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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025
Filed:
May. 24, 2023
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Jinshik Bae, Suwon-si, KR;
Kwanjin Jung, Suwon-si, KR;
Hyunchul Seok, Suwon-si, KR;
Daehyun Cho, Suwon-si, KR;
Hanju Bae, Suwon-si, KR;
Mooyoung Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Minjung Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
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.