Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Daehyun Cho

Kiljae Kim

Jaeho Kim

Byungsoo Kwon

Kwanjin Jung

Wonseo Choi

Dongho Kim

Dongwook Lee

Hyunchul Seok

Jaehyeon Park

Youngcheol Sin

Jiman Kwon

Minjung Kim

Mooyoung Kim

Sangmin Yi

Kwanhee Jeong

Younghun Kim

Hyunkyu Lee

Geonhee Back

Jinshik Bae

Hyun Joon Cha

Hanju Bae

Mooncheol Kang

An electronic device comprises a processor configured to launch a first application, display a launch screen of the first application on a first display, determine a second application expected to be launched on at least one of the first display or a second display, based on a determination a specified trigger condition is satisfied, perform a pre-loading process of one or more resources, generate, based on the pre-loaded one or more resources, a launch screen of the second application in a virtual window, and based on a determination a screen switch event occurs with respect to the launch screen of the first application, display the launch screen of the second application generated in the virtual window on at least one display corresponding to the screen switch event among the first display and the second display, thereby completing launching of the second application.

Electronic device and application execution method for electronic device

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a sensor unit comprising one or more sensors, a display comprising a touch sensor, and at least one processor for controlling the electronic device, wherein the processor may detect a touch input through the touch sensor, when a touch input is detected, determine whether the touch input is valid on the basis of state information generated through the one or more sensors, when it is determined that the touch input is valid, determine a target level of responsiveness for the touch input from among a plurality of levels on the basis of at least one of the state information and application information about an application being executed by the electronic device, and control the electronic device on the basis of the target level.

Processor for determining level of responsiveness and electronic device comprising same

A method of controlling a memory and an electronic device performing the method are provided. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store instructions executable by the processor; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: determine a use state of the electronic device corresponding to an available area of the memory, determine a temperature of the electronic device, determine a memory parameter based on the use state and the temperature, and convert a used area of the memory into the available area based on the memory parameter.

Electronic device performing method of controlling memory based on temperature and available area of the memory

Provided is an apparatus and method for improving the entry speed of a large-memory consuming application in an electric device which detect an execution of an application, check if the application is a large-memory consuming application which uses a large amount of memory, and if the application is the large-memory consuming application, execute pre-process thread reclaim, select a process corresponding to a reclaiming target among processes currently resident in the memory, reclaim part of the memory being used by the selected process without terminating the selected process, and thereby improve the entry speed of a large-memory consuming application.

Apparatus and method for enhancing launch speed of large-memory consuming app

An electronic device may include: a housing including a first housing and a second housing movable with respect to the first housing; a flexible display in which a display area for displaying a screen is expanded or reduced as the second housing moves with respect to the first housing; a memory; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: identify a change in the size of the display area on the basis of the movement of the second housing relative to the first housing; determine an application to be preloaded from among a plurality of applications on the basis of the identified size of the display area; load, into the memory, a preload process including some of resources for executing the determined application to be preloaded; and, in response to the occurrence of an event associated with the execution of the application to be preloaded, load an activity for the execution of the application by using the loaded preload process.

Method for preloading application and electronic device supporting same

Provided is an application optimization method and an electronic device supporting the same. According to an example embodiment, the application optimization method may include: determining whether a condition set with respect to a duration of an idle state of the electronic device is satisfied, selecting an application for which application optimization is to be performed based on an application usage record of a user of the electronic device in response to the set condition being satisfied, and generating an optimized application by performing the application optimization in the background for the selected application.

Application optimization method and apparatus supporting the same

An electronic device includes at least one processor including a first processor and a second processor separate from the first processor, a memory electrically connected to the at least one processor and storing instructions, wherein the at least one processor is further configure to execute the instructions to assign foreground tasks to a boosting foreground control group and a non-boosting foreground control group in response to a user input, based on completion of booting of the electronic device, schedule at least one task assigned to the boosting foreground control group for the first processor, and schedule at least one task assigned to the non-boosting foreground control group for the second processor, and performance of the second processor may be lower than performance of the first processor.

Electronic device including multi processor and method for operating the same

Disclosed is an electronic device including at least one processor, and a memory operatively coupled to the at least one processor. The memory stores instructions configured to enable the at least one processor to identify, in response to running of an application, a plurality of tasks related to a running operation of the application, allocate virtual runtimes to the plurality of tasks when scheduling, adjust the virtual runtime of at least one task to be run with priority among the plurality of tasks to be a minimum value, arrange the at least one task with the adjusted virtual runtime, and run the at least one task with priority according to an arrangement order.

Electronic device for rapid entry into application being run, method of operating the same, and storage medium

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one processor and a memory storing instructions executed to enable the at least one processor to identify a plurality of processes associated with an application, identify at least one process to be operation-restricted during at least partial time of a time of running the application among the plurality of processes, restrict an operation of the at least one identified process during the at least partial time of the time of running the application, and release the operation restriction on at least some of the at least one identified process in response to meeting a preset condition.

Method for controlling execution of application, electronic device and storage medium for the same

An electronic device according to an embodiment includes a display, and a processor including a plurality of cores, wherein the processor is configured to identify a first application satisfying a designated condition related to boosting of the processor among at least one application running on the electronic device, identify a first instruction set architecture (ISA) of the first application, and boost a frequency of a clock signal applied to at least one core among the plurality of cores included in the processor according to the first instruction set architecture.

Electronic device for controlling frequency of processor and method of operating the same

An electronic device may include a display, and a processor operatively connected to the display. The processor is configured to identify a frame rate of a first application that is currently being executed. The processor is also configured to, based on the frame rate, determine a scanning rate of the display and a frame refresh rate for refreshing a frame related to the first application. The processor is further configured to control a first screen refresh of the first application, based on the scanning rate and the frame refresh rate.

Electronic device and screen refresh method thereof

Various embodiments provide an electronic device and a method, the electronic device comprising: a memory; a first processor; a second processor which has attributes different from those of the first processor; and a control unit, wherein the control unit is configured to identify a task loaded into the memory, select which of the first processor and the second processor is to execute the task, on the basis of attribute information corresponding to a user interaction associated with the task, and allocate the task to the selected processor. Other embodiments are also possible.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Daehyun Cho