Process Management System for Mobile Terminals

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing process management methods in mobile terminals require manual user selection and stopping of processes, leading to low efficiency in managing background processes that occupy processing resources, thereby slowing down the terminal.

Innovation Solution

A method that automatically stops processes with lower priority if the interface switching duration exceeds a benchmark duration by a preset threshold, improving process management efficiency without user intervention.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple application programs are run simultaneously in the mobile terminal, then the user can switch between different applications, but the processing resources are occupied and the processing speed slows down

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveapplication switching capabilityVSAvoidprocessing speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSSpeed

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically changes the running state of processes by switching them between foreground and background states based on switching frequency parameters. When a process is switched to background after exceeding the threshold frequency, its resource allocation is reduced, thereby improving overall processing speed while maintaining application switching capability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Loss of energy

If the user manually selects and stops processes, then resource occupation can be reduced, but the process stopping efficiency is low

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing resource occupationVSAvoidprocess stopping efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically monitors process switching frequencies and autonomously switches processes to background state without user intervention. The process management module automatically identifies processes that exceed the switching threshold and manages their lifecycle, thereby improving process stopping efficiency while reducing resource occupation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring the switching frequency of each process and comparing it against the preset threshold. When the feedback shows that a process exceeds the threshold, the system automatically adjusts the process state, creating a closed-loop control that improves both efficiency and resource management

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10514950B2Interface switching method, apparatus, and device
Publication Date: 2019.12.24 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

The present invention discloses a process management method and apparatus, and pertains to the field of computer technologies. The method includes: obtaining benchmark duration for interface switching; determining, after interface switching, switching duration of the interface switching; and stopping, according to a preset process priority, a process having a lower priority, if the switching duration is longer than the benchmark duration, and a difference between the switching duration and the benchmark duration is greater than a preset threshold. By means of the present invention, process management efficiency can be improved.