Patent ID: 9699295
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04M

Claim:
1. A method for displaying an icon in a terminal device, comprising: extracting related information of an application corresponding to the icon, the related information comprising a name of the application, a category of the application, and application information integrated within the icon; setting, based on the extracted related information, properties of the icon in accordance with setting rules: monitoring an implementation of an event which controls a display of the icon; determining animation display parameters according to properties of the icon, if the implementation of the event which controls the display of the icon is detected; and controlling the icon to be displayed in an animated manner in accordance with the animation display parameters; wherein the icon comprises a first icon and a second icon; and wherein the event which controls the display of the icon comprises: an event of updating a position of the first icon to be adjacent to the second icon; or an event of the first icon appearing on an interface of an operating system for the first time and being adjacent to the second icon; wherein determining the animation display parameters according to the properties of the icon comprises: comparing properties of the first icon with properties of the second icon; searching for the animation display parameters corresponding to the first icon and the second icon according to preset nexuses between icon property comparison results and the animation display parameters; and determining the animation display parameters corresponding to the first icon and the second icon according to the search results.