Application Control Method and Mobile Electronic Device thereof
AssigneeHTC Corporation
InventorsPeter Chou, Drew Bamford, John C. Wang, Huang-Chi Chou, Sung-Ming Chin
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Abstract
By checking a type of a foreground application of a mobile electronic device in response to an instruction triggered on a Bluetooth device and transmitted to the mobile electronic device in a wireless manner, a function of the foreground application will be executed corresponding to the instruction, where the type of the foreground application may be optionally switched before executing the function.
Claims19
An application control method of a mobile electronic device, comprising:
- mapping at least one key of a Bluetooth device to correspond to operations of at least two applications installed on a mobile electronic device;
- receiving a Bluetooth signal corresponding to the key from the Bluetooth device;
- converting the Bluetooth signal to a Bluetooth command;
- checking a type of a foreground application running on the mobile electronic device;
- and
- executing an operation corresponding to the Bluetooth command according to the type of the foreground application;
- wherein the at least two applications comprise at least one first application natively supported by the Bluetooth device and at least one second application originally not supported by the Bluetooth device.
An application control method of a mobile electronic device, comprising:
- configuring at least one Bluetooth key of a Bluetooth device to support at least a phone application and a non-phone application installed on a mobile electronic device;
- receiving a Bluetooth signal corresponding to the Bluetooth key from the Bluetooth device;
- checking a type of a foreground application activated on the mobile electronic device;
- and
- determining and executing an operation corresponding to the Bluetooth signal according to the type of the foreground application.
A mobile electronic device, comprising:
- a Bluetooth interface module, configured to receive a Bluetooth signal corresponding to a key of a Bluetooth device and to convert the Bluetooth signal into a Bluetooth command;
- an application status register, configured to store a foreground application status the mobile electronic device;
- and
- a processor, configured to execute at least two applications installed on the mobile electronic device, to map the key of the Bluetooth device to operations of the two applications respectively;
- and to execute one of the operations corresponding to the Bluetooth command according to the foreground application status;
- wherein at least one of the applications is not originally supported by the Bluetooth device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.