Electronic device having function of automatically arranging icons and method therefor
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsYING-CHUAN YU, YING-XIONG HUANG
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides an electronic device having a function of automatically arranging icons. The device includes a screen for displaying a plurality of icons, each icon corresponding to an application and a usage parameter, and a processing unit to record usage parameters of all the icons and update usage parameter of an icon if the corresponding application of the icon is run, and rearrange all the icons and display the rearranged icons on the screen.
Claims11
An electronic device having function of automatically arranging icons, comprising:
- a screen for displaying a plurality of icons, each icon corresponding to an application and a usage parameter;
- a storage unit for storing usage parameters of all the icons displayed on the screen;
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- a processing unit, comprising:
- a parameter recording module to record usage parameters of all the icons and update usage parameter of an icon if the corresponding application of the icon is run;
- a comparison module to compare the updated usage parameter of the icon whose corresponding application is run with usage parameters of the residual icons to generate a compassion result;
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- a display control module to rearrange all the icons according to an arrangement rule and the compassion result and display the rearranged icons on the screen.
An arranging method to automatically arrange icons displayed on a screen of an electronic device, the arranging method comprising steps operated by a processing unit to:
- record usage parameters of all the icons and update usage parameters of an icon if the corresponding application of the icon is run;
- compare the updated usage parameter of the icon whose corresponding application is run with usage parameters of the residual icons to generate a compassion result;
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- rearrange all the icons according to an arrangement rule and the compassion result and display the rearranged icons on the screen.
A system for automatically arranging icons, the system comprising:
- a parameter recording module to record usage parameters of all the icons and update usage parameter of an icon if the corresponding application of the icon is run;
- a comparison module to compare the updated usage parameter of the icon whose corresponding application is run with usage parameters of the residual icons to generate a compassion result;
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- a display control module to rearrange all the icons according to an arrangement rule and the compassion result and display the rearranged icons on a screen of an electronic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.