Information Providing Method and Apparatus

摘要

According to an information providing method and apparatus provided in embodiments of the present disclosure, available information related to a user task in all applications associated with the user task is recorded, in a form of an information card, into a panoramic view according to a time sequence, where the panoramic view sequentially records all visible user activities that are performed by the user to complete the user task; and information recorded in the panoramic view is presented to the user in an intuitive manner using a same user interface, so that the user does not need to or barely needs to frequently switch between multiple applications to complete the user task, but performs the user task on a panoramic view, which is intuitive and convenient, and improves working efficiency.

主权项

1. An information providing method, comprising:
receiving an information providing command delivered busing a user interface, wherein the information providing command comprises a user task and types of at least two applications associated with the user task and is used to instruct to display, by---using a same interface, a processing process that is performed by a user to complete the user task; searching each associated application for available information that matches the user task, and when the available information is found, generating an information card for the available information according to content and time of the available information, wherein content of the information card is a part or all of the content of the available information, the content of the information card is configured as a hyperlink, and a target of the hyperlink is the available information; generating, using the information cards of all the available information according to the time of all the available information, a panoramic view of the user task based on a time sequence, wherein the panoramic view records the processing process that is performed by the user to complete the user task; and reporting and, using the user interface, displaying the panoramic view.