Patent ID: 9727351
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for a device to set a status of an application, wherein the application has an inactive status after an installation process of the application on the device is complete, and changes from the inactive status to an active status when a user starts the application, the method comprising: detecting occurrence of one of restarting the device, cleaning a memory of the device, or locking a screen of the device; acquiring, in response to the detecting, status setting permission information of the application; determining if the acquired status setting permission information indicates that it is permitted to set the status of the application; and setting, without receiving a user input, the status of the application to the inactive status in which the application is disabled from receiving broadcast messages sent by an operating system in the device, if it is determined that the acquired status setting permission information indicates that it is permitted to set the status of the application.