Patents by Inventor Jiantao Tao

Jiantao Tao has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and terminal device for controlling background application
    Patent number: 9588805
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method which includes: generating an application list according to applications running in an operating system; traversing the identifiers in the application list; determining whether an application corresponding to a currently traversed identifier is a background application; determining whether a predetermined white list comprises the currently traversed identifier and whether the number of identifiers corresponding to background applications in the application list is greater than a predetermined threshold, if the application corresponding to the currently traversed identifier is a background application; selecting an identifier corresponding to a background application from the application list and closing the background application corresponding to the selected identifier, if the predetermined white list comprises the currently traversed identifier and the number is greater than the predetermined threshold; or closing the application corresponding to the currently traver
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Jun Yuan, Minghao Li, Jinxiang Liang, Jiantao Tao
  • METHOD AND TERMINAL DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING BACKGROUND APPLICATION
    Publication number: 20160062792
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method which includes: generating an application list according to applications running in an operating system; traversing the identifiers in the application list; determining whether an application corresponding to a currently traversed identifier is a background application; determining whether a predetermined white list comprises the currently traversed identifier and whether the number of identifiers corresponding to background applications in the application list is greater than a predetermined threshold, if the application corresponding to the currently traversed identifier is a background application; selecting an identifier corresponding to a background application from the application list and closing the background application corresponding to the selected identifier, if the predetermined white list comprises the currently traversed identifier and the number is greater than the predetermined threshold; or closing the application corresponding to the currently traver
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Jun Yuan, Minghao Li, Jinxiang Liang, Jiantao Tao