US 2015/0033007 A1Published application

Method and System for Sharing a Hotkey Between Application Instances

AssigneeTencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited

InventorsHuantong Liu, Weiwen Xie, Xin Xie, Shundong Gao

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Abstract

Examples of the present disclosure provide a method and a system for sharing a hotkey between application instances. The method includes receiving a hotkey release message from an application instance that registers a first hotkey, wherein the hotkey release message is to release the first hotkey and includes identification information about the first hotkey; and according to the identification information about the first hotkey, initiating a register request for registering the first hotkey. Employing the examples of the present disclosure, between application instances, when an application instance that currently registers a hotkey exits, the application instance that currently registers the hotkey may notify a next application instance to register the hotkey, so that the transitivity of the hotkey may be ensured, the hotkey may be shared, and the accuracy of hotkey response may be improved.

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Dependent claims

A method for sharing a hotkey between application instances, comprising:

receiving a hotkey release message from an application instance that registers a first hotkey;
wherein the hotkey release message is to release the first hotkey and comprises identification information about the first hotkey;
and
according to the identification information about the first hotkey, initiating a register request for registering the first hotkey
wherein an application instance that does not register the first hotkey and the application instance that registers the first hotkey have a same application type;
the method further comprising:
when there is a hotkey message of a second hotkey, receiving, by an application instance that registers the second hotkey, the hotkey message;
distributing, by the application instance that registers the second hotkey, the hotkey message to application instances that do not register the second hotkey;
determining whether there is an application instance that does not register the second hotkey and is to process the hotkey message;
in response to determining that there is the application instance that does not register the second hotkey and is to process the hotkey message, receiving feedback information about processing the hotkey message returned from the application instance that does not register the second hotkey;
and
in response to determining that there is not the application instance that does not register the second hotkey and is to process the hotkey message, processing, by the application instance that registers the second hotkey, the hotkey message.

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A system for sharing a hotkey between application instances, comprising a first application instance, wherein the first application instance does not register a first hotkey and comprises:

a first releasing module, to receive a hotkey release message from an application instance that registers the first hotkey, wherein the hotkey release message is to release the first hotkey and comprises identification information about the first hotkey;
a registering module, to initiate, according to the identification information about the first hotkey, a register request for registering the first hotkey;
and
a processing module;
wherein when the first application instance registers a second hotkey and there is a hotkey message of the second hotkey, the processing module is to:
receive the hotkey message,
distribute the hotkey message to application instances that do not register the second hotkey,
determine whether there is an application instance that does not register the second hotkey and is to process the hotkey message,
in response to determining that there is the application instance that does not register the second hotkey and is to process the hotkey message, receive feedback information about processing the hotkey message returned from the application instance that does not register the second hotkey, and
in response to determining that there is not the application instance that does not register the second hotkey and is to process the hotkey message, process the hotkey message.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.