公开(公告)号：US10817350B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-27

申请号：US14653179

申请日：2013-11-01

Applicant: GUANGZHOU UCWEB COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

Inventor： Jie Liang ,  Yaozong Kuang

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/54 ,  G06Q20/20 ,  G06F9/48

Abstract: A method and device for starting an external application program in a browser are provided. The method comprises: adding a standard HTML label representing a plugin into a webpage of a browser; adding an external application program plugin module corresponding to the label into the external application program; and after the browser receives an event of clicking the label, transmitting the click event to the external application program plugin module added into the external application program by invoking an interface of the external application program, the external application program plugin module of the external application program invoking an application programming interface which is provided by an operating system for starting an application program to start the external application program.