an unread message of the second application;

The display module is configured to display an application icon of the second application on the secondary display area, and an unread mark corresponding to the unread message is displayed on an application icon of the second application.

In another aspect, a terminal is provided, the terminal comprising a processor and a memory; the memory storing at least one instruction for execution by the processor to implement the message as described in the above embodiments Reminder method.

In another aspect, a computer readable storage medium is provided, the storage medium storing at least one instruction for execution by a processor to implement the message reminding method as described in the above embodiments.

DRAWINGS

1 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

2 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal provided by another exemplary embodiment of the present application;

3A to 3F are schematic diagrams showing the appearance of a terminal having different touch display screens according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

4 is a flowchart of a message reminding method provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an interface of a message reminding method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an interface of another message reminding method provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a message reminding method provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of an interface of a message reminding method provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present application in an exemplary implementation; FIG.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of an interface of a message reminding method provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present application in an exemplary implementation; FIG.

FIG. 10 is a structural block diagram of a message reminding apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 11 is a structural block diagram of a terminal provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present application.

detailed description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more clear, the embodiments of the present application will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The related art provides a strip banner on a partial area of the display screen, a message reminder on the strip banner, and a message reminder notification of the preview. When the banner notification is set to the masked state in the landscape mode, the user may miss important messages.

In the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present application, the first user interface of the first application is displayed in the horizontal display mode in the main display area, and the unread message of the second application is received, and the banner notification in the horizontal screen mode is The application icon of the second application is displayed on the auxiliary display area when the state is blocked, and the unread mark corresponding to the unread message is displayed on the application icon of the second application, so that the user does not interrupt the first application. Under the premise of the normal use of the first user interface, the application icon with the unread mark is displayed on the auxiliary display area to remind the user that there is an unread message, thereby eliminating or reducing the possibility that the user misses the important unread message.

"Multiple" as referred to herein means two or more. "and/or", describing the association relationship of the associated objects, indicating that there may be three relationships, for example, A and/or B, which may indicate that there are three cases where A exists separately, A and B exist at the same time, and B exists separately. The character "/" generally indicates that the contextual object is an "or" relationship.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, there is shown a block diagram showing the structure of a terminal 100 provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present application. The terminal 100 can be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, an e-book, and the like. The terminal 100 in this application may include one or more of the following components: a processor 110, a memory 120, and a touch display screen 130.

Processor 110 can include one or more processing cores. The processor 110 connects various portions of the entire terminal 100 using various interfaces and lines, and executes the terminal by running or executing an instruction, program, code set or instruction set stored in the memory 120, and calling data stored in the memory 120. 100 various functions and processing data. Optionally, the processor 110 may use at least one of a digital signal processing (DSP), a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), and a programmable logic array (PLA). A form of hardware is implemented. The processor 110 may integrate one or a combination of a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), a modem, and the like. The CPU mainly processes the operating system, the user interface, the application, and the like; the GPU is responsible for rendering and rendering of the content that the display screen 130 needs to display; the modem is used to process wireless communication. It can be understood that the above modem may also be integrated into the processor 110 and implemented by a single chip.

The memory 120 may include a random access memory (RAM), and may also include a read-only memory. Optionally, the memory 120 includes a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. Memory 120 can be used to store instructions, programs, code, code sets, or sets of instructions. The memory 120 may include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store instructions for implementing an operating system, instructions for at least one function (such as a touch function, a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), The instructions for implementing the various method embodiments described below, etc.; the storage data area can store data (such as audio data, phone book) created according to the use of the terminal 100, and the like.

Taking the operating system as an Android system as an example, the programs and data stored in the memory 120 are as shown in FIG. 1. The memory 120 stores a Linux kernel layer 220, a system runtime layer 240, an application framework layer 260, and an application layer 280. . The Linux kernel layer 220 provides the underlying drivers for various hardware of the terminal 100, such as display drivers, audio drivers, camera drivers, Bluetooth drivers, Wi-Fi drivers, power management, and the like. The system runtime layer 240 provides major features support for the Android system through some C/C++ libraries. For example, the SQLite library provides support for the database, the OpenGL/ES library provides support for 3D graphics, and the Webkit library provides support for the browser kernel. The Android runtime library 242 (Android Runtime) is also provided in the system runtime layer 240. It mainly provides some core libraries, which can allow developers to write Android applications using the Java language. The application framework layer 260 provides various APIs that may be used when building an application. Developers can also build their own applications by using these APIs, such as event management, window management, view management, notification management, content providers, Package management, call management, resource management, location management. The application layer 280 runs at least one application, which may be a contact program, an SMS program, a clock program, a camera application, etc. that is provided by the operating system; or an application developed by a third-party developer, such as an instant. Communication programs, photo landscaping programs, etc.

Taking the operating system as an IOS system as an example, the programs and data stored in the memory 120 are as shown in FIG. 2. The IOS system includes: a core operating system layer 320 (Core OS layer), a core service layer 340 (Core Services layer), and a media layer. 360 (Media layer), touchable layer 380 (Cocoa Touch Layer). The core operating system layer 320 includes an operating system kernel, drivers, and an underlying program framework that provide functionality closer to the hardware for use by the program framework located at the core service layer 340. The core service layer 340 provides system services and/or program frameworks required by the application, such as a Foundation framework, an account framework, an advertising framework, a data storage framework, a network connectivity framework, a geographic location framework, a motion framework, and the like. The media layer 360 provides an interface for the audiovisual aspect of the application, such as a graphic image related interface, an audio technology related interface, a video technology related interface, and an audio and video transmission technology wireless play (AirPlay) interface. The touch layer 380 provides various commonly used interface related frameworks for application development, and the touch layer 380 is responsible for user touch interaction operations on the terminal 100. Such as local notification service, remote push service, advertising framework, game tool framework, message user interface (UI) framework, user interface UIKit framework, map framework and so on.

In the framework illustrated in FIG. 2, frameworks related to most applications include, but are not limited to, the base framework in core service layer 340 and the UIKit framework in touchable layer 380. The underlying framework provides many basic object classes and data types, providing the most basic system services for all applications, regardless of the UI. The classes provided by the UIKit framework are the basic UI class libraries for creating touch-based user interfaces. iOS applications can provide UI based on the UIKit framework, so it provides the application infrastructure for building user interfaces, drawing , handling and user interaction events, responsive gestures, and more.

The touch display screen 130 is for receiving a touch operation on or near a user using any suitable object such as a finger, a touch pen, and the like, and displaying a user interface of each application. The touch display screen 130 is typically disposed at the front panel of the terminal 130. The touch display 130 can be designed as a full screen, a curved screen, or a profiled screen. The touch display screen 130 can also be designed as a combination of a full screen and a curved screen, and the combination of the special screen and the curved screen is not limited in this embodiment. among them:

Full screen

The full screen may refer to a screen design in which the touch screen 130 occupies a front panel of the terminal 100 that exceeds a threshold (eg, 80% or 90% or 95%). One calculation method of the screen ratio is: (the area of the touch screen 130 / the area of the front panel of the terminal 100) * 100%; another calculation method of the screen ratio is: (touch the actual display area in the display 130 Area/area of the front panel of the terminal 100) *100%; another calculation of the screen ratio is: (diagonal of the touch screen 130 / diagonal of the front panel of the terminal 100) * 100% . In the example shown in FIG. 3A, almost all areas on the front panel of the terminal 100 are the touch display screen 130, and on the front panel 40 of the terminal 100, except for the edge generated by the middle frame 41. All are touch display screens 130. The four corners of the touch display screen 130 can be right angles or rounded corners.

The full screen may also be a screen design that integrates at least one front panel component inside or below the touch display screen 130. Optionally, the at least one front panel component comprises: a camera, a fingerprint sensor, a proximity light sensor, a distance sensor, and the like. In some embodiments, other components on the front panel of the conventional terminal are integrated in all areas or partial areas of the touch display screen 130, such as splitting the photosensitive elements in the camera into a plurality of photosensitive pixels, each of which is photosensitive. The pixels are integrated in a black area in each display pixel in touch display 130. Since at least one front panel component is integrated inside the touch display 130, the full screen has a higher screen ratio.

Of course, in other embodiments, the front panel component on the front panel of the conventional terminal may also be disposed on the side or the back of the terminal 100, such as an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor disposed under the touch display screen 130, and the bone conduction type. The earpiece is disposed inside the terminal 130, and the camera is disposed to be located on the side of the terminal and is pluggable.

In some optional embodiments, when the terminal 100 adopts a full screen, a single side of the middle frame of the terminal 100, or two sides (such as the left and right sides), or four sides (such as An edge touch sensor 120 is disposed on the four sides of the upper, lower, left, and right sides, and the edge touch sensor 120 is configured to detect a user's touch operation, a click operation, a pressing operation, a sliding operation, and the like on the middle frame. At least one operation. The edge touch sensor 120 may be any one of a touch sensor, a thermal sensor, a pressure sensor, and the like. The user can apply an operation on the edge touch sensor 120 to control the application in the terminal 100.

Curved screen

The curved screen refers to a screen design in which the cross section of the touch display screen 130 has a curved shape and the projection in a direction parallel to the cross section is a plane, and the curved shape may be a U shape. Optionally, a curved screen refers to a screen design in which at least one side is curved. Optionally, the curved screen means that at least one side of the touch display screen 130 extends over the middle frame of the terminal 100. Since the side of the touch display screen 130 extends to cover the middle frame of the terminal 100, the middle frame that does not have the display function and the touch function is covered as the displayable area and/or the operable area, so that the curved screen has more High screen ratio. Optionally, in the example shown in FIG. 3B, the curved screen refers to a screen design in which the left and right side edges 42 are curved shapes; or the curved screen refers to a screen design in which the upper and lower sides are curved shapes; or The curved screen refers to the screen design in which the four sides of the upper, lower, left and right sides are curved. In an alternative embodiment, the curved screen is fabricated using a touch screen material having a certain flexibility.

Shaped screen

A profiled screen is a touchscreen display with an irregularly shaped shape, and the irregular shape is not a rectangle or a rounded rectangle. Alternatively, the profiled screen refers to a screen design that is provided with raised, notched, and/or punctured holes on a rectangular or rounded rectangular touch display screen 130. Alternatively, the protrusions, notches, and/or holes may be located at the edge of the touch screen display 130, at the center of the screen, or both. When the protrusions, notches, and/or holes are provided at one edge, they may be disposed at the middle or both ends of the edge; when the protrusions, notches, and/or holes are disposed in the center of the screen, they may be placed above the screen. One or more of the area, the upper left area, the left area, the lower left area, the lower area, the lower right area, the right area, and the upper right area. When disposed in a plurality of regions, the protrusions, the notches, and the holes may be concentrated or distributed; they may be symmetrically distributed or asymmetrically distributed. Optionally, the number of the protrusions, the notches and/or the holes is also not limited.

Since the shaped screen covers the upper and/or lower forehead area of the touch display screen as a displayable area and/or an operable area, so that the touch display screen occupies more space on the front panel of the terminal, the shaped screen also has A larger screen ratio. In some embodiments, the notch and/or the bore are for receiving at least one front panel component, including a camera, a fingerprint sensor, a proximity light sensor, a distance sensor, an earpiece, an ambient light level sensor, a physical button At least one of them.

Illustratively, the indentation may be provided on one or more edges, which may be semi-circular notches, right-angled rectangular indentations, rounded rectangular indentations or irregularly shaped indentations. In the example shown in FIG. 3C, the profiled screen may be a screen design in which a semicircular notch 43 is provided at a central position of the upper edge of the touch screen display 130, and the position of the semicircular notch 43 is vacated. And accommodating at least one of the front panel components of the camera, the distance sensor (also referred to as a proximity sensor), the earpiece, and the ambient light brightness sensor; schematically, as shown in FIG. 3D, the shaped screen may be at the lower edge of the touch display screen 130. The central position is provided with a screen design of a semi-circular notch 44, the vacant position of the semi-circular notch 44 for accommodating at least one of a physical button, a fingerprint sensor, and a microphone; schematically shown in FIG. 3E In the example, the profiled screen may be a screen design in which a semi-elliptical notch 45 is disposed at a central position of the lower edge of the touch display screen 130, and a semi-elliptical notch, two semi-ellipses are formed on the front panel of the terminal 100. The shaped notch is formed into an elliptical area for accommodating a physical button or a fingerprint recognition module; in the example shown in FIG. 3F, the shaped screen can be touched A screen design of at least one small hole 46 is provided in the upper half of the display screen 130, and the space vacated by the small hole 46 is for accommodating at least one of the front panel of the camera, the distance sensor, the earpiece, and the ambient light sensor. component.

In addition, those skilled in the art can understand that the structure of the terminal 100 shown in the above figure does not constitute a limitation on the terminal 100, and the terminal may include more or less components than the illustration, or a combination of some Parts, or different parts. For example, the terminal 100 further includes components such as a radio frequency circuit, an input unit, a sensor, an audio circuit, a wireless fidelity (WiFi) module, a power supply, a Bluetooth module, and the like, and details are not described herein.

Please refer to FIG. 4, which shows a flowchart of a message reminding method shown in an exemplary embodiment of the present application. This embodiment is exemplified by the method being applied to the terminal 100. The terminal 100 has a main display area and a secondary display area. The method includes:

Step 401: Display a first user interface of the first application in a landscape mode in the main display area;

The display screen of the terminal includes a main display area and a secondary display area. Typically, the primary display area and the secondary display area are different display areas on the same display screen. The first display area of the main display area is larger than the second display area of the auxiliary display area.

Optionally, the main display area is adjacent to the auxiliary display area, and the total display area of the main display area and the auxiliary display area is equal to the available display area of the display screen.

When the display screen is a special-shaped screen, the main display area is a display area with a regular edge (such as a rectangle) on the shaped screen, and the auxiliary display area is a display area with irregular edges (such as a notch or a hole) on the shaped screen, the main display The collection of the area and the auxiliary display area is equal to the entire display area of the shaped screen. Illustratively, the three sides of the shaped screen are straight edges, and the remaining one is a curved side with a concave portion, and the main display area is an area where the largest rectangle is divided according to the edges of the three straight sides and the concave portion, The display area is the remainder except the main display area. Optionally, the auxiliary display area is one or two.

In this embodiment, the display screen of the terminal is an alien shaped screen as an example for description. Optionally, the auxiliary display area is two: a first auxiliary display area located on the right side of the terminal, and a second auxiliary display area located on the left side of the terminal. Of course, the first auxiliary display area and the second auxiliary display area can also be regarded as a whole, and are viewed as a secondary display area.

The touch screen of the terminal is rectangular or, alternatively, rectangular. Correspondingly, the touch display has long and wide sides.

The horizontal screen mode is a screen display method in which the long side of the touch display screen is parallel or nearly parallel with the horizontal plane, and the wide side of the touch display screen is perpendicular or nearly vertical to the horizontal plane. In other words, the horizontal screen mode uses the two long sides of the touch display screen as the top or bottom side of the forward viewing angle, and the two short sides of the touch display screen are used as the display manner of the two sides of the forward viewing angle.

The first application is an application that runs in the foreground. In the process of using the first application by the user, the terminal displays the first user interface of the first application on the main display area, and the first user interface refers to the program interface of the first application. Optionally, the first application is a first predetermined type of application, and the first predetermined type of application includes: an office application, an online education application, an online video application, and a local video player application. At least one of the game applications.

Optionally, the first application is an application adapted for continuous use in landscape mode. Optionally, in this step, the auxiliary display area does not display any information, or displays a preset background color, or displays a background color associated with the first user interface, or displays a status bar, which is not limited in this application.

Step 402: Receive an unread message of the second application.

The second application is an application that is installed and running inside the terminal. Optionally, the second application is an application running in the background. Optionally, the second application is a second predetermined type of application, and the second predetermined type of application includes but is not limited to: a short message application, an instant messaging application, a team voice tool, a microblog program, a mail program At least one of a web community application, a voice call application, and a video call application.

Optionally, the second application is an application having a message receiving function and a message viewing function. Optionally, the second application also has a message reply function. In most embodiments, the second application belongs to a different application than the first application. In some embodiments, the second application and the first application can be the same application.

The unread message is a message sent by the other terminal or server to the current terminal, and the unread message is a message that has not been viewed by the user of the current terminal. Unread messages can also be called new messages.

Step 403: When the banner notification in the landscape mode is the masked state, the icon of the second application is displayed on the secondary display area, and the unread mark corresponding to the unread message is displayed on the icon of the second application.

Optionally, the landscape mode is a masked/unmasked state for the banner notification, and is a setting item provided by the terminal's operating system, system application, or third party application. This setting can be effective for all applications or only for the first application. When the landscape mode is a shielded state for the banner notification, the terminal does not superimpose the banner notification on the first user interface.

Optionally, the unread mark is a dot mark or a digital mark located on the corner of the application icon.

Referring to FIG. 5 schematically, the display screen of the terminal is a special-shaped screen (commonly known as Liu Haiping) having a front edge formed with a front notch, and the special-shaped screen includes a main display area 51 having a regular edge (a rectangle in the figure) and The auxiliary display area 52 having an irregular edge (a rectangle having a notch in the drawing) displays the first user interface 53 of the first application in the main display area 51 in the initial state. If the first application is an online video program, the first user interface 53 may be a video playback interface; if the first application is a game program, the first user interface 53 may be a game interface. At this time, the auxiliary display area 52 can display a default background color such as black.

Then, the terminal receives the unread message of the second application, and the terminal detects whether the banner notification in the landscape mode is a masked state; if in the unmasked state, the terminal superimposes the undisplayed on the first user interface of the first application. Reading a banner notification of the message, the banner notification is a strip display area displayed in an upper area of the first user interface; if in a shielded state, the terminal displays an application icon 54 of the second application on the auxiliary display area, the application icon A black dot unread mark with an unread message is displayed on the upper right corner of 54.

Optionally, the terminal can display the contact identifier icon on the secondary display area when the banner notification in the landscape mode is the masked state, and the contact account corresponding to the contact identifier icon is an account provided by the second application.

In a possible implementation manner, the terminal can directly display the contact identification icon on the secondary display area, so as to quickly let the user know the importance of the message.

Referring to FIG. 6 schematically, the display screen of the terminal is a special-shaped screen (commonly known as Liu Haiping) having a front edge formed with a front notch, and the special-shaped screen includes a main display area 61 having a regular edge (a rectangle in the figure) and A secondary display area 62 having an irregular edge (a rectangle having a notch in the drawing), in the initial state, a first user interface 63 of the first application is displayed in the main display area 61. If the first application is a game-like application, the first user interface 63 can be a game interface. At this time, the auxiliary display area 62 can display a default background color such as black.

When the terminal receives the unread information of the second application, the terminal detects whether the banner notification in the landscape mode is a blocked state; if the banner notification of the terminal in the landscape mode is in an unmasked state, the terminal is in the first application. A banner notification of the unread message is superimposed on a user interface, the banner notification is a strip display area displayed in an upper area of the first user interface; if the banner notification of the terminal in the landscape mode is in a shielded state, the terminal is A contact identification icon 64 of the second application is displayed on the secondary display area. Alternatively, the contact identification icon 64 can display the identity of the second application under the corners. Alternatively, the contact identification icon 64 may display an unread identification, such as a black or red dot unread mark, at the corners. It should be noted that the corners of the contact identification icon 64 include four corners of the upper left corner, the upper right corner, the lower left corner, and the lower right corner, and the contact identification icon 64 may display the identifier of the second application in one of the corners; And a dot-like unread mark is displayed at a corner different from the side of the logo showing the display of the second application. For example, the terminal may display the identity of the second application A in the lower right corner and display the dot unread mark in the upper right corner.

In summary, the message reminding method provided by the embodiment receives the unread message of the second application by displaying the first user interface of the first application in the horizontal display mode in the main display area, when the horizontal screen mode is used. The banner notification displays the application icon of the second application on the secondary display area when the state is blocked, and the unread mark corresponding to the unread message is displayed on the application icon of the second application, so that the user does not interrupt the user Under the premise of normal use of the first user interface of an application, an application icon with an unread mark is displayed on the auxiliary display area to remind the user of an unread message, thereby eliminating or reducing the possibility of the user missing an important unread message. Sex.

Please refer to FIG. 7, which shows a flowchart of a message reminding method shown in an exemplary embodiment of the present application. This embodiment is exemplified by the method being applied to the terminal 100. The method includes:

Step 601: Display a first user interface of the first application in a landscape mode in the main display area;

The display screen of the terminal includes a main display area and a secondary display area. Typically, the primary display area and the secondary display area are different display areas on the same display screen. The first display area of the main display area is larger than the second display area of the auxiliary display area.

Optionally, the main display area is adjacent to the auxiliary display area, and the total display area of the main display area and the auxiliary display area is equal to the available display area of the display screen.

When the display screen is a special-shaped screen, the main display area is a display area with a regular edge (such as a rectangle) on the shaped screen, and the auxiliary display area is a display area with irregular edges (such as a notch or a hole) on the shaped screen, the main display The collection of the area and the auxiliary display area is equal to the entire display area of the shaped screen. Illustratively, the three sides of the shaped screen are straight edges, and the remaining one is a curved side with a concave portion, and the main display area is an area where the largest rectangle is divided according to the edges of the three straight sides and the concave portion, The display area is the remainder except the main display area. Optionally, the auxiliary display area is one or two.

The touch screen of the terminal is rectangular or, alternatively, rectangular. Correspondingly, the touch display has long and wide sides.

The horizontal screen mode is a screen display method in which the long side of the touch display screen is parallel or nearly parallel with the horizontal plane, and the wide side of the touch display screen is perpendicular or nearly vertical to the horizontal plane. In other words, the horizontal screen mode uses the two long sides of the touch display screen as the top or bottom side of the forward viewing angle, and the two short sides of the touch display screen are used as the display manner of the two sides of the forward viewing angle.

The first application is an application that runs in the foreground. In the process of using the first application by the user, the terminal displays the first user interface of the first application on the main display area, and the first user interface refers to the program interface of the first application. Optionally, the first application is a first predetermined type of application, and the first predetermined type of application comprises: at least an office application, an online education application, an online video application, and a game application. One.

Optionally, the first application is an application adapted for continuous use in landscape mode. Optionally, in this step, the auxiliary display area does not display any information, or displays a preset background color, or displays a background color associated with the first user interface, or displays a status bar, which is not limited in this application.

Step 602: Receive an unread message of the second application.

The second application is an application that is installed and running inside the terminal. Optionally, the second application is an application running in the background. Optionally, the second application is a second predetermined type of application, and the second predetermined type of application includes but is not limited to: a short message application, an instant messaging application, a team voice tool, a microblog program, a mail program At least one of a web community application, a voice call application, and a video call application.

Optionally, the second application is an application having a message receiving function and a message viewing function. Optionally, the second application also has a message reply function. In most embodiments, the second application belongs to a different application than the first application. In some embodiments, the second application and the first application can be the same application.

The unread message is a message sent by the other terminal or server to the current terminal, and the unread message is a message that has not been viewed by the user of the current terminal. Unread messages can also be called new messages.

Step 603, when the banner notification in the landscape mode is the mask state, determining the display position of the application icon of the second application on the auxiliary display area, where the display position is the display when the application icon is used as the shortcut application icon on the auxiliary display area. position;

In the process of using the first application in the landscape mode, the banner notification can be set to be shielded or unmasked. When the terminal receives the unread message of the second application, the terminal detects whether the banner notification in the landscape mode is a blocked state; if in the unmasked state, the terminal superimposes the unread on the first user interface of the first application. A banner notification of the message, the banner notification is a strip display area displayed in an upper area of the first user interface; if in a masked state, the terminal displays an icon of the second application in the auxiliary display area.

Optionally, the terminal is provided with a function of displaying an application icon of the second application as a shortcut application icon on the auxiliary display area, and the shortcut application icon is used to quickly start the user of the second application in the full screen mode or the picture in picture mode. interface. Optionally, the auxiliary display area shown in FIG. 5 is divided into a first auxiliary display area and a second auxiliary display area, wherein three shortcut application icons are displayed in the first auxiliary display area located above, and the three shortcut application icons are displayed. Can be called out by the down signal.

Optionally, the display positions of the three shortcut application icons are set by an operating system or a user. The terminal pre-stores the display position of the application icon of the second application in the auxiliary display area.

When the banner notification in the landscape mode is the masked state, the terminal determines the display location of the application icon of the second application on the secondary display area.

Step 604: Display an application icon of the second application on the auxiliary display area according to the display position, and an unread mark corresponding to the unread message is displayed on the icon of the second application;

The terminal displays the application icon of the second application on the auxiliary display area according to the display position of the application icon of the second application stored in advance.

Optionally, the landscape mode is a masked/unmasked state for the banner notification, and is a setting item provided by the terminal's operating system, system application, or third party application. This setting can be effective for all applications or only for the first application. When the landscape mode is a shielded state for the banner notification, the terminal does not superimpose the banner notification on the first user interface.

Optionally, the unread mark is a dot mark or a digital mark located on the corner of the application icon. The number in the digital tag is the same as the number of unread messages. For example, if the number of unread messages is 1, the number in the digital tag is 1; the number of unread messages is 3, and the number in the digital tag is 3.

Referring to FIG. 8 as an example, the display screen of the terminal is a profiled screen (commonly known as Liu Haiping) having a forehead gap formed at the top edge, and the profiled screen includes a main display area having a regular edge (a rectangle in the figure) and having irregularities. In the auxiliary display area of the edge (the rectangle having the notch in the figure), the first user interface 71 of the first application is displayed in the main display area in the initial state. If the first application is an online video program, the first user interface 71 may be a video playback interface; if the first application is a game program, the first user interface 71 may be a game interface. At this time, the auxiliary display area 72 can display a default background color such as black.

Then, the terminal receives the unread message of the second application, and the terminal detects whether the banner notification in the landscape mode is a shielded state; if the mask is in the shielded state, the terminal displays the application icon 72 of the second application on the secondary display region, A black dot unread mark of an unread message is displayed on the upper right corner of the application icon 72.

Step 605: Receive a first operation signal on the application icon.

After the user views the unread message by viewing the black dot in the upper right corner of the application icon 72, if the user wants to view the unread message, the first operation can be performed on the application icon. Correspondingly, the terminal receives the first operation signal on the application icon, and the first operation signal may be a click signal, a double-click signal or a sliding signal.

In this embodiment, the first operation signal is a click signal for illustration.

Step 606: Display a message processing floating window of the second application on a partial area of the first user interface according to the first operation signal, where the message processing floating window is used to display the unread on the second partial area of the first user interface. a floating window in which a message is processed;

After receiving the first operation signal, the terminal may also start or wake up the second application. A message processing floating window is superimposed on a partial area of the first user interface, and a message processing interface of the second application is displayed on the floating window of the message processing. The source party identifier and message content of the unread message are displayed on the message processing interface. Due to the limited display area of the message processing floating window, the message content may be all or part of the message content.

In an alternative embodiment, the partial area is the left half display area or the right half display area of the first user interface. Optionally, the default display position of the second partial area is designed to minimize the main display content of the first user interface.

Referring to FIG. 8 , when the user clicks the application icon 72 of the second application, the terminal cancels the display of the banner notification 72 and displays a message processing pop-up window 73 on the left half of the first user interface 71. The source processing identifier and the message content of the unread message are displayed on the message processing popup 73.

Step 607: Receive a second operation signal on the message processing floating window.

The second operation signal may be at least one of a click signal, a slide signal, a text input signal, a voice input signal, a picture/expression input signal, and a video input signal.

Step 608: Perform message processing on the unread message according to the second operation signal, where the message processing includes at least one of message view, message reply, message forwarding, message tag, message collection, and message deletion.

Optionally, a message input control is provided on the message processing floating window, and the message input control may be at least one of a text input box, an expression input box, a picture input box, a voice input box, and a video input box.

Take the text input box on the message processing floating window as an example. The current user can input “Nothing is ok, please let me eat well~” to reply, as shown in Figure 9.

Optionally, the message processing floating window 73 is provided with at least one message processing control, such as message viewing, message replying, message forwarding, and message deletion, and the user performs message processing on the unread message according to the needs of the user.

Optionally, at least one of a close control, a full screen control, a hidden control, a zoom area, and a moving area is further displayed on the message processing floating window. Referring to FIG. 8, the close control may be the "×" button of the top column of the message processing floating window, the full screen button may be the "□" button control of the top column of the message processing floating window, and the hidden control may be the message processing floating window. The "-" button control in the top column. The zoom area may be a four-corner area of the message processing floating window, and the moving area may be a blank area of the top column of the message processing floating window.

When the operating system of the terminal is an Android system, the above message processing floating window can be implemented by using Freedom technology.

In an alternative embodiment, the terminal closes the display of the message processing floating window when a shutdown signal on the close button is received.

In an optional embodiment, when receiving the second operation signal on the full screen button, the terminal displays the message processing interface of the second application in a full screen manner. That is, the terminal cancels the display of the message processing floating window, and then switches the first user interface to the second user interface of the second application, which is the second application for processing the unread message. interface.

In an optional embodiment, when the third operation signal on the zoom area is received, the message processing floating window is enlarged or reduced according to the third operation signal. For example, when the zoom area is a four-corner area of the message processing floating window, when the terminal receives the outward drag signal on the four-corner area, the window is enlarged by the window for the message processing floating window; when the terminal receives the inward drag on the four-corner area When the signal is signaled, the window is narrowed down to the message processing floating window.

In an optional embodiment, when the fourth operation signal on the moving area is received, the display position of the message processing floating window on the first user interface is changed according to the fourth operation signal. For example, when the mobile area is a blank area of the uppermost column of the message processing floating window, when the terminal receives the drag signal to the top area, the display position of the message processing floating window on the first user interface is changed according to the drag signal. .

In an optional embodiment, when the fifth operation signal on the hidden button is received, the message processing floating window is hidden according to the fifth operation signal. That is, when the user does not need to view the message processing interface temporarily, the hidden control is clicked to hide the message processing floating window.

In summary, the message reminding method provided by the embodiment receives the unread message of the second application by displaying the first user interface of the first application in the horizontal display mode in the main display area, when the horizontal screen mode is used. The banner notification displays the application icon of the second application on the secondary display area when the state is blocked, and the unread mark corresponding to the unread message is displayed on the application icon of the second application, so that the user does not interrupt the user Under the premise of normal use of the first user interface of an application, an application icon with an unread mark is displayed on the auxiliary display area to remind the user of an unread message, thereby eliminating or reducing the possibility of the user missing an important unread message. Sex.

The message reminding method provided in this embodiment further displays the message processing floating window of the second application on the second partial area of the first user interface after the floating window reply control is triggered, because the message processing floating window only occupies the first a local area of the user interface, so the viewing and replying of the unread message does not interrupt the user's use of the first application, thereby enabling the implementation of the first application without interruption. View and/or reply to unread messages of the application.

The message reminding method provided in this embodiment further provides at least one of a closing control, a full-screen control, a hidden control, a zooming area, and a moving area on the message processing floating window, so that the user can maintain the normal use of the first user interface as much as possible. Under the premise, the window of the second application's message processing floating window is closed, full screen, moved or hidden.

The following is an apparatus embodiment of the present application. For details not specifically described in the apparatus embodiment, reference may be made to the one-to-one corresponding method embodiment.

Please refer to FIG. 10, which is a structural block diagram of a message reminding apparatus provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present application. The message reminding device can be implemented as a terminal or a part of the terminal by software, hardware or a combination of both. The device includes:

a display module 920, configured to display, in the main display area, a first user interface of the first application in a landscape mode;

The receiving module 940 is configured to receive an unread message of the second application.

The display module 920 is configured to display an application icon of the second application on the secondary display area, and an unread mark corresponding to the unread message is displayed on an application icon of the second application.

In an alternative embodiment, the unread mark is a dot mark or a digital mark located on a corner of the application icon.

In an optional embodiment, the display module 920 is configured to determine a display position of an application icon of the second application on the auxiliary display area, where the display location is the application icon in the a display position when the shortcut application icon is on the auxiliary display area; and the application icon of the second application is displayed on the auxiliary display area according to the display position.

In an optional embodiment, the display screen is a profiled screen, the main display area is a display area having a regular edge on the shaped screen, and the auxiliary display area is an irregular edge on the shaped screen Display area.

In an optional embodiment, the device further includes an interaction module 960;

The display module 920 is configured to receive, by the interaction module 960, a first operation signal on the application icon, and display, according to the first operation signal, message processing of the second application on a local area of the first user interface. A floating window, the message processing floating window is a floating window for displaying message processing on the unread message on a second partial area of the first user interface.

In an optional embodiment, the receiving module 940 is configured to receive, by the interaction module 960, a second operation signal on the message processing floating window; and send a message to the unread message according to the second operation signal. Processing, the message processing includes at least one of message viewing, message reply, message forwarding, and message deletion.

In an optional embodiment, the message processing floating window is further displayed with a full screen button; the display module 920 is configured to use the full screen mode when the interaction module 960 receives the third operation signal on the full screen control A message processing interface of the second application is displayed.

In an optional embodiment, the message processing floating window further displays a moving area; the display module 920 is configured to: when the interaction module 960 receives the fourth operation signal on the moving area, according to the The fifth operational signal changes a display position of the message processing floating window on the first user interface.

Please refer to FIG. 11 , which is a structural block diagram of a terminal provided by an exemplary embodiment of the present application. The terminal includes a processor 1001, a memory 1002, and a touch display 1003.

The processor 1001 may be a central processing unit (CPU), a network processor (in English: network processor, NP), or a combination of a CPU and an NP. The processor 1001 may further include a hardware chip. The hardware chip may be an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a programmable logic device (PLD), or a combination thereof. The above PLD can be a complex programmable logic device (CPLD), a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), and a general array logic (GAL). Or any combination thereof.

The memory 1002 is connected to the processor 1001 by a bus or other manner. The memory 1002 stores at least one instruction, at least one program, a code set or a set of instructions, and the at least one instruction, the at least one program, the code set or the instruction set is processed by the processor 1001. The user interface display method described in the various embodiments above is loaded and executed. The memory 1002 may be a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, or a combination thereof. The volatile memory can be a random access memory (RAM), such as static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (English: dynamic random access memory) , DRAM). The non-volatile memory can be a read only memory image (ROM), such as a programmable read only memory (PROM), an erasable programmable read only memory (English: erasable) Programmable read only memory (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM). The non-volatile memory can also be a flash memory (English: flash memory), a magnetic memory, such as a magnetic tape (English: magnetic tape), a floppy disk (English: floppy disk), a hard disk. The non-volatile memory can also be an optical disc.

Touch display 1003 is coupled to processor 1001 via a bus or other means. The memory 1002 stores at least one instruction that is loaded and executed by the processor 1001 to implement the message reminding method described in the various embodiments above.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a computer readable medium storing at least one instruction, the at least one instruction being loaded and executed by the processor to implement the message reminding method described in the foregoing embodiments. .

The embodiment of the present application further provides a computer program product, where the computer program product stores at least one instruction, and the at least one instruction is loaded and executed by the processor to implement the message reminding method described in the foregoing embodiments.

Those skilled in the art should appreciate that in one or more of the above examples, the functions described in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, the functions may be stored in a computer readable medium or transmitted as one or more instructions or code on a computer readable medium. Computer readable media includes both computer storage media and communication media including any medium that facilitates transfer of a computer program from one location to another. The storage medium can be any available media that can be accessed by a general purpose or special purpose computer.

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A message reminding method is applied to a terminal that includes a main display area and a secondary display area, and the method includes: Displaying a first user interface of the first application in a landscape mode in the main display area; Receiving an unread message of the second application; When the banner notification in the landscape mode is a masked state, an application icon of the second application is displayed on the secondary display area, and the application icon of the second application is displayed with the unread The unread mark corresponding to the message. The method of claim 1 wherein the unread mark is a dot mark or a digital mark located on a corner of the application icon. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the displaying the application icon of the second application on the auxiliary display area, the method further comprises: Determining a display position of the application icon of the second application on the auxiliary display area, where the display position is a display position when the application icon is a shortcut application icon on the auxiliary display area; Displaying an application icon of the second application on the secondary display area according to the display position. The method according to claim 1, wherein the display screen is a profiled screen, the main display area is a display area having a regular edge on the shaped screen, and the auxiliary display area is not on the shaped screen. The display area of the rule edge. The method of claim 1, wherein when the banner notification in the landscape mode is a masked state, displaying an application icon of the second application on the secondary display region comprises: When the banner notification in the landscape mode is a masked state, a contact identifier icon is displayed on the secondary display area, and the contact account corresponding to the contact identifier icon is an account provided by the second application. . The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein after the displaying the application icon of the second application on the secondary display area, the method further comprises: Receiving a first operation signal on the application icon; Displaying a message processing floating window of the second application on a partial area of the first user interface according to the first operation signal, where the message processing floating window is for displaying in the first user interface A floating window for performing message processing on the unread message on two partial areas. The method of claim 6, wherein the displaying the message processing floating window of the second application on the local area of the first user interface according to the operation signal further comprises: Receiving a second operation signal on the message processing floating window; And performing message processing on the unread message according to the second operation signal, where the message processing includes at least one of message view, message reply, message forwarding, message tag, message collection, and message deletion. The method of claim 7, wherein the message processing floating window further displays a full screen button; the method further comprising: When receiving the third operation signal on the full screen control, displaying the message processing interface of the second application in a full screen manner. The method of claim 7, wherein the message processing floating window further displays a moving area; the method further comprising: And when receiving the fourth operation signal on the moving area, changing a display position of the message processing floating window on the first user interface according to the fifth operation signal. A message reminding device, the device comprising: a display module, configured to display, in the main display area, a first user interface of the first application in a landscape mode; a receiving module, configured to receive an unread message of the second application; The display module is configured to display an application icon of the second application on the secondary display area, and an unread mark corresponding to the unread message is displayed on an application icon of the second application. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said unread mark is a dot mark or a digital mark located on a corner of said application icon. The device according to claim 10, wherein the display module is configured to determine a display position of an application icon of the second application on the auxiliary display area, where the display position is that the application icon is in the The display position when the shortcut application icon is used as the shortcut display area; and the application icon of the second application is displayed on the auxiliary display area according to the display position. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said display screen is a profiled screen, said main display area is a display area having a regular edge on said profiled screen, said secondary display area being said profiled screen A display area with irregular edges. The device according to claim 10, wherein the display module is configured to display a contact identification icon on the auxiliary display area when the banner notification in the landscape mode is a shielded state, the contact The contact account corresponding to the identification icon is an account provided by the second application. The device according to any one of claims 10 to 14, wherein the device further comprises an interaction module; The display module is configured to receive, by the interaction module, a first operation signal on the application icon, and display, according to the first operation signal, a second application on a local area of the first user interface. A message processing floating window is a floating window for displaying message processing on the unread message on a second partial area of the first user interface. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein said receiving module is configured to receive a second operation signal on said message processing floating window at said interaction module; and to perform said unread message according to said second operation signal Message processing, the message processing including at least one of message viewing, message reply, message forwarding, message tagging, message collection, and message deletion. The device according to claim 16, wherein the message processing floating window further displays a full screen button; the display module is configured to: when the interaction module receives the third operation signal on the full screen control, to the full screen The manner displays a message processing interface of the second application. The device according to claim 16, wherein the message processing floating window further displays a moving area; the display module is configured to, when the interaction module receives the fourth operation signal on the moving area, according to The fifth operational signal changes a display position of the message processing floating window on the first user interface. A terminal, the terminal comprising a processor and a memory; the memory storing at least one instruction for execution by the processor to implement a message alert as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 9. method. A computer readable storage medium storing at least one instruction for execution by a processor to implement the message alerting method of any of claims 1-9.

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