Patent ID: 9116758
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for sharing a hotkey between application instances, comprising: when there is a hotkey message of a first hotkey, receiving, by an application instance that registers the first hotkey, the hotkey message; determining whether there is an application instance that does not register a first hotkey and is to process the hotkey message; distributing, by the application instance that registers the first hotkey, the hotkey message to an application instance that does not register the first hotkey; in response to determining that there is the application instance that does not register the first hotkey and is to process the hotkey message, receiving feedback information about processing the hotkey message returned from the application instance that does not register the first hotkey and is to process the hotkey message; and in response to determining that there is not the application instance that does not register the first hotkey and is to process the hotkey message, processing, by the application instance that registers the first hotkey, the hotkey message.