US 11,628,360 B2 · Method and apparatus for controlling game applications

Abstract

A method and apparatus for controlling game applications are provided. In the method, when an operating system receives a game starting command, the operating system determines a manner to start a corresponding game application according to whether the game application has resided in a memory, and when a cold boot manner is used, the operating system triggers the game application to report an amount of memory required currently by the game application, and determines whether a requirement of running the game application is met according to the amount of memory required and an amount of memory currently used, or the operating system ensures to meet the requirement of running the game application through background application freezing and clearing. When the game application finishes running, the operating system uses a pre-trained machine learning model to predict running hotness of the game application on the terminal device according to a current operating parameter of the game application, sorts game applications on the terminal device according to the running hotness, and performs a corresponding residing process when determining that the game application needs to reside in the memory according to a sorting result. The method can efficiently shorten the time cost to start the game application.

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Dependent claims

A method for controlling game applications in an electronic device, the method comprising:

turning on a Wi-Fi scanning function;
determining, when starting a game application, whether a first condition to disable Wi-Fi scanning is satisfied;
turning off the Wi-Fi scanning function based on the first condition during executing the game application using a first network;
turning on, when a round of the game application is over and a game lobby scene has returned, the Wi-Fi scanning function in a background;
and
switching, based on detecting a first available hotspot in relation to a second network, from the first network to the second network, which is connected to the first available hotspot,
wherein the first condition is a condition in which a network access of the electronic device is performed through a cellular mobile network and the Wi-Fi scanning function is turned on without a second available hotspot, and
wherein the first network comprises the cellular mobile network.

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An electronic device for controlling game applications comprising:

an operating system module;
and
a game application module,
wherein the operating system module is configured to:
turn on a Wi-Fi scanning function,
determine, when starting a game application, whether a first condition to disable Wi-Fi scanning is satisfied,
turn off the Wi-Fi scanning function during executing the game application using a first network,
turn on, when a round of the game application is over and a game lobby scene has returned, the Wi Fi scanning function in a background,
switch, based on detecting a first available hotspot in relation to a second network, from the first network to the second network, which is connected to the first available hotspot, and
turn off, based on identifying that there is no the first available hotspot in relation to the second network, the Wi-Fi scanning function,
wherein the first condition is a condition in which a network access of the electronic device is performed through a cellular mobile network and the Wi-Fi scanning function is turned on without a second available hotspot, and
wherein the first network comprises the cellular mobile network.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and apparatus for controlling game applications

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