CN110083737A - A kind of searching method and terminal device - Google Patents

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a search method and a terminal device, which relate to the field of communication technology, and solve the problem that the current terminal device only searches content in one application program, resulting in insufficient content searched by the terminal device. The method includes: acquiring first information input by a user, the first information is used to search for target content in at least two target application programs, the target application programs are application programs supporting the type of target content; and based on the first information, Search for the target content in the at least two target application programs to obtain N search results, at least two of the N search results are from different application programs, and N is an integer greater than 1; and displaying the N search results search results. This method is applied to a scenario where a terminal device searches for content in an application program.

Description

A search method and terminal device

technical field

The embodiments of the present invention relate to the technical field of communication, and in particular, to a search method and a terminal device.

Background technique

With the rapid development of communication technology, terminal equipment is more and more widely used, and users have higher and higher performance requirements for terminal equipment.

Currently, users can customize song lists in terminal devices according to their preferences. Usually, a song list can include at least one song. When the user customizes the song list in a music application in the terminal device, the user can trigger the terminal device to add songs (including downloaded and/or undownloaded) provided by the music application to the song list .

However, because each song is protected by its copyright, that is, only the music application program authorized by the developer with the copyright of the song can play the song, so the songs that can be searched by different music application programs may be different. In this way, when the user customizes the song list in a music application, the terminal device can only add the songs provided by the music application (that is, the songs that can be searched through the music application) to the song list, so As a result, the songs in the song list generated by the terminal device are relatively limited, and the content of the song list generated by the terminal device is not rich enough.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Embodiments of the present invention provide a search method and a terminal device to solve the problem that the terminal device only searches for content in one application program, resulting in insufficient content searched by the terminal device.

In order to solve the above-mentioned technical problems, the embodiment of the present invention is implemented as follows:

In the first aspect, the embodiment of the present invention provides a search method, the method includes: obtaining the first information input by the user; and based on the first information, searching for the target content in at least two target application programs to obtain N search results results; and displaying the N search results. Wherein, the first information is used to search for the target content in the at least two target application programs, the target application program is an application program supporting the target content type, and at least two of the N search results come from different Application program, N is an integer greater than 1.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal device, where the terminal device includes an acquisition module, a search module, and a display module. The obtaining module is used to obtain the first information input by the user; the search module is used to search the target content in at least two target application programs based on the first information obtained by the obtaining module, and obtain N search results; the display module is used to Display the N search results searched by the search module. Wherein, the first information is used to search for the target content in the at least two target application programs, the target application program is an application program supporting the target content type, and at least two of the N search results come from different Application program, N is an integer greater than 1.

In the third aspect, the embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal device, the terminal device includes a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored on the memory and operable on the processor, when the computer program is executed by the processor The steps of the search method in the above-mentioned first aspect are realized.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps of the search method in the above-mentioned first aspect are implemented.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the first information input by the user (used to search for target content in at least two target application programs) can be acquired, and based on the first information, search for at least two target application programs (supporting target content type) Search the target content in the application program) to obtain N search results (at least two of the N search results are from different application programs, and N is an integer greater than 1); and display the N search results. Through this solution, since different applications supporting the same content type may provide different content, the terminal device uses the information input by the user to search for information related to the information among multiple application programs supporting the same content type in the terminal device. content, which can increase the probability that the terminal device will search for content related to the information. In this way, when the user inputs certain information in the terminal device, the terminal device can use this information to search different search results from different application programs to obtain different content, so that the content searched by the terminal device can be compared Rich.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of the architecture of the Android operating system provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is one of the schematic diagrams of the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is one of the interface schematic diagrams of the search method application provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is the second schematic diagram of the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is the third schematic diagram of the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is the fourth schematic diagram of the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 7 is the fifth schematic diagram of the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 8 is the second schematic diagram of the interface of the search method application provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is the sixth schematic diagram of the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 10 is the seventh schematic diagram of the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 11 is one of the schematic structural diagrams of a terminal device provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 12 is a second structural schematic diagram of a terminal device provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 13 is a third structural schematic diagram of a terminal device provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram of hardware of a terminal device provided by an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

The following will clearly and completely describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are some of the embodiments of the present invention, but not all of them. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

The term "and/or" in this article is an association relationship describing associated objects, which means that there can be three relationships, for example, A and/or B can mean: A exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone These three situations. The symbol "/" in this document indicates that the associated object is an or relationship, for example, A/B indicates A or B.

The terms "first" and "second" in the specification and claims of the present invention are used to distinguish different objects, rather than to describe a specific order of objects. For example, the first information and the second information are used to distinguish different information, not to describe a specific sequence of information.

In the embodiments of the present invention, words such as "exemplary" or "for example" are used as examples, illustrations or illustrations. Any embodiment or design solution described as "exemplary" or "for example" in the embodiments of the present invention shall not be construed as being more preferred or more advantageous than other embodiments or design solutions. Rather, the use of words such as "exemplary" or "such as" is intended to present related concepts in a concrete manner.

In the description of the embodiments of the present invention, unless otherwise specified, "multiple" means two or more, for example, a plurality of processing units refers to two or more processing units.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a search method and a terminal device, which can acquire the first information input by the user (used to search for target content in at least two target application programs), and based on the first information, search for target content in at least two target application programs. program (an application that supports the target content type) to search for the target content, and obtain N search results (at least two of the N search results are from different applications, and N is an integer greater than 1); and display the N search results. Through this solution, since different applications supporting the same content type may provide different content, the terminal device uses the information input by the user to search for information related to the information among multiple application programs supporting the same content type in the terminal device. content, which can increase the probability that the terminal device will search for content related to the information. In this way, when the user inputs certain information in the terminal device, the terminal device can use this information to search different search results from different application programs to obtain different content, so that the content searched by the terminal device can be compared Rich.

The terminal device in this embodiment of the present invention may be a terminal device with an operating system. The operating system may be an Android operating system, an ios operating system, or other possible operating systems, which are not specifically limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

The following uses the Android operating system as an example to introduce the software environment to which the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention is applied.

As shown in FIG. 1 , it is a schematic structural diagram of a possible Android operating system provided by an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1 , the architecture of the Android operating system includes four layers, namely: an application layer, an application framework layer, a system runtime layer and a kernel layer (specifically, the Linux kernel layer).

Wherein, the application program layer includes various application programs (including system application programs and third-party application programs) in the Android operating system.

The application program framework layer is the application program framework, and developers can develop some applications based on the application program framework layer while complying with the development principles of the application program framework layer.

The system runtime layer includes libraries (also called system libraries) and the Android operating system runtime environment. The library mainly provides various resources required by the Android operating system. The Android operating system operating environment is used to provide a software environment for the Android operating system.

The kernel layer is the operating system layer of the Android operating system and belongs to the bottom layer of the Android operating system software layer. The kernel layer provides core system services and hardware-related drivers for the Android operating system based on the Linux kernel.

Taking the Android operating system as an example, in the embodiment of the present invention, developers can develop a software program that implements the search method provided in the embodiment of the present invention based on the system architecture of the above-mentioned Android operating system shown in Figure 1, so that the search method It can run based on the Android operating system shown in Figure 1. That is, the processor or the terminal device can implement the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention by running the software program in the Android operating system.

The terminal device in the embodiment of the present invention may be a mobile terminal or a non-mobile terminal. Exemplarily, the mobile terminal may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palmtop computer, a vehicle terminal, a wearable device, an ultra-mobile personal computer (ultra-mobile personal computer, UMPC), a netbook or a personal digital assistant (personal digital assistant, PDA) ), etc., the non-mobile terminal may be a personal computer (personal computer, PC), a television (television, TV), a teller machine or a self-service machine, etc., which are not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

The execution subject of the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may be the above-mentioned terminal device, or a functional module and/or a functional entity in the terminal device that can implement the search method, which may be specifically determined according to actual use requirements. The present invention Examples are not limited. The following uses a terminal device as an example to illustrate the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention.

The search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to any one of the two scenarios listed below.

Scenario 1: The terminal device searches for music content. It can be understood that in the first scenario, the songs belonging to the music category are the target content in the embodiment of the present invention.

Scenario 2: The terminal device searches for shopping content. It can be understood that in the second scenario, the items belonging to the shopping category are the target content in the embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the present invention, for any of the above scenarios, if the user needs to obtain a certain content from the terminal device, the user can input the relevant information of the content in the terminal device (such as the first information in the embodiment of the present invention, may be the name of the content, the name of the content owner, etc.), so that the terminal device can, based on these information, include at least two application programs (such as at least two target application programs in the embodiment of the present invention) that may include the content in the terminal device The content is searched to obtain at least two search results, and the at least two search results are displayed, so that the user can obtain the content he needs according to the search results displayed on the terminal device.

The search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention will be exemplarily described below in combination with the above two scenarios and each accompanying drawing.

As shown in FIG. 2 , an embodiment of the present invention provides a search method, and the method may include the following steps 201 - 203 .

Step 201, the terminal device acquires first information input by a user.

Wherein, the above-mentioned first information may be used to search for the target content in at least two target application programs, and the target application programs may be applications supporting the target content type.

In the embodiment of the present invention, when a user searches for a certain type of content (ie, the above-mentioned target content type) in the terminal device (ie, the above-mentioned target content), the user can input relevant information of the content (ie, the above-mentioned first content type) in the terminal device. information), so that the terminal device can acquire the first information.

It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned target content type may be used to indicate the type corresponding to the above-mentioned target content.

In the embodiment of the present invention, for the above-mentioned scene one (that is, the terminal device searches for music content), the above-mentioned target content type can be music; for the above-mentioned scene two (that is, the terminal device searches for shopping content), the above-mentioned target content type can be for shopping.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the aforementioned at least two target application programs are applications supporting the aforementioned target content type. It may be understood that: the aforementioned at least two target application programs can provide content of the target content type.

It can be understood that, for the above scenario 1 (the terminal device searches for music-related content), the above-mentioned target content type may be music-related, and the above-mentioned at least two target applications may be music-supporting applications (that is, music-related content can be provided) . Thus, in the first scenario, the at least two target application programs may include at least one of a music application program and a browser application program (with a function of searching for songs).

Correspondingly, for the above scenario two (the terminal device searches for shopping-related content), the above-mentioned target content type may be shopping-related, and the above-mentioned at least two target applications may be applications that support shopping (that is, can provide shopping-related content) . Thus, in the second scenario, the at least two target application programs may include at least one of a shopping application program and a browser application program (with a function of searching for items).

In the embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned first information may be information related to the above-mentioned target content.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned first information may include the name of the above-mentioned target content, the name of the owner of the above-mentioned target content, some content in the above-mentioned target content (such as keywords, etc.), the link of the above-mentioned target content, and possibly Including at least one item of any information related to the target content, such as the name of the application program of the target content. Specifically, it may be determined according to actual usage requirements, and is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

Exemplarily, for the above-mentioned scene one (that is, the terminal device searches for music-type content), the above-mentioned target content may be a song, then the above-mentioned first information may include the name of the song, the name of the singer of the song, the part of the song Lyrics, and at least one item of information that may include the name of an application for the song. Specifically, it may be determined according to actual usage requirements, and is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

As another example, for the above-mentioned scenario two (that is, the terminal device searches for shopping content), the above-mentioned target content may be an item, then the above-mentioned first information may include the name of the item, the picture of the item, the name of the merchant selling the item, A purchase link of the item, and at least one item of information such as a name of an application that may include the item. Specifically, it may be determined according to actual usage requirements, and is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device may obtain the foregoing first information through a certain search interface (hereinafter referred to as a target interface).

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned target interface may be an application program or a search module in any form such as a control, a plug-in, or a web page with a search function, which may be determined according to actual usage requirements, and is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention. .

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the interface corresponding to the above-mentioned target interface may include a target input box, and the terminal device may obtain the above-mentioned first information input by the user through the target input box.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned target input box may be one input box, or may be multiple input boxes.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, when the above-mentioned target input box is multiple input boxes, the user may input information in at least one of the multiple input boxes, that is, the above-mentioned first information may include at least one information.

Exemplarily, in the embodiment of the present invention, taking the above-mentioned scenario 1 as an example, it is assumed that the above-mentioned target interface includes three input boxes, and these three input boxes are input box 31, input box 32, and input box as shown in FIG. 33. Wherein, the input box 31 is used for inputting the name of the song, the input box 32 is used for inputting the name of the singer of the song (such as the name of the singer or the name of the group, etc.), and the input box 33 is used for inputting the name of the application which may include the song.

Step 202: The terminal device searches for the target content in at least two target application programs based on the first information, and obtains at least N search results.

Wherein, at least two of the above N search results may come from different application programs, and N is an integer greater than 1.

In the embodiment of the present invention, after the terminal device obtains the above-mentioned first information, the terminal device can use the first information to search for the application program (that is, the above-mentioned at least two target application programs) in the terminal device that supports the above-mentioned target content type. The above target content, and get N search results.

In the embodiment of the present invention, based on the above first information, the terminal device may search and obtain different search results from the above at least two target application programs, so as to obtain the above N search results.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the above N search results may include the content related to the above first information searched by the terminal device and the search results that do not include any content (that is, the terminal device is in the application program and has not searched to any content related to the first information) at least one search result. Specifically, it may be determined according to actual usage conditions, and is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, for the above-mentioned scenario one, one of the above-mentioned N search results may be used to indicate a song searched by the terminal device from one of the above-mentioned at least two target application programs. songs or no related songs have been searched; for the above scenario two, one of the above N search results may be used to indicate an item that the terminal device has searched for from one of the above at least two target applications Or no related items were found.

Exemplarily, in the embodiment of the present invention, taking the above-mentioned scenario 1 as an example, it is assumed that the above-mentioned target content is a song, and the terminal device uses the above-mentioned first information in three application programs (that is, the above-mentioned at least two target application programs) To search for the song, the 3 applications are: application 1, application 2 and application 3, wherein the terminal device searches 2 songs in application 1 and 1 song in application 2, No songs were searched in App 3. Then the above-mentioned at least two search results may include 3 songs and a piece of prompt information (for prompting the user that the terminal device has not found any song in the "application program 3").

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device may use the above-mentioned first information to search for the above-mentioned target content in all of the above-mentioned at least two target application programs, or may search for the above-mentioned target content in some of the at least two target application programs. Search for the above-mentioned target content in the application. Specifically, it may be determined according to actual usage requirements, and is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device can search for the above-mentioned target content in at least two of the above-mentioned at least two target application programs based on the above-mentioned first information, because the terminal device can be in different application programs Different search results are obtained by searching in the above N search results, so at least two of the above N search results are from different application programs.

Step 203, the terminal device displays the at least N search results.

In the embodiment of the present invention, after the terminal device obtains the above N search results, the terminal device may display the N search results to show the user that the terminal device searches in the above at least two target application programs based on the above first information. Content.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device may display the above N search results through the above target interface, that is, display the above N search results on an interface corresponding to the target interface.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, each of the above N search results (hereinafter referred to as each search result) may include information about one content.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, each of the above search results may include content name, content owner name, part of the content in the content (such as keywords, etc.), links to the content, and the name of the application that provides the content, etc. At least one item of information related to the content. Specifically, it may be determined according to actual usage requirements, and is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the present invention, for the above scenario 1 (that is, the terminal device searches for music content), each of the above search results may include at least one item of information such as the name of the song and the name of the application program that provides the song.

For the first scenario above, each of the above search results may also include the name of the song singer.

Correspondingly, for the above scenario two (that is, the terminal device searches for shopping content), each of the above search results may include at least one of the name of the item, the picture of the item, the purchase link of the item, and the name of the application program that provides the item. item.

For the second scenario above, each of the above search results may also include the name of the merchant selling the item.

Exemplarily, taking the above scenario 1 as an example, assuming that each of the above search results includes the name of the song, the name of the singer, and the name of the application program that provides the song, the terminal device searches for 2 target applications from the above at least two target applications. Search results, these two search results are search result 1 and search result 2 respectively, wherein search result 1 is used to indicate the song searched by the terminal device from "application program 1", and the search result 1 includes the song name "XXXX" , the name of the song singer "Singer 1", the name of the application that provides the song "Application 1"; the search result 2 is used to indicate the song that the terminal device has searched from "Application 2", and the search result 2 includes the song name " YYYY", the name of the artist of the song "Singer 2", the name of the application that provides the song "App 2". Then, as shown in FIG. 3 , the terminal device may display search result 1 in area 34 in FIG. 3 , and display search result 2 in area 35 in FIG. 3 .

An embodiment of the present invention provides a search method. Since the content provided by different applications supporting the same content type may be different, the terminal device uses the information input by the user to search among multiple application programs supporting the same content type in the terminal device. Searching for content related to the information can increase the probability that the terminal device will find the content related to the information. In this way, when the user inputs certain information in the terminal device, the terminal device can use the information to search for different search results from different applications to obtain different content. Further, when the information input by the user is different , the terminal device can also search for different content, so that the scope of the content searched by the terminal device can be expanded, and thus the content searched by the terminal device can be enriched.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, since there are many types of application programs in the terminal device, after the terminal device acquires the first information input by the user, first the terminal device can determine the supported application programs in the terminal device according to the first information. The type of the application program of the above-mentioned target content type (such as the target type in the embodiment of the present invention), and then the terminal device can determine at least two application programs that match this type (such as the target type in the embodiment of the present invention) from the applications in the terminal device at least two target application programs), so that the terminal device can search for the above target content in the at least two application programs.

Exemplarily, referring to FIG. 2 , as shown in FIG. 4 , after the above step 201 , the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following steps 204 and 205 .

Step 204, the terminal device determines the target type according to the first information.

Wherein, the above-mentioned target type may be used to indicate an application program supporting the above-mentioned target content type, that is, the target type may be a type of an application program supporting the above-mentioned target content type.

Step 205, the terminal device determines at least two target application programs matching the target type.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device can determine the content that the user may want to search for (that is, the above-mentioned target content) according to the above-mentioned first information, so as to determine the above-mentioned target type according to the content, and then after the terminal device determines the target type, the terminal The device may determine at least two application programs matching the target type from the application programs in the terminal device (that is, the at least two target application programs mentioned above).

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned at least two target application programs matching the target type can be understood as: the terminal device can provide the content of the above-mentioned target content type (that is, the content of the same type as the above-mentioned target content) at least two applications.

Exemplarily, for Scenario 1 (the terminal device searches for music-related content), the above-mentioned target content may be a song, and the above-mentioned target application program may be an application program supporting music, so the above-mentioned target type may include music and browser categories, etc.; for scene two (the terminal device searches for shopping content), the above-mentioned target content can be a purchased item, and the above-mentioned target application program can be an application program that supports shopping, so the above-mentioned target type can include shopping categories and browser categories. Wait.

In the embodiment of the present invention, since there are many applications in the terminal device, after the terminal device acquires the above-mentioned first information, the terminal device may not be able to determine which application programs should search for the above-mentioned target content, which may cause the terminal device to search for the above-mentioned target content. The efficiency is low, so the terminal device can first determine the above-mentioned target type according to the first information, and then determine the application program (that is, the above-mentioned at least two target application programs) that matches the target type, so that the terminal device can be improved according to the target type. The accuracy of the content searched by the first information.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, before the terminal device searches for the above-mentioned target content in the above-mentioned at least two target application programs, the terminal device may first obtain the information of the at least two target application programs (such as the name of the application program, the application Program usage frequency, application type and other information), and then the terminal device can determine the search priority of the at least two target application programs according to these information, so that the terminal device can sequentially search the at least two target application programs according to the search priority Search the target content in the application.

Exemplarily, referring to FIG. 2 , as shown in FIG. 5 , before the above step 202 , the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following steps 206 and 207 . The above step 202 can be realized by the following step 202a.

Step 206, the terminal device acquires information of at least two target application programs based on the first information, and obtains second information.

Wherein, the above-mentioned second information may be at least one of the following: application name, application frequency, and application type.

Step 207, the terminal device determines the search priorities of the at least two target application programs according to the second information.

Step 202a, the terminal device sequentially searches for the target content in the at least two target application programs according to the search priority.

In the embodiment of the present invention, after the terminal device obtains the above-mentioned first information, the terminal device may first obtain the information of the above-mentioned at least two target application programs to obtain the above-mentioned second information, and then the terminal device may determine the Search priorities for at least two target applications. After the terminal device determines the search priorities of the at least two target application programs, the terminal device may sequentially search for the above target content in the at least two application programs according to the search priorities.

In the embodiment of the present invention, since at least one of the application program name, the application frequency, and the application program type (that is, the above-mentioned second information) can indicate the possibility of the user using the at least two target application programs, the terminal The device can determine the user's priority of using the at least two target application programs according to the information (ie, the above-mentioned second information), and then the terminal device can use the user's priority of using the at least two target application programs as the at least two target application programs. The search priority of the program.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the method for the terminal device to search for the above-mentioned target content in the above-mentioned at least two target application programs according to the above-mentioned search priority may include two methods, which are respectively method 1 and method 2. The following specifically discusses these Two modes (mode 1 and mode 2) are used for exemplary description.

Way 1: The terminal device searches for the above-mentioned target content in the above-mentioned at least two target application programs sequentially according to the above-mentioned search priority until the target content is found.

Optionally, for the above manner 1, the above search priority may also be determined according to whether the above first information includes the name of the first target application program. Wherein, the first target application program may be an application program in the above at least two target application programs.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, in the first possible implementation manner, if the first information includes the name of the first target application program, the terminal device may preferentially select the first target application program Search for the above-mentioned target content, and then search for the above-mentioned target content in other applications.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, when the terminal device does not find the above-mentioned target content in the above-mentioned first target application program during the process of the terminal device searching for the target content, the terminal device can use the browser application in the terminal device Search the application program that includes the target content in the program, and detect whether the application program is included in the terminal device. If the application program is included in the terminal device, the terminal device can display the name of the application program to prompt the user to modify the above-mentioned first information The name of the application program included in the modified application program, and search for the above target content in the modified application program; if the application program is not included in the terminal device, then the terminal device can obtain the address information of the web page that includes the target content.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, when the terminal device obtains the address information of the webpage including the above target content, the terminal device may display target prompt information to remind the user: the application program in the terminal device does not include the target content, and The user can obtain the target content through the address information of the webpage.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present invention, in the second possible implementation manner, if the first information does not include the name of the first target application, the terminal device may The frequency of use is to search for the above target content in the above M application programs sequentially in descending order of the frequency of use until the target content is found.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present invention, in the third possible implementation manner, the terminal device may combine the application type of the application program and the frequency of use of the at least two target application programs, and sequentially select the above-mentioned at least two target application programs. Search for the above target content in , until the target content is found.

Specifically, the terminal device may first search for the above-mentioned target content in each application that only supports the above-mentioned target content type in order of frequency of use from high to low, and then search for the above-mentioned target content in order of frequency of use from high to low. In other application programs that support the above-mentioned target content type, the above-mentioned target content is searched until the target content is found.

In the embodiment of the present invention, for the above-mentioned scenario 1, the terminal device can first follow the order of the frequency of use from high to low, and sequentially select each music application program (that is, the application program that only supports the above-mentioned music content) in the terminal device. Search for the above target content, and then, in order of frequency of use from high to low, in each browser application program in the terminal device (such as browser application program, etc., that is, an application program that can support the above music content) Search for the above target content in , until the target content is found.

Correspondingly, for the above-mentioned scenario two, the terminal device can first search for the above-mentioned target in each shopping application program (that is, an application program that only supports the above-mentioned shopping content) in the terminal device in order of usage frequency from high to low. content, and then search for the above-mentioned content in each browser application program (such as a browser application program, etc., that is, an application program that can support the above-mentioned shopping content) in the terminal device in order of frequency of use from high to low. target content until the target content is found.

Exemplarily, taking the above scenario 1 as an example, it is assumed that the above-mentioned at least two target applications include two music-type applications and one browser-type application, and the two music-type applications are application 1 and application 2. The browser application program is application program 3, wherein the usage frequency of application program 2 is higher than that of application program 1. Then, when the terminal device searches for the above-mentioned target content in the above-mentioned at least two target application programs based on the above-mentioned first information, the terminal device can first search for the target content in the application program 2, if the application program 2 includes the target content, Then the terminal device searches for the target content, and the terminal device stops searching; if the target content is not included in the application program 2, the terminal device continues to search for the target content in the application program 1, and if the target content is included in the application program 1, Then the terminal device searches for the target content, and the terminal device stops searching; if the target content is not included in the application program 1, the terminal device continues to search for the target content in the application program 3 until the target content is searched in the application program 3 content or the target content is not found in any of the 3 applications.

Method 2: The terminal device searches for the above target content in the above at least two target application programs sequentially according to the above search priorities until the at least two target application programs are searched.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device may search for the above-mentioned target content in the above-mentioned at least two target application programs sequentially according to the above-mentioned search priorities, so that the terminal device may search for different search results from the at least two target application programs ( That is, the above N search results), the user can select the desired content according to the different search results obtained by the terminal device.

In the embodiment of the present invention, since the application program name, application frequency, and application program type (that is, the above-mentioned second information) can indicate the user's possibility of using the above-mentioned at least two target application programs, the terminal device Priorities for the user to use the at least two target application programs may be determined. Then the terminal device uses the priority of the at least two target application programs used by the user as the search priority, and according to the search priority, searches for the above-mentioned target content in the at least two target application programs in turn, which can make the terminal device reasonably use the terminal Search resources in the device to avoid wasting unnecessary search resources.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, after the terminal device displays the above N search results, if the user needs to display the content indicated by a certain search result (such as the target search result in the embodiment of the present invention) (such as the The target sub-object in ) is added to a certain information set (such as the target object in the embodiment of the present invention), then the user can trigger the terminal by inputting the search result (such as the first input in the embodiment of the present invention) The device adds the content indicated by the search result to the information set, so that the user can obtain the content indicated by the search result through the information set.

Exemplarily, referring to FIG. 2 , as shown in FIG. 6 , after the above step 203 , the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following steps 208 and 209 .

Step 208, the terminal device receives a user's first input on a target search result among the N search results.

In step 209, the terminal device adds the sub-object indicated by the target search result to the target object in response to the first input.

In the embodiment of the present invention, after the terminal device displays the above N search results, if the user needs to add the content indicated by one of the N search results (ie the above target search result) (ie the above target sub-object) to the above target object, then the user can trigger the terminal device to add the target sub-object indicated by the target search result to the target object by inputting the target search result (that is, the above first input).

It should be noted that, in this embodiment of the present invention, a sub-object may be understood as content corresponding to a search result that the terminal device searches in the at least two target application programs based on the first information. The sub-object may be the same content as the above-mentioned target content (the content searched by the user), or may be content related to the above-mentioned target content.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned first input may be a user's selection input on the above-mentioned target search result.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned first input may be any possible input such as a user's single-click input, double-click input, or long-press input of the target search result. Specifically, it may be determined according to actual usage requirements, and is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the long-press input may be an input that the user presses on the target search result for a duration greater than or equal to a time threshold.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the foregoing time threshold may be a value preset in the terminal device, and the time threshold may be preset in the terminal device by a manufacturer of the terminal device. Specifically, it may be determined according to actual usage requirements, and is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned target object may be a collection of the same type of content (such as songs, items, etc. in the embodiment of the present invention).

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the form of the above-mentioned target object may be in any possible form such as a queue form or a list form. Specifically, it may be determined according to actual usage requirements, and is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

Exemplarily, in the first scenario above, the above-mentioned target object may be any object that may include at least one song, such as "song list", "my collection", "download", and "recently played". In the second scenario above, the above-mentioned target object can be any object that can include at least one item (item that can be purchased), such as "shopping cart", "my favorites", and "recently browsed".

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, when the terminal device adds the target sub-object indicated by the target search result to the target object, the terminal device may save the storage space corresponding to the target object in the terminal device (hereinafter referred to as the target storage space) to store the relevant information of the sub-object.

In the embodiment of the present invention, for the above-mentioned scenario 1, the terminal device may store information such as the song name and the name of the singer of the song indicated by the above-mentioned target search result (ie, the above-mentioned target sub-object) in the above-mentioned target storage space.

Optionally, for the above scenario 1, the terminal device may also store the name of the application that provides the song indicated by the above search result (that is, the above target sub-object), or the address information of the web page in the above target storage space.

Correspondingly, for the above-mentioned scenario two, the terminal device may store information such as the name of the item indicated by the above-mentioned target search result (that is, the above-mentioned target sub-object), the keyword of the item, the name of the merchant selling the item, and the purchase link of the item. to the above target storage space.

Optionally, for the second scenario above, the terminal device may also store the name of the application that provides the item indicated by the search result (that is, the target sub-object) or the address information of the webpage in the target storage space.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the user can trigger the terminal device to add the target sub-object (such as song, item, etc.) indicated by the target search result to the target object through the above-mentioned first input, so that the user can trigger the The terminal device outputs the sub-object, so that the user can obtain the sub-object more conveniently through the terminal device.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the above target object may include K sub-objects (K is an integer greater than 1). When the terminal device displays the sub-objects in the target object, the terminal device can first obtain the relevant information of the K sub-objects, and then the terminal device can determine the display priority of the K sub-objects according to the information, so that the terminal device can follow the K The display priority of K sub-objects, display the K sub-objects. In this way, the terminal device can display the content that the user most needs to obtain at a relatively front position, so that the user can easily select the content.

Exemplarily, referring to FIG. 6 , as shown in FIG. 7 , after step 209 , the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following steps 210 - 212 .

Step 210, the terminal device acquires information of K sub-objects to obtain third information.

Wherein, the above-mentioned third information may include at least one of the following items: sub-object name, sub-object owner name, application program name providing sub-object, usage frequency of sub-object, and sub-object number.

Step 211, the terminal device determines the display priorities of the K sub-objects according to the third information.

Step 212, the terminal device displays the K sub-objects according to the display priority.

In the embodiment of the present invention, when the terminal device displays the K sub-objects in the above-mentioned target objects, the terminal device can first obtain the related information of the K sub-objects to obtain the above-mentioned third information, so that the terminal device can determine according to the third information display priority of the K sub-objects, and display the K sub-objects according to the display priority.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the timing at which the terminal device displays the above K sub-objects may include the following two situations, which are respectively Case 1 and Case 2. The following two cases (Case 1 and Case 2) are specifically described below. 2) Give an exemplary description.

Situation 1: After the user triggers the terminal device to add the target sub-object indicated by the above-mentioned target search result to the target object, the terminal device can directly display the above-mentioned target object to show the user the K sub-objects included in the target object, that is, to show the user The content included in this target object.

Situation 2: The user triggers the terminal device to display the interface corresponding to the above-mentioned target interface, and the terminal device can display the above-mentioned target object on the interface to show the user the K sub-objects included in the target object, that is, to show the user that the target object includes Content.

It can be understood that, in actual implementation, the timing at which the terminal device displays the above K sub-objects may also include any other possible timing. Specifically, it may be determined according to actual usage requirements, and is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the display method for the terminal device to display the above K sub-objects may include: the terminal device displays the above K sub-objects in an interface corresponding to the above-mentioned target interface in a horizontal arrangement, or the terminal device displays the above K sub-objects in a vertical The way of arrangement is to display the K sub-objects and so on in the interface corresponding to the target interface. Specifically, it may be determined according to actual usage requirements, and is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

It should be noted that the above third information includes the name of each sub-object in the above K sub-objects, the name of the owner of each sub-object, the name of the application program that provides the sub-object, the frequency of use of each sub-object, and the number of each sub-object. at least one.

Specifically, the above-mentioned third information includes information of the same type of each sub-object in the above-mentioned K sub-objects.

Exemplarily, taking the above-mentioned third information including sub-object names as an example, assuming K=3, that is, the above-mentioned target object includes three sub-objects, which are sub-object 1, sub-object 2, and sub-object 3 respectively. Then the third information may include the name of sub-object 1, the name of sub-object 2 and the name of sub-object 3.

In the embodiment of the present invention, since the above-mentioned target storage space stores the relevant information of each of the K sub-objects, such as the name of the sub-object, the name of the owner of the sub-object, the name of the application that provides the sub-object, and the use of the sub-object frequency, and the serial number of the sub-object, etc., so the terminal device can obtain these information to obtain the above-mentioned third information.

In the embodiment of the present invention, because at least one of the name of the sub-object, the name of the owner of the sub-object, the name of the application that provides the sub-object, the frequency of use of the sub-object, and the serial number of the sub-object (that is, the third information above) can be used In order to represent the possibility of users using these sub-objects, the terminal device can determine the priority of possible users using each sub-object according to these information (ie, the third information), and then the terminal device can use the priority of each sub-object for possible users to use level as the display priority of each sub-object.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, when the above-mentioned third information includes at least the name of the sub-object, the above-mentioned display priority may be determined according to the first letter of the name of the sub-object. The higher the priority. When the third information includes at least the name of the owner of the sub-object, the display priority may be determined according to the first letter of the name of the owner of the sub-object, the higher the first letter of the name of the owner of the sub-object, the higher the display priority of the sub-object . When the above third information includes at least the name of the application program that provides the sub-object, the above-mentioned display priority can be determined according to the first letter of the name of the application program that provides the sub-object. The higher the display priority is. When the third information includes at least the frequency of use of the sub-object, the display priority may be determined according to the frequency of use of the sub-object. The higher the frequency of use of the sub-object, the higher the display priority of the sub-object. When the third information includes at least the number of the sub-object, the display priority may be determined according to the number of the sub-object, and the smaller the number of the sub-object, the higher the display priority of the sub-object.

Of course, in actual implementation, the above display priority can also be determined based on a combination of multiple items of information in the name of the sub-object, the name of the owner of the sub-object, the name of the application that provides the sub-object, the frequency of use of the sub-object, and the number of the sub-object. The embodiments of the invention are not limited.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the numbers of the foregoing sub-objects may be determined according to the sequence in which the terminal device stores the sub-objects. Specifically, the earlier the terminal device stores the sub-object in the target storage space, the smaller its number.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, after the terminal device displays the above K sub-objects, the user can change the serial number of the K sub-objects according to his own usage requirements, so as to change the display order of the K sub-objects.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, when the serial number of a certain sub-object among the K sub-objects changes, the serial numbers of other sub-objects will also change along with the change of the serial number of the sub-object.

Exemplarily, in this embodiment of the present invention, it is assumed that the above target object includes 4 sub-objects (that is, K=4), and the 4 sub-objects are respectively: sub-object 1, sub-object 2, sub-object 3 and sub-object 4. Among them, the number of sub-object 1 is 1, the number of sub-object 2 is 2, the number of sub-object 3 is 3, and the number of sub-object 4 is 4. Then, when the user sets the number of sub-object 3 to 1 according to his own needs (for example, put sub-object 3 on top in the above-mentioned target object), the number of sub-object 1 becomes 2 correspondingly, and the number of sub-object 2 corresponds to becomes 3, and the number of sub-object 4 is still 4 (that is, the number of sub-object 4 remains unchanged).

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device may display the above K sub-objects in order of display priority from high to low according to the display priorities of the above K sub-objects.

Exemplarily, it is assumed that the above-mentioned display priority is determined according to the number of the sub-object, and the above-mentioned K sub-objects are 5 sub-objects, and these 5 sub-objects are respectively: sub-object 1, sub-object 2, sub-object 3, sub-object 4 and sub-object 5. Among them, the number of sub-object 1 is 5, the number of sub-object 2 is 4, the number of sub-object 3 is 3, the number of sub-object 4 is 2, and the number of sub-object 5 is 1. When the terminal device displays the five sub-objects in descending order according to the display priorities of the five sub-objects, the order in which the terminal device displays the five sub-objects is: sub-object 5, sub-object as shown in Figure 8 4. Subobject 3, Subobject 2, and Subobject 1.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, when at least two of the above K sub-objects come from different applications, and the terminal device obtains the above-mentioned third information, it includes providing the application name of the sub-object (that is, the above-mentioned display priority is at least When determined according to the name of the application program providing the sub-object), the terminal device can sequentially display the sub-objects from different application programs in the above K sub-objects according to the display priority, and display the sub-objects from the same application program adjacently, so that In the process of outputting these sub-objects by the terminal device, it is avoided that the terminal device calls different application programs frequently, so that the calling resources of the terminal device can be saved.

Exemplarily, in the embodiment of the present invention, the above step 212 may be specifically implemented through the following step 212a.

Step 212a, the terminal device sequentially displays sub-objects from different application programs among the K sub-objects according to the display priority.

Wherein, sub-objects from the same application among the aforementioned K sub-objects may be displayed adjacently.

In this embodiment of the present invention, when at least two of the K sub-objects come from different applications, and the third information includes the name of the application program that provides the sub-object, that is, the terminal device can follow the application program that provides the sub-object The name determines the display priority described above. When the terminal device displays the above K sub-objects, the terminal device may sequentially display different sub-objects among the K sub-objects according to the display priority, and sub-objects from the same application among the K sub-objects are displayed adjacently.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, among the above K sub-objects, the display priority of sub-objects from the same application program may be based on sub-object name, sub-object owner name, sub-object usage frequency, and sub-object number. At least one determination of .

In the embodiment of the present invention, for the relevant description of the above display priority, please refer to the detailed description of the above display priority in the above step 210-step 212, which will not be repeated here.

In the embodiment of the present invention, since the terminal device needs to call the application program that provides the sub-object to output the above-mentioned K sub-objects, when at least two of the above-mentioned K sub-objects come from different application programs, the terminal device displays Priority, sequentially display sub-objects from different applications among the above K sub-objects, and display sub-objects from the same application next to each other, which can avoid frequent calls of different sub-objects by terminal devices during the process of outputting these sub-objects. application program, which can save the calling resources of the terminal device.

In the embodiment of the present invention, since the third information above can be used to indicate the possibility of users using these sub-objects, the terminal device can determine the priority of each sub-object for possible users based on the third information, so that the terminal device can use the sub-objects according to the possible The user uses the priority of each sub-object to determine the display priority of the sub-objects, and displays and indicates these sub-objects according to the display priority, which can make the terminal device display the sub-objects that the user may need to obtain at a relatively front position, thereby Make it easier for users to select these objects.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, after the terminal device displays the above K sub-objects, the user may view or listen to the K sub-objects through the terminal device.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, when the terminal device continuously outputs sub-objects among the above K sub-objects, if the two sub-objects continuously output by the terminal device come from different application programs, then the terminal device can pass the following " Method 1” to output these two sub-objects; if the multiple sub-objects continuously output by the terminal device come from the same application program, then the terminal device can output the multiple sub-objects through the following “Method 2”.

Method 1: When the terminal device outputs a certain sub-object among the K sub-objects (such as the jth sub-object in the embodiment of the present invention), the terminal device can run the application program that provides the sub-object (such as the jth sub-object in the embodiment of the present invention). first application) and output the child object through that application. Then, in the process of the terminal device outputting the sub-object, the terminal device can obtain the sub-object (such as the j+1th sub-object in the embodiment of the present invention) that is sequentially output after the sub-object. When the output sub-object comes from different application programs, the terminal device can first run the application program (such as the second application program in the embodiment of the present invention) that provides this sub-object in the background of the terminal device, and the sub-object currently output by the terminal device After the output of the object is finished, the terminal device can output the sub-object through the application program that provides the sub-object. In this way, the process of outputting the aforementioned K sub-objects by the terminal device is smoother and more continuous.

Exemplarily, referring to FIG. 7 , as shown in FIG. 9 , after the above step 212 , the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following steps 213 - 215 .

Step 213, the terminal device runs the first application program, and outputs the jth sub-object through the first application program.

Step 214, the terminal device runs the second application program in the background during the process of outputting the j-th sub-object through the first application program.

In step 215, the terminal device outputs the j+1th sub-object through the second application program after outputting the j-th sub-object.

Wherein, the above-mentioned j-th sub-object and the above-mentioned j+1-th sub-object may be sub-objects among the above-mentioned K sub-objects, the above-mentioned first application program may be an application program that provides the j-th sub-object, and the above-mentioned second application program may be The application program that provides the j+1th sub-object, the first application program and the second application program are different application programs, 1≤j<K, and j is an integer.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the sub-objects among the above-mentioned K sub-objects (such as the above-mentioned j-th sub-object, the above-mentioned j+1-th sub-object, etc.) The sub-object indicated by the search result in at least two search results searched in the target application program may also be a terminal device. Triggering the terminal device to be added to the above-mentioned target object in one of the above-mentioned at least two target application programs child object of .

In the embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned first application program and the above-mentioned second application program may be different application programs among the above-mentioned at least two target application programs.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the user may trigger the terminal device to run the first application program through an input (hereinafter referred to as the second input), and output the jth sub-object through the first application program.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the second input may be any possible input such as single-click input, double-click input, or long-press input by the user on the jth sub-object. Specifically, it may be determined according to actual usage requirements, and is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the present invention, for the above-mentioned scenario 1, one of the above-mentioned K sub-objects (such as the above-mentioned j-th sub-object, the above-mentioned j+1-th sub-object, etc.) can be a song, then the above-mentioned terminal device can (such as the above-mentioned first application program or the second application program) the output sub-object can be: the terminal device plays songs through the application program; , the above j+1th sub-object, etc.) can be an item, and the above-mentioned terminal device can output the sub-object through the application program (such as the above-mentioned first application program or the second application program), which can be: the terminal device displays the item through the application program Item (specifically, the detailed information of the item may be displayed for the application program, etc.).

In the embodiment of the present invention, when the terminal device continuously outputs objects in the above K sub-objects, if the two consecutively output sub-objects (that is, the above-mentioned jth sub-object and the above-mentioned j+1th sub-object) come from different applications, the When the terminal device outputs the previous sub-object, the terminal device can first run the application program that provides the next sub-object in the background of the terminal device, so that after the output of the previous sub-object is completed, the terminal device can directly provide the next sub-object The application program outputs the latter application program, so that the process of outputting the above K sub-objects by the terminal device is relatively smooth, reducing the stuttering phenomenon, thereby improving the continuity of the output of the K sub-objects by the terminal device, thereby improving the user experience. .

Method 2: When the terminal device outputs a certain sub-object among the K sub-objects (such as the i-th sub-object in the embodiment of the present invention), the terminal device can run an application program that provides the sub-object (such as the i-th sub-object in the embodiment of the present invention). third application program), and display two windows (such as the first window and the second window in the embodiment of the present invention) in the interface of the application program. Then the terminal device can output a sub-object (i.e. the i-th sub-object in the embodiment of the present invention) through a window (i.e. the first window), and display it in another window (i.e. the second window) after the output of the sub-object Related information of the sequentially output sub-objects (that is, the i+1th sub-object in the embodiment of the present invention). After the output of the i-th sub-object is finished, the terminal device can output the i+1-th sub-object through the second window, and output the sub-objects sequentially output by the i+1-th sub-object through the first window (such as the present invention The i+2th child object in the example). In this way, the process of outputting the aforementioned K sub-objects by the terminal device is smoother and more continuous.

Exemplarily, referring to FIG. 7 , as shown in FIG. 10 , after the above step 212 , the search method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following steps 216 - 218 .

Step 216, the terminal device runs the third application program, and displays the first window and the second window in the interface of the third application program.

Step 217, the terminal device outputs the i-th sub-object through the first window, and outputs the relevant information of the i+1-th sub-object through the second window.

Step 218: After the i-th sub-object is output, the terminal device outputs the i+1-th sub-object through the second window, and outputs related information of the i+2-th sub-object through the first window.

Wherein, the above-mentioned i-th sub-object, the above-mentioned i+1-th sub-object and the above-mentioned i+2-th sub-object are all sub-objects in the above-mentioned K sub-objects, the i-th sub-object, the i+1-th sub-object and the i-th sub-object The i+2 sub-objects are sub-objects provided by the above-mentioned third application program, 1≤i<K-1, and i is an integer.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the sub-objects among the above-mentioned K sub-objects (for example, the above-mentioned i-th sub-object, the above-mentioned i+1-th sub-object, the above-mentioned i+2-th sub-object, etc.) may be A piece of information, the sub-object indicated by the search result in the at least two search results searched in the at least two target application programs, may also be triggered by the terminal device in one of the at least two target application programs End Device is added to the child object in the target object above.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned third application program may be an application program in the above-mentioned at least two target application programs.

It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the i-th sub-object, the i+1-th sub-object, and the i+2-th sub-object may be sub-objects provided by the same application program.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the user may trigger the terminal device to run the third application program through an input (hereinafter referred to as the third input).

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the third input may be any possible input such as single-click input, double-click input, or long-press input by the user on the i-th sub-object. Specifically, it may be determined according to actual usage requirements, and is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, when there are two continuously output sub-objects from the same application program among the sub-objects continuously output by the terminal device, for example, the i-th sub-object and the i+1-th sub-object above, When the terminal device outputs the i+1th sub-object through the second window after the output of the i-th sub-object, the terminal device can cancel the display of the first window, or the terminal device can not display any sub-objects in the first window. content, the terminal device may also display recommended content in the first window.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the type of the first application program may be the same as the type of the second application program, and the type of the first application program may be different from the type of the third application program.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned first application program and the above-mentioned second application program may be application programs that only support the above-mentioned target content type, and the above-mentioned third application program may be an application program that can support the above-mentioned target content type.

In the embodiment of the present invention, for scenario 1 (the terminal device searches for music content), the above-mentioned first application program and the above-mentioned second application program may be applications that only support music-type content, and the above-mentioned third application program may be an application program that can An application that supports music-like content. For scenario two (the terminal device searches for shopping content), the above-mentioned first application program and the above-mentioned second application program may be applications that only support shopping content, and the above-mentioned third application program may be an application program that can support shopping content. application.

Exemplarily, taking the above scenario 1 as an example, the above-mentioned first application program and the above-mentioned second application program may be music application programs (for example, music application program 1 and music application program 2), and the above-mentioned third application program may be Browser-like applications.

It can be understood that in the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device may select different methods (for example, the above-mentioned "mode 1" and "mode 2") to output the above-mentioned K sub-objects according to the type of the application program from which the sub-objects in the above-mentioned K sub-objects come from. .

In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device can output the above K sub-objects in different ways according to the type of the application program from which the sub-objects in the above K sub-objects come, so that the terminal device can output the above-mentioned K sub-objects more flexibly. , so as to improve the user experience.

In the embodiment of the present invention, when the terminal device continuously outputs the objects in the above K sub-objects, if the multiple sub-objects continuously output (that is, the above-mentioned i-th sub-object, the above-mentioned i+1-th sub-object and the above-mentioned i+2-th sub-object ) from the same application, the terminal device can display two windows. When the sub-objects continuously output by the terminal device come from the same application program, the terminal device can output the previous sub-object through one window, and output the relevant information of the sub-objects sequentially output after the output of the sub-object through another window , so that the terminal device can directly output the next sub-object through another window after the output of this sub-object is finished. In this way, the process of outputting the above K sub-objects by the terminal device is relatively smooth, and the stuttering phenomenon is reduced, thereby improving the continuity of the output of the K sub-objects by the terminal device, thereby improving user experience.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the search methods shown in the above-mentioned drawings are all described in conjunction with one drawing in the embodiment of the present invention as an example. During specific implementation, the search methods shown in the above-mentioned figures can also be implemented in combination with any other figures shown in the above-mentioned embodiments that can be combined, and details will not be repeated here.

As shown in FIG. 11 , an embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal device 1100 , and the terminal device 1100 includes an acquisition module 1101 , a search module 1102 and a display module 1103 . An acquisition module 1101, configured to acquire the first information input by the user; a search module 1102, configured to search for target content in the at least two target application programs based on the first information acquired by the acquisition module 1101, and obtain N search results; display Module 1103, configured to display the N search results searched by the search module 1102. Wherein, the first information is used to search for the target content in the at least two target application programs, the at least two target application programs are applications supporting the target content type, and at least two of the N search results are From different applications, N is an integer greater than 1.

Optionally, referring to FIG. 11 , as shown in FIG. 12 , the terminal device 1100 may further include a processing module 1104 . The processing module 1104 is configured to determine the target type according to the first information after the obtaining module 1101 obtains the first information input by the user, and determine at least two target application programs matching the target type. Wherein, the target type is used to indicate an application supporting the target content type.

Optionally, the obtaining module 1101 is further configured to obtain information of the at least two target application programs to obtain second information before the search module 1102 searches for the target content in the at least two target application programs; the determining module is also configured to According to the second information obtained by the obtaining module 1101, determine the search priority of the at least two target application programs; the search module 1102 is specifically configured to sequentially search for target content in the at least two target application programs according to the search priority. Wherein, the second information is at least one of the following: application program name, application program usage frequency, application program type

Optionally, referring to FIG. 12 , as shown in FIG. 13 , the terminal device 1100 further includes a receiving module 1105 . The receiving module 1105 is configured to receive the user's first input of the target search result among the N search results after the display module 1103 displays the N search results; the processing module 1104 is configured to respond to the first input received by the receiving module 1105 Input to add the target sub-object indicated by the target search result to the target object.

Optionally, the target object includes K sub-objects, and K is an integer greater than 1; the obtaining module 1101 is also used to obtain the information of the K sub-objects to obtain the third information; the processing module 1104 is also used to obtain according to the obtaining module 1101 The third information is to determine the display priority of the K sub-objects; the display module 1103 is further configured to display the K sub-objects according to the display priority determined by the processing module 1004 . Wherein, the third information includes at least one of the following items: name of the sub-object, name of the owner of the sub-object, name of an application providing the sub-object, frequency of use of the sub-object, and serial number of the sub-object.

Optionally, at least two of the K sub-objects come from different applications, and the third information includes: the name of the application providing the sub-objects; the display module 1103 is specifically configured to display the K sub-objects in order according to the display priority Child objects from different applications in ; where child objects from the same application appear next to each other.

Optionally, the processing module 1104 is further configured to run the first application program after the display module 1103 displays K sub-objects, and output the j-th sub-object through the first application program, and output the j-th sub-object through the first application program. During the process of the jth sub-object, the second application program is run in the background; and after the output of the jth sub-object is completed, the j+1th sub-object is output through the second application program. Wherein, the first application program is an application program that provides the jth sub-object, the second application program is an application program that provides the j+1th sub-object, and the j-th sub-object and the j+1th sub-object are the For the sub-objects in the K sub-objects, the first application program and the second application program are different application programs, 1≤j<K, j is an integer.

Optionally, the processing module 1104 is further configured to run a third application program after the display module 1103 displays K sub-objects, and display the first window and the second window in the interface of the third application program; and through the first The window outputs the i-th sub-object, and outputs the relevant information of the i+1-th sub-object through the second window; and after the i-th sub-object is output, outputs the i+1-th sub-object through the second window, and The relevant information of the i+2th sub-object is output through the first window. Wherein, the i-th sub-object, the i+1-th sub-object and the i+2-th sub-object are all sub-objects in the K sub-objects, the i-th sub-object, the i+1-th sub-object and the i+1-th sub-object The i+2 sub-objects are sub-objects provided by the third application program, 1≤i<K-1, i is an integer.

Optionally, the type of the first application program is the same as the type of the second application program, and the type of the first application program is different from the type of the third application program.

The terminal device provided by the embodiment of the present invention can realize the various processes performed by the terminal device in the above search method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect. To avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal device. Since the content provided by different applications supporting the same content type may be different, the terminal device adopts the information input by the user to select among multiple application programs supporting the same content type in the terminal device. Searching for content related to the information can increase the probability that the terminal device will find the content related to the information. In this way, when the user inputs certain information in the terminal device, the terminal device can use the information to search for different search results from different applications to obtain different content. Further, when the information input by the user is different Therefore, the terminal device can also search for different contents, so that the scope of the content searched by the terminal device in the application program can be expanded, and the content searched by the terminal device in the application program can be enriched.

Fig. 14 is a schematic diagram of hardware of a terminal device implementing various embodiments of the present invention. As shown in Figure 14, the terminal device 100 includes but not limited to: a radio frequency unit 101, a network module 102, an audio output unit 103, an input unit 104, a sensor 105, a display unit 106, a user input unit 107, an interface unit 108, a memory 109, Processor 110, power supply 111 and other components. Those skilled in the art can understand that the terminal device structure shown in Figure 14 does not constitute a limitation on the terminal device, and the terminal device may include more or less components than shown in the figure, or combine some components, or different components layout. In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal devices include, but are not limited to, mobile phones, tablet computers, notebook computers, palmtop computers, vehicle-mounted terminals, wearable devices, and pedometers.

Wherein, the user input unit 107 is configured to obtain the first information input by the user; the processor 110 is configured to search for the target content in at least two target application programs based on the first information obtained by the user input unit 107 to obtain N search Results; a display unit 106, configured to display the N search results. Wherein, the first information is used to search for the target content in the at least two target application programs, the at least two target application programs are applications supporting the target content type, and at least two of the N search results are from Different applications, N is an integer greater than 1.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal device. Since the content provided by different applications supporting the same content type may be different, the terminal device adopts the information input by the user to select among multiple application programs supporting the same content type in the terminal device. Searching for content related to the information can increase the probability that the terminal device will find the content related to the information. In this way, when the user inputs certain information in the terminal device, the terminal device can use the information to search for different search results from different applications to obtain different content. Further, when the information input by the user is different Therefore, the terminal device can also search for different contents, so that the scope of the content searched by the terminal device in the application program can be expanded, and the content searched by the terminal device in the application program can be enriched.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the radio frequency unit 101 can be used for receiving and sending signals during sending and receiving information or during a call. Specifically, after receiving the downlink data from the base station, the processor 110 processes it; Uplink data is sent to the base station. Generally, the radio frequency unit 101 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like. In addition, the radio frequency unit 101 can also communicate with the network and other devices through a wireless communication system.

The terminal device provides users with wireless broadband Internet access through the network module 102, such as helping users send and receive emails, browse web pages, and access streaming media.

The audio output unit 103 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 101 or the network module 102 or stored in the memory 109 into an audio signal and output as sound. Also, the audio output unit 103 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the terminal device 100 (eg, call signal reception sound, message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 103 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.

The input unit 104 is used to receive audio or video signals. The input unit 104 may include a graphics processing unit (graphics processing unit, GPU) 1041 and a microphone 1042, and the graphics processing unit 1041 is used for still pictures or video images obtained by an image capture device (such as a camera) in a video capture mode or an image capture mode. The data is processed. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 106 . The image frames processed by the graphics processor 1041 may be stored in the memory 109 (or other storage medium) or sent via the radio frequency unit 101 or the network module 102 . The microphone 1042 can receive sound and can process such sound into audio data. The processed audio data can be converted into a format that can be sent to a mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 101 for output in the case of a phone call mode.

The terminal device 100 also includes at least one sensor 105, such as a light sensor, a motion sensor, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor and a proximity sensor, wherein the ambient light sensor can adjust the brightness of the display panel 1061 according to the brightness of the ambient light, and the proximity sensor can turn off the display panel 1061 and the / or backlighting. As a kind of motion sensor, the accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in various directions (generally three axes), and can detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when it is stationary, and can be used to identify the posture of terminal equipment (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games) , magnetometer posture calibration), vibration recognition-related functions (such as pedometer, knocking), etc.; the sensor 105 can also include fingerprint sensors, pressure sensors, iris sensors, molecular sensors, gyroscopes, barometers, hygrometers, thermometers, Infrared sensors, etc., will not be repeated here.

The display unit 106 is used to display information input by the user or information provided to the user. The display unit 106 may include a display panel 1061 , and the display panel 1061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display (liquid crystal display, LCD) or an organic light-emitting diode (organic light-emitting diode, OLED).

The user input unit 107 can be used to receive input numbers or character information, and generate key signal input related to user settings and function control of the terminal device. Specifically, the user input unit 107 includes a touch panel 1071 and other input devices 1072 . The touch panel 1071, also referred to as a touch screen, can collect touch operations of the user on or near it (for example, the user uses any suitable object or accessory such as a finger or a stylus on the touch panel 1071 or near the touch panel 1071). operate). The touch panel 1071 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Among them, the touch detection device detects the user's touch orientation, detects the signal brought by the touch operation, and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives the touch information from the touch detection device, converts it into contact coordinates, and sends it to For the processor 110, receive the command sent by the processor 110 and execute it. In addition, the touch panel 1071 can be implemented in various types such as resistive, capacitive, infrared, and surface acoustic wave. In addition to the touch panel 1071 , the user input unit 107 may also include other input devices 1072 . Specifically, other input devices 1072 may include, but are not limited to, physical keyboards, function keys (such as volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), trackballs, mice, and joysticks, which will not be repeated here.

Further, the touch panel 1071 can be covered on the display panel 1061, and when the touch panel 1071 detects a touch operation on or near it, it will be sent to the processor 110 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 110 can The type of event provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 1061 . Although in FIG. 14, the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 are used as two independent components to realize the input and output functions of the terminal device, in some embodiments, the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 can be integrated. The implementation of the input and output functions of the terminal device is not specifically limited here.

The interface unit 108 is an interface for connecting an external device to the terminal device 100 . For example, an external device may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device with an identification module, audio input/output (I/O) ports, video I/O ports, headphone ports, and more. The interface unit 108 can be used to receive input from an external device (for example, data information, power, etc.) transfer data between devices.

The memory 109 can be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 109 can mainly include a program storage area and a data storage area, wherein the program storage area can store an operating system, at least one application program required by a function (such as a sound playback function, an image playback function, etc.) etc.; Data created by the use of mobile phones (such as audio data, phonebook, etc.), etc. In addition, the memory 109 may include a high-speed random access memory, and may also include a non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other volatile solid-state storage devices.

The processor 110 is the control center of the terminal equipment, uses various interfaces and lines to connect various parts of the entire terminal equipment, runs or executes software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 109, and calls data stored in the memory 109 , execute various functions of the terminal equipment and process data, so as to monitor the terminal equipment as a whole. The processor 110 may include one or more processing units; optionally, the processor 110 may integrate an application processor and a modem processor, wherein the application processor mainly processes the operating system, user interface and application programs, etc., and the modem The tuner processor mainly handles wireless communication. It can be understood that the foregoing modem processor may not be integrated into the processor 110 .

The terminal device 100 may also include a power supply 111 (such as a battery) for supplying power to various components. Optionally, the power supply 111 may be logically connected to the processor 110 through a power management system, so as to manage charging, discharging, and power consumption through the power management system. Management and other functions.

In addition, the terminal device 100 includes some functional modules not shown, which will not be repeated here.

Optionally, this embodiment of the present invention also provides a terminal device, including a processor 110 as shown in FIG. When executed by the processor 110, various processes of the foregoing search method embodiments can be achieved, and the same technical effect can be achieved. To avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

The embodiment of the present invention also provides a computer-readable storage medium. A computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium. When the computer program is executed by a processor, each process of the above-mentioned search method embodiment is realized, and the same technical effect can be achieved. , to avoid repetition, it will not be repeated here. Wherein, the computer-readable storage medium may include a read-only memory (read-only memory, ROM), a random access memory (random access memory, RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and the like.

It should be noted that, in this document, the term "comprising", "comprising" or any other variation thereof is intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion such that a process, method, article or apparatus comprising a set of elements includes not only those elements, It also includes other elements not expressly listed, or elements inherent in the process, method, article, or device. Without further limitations, an element defined by the phrase "comprising a ..." does not preclude the presence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus comprising that element.

Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the methods of the above embodiments can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general-purpose hardware platform, and of course also by hardware, but in many cases the former is better implementation. Based on such an understanding, the essence of the technical solution of the present invention or the part that contributes to the prior art can be embodied in the form of software products, and the computer software products are stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, disk, CD) contains several instructions to make a terminal device (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device, etc.) execute the methods described in various embodiments of the present invention.

Embodiments of the present invention have been described above in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned specific implementations, and the above-mentioned specific implementations are only illustrative, rather than restrictive, and those of ordinary skill in the art will Under the enlightenment of the present invention, without departing from the gist of the present invention and the protection scope of the claims, many forms can also be made, all of which belong to the protection of the present invention.

Claims (12)

1. a kind of searching method, which is characterized in that the described method includes:

The first information of user's input is obtained, the first information is used to search in target at least two destination applications Hold, at least two destination application is the application program for supporting target contents type；

Based on the first information, the object content is searched at least two destination application, obtains N number of search As a result, at least two search results in N number of search result are from different application programs, N is the integer greater than 1；

Show N number of search result.

2. the method according to claim 1, wherein it is described obtain user input the first information after, it is described Method further include:

According to the first information, target type is determined, the target type, which is used to indicate, supports the target contents type Application program；

Determining and matched at least two destination application of the target type.

3. method according to claim 1 or 2, which is characterized in that described at least two destination application It searches for before the object content, the method also includes:

The information for obtaining at least two destination application, obtains the second information, and second information is following at least one : application name, the frequency of use of application program, the type of application program；

According to second information, the search priority of at least two destination application is determined；

It is described to search for the object content at least two destination application, comprising:

According to described search priority, the object content successively is searched at least two destination application.

4. the method according to claim 1, wherein after the display N number of search result, the method Further include:

Receive first input of the user to the target search result in N number of search result；

In response to first input, the target sub-object that the target search result indicates is added in target object.

5. according to the method described in claim 4, it is characterized in that, including K subobject in the target object, K is greater than 1 Integer；The method also includes:

The information for obtaining the K subobject, obtains third information, and the third information includes at least one of the following: subobject The affiliated person's title of title, subobject provides the application name of subobject, the frequency of use of subobject, the number of subobject；

According to the third information, the display priority of the K subobject is determined；

According to the display priority, the K subobject is shown.

6. according to the method described in claim 5, it is characterized in that, at least two subobjects in the K subobject come from Different application programs, the third information include: to provide the application name of subobject；

It is described according to the display priority, show the K subobject, comprising:

According to the display priority, the subobject from different application in the K subobject is successively shown；

Wherein, the adjacent display of subobject from same application.

7. according to the method described in claim 6, it is characterized in that, the method is also after the display K subobject Include:

The first application program is run, and j-th of subobject is exported by first application program, first application program is The application program of j-th of subobject is provided；

During exporting j-th of subobject by first application program, in the second application program of running background, Second application program is to provide the application program of+1 subobject of jth；

After j-th of subobject end of output, described+1 subobject of jth is exported by second application program；

Wherein ,+1 subobject of j-th of subobject and the jth be the K subobject in subobject, described first Application program and second application program are different application programs, and 1≤j < K, j are integer.

8. according to the method described in claim 6, it is characterized in that, the method is also after the display K subobject Include:

Third application program is run, and shows first window and the second window in the interface of third application program；

I-th of subobject is exported by the first window, and exports the correlation of i+1 subobject by second window Information；

After i-th of subobject end of output, the i+1 subobject is exported by second window, and pass through The first window exports the relevant information of the i-th+2 subobjects；

Wherein, i-th of subobject, the i+1 subobject and the i-th+2 subobjects are that the K son is right Subobject as in, i-th of subobject, the i+1 subobject and the i-th+2 subobjects are the third The subobject that application program provides, 1≤i < K-1, i are integer.

9. method according to claim 7 or 8, which is characterized in that the type of the first application program and the second application program Type it is identical, and the type of the first application program is different from the type of third application program.

10. a kind of terminal device, which is characterized in that including obtaining module, search module and display module；

The acquisition module, for obtaining the first information of user's input, the first information at least two targets for answering With object content is searched in program, at least two destination application is the application program for supporting target contents type；

Described search module, the first information for being obtained based on the acquisition module, is answered at least two target With the object content is searched in program, N number of search result, at least two search results in N number of search result are obtained From different application programs, N is the integer greater than 1；

The display module, for showing N number of search result that described search block search arrives.

11. a kind of terminal device, which is characterized in that including processor, memory and be stored on the memory and can be in institute The computer program run on processor is stated, such as claim 1 to 9 is realized when the computer program is executed by the processor Any one of described in searching method the step of.

12. a kind of computer readable storage medium, which is characterized in that store computer journey on the computer readable storage medium Sequence, the computer program realize the step of searching method as claimed in any one of claims 1-9 wherein when being executed by processor Suddenly.