Patent ID: 8943439
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
1. A terminal device, comprising: a display screen; a display unit having a function to display a menu window on the display screen, wherein the menu window includes an upper layer of items, each item representing an application program grouping, and wherein each application program grouping contains one or more application programs; a selection unit to prompt a user to select any of the items in the menu window being displayed on the display screen; and a container unit to contain status information concerning an application program of the one or more application programs, wherein the status information of the application program represents a datum executable by the application program, wherein the display unit displays, when any of the items respectively representing the upper layers is selected through the selection unit, an application program symbol associated with each one of the application programs contained in the application program grouping represented by the selected item along with the status information concerning each application program having an executed datum in the container unit on the display screen, wherein the status information displayed by the display unit represents the latest datum executed by the application program when the application program was last active, wherein when the application program is last active refers to, when the application program is inactive, a time point in which the application program was one of: previously terminated, minimized from the display, and activated by a periodic occurrence.