US 12,443,565 B2
File opening method and device
Guoqing Tang, Shanghai (CN); and Sheng Li, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Appl. No. 18/004,635
Filed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
PCT Filed Jun. 30, 2021, PCT No. PCT/CN2021/103515
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 6, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/007678, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 13, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 202010648535.5 (CN), filed on Jul. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0273902 A1, Aug. 31, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 16/176 (2019.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/176 (2019.01) [G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 3/1431 (2013.01); G06F 3/1454 (2013.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
entering, by a first device, a multi-screen collaboration mode in a preset manner for performing multi-screen collaboration with a second device that enters the multi-screen collaboration mode;
displaying, by the first device, a first interface, and projecting, by the first device, the first interface onto a second interface of the second device, wherein the first interface comprises a file icon, the second interface comprises the first interface, and a file corresponding to the file icon is stored in the first device;
detecting, by the first device, an operation performed on the file icon on a display screen of the second device;
sending, by the first device, metadata of the file to the second device, wherein the metadata of the file is used to open the file on the second device by using a second application, wherein after the file is opened on the second device by using the second application, the second interface of the second device comprises the first interface and an interface obtained after the file is opened by using the second application, and the second application is installed on the second device, wherein the metadata of the file comprises storage path information of the file in the first device, type information of the file and size information of the file;
creating, by the first device, a soft link; and
sending, by the first device, a path of the soft link to the second device.