A mobile terminal may comprise an executing unit being configured to activate an alarm clock when the mobile terminal is off. The mobile terminal may be configured to receive a target alarm clock activation time; determine a time difference between a current time and the target alarm clock activation time; and compare the time difference with a first reference time period. Upon determining that time difference is less than the first reference time period, the mobile terminal may start up. Upon determining that the time that the mobile terminal completes the startup is less than a second reference time period, the mobile terminal may activate the alarm clock.
H04M 11/04 - Telephonic communication systems specially adapted for combination with other electrical systems with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
H04W 24/00 - Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
G04G 13/02 - Producing acoustic time signals at preselected times, e.g. alarm clocks
The present application is directed to apparatuses and methods for preventing information disclosure. According to example embodiments of the present application, after a mobile terminal of a user is lost, a first short message may be sent to the mobile terminal through a short message network. When the mobile terminal determines that the received short message is the first short message, user information stored in the mobile terminal may be erased by the mobile terminal.
A misoperation-preventing method for use in a mobile terminal having a touch screen, includes: monitoring a distance between the mobile terminal and an object in a surrounding environment, after the mobile terminal transitions from a standby state to an active state; determining if the distance satisfies a preset distance condition; and disabling the touch screen if it is determined that the distance satisfies the preset distance condition.
H04M 1/00 - Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
G06F 9/44 - Arrangements for executing specific programs
G06F 3/00 - Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computerOutput arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
G06F 3/041 - Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
G06F 3/0488 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
A message display method for use in a device, including: determining a sending time and recipients of a mass message sent from the device by a user; and displaying the mass message on a conversation page of a separate conversation between the user and a first one of the recipients according to the sending time of the mass message.
G06F 15/16 - Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs
A mobile terminal may comprise an executing unit being configured to activate an alarm clock when the mobile terminal is off. The mobile terminal may be configured to receive a target alarm clock activation time; determine a time difference between a current time and the target alarm clock activation time; and compare the time difference with a first reference time period. Upon determining that time difference is less than the first reference time period, the mobile terminal may start up. Upon determining that the time that the mobile terminal completes the startup is less than a second reference time period, the mobile terminal may activate the alarm clock.
H04M 11/04 - Telephonic communication systems specially adapted for combination with other electrical systems with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
H04M 1/00 - Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
G04G 13/02 - Producing acoustic time signals at preselected times, e.g. alarm clocks
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Methods and apparatus for preventing accidental touch operation
Method and apparatus for preventing an accidental touch operation. The method includes determining, when detecting a touch point in a display area on a touch screen, whether the touch point is within an invalid touch area based on the detected touch point in the display area; and making a response to the touch point only if it is determined that the touch point is not within the invalid touch area. If it is determined that the touch point is within the invalid touch area, no response to the touch point is made.
G06F 3/041 - Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
G06F 3/0488 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
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Method and apparatus for providing an interactive user interface
A method for providing an interactive user interface on a mobile terminal having a touch screen, including: displaying a content layer and a background layer corresponding to the content layer; detecting a contact event occurring on the screen of the mobile terminal and obtaining an operation command corresponding to the contact event; and executing an operation according to the obtained operation command; wherein the background layer is located below the content layer and is configured to display a scene as a background; and the content layer is configured to arrange at least a component for user interaction, a preset point of an icon corresponding to the component being set to correspond to a preset position of the content layer, and the preset position of the content layer being set to correspond to a preset position of the scene displayed by the background layer.
G06F 3/0481 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
G06F 3/0483 - Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
G06F 3/0488 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
G06F 9/44 - Arrangements for executing specific programs
Disclosed is an image capturing method. The method comprises: displaying, on a setting region of a touch screen of a mobile terminal, a preview of an image to be captured; obtaining a touch input operation on the setting region, the touch input operation being a touch contacting the touch screen, and the touch input operation being corresponding to execution of capturing the previewed image; and storing and displaying the captured image. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the existing fixed manner of image capturing is improved and an image to be captured can be captured by clicking any position on the touch screen in various scenarios, so that user experience is improved.
H04N 5/232 - Devices for controlling television cameras, e.g. remote control
G06F 3/0481 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
G06F 3/0488 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
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Methods and devices for user interactive interfaces on touchscreens
The present application is directed to devices and methods for touchscreen interactive interface. The method may comprise steps of combining two or more single-function buttons on the user interface of the touchscreen device into one multifunction button; monitoring a real-time touch operation with the multifunction button by a user; determining the type of the touch operation according to the time of the touch operation; and unfolding the two or more single-function buttons one after another around the multifunction button according to the type of the touch operation.
G06F 3/048 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
G06F 3/0482 - Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
G06F 3/0488 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
A method for sharing information for use in a first terminal, including: receiving, through an information display interface of the first terminal, a copy instruction for copying selected information; and transmitting, in response to the receiving of the copy instruction, the information to a server.
Disclosed are a dictionary tree generation method and searching method, comprising: converting contact information into pinyin; mapping the pinyin according to numbers in a T9 keyboard; marking a first pinyin corresponding to each Chinese character in the contact information in the numbers as a first letter node; and generating and storing the dictionary tree. Also disclosed is a dictionary tree searching method. The technical solution of the present invention occupies little storage space when storing the dictionary tree, and can quickly obtain the search result during searching, thus reducing the storage space requirement of the dictionary tree, while effectively reducing the response time during searching, and improving user experience.
Disclosed is a method for waking up a user, which is applicable to an instant messaging system. The method comprises: first judging whether a user is an inactive user according to the last time when the user uses an instant messaging system; if the user is the inactive user, checking whether other users send messages or friend invitations to the user in a duration when the user does not use the instant messaging system; if the other users send the instant messages or friend invitations to the user in the duration when the user does not use the instant messaging system, the instant messaging system judging whether the user is online; and if the user is offline, the instant messaging system sending wakeup information to the user. With the technical solution of the present invention, wakeup information can be specifically sent to a user according to historical behaviors of the user, thereby avoiding wakeup blindness and providing a more accurate wakeup notification for the user.
Disclosed is a method for sending an instant message. A graph is first edited on an edition template of a terminal, the terminal records a value of each pixel point of the graph, the value of the pixel point of the graph is sent to a peer terminal as data of an instant message, and the peer terminal receives the value of the pixel point of the graph, and displays the value. The technical solution of the present invention can send a graph as an instant message, thereby improving user expression capability and information amount, and enhancing availability and interest of an instant message system.
Disclosed is a method for adding contacts. A client encrypts every record of contact information of a user; the client sends the encrypted contact information to a server; the server matches every record of encrypted contact information of a user with every record of encrypted contact information of another user; if the matching succeeds, the two users send information thereof interactively, and the two users are added as respective contacts. By means of the technical solution of the present invention, it is helpful for the user to add contacts and expand the social range, and moreover, it is ensured that user private information is not revealed.
Disclosed is a method for placing a plug-in interface of a mobile terminal. A size of a plug-in interface is determined through previewing; a location capable of accommodating the plug-in interface is searched for in a display screen of a terminal mobile; and the plug-in interface is placed at the location in the display screen capable of accommodating the plug-in interface for display. Through the technical solution of the present invention, the size of a plug-in interface and a location in a display screen capable of accommodating the plug-in interface can be known, so that the plug-in interface can be placed in a proper location in the display screen at a time.
A method and an apparatus for monitoring data flow of a mobile terminal are provided. A flow count module (101) is configured at each data interface (104) of the mobile terminal; the data flow of each data interface (104) is monitored by the flow count module (101); the data flow of each data interface (104) is displayed respectively. With the technical solution of the present invention, not only ways of the data flow can be clearly notified to the mobile terminal user but also fees resulting from different ways can be given in real time.
Disclosed in the present invention are a method for transmitting an instant message, which comprises that a transmitting client transmits an instant message to a receiving client via an instant communication system; the transmitting client determines that the instant message is not received by the receiving client; the instant message is converted into a short message or a multimedia message; the short message or the multimedia message into which the instant message is converted is transmitted to the receiving client via a short message system or a multimedia message system. With the technical solution of the invention, not only are costs of communications reduced, but also instant communications at any time and at any place are ensured.
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