Multitask Interface Layout for Clearing Floating App Background Processes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current terminal devices face cumbersome and inflexible management operations for full-screen-displayed and floating-window-displayed applications with background running processes, leading to poor user experience.
Innovation Solution
A multi-task management method and terminal device that displays full-screen and floating-window applications in separate areas of a unified interface, allowing users to easily select and clear background processes through intuitive gestures and buttons.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the terminal device manages full-screen-displayed applications and floating-window-displayed applications separately, then the management operation becomes more precise and flexible, but the operation complexity increases and user experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the management of full-screen-displayed applications and floating-window-displayed applications into a unified multi-task interface. Both application types are displayed together in the same interface, allowing users to manage them through a single operation context rather than separate management flows, thereby reducing operation complexity while maintaining management flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the multi-task interface into different display areas: a first area for full-screen-displayed applications and a second area for floating-window-displayed applications. This segmentation allows users to selectively interact with specific application types by tapping the corresponding area, providing flexible management while keeping the interface organized and easy to operate.
2Ease of operation
If the terminal device displays all applications with background running processes in a single interface, then the interface is simple and easy to operate, but the management operation becomes cumbersome and inflexible
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the display interface into distinct first and second areas, with the first area displaying full-screen-displayed applications and the second area displaying floating-window-displayed applications. This segmentation allows users to quickly identify and select the type of application they wish to manage by simply tapping the corresponding area, maintaining interface simplicity while enhancing management flexibility.
3Measurement precision
If the terminal device requires separate management operations for different application types, then the management precision is improved, but the operation complexity increases and user experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the management capabilities for full-screen-displayed applications and floating-window-displayed applications into a unified multi-task interface. Users can manage both application types through the same interface and operation flow, eliminating the need for separate management operations while maintaining the ability to precisely control each application type through the area-based selection mechanism.
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AI summary
This disclosure provides a multi-task management method and a terminal device. A terminal device detects a first instruction of a user, and displays a multi-task interface in response to the first instruction, where the multi-task interface includes a first area and a second area, a task window or a task icon of a full-screen-displayed application in a plurality of applications is displayed in the first area, and a task window or a task icon of a floating-window-displayed application in the plurality of applications is displayed in the second area. The terminal device detects a second instruction of the user, and displays a first clear button in the second area in response to the second instruction. The terminal device detects a third instruction of the user for the first clear button, and ends a background running process of the floating-window-displayed application in the second area in response to the third instruction.