Method And Device For Providing Page Indication

TECHNICAL FIELD The invention generally relates to page indicators in a graphical user interface of computing devices. More particularly, the invention relates to quick access of pages and applications from such page indicators. BACKGROUND With increasing number of applications that can be installed in smart devices, such as smartphones, tablets, phablets, smart TV, etc., number of pages, such as home screen pages or other pages as well, that can be provided in a graphical user interface of such devices is also increasing. All these pages contain application icons, widgets, etc. that provide access to content. Originally, there used to be only one such page. Nowadays, any number of such pages can be provided subject to computing and memory resources of a smart device. Conventionally, page indicators basically indicate a total number of pages and a current page as well. These page indicators are usually in for of a small circle or box or any other shape. A page indicator for a current page is generally highlighted in terms of its physical appearance to differentiate it from other page indicators. Additionally, some devices provide menu screen in a 2D format that may be composed of multiple pages, and many items may be arranged in multiple rows and columns in each of such page. While some devices provide a feature of changing a shape of page indicators, in case, corresponding pages contain a recently downloaded application. However, this is only for giving a visual clue to a user, but does not enable quick access of that page or that recently downloaded application. Some videoconferencing systems provide page indicators that are limited to a very specific functionality, such as camera, volume, and calendar. However, this functionality is permanently coupled to said page indicators. Despite the previously mentioned teachings, it can be said that there is still need to provide for improvements in this area of technology. 3 SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In accordance with the purposes of the invention, the present invention as embodied and broadly described herein, describes methods for providing quick access to applications from page indicators in a graphical user interface and computing devices thereof. According to one aspect of the invention, an application from amongst one or more applications shown on a page of the graphical user interface in form of application icons is determined based on a preconfigured criterion. An application icon corresponding to said application is rendered as a page indicator for said page. According to yet another aspect of the invention, a page indicator is rendered for each page of the graphical user interface. An input event is received on the page indicator. An action is performed according to the input event received on the page indicator. The methods and devices, as per the invention, provide user quick access of any of pages and/or applications with lesser efforts while enhancing overall navigation experience. In one example, a double tap or click on any page indicator icon may be configured to launch that application, without the need to navigate to that page. In another example, a single tap or click on any page indicator icon may be configured to open a page associated with that page indicator icon. These and other aspects of the invention will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and claims. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCOMPANYING DRAWINGS: To further clarify advantages and aspects of the invention, a more particular description of the invention will be rendered by reference to specific embodiments thereof, which is illustrated in the appended drawings. It is appreciated that these drawings depict only typical embodiments of the invention and are therefore not to be considered limiting of its scope. The invention will be described and explained with additional specificity and detail with the accompanying drawings in which: 4 Figure 1 illustrates an exemplary method for providing quick access to applications from page indicators in a graphical user interface of a computing device, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. Figure 2 illustrates another exemplary method for providing quick access to applications from page indicators in a graphical user interface of a computing device, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. Figure 3 illustrates an exemplary computing device capable of providing quick access to applications from page indicators in its graphical user interface, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. Figure 4 illustrates page indicators according to prior art. Figure 5 illustrates an exemplary set of page indicators, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. Figure 6 illustrates a functionality coupled with said page indicators, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. Figure 7 illustrates another functionality coupled with said page indicators, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. Figure 8 illustrates quick launch enabling/disabling feature, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. Figure 9 illustrates an exemplary use case for a preconfigured criterion, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. Figure 10 illustrates an exemplary use case for viewing additional icons, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. Figure 11 illustrates an exemplary use case for a scroll bar for viewing additional icons, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. Figure 12 illustrates a flow chart for a very specific implementation of the invention It may be noted that to the extent possible, like reference numerals have been used to represent like elements in the drawings. Further, those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that elements in the drawings are illustrated for simplicity and may not have been 5 necessarily drawn to scale. For example, the dimensions of some of the elements in the drawings may be exaggerated relative to other elements to help to improve understanding of aspects of the invention. Furthermore, the one or more elements may have been represented in the drawings by conventional symbols, and the drawings may show only those specific details that are pertinent to understanding the embodiments of the invention so as not to obscure the drawings with details that will be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art having benefit of the description herein. DETAILED DESCRIPTION It should be understood at the outset that although illustrative implementations of the embodiments of the present disclosure are illustrated below, the present invention may be implemented using any number of techniques, whether currently known or in existence. The present disclosure should in no way be limited to the illustrative implementations, drawings, and techniques illustrated below, including the exemplary design and implementation illustrated and described herein, but may be modified within the scope of the appended claims along with their full scope of equivalents. The term “some” as used herein is defined as “none, or one, or more than one, or all.” Accordingly, the terms “none,” “one,” “more than one,” “more than one, but not all” or “all” would all fall under the definition of “some.” The term “some embodiments” may refer to no embodiments or to one embodiment or to several embodiments or to all embodiments. Accordingly, the term “some embodiments” is defined as meaning “no embodiment, or one embodiment, or more than one embodiment, or all embodiments.” The terminology and structure employed herein is for describing, teaching and illuminating some embodiments and their specific features and elements and does not limit, restrict or reduce the spirit and scope of the claims or their equivalents. More specifically, any terms used herein such as but not limited to “includes,” “comprises,” “has,” “consists,” and grammatical variants thereof do NOT specify an exact limitation or restriction and certainly do NOT exclude the possible addition of one or more features or elements, unless otherwise stated, and furthermore must NOT be taken to exclude the possible removal of one or more of the listed features and elements, unless otherwise stated with the limiting language “MUST comprise” or “NEEDS TO include.” 6 Whether or not a certain feature or element was limited to being used only once, either way it may still be referred to as “one or more features” or “one or more elements” or “at least one feature” or “at least one element.” Furthermore, the use of the terms “one or more” or “at least one” feature or element do NOT preclude there being none of that feature or element, unless otherwise specified by limiting language such as “there NEEDS to be one or more . . . ” or “one or more element is REQUIRED.” Unless otherwise defined, all terms, and especially any technical and/or scientific terms, used herein may be taken to have the same meaning as commonly understood by one having an ordinary skill in the art. Reference is made herein to some “embodiments.” It should be understood that an embodiment is an example of a possible implementation of any features and/or elements presented in the attached claims. Some embodiments have been described for the purpose of illuminating one or more of the potential ways in which the specific features and/or elements of the attached claims fulfil the requirements of uniqueness, utility and non-obviousness. Use of the phrases and/or terms such as but not limited to “a first embodiment,” “a further embodiment,” “an alternate embodiment,” “one embodiment,” “an embodiment,” “multiple embodiments,” “some embodiments,” “other embodiments,” “further embodiment”, “furthermore embodiment”, “additional embodiment” or variants thereof do NOT necessarily refer to the same embodiments. Unless otherwise specified, one or more particular features and/or elements described in connection with one or more embodiments may be found in one embodiment, or may be found in more than one embodiment, or may be found in all embodiments, or may be found in no embodiments. Although one or more features and/or elements may be described herein in the context of only a single embodiment, or alternatively in the context of more than one embodiment, or further alternatively in the context of all embodiments, the features and/or elements may instead be provided separately or in any appropriate combination or not at all. Conversely, any features and/or elements described in the context of separate embodiments may alternatively be realized as existing together in the context of a single embodiment. Any particular and all details set forth herein are used in the context of some embodiments and therefore should NOT be necessarily taken as limiting factors to the attached claims. The attached claims and their legal equivalents can be realized in the context of embodiments other than the ones used as illustrative examples in the description below. 7 Embodiments described herein focus on a mobile device, such as a mobile phone. However, the described embodiments can be applied to any device with a touch screen or non-touch screen, including laptop computers, tablets, phablets, desktop computers, televisions, set top box (STB), gaming devices, wearable devices, etc. Figure 1 illustrates an exemplary method (100) for providing quick access to applications from page indicators in a graphical user interface of a computing device. In one embodiment, the method (100) comprises determining (101), based on a preconfigured criterion, an application from amongst one or more applications shown on a page of the graphical user interface in form of application icons; and rendering (102) an application icon corresponding to said application as a page indicator for said page. In a further embodiment, the preconfigured criterion is to determine a most frequently used application shown in said page, or a most popular application shown in said page, or a last used application shown in said page, or a recently downloaded application shown in said page, or a last updated application shown in said page, or a user selected application shown in said page. In a further embodiment, the method (100) further comprises receiving (103) an input event on the application icon rendered as the page indicator; and performing (104) an action according to the input event received on the application icon. In a further embodiment, the input event is a single click or a double click or a long press. In a further embodiment, the action is to open the page or to launch the application or display icons of other applications from amongst the one or more application shown on said page that match the preconfigured criterion. In a further embodiment, the method further comprises providing (105) an option to enable or disable the rendering of the application icon as the page indicator. In a further embodiment, the method further comprises rendering (106) a default page indicator when the preconfigured criterion is unsatisfied. Figure 2 illustrates an exemplary method (200) for providing quick access to applications from page indicators in a graphical user interface of a computing device. In one embodiment, the method (200) comprises rendering (201) a page indicator for each page of the graphical user interface; receiving (202) an input event on the page 8 indicator; and performing (203) an action according to the input event received on the page indicator. In a further embodiment, the input event is a single tap event, or a double tap event, or a long press event. In a further embodiment, rendering (201) the page indicator comprises: rendering (204) an application icon as the page indicator for a page showing an application corresponding to the application icon. In a further embodiment, the method (200) further comprises determining (205), based on a preconfigured criterion, an application from amongst one or more applications shown on said page of the graphical user interface in form of application icons. In a further embodiment, the method (200) further comprises rendering (206) a default page indicator when the preconfigured criterion is unsatisfied. In a further embodiment, the preconfigured criterion is to determine a most frequently used application shown in said page, or a most popular application shown in said page, or a last used application shown in said page, or a recently downloaded application shown in said page, or a last updated application shown in said page, or a user selected application shown in said page. In a further embodiment, the action is to open the page or to launch the application or display icons of other applications from amongst the one or more application shown on said page that match the preconfigured criterion. In a further embodiment, the method (200) further comprises providing (207) an option to enable or disable the rendering of the application icon as the page indicator. Figure 3 illustrates an exemplary computing device (300) for providing quick access to applications from page indicators in its graphical user interface. The computing device may comprise one or more of a data processor (301), a data storage (302), a GUI, i.e., Graphical User Interface (303), an IO, i.e., Input Output interface (304), a rendering engine (305), and an event handler (306). In one embodiment, the computing device (300) comprises a data processor (301) configured to determine, based on a preconfigured criterion, an application from amongst one or more applications shown on a page of the graphical user interface in form of application icons; and a rendering engine (305) configured to render an application icon corresponding to said application as a page indicator for said page. 9 In a further embodiment, the computing device (300) comprises an event handler (306) configured to receive an input event on the application icon rendered as the page indicator. In a further embodiment, the data processor (301) is further configured to perform an action according to the input event received on the application icon. In a further embodiment, the action is to open the page, or to launch the application, or display icons of other applications from amongst the one or more application shown on said page that match the preconfigured criterion. In a further embodiment, the graphical user interface (303) is configured to provide an option to enable or disable the rendering of the application icon as the page indicator. In a further embodiment, the rendering engine (305) is configured to render a default page indicator when the preconfigured criterion is unsatisfied. In one embodiment, the computing device (300) comprises: a rendering engine (305) configured to render a page indicator for each page of the graphical user interface; an event handler (306) configured to receive an input event on the page indicator; and a data processor (301) configured to perform an action according to the input event received on the page indicator. In a further embodiment, the rendering engine (305) is further configured to render an application icon as the page indicator for a page showing an application corresponding to the application icon. In a further embodiment, the graphical user interface (303) is configured to provide an option to enable or disable the rendering of the application icon as the page indicator. In a further embodiment, the action is to open said page showing the application corresponding to the application icon, or launch the application corresponding to the application icon, or display an icon of another application from amongst one or more applications shown on said page in form of application icons. In a further embodiment, the data processor (301) is configured to determine, based on a preconfigured criterion, an application from amongst one or more applications shown on said page in form of application icons. In a further embodiment, the rendering engine is further configured to render a default page indicator when the preconfigured criterion is unsatisfied. 10 Figure 4 illustrates a use case (400) as per prior art. In said use case (400), default page indicators (401) for various pages of graphical user interface are displayed on a current screen. A page indicator for a current page, such a home screen, may be highlighted by increasing the size, changing the colour, or modifying a parameter related to physical appearance of the default page indicators (401). Figure 5 illustrates an exemplary use case (500) as per the invention. In said use case (500), an icon (501) of an application, which is determined according to a preconfigured criterion, in each page of the graphical user interface is displayed as a page indicator for respective page. The preconfigured criterion includes but is not limited to determining a most frequently used application, or a most popular application, or a last used application, or a recently downloaded application, or a last updated application, or a user selected application. In case of only one application is shown in a page, an icon of that application may be shown as the page indicator for said page. In case of empty page, a default icon may be shown as the page indicator for that page. A page indicator for a current page, such a home screen, may be highlighted by increasing the size, changing the colour, or modifying a parameter related to physical appearance of the application icon. In one example, a computing device may be configured to show most frequently used application shortcut icons in place of the conventional page indicator cons (dots or squares) for that particular page. These page indicator icons can be used for quick access of that page or quick launch of a frequently used application on that page. Figure 6 illustrates another exemplary use case (600) as per the invention. In said use case (600), a user may provide an input event on any of the page indicator icons (501). The examples of said input event include but are not limited to touch input and any of non-touch inputs. Touch input may be provided using fingers, thumb, stylus, S-pen®, etc. While nontouch inputs include inputs, such as a hover input, a gaze input, a look-and-blink input, a voice input, or any combination thereof. In one example, the input event may be single click or single tap on a page indicator icon that is preconfigured to open the page associated with that page indicator icon. This provides quick access of GUI pages as compared to existing systems. For example, in existing systems, in order to access fifth page from a first page, a user has to provide four input events, such as four swipe events (left or right). On the other hand, as per the present invention, the user can directly reach to fifth page from the first page 11 just by providing a single input event, such a single tap or single click, on the icon of the fifth page. Similarly, Figure 7 illustrates another use case (700) as per the invention. In said use case, the input event is a double click or double tap on a page indicator icon (501) that is preconfigured to launch the application associated with that page indicator icon (501). In one embodiment, a database (not shown in figures) can be maintained, for instance, in the data storage (302) or in an external storage, to implement the invention. This database may be created with a page wise entry for each application, where opening an application from a home screen shortcut increments the launch count of that application for that particular day corresponding to that page. While opening an application from application drawer, increments the launch count of that application for that particular day for all the pages on which that application is present. Such data may be monitored on a weekly basis and the icon of application with maximum launch count in a week may be displayed as page indicator icon instead of default page indicator on the home screen. Whenever, the system date changes, following actions can be performed: (1) an event notification for the same is received; and (2) launch count for all the applications corresponding to the day, which is a week before, is reset to zero. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the functionality associated with single tap and double tap can be reverse implemented. For example, the single tap may be used to launch an associated application, while double tap to launch an associated page. Figure 8 illustrates another use case (800) as per the invention. In said use case (800), the graphical user interface of a device may configured to provide an option (801) to enable or disable the rendering of the application icon as the page indicator. Such an option (801) maybe provided as part of home screen settings of the device. Figure 9 illustrates another use case (900) as per the invention. In said use case (900), a default page indicator is shown for a page till the time the preconfigured criterion is not satisfied by an application shown on that page (step 901). Once the preconfigured criterion is satisfied by an application, then the default page indicator may be replaced by a small icon of that application (step 902). At any point of time, if the preconfigured criterion is unsatisfied, then the default page indicator is restored (step 903). Here, the preconfigured criterion includes but is not limited to determining a most frequently used application, or a most popular application, or a last used application, or a recently downloaded application, or a last 12 updated application, or a user selected application. In one implementation, a threshold value may be associated for satisfaction of the preconfigured criterion. For example, an application launched less than 10 times, may not be considered as a most frequently used application. In case, more than one application has been launched 10 times on a single page, then the application with highest number of launch count may be considered as the most frequently used applications. However, if an application is not used for more than 7 days, then its page indicator icon (501) may be reset to the default page indicator (401). Figure 10 illustrates another use case (1000) as per the invention. In said use case (1000), an application icon as per a predefined criterion, for example, an application icon of a most frequently used application in a page, is shown as a page indicator icon for that page. All such icons corresponding to a most frequent application in each page are displayed as page indicator icons (501) for corresponding pages in a row wise manner. However, if a user would like to explore other most frequent icons of a particular page, then the user may provide an input, for instance, a long press on any page indicator icon in the row of page indicator icons. Such a user input may be configured to display icons of top 5 or top 10 or all of the most frequently used applications in a page corresponding to the page indictor icon that received the long press input. Said icons (1001) for the top 5 or top 10 or all of the most frequently used applications can be displayed in a column wise manner as shown in the figure. Here, the icon of most frequently used application may be displayed in the centre, that is, at its original position, while other icons may be displayed in the column in a predefined sequence. If required, as shown in the use case (1100) of Figure 11, a scroll bar (1101) may be displayed to comfortably view the icons (1001) in the column. An option for enabling or disabling the column wise display of all most frequent icons of a page may be provided as parts of home screen settings, described earlier in conjunction with Figure 8. Figure 12 illustrates a flow chart (1200) of the invention for a very specific example, but not for the invention as a whole. With quick launch setting turned on/off (step 1201), a user may create application shortcuts on various pages of home screen (step 1202). If the quick launch setting is on, then a database entry is done for such applications on that page (step 1203). Whenever a user open application from such shortcuts or from the main application menu (step 1204), corresponding count value is incremented in the database (step 1205). If said count value is greater than the threshold value (step 1206), then the application icon is set as the page indicator icon (step 1207). Now the user can either single tap the page indicator icon to open that page or double tap to directly launch the application (step 1208). If 13 the application is not used for 7 days (step 1209), then the default page indicator icon can be restored (step 1210). Advantageous of the invention include but are not limited to personalization and convenience. Further, it makes use of the page indicators to enhance the consumers’ application browsing experience and keeping the applications more handy. The applications may be distributed over different pages, but are made available at a single place. Further, it provides an overlay most frequently used app icon. Further, it allows for double tap on the overlay icon from any page to launch the app and single tap to open that page. Further, it provides enable/disable feature as a part of settings. Further, it results into de-cluttering of information as frequently used app icon is simply over-layered on an otherwise passive default page indicator, usually a white box or circle. In this way, grouping or overburdening over a single page is minimized. While certain present preferred embodiments of the invention have been illustrated and described herein, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited thereto. Clearly, the invention may be otherwise variously embodied, and practiced within the scope of the following claims.

WE CLAIMS:- 1. A method for providing quick access to applications from page indicators in a graphical user interface of a computing device, the method comprising: determining, based on a preconfigured criterion, an application from amongst one or more applications shown on a page of the graphical user interface in form of application icons; and rendering an application icon corresponding to said application as a page indicator for said page. 2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the preconfigured criterion is to determine a most frequently used application shown in said page, or a most popular application shown in said page, or a last used application shown in said page, or a recently downloaded application shown in said page, or a last updated application shown in said page, or a user selected application shown in said page. 3. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising: receiving an input event on the application icon rendered as the page indicator; and performing an action according to the input event received on the application icon. 4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the input event is a single click or a double click or a long press. 5. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the action is to open the page or to launch the application or display icons of other applications from amongst the one or more application shown on said page that match the preconfigured criterion. 6. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising: providing an option to enable or disable the rendering of the application icon as the page indicator. 7. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising: rendering a default page indicator when the preconfigured criterion is unsatisfied. 8. A method for providing quick access to applications from page indicators in a graphical user interface of a computing device, the method comprising: rendering a page indicator for each page of the graphical user interface; receiving an input event on the page indicator; and 15 performing an action according to the input event received on the page indicator. 9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the input event is a single tap event, or a double tap event, or a long press event. 10. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein rendering the page indicator comprises: rendering an application icon as the page indicator for a page showing an application corresponding to the application icon. 11. The method as claimed in claim 10 further comprising: determining, based on a preconfigured criterion, the application from amongst one or more applications shown on said page in form of application icons. 12. The method as claimed in claim 11 further comprising: rendering a default page indicator when the preconfigured criterion is unsatisfied. 13. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the preconfigured criterion is to determine a most frequently used application shown in said page, or a most popular application shown in said page, or a last used application shown in said page, or a recently downloaded application shown in said page, or a last updated application shown in said page, or a user selected application shown in said page. 14. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the action is to open said page showing the application corresponding to the application icon, or launch the application corresponding to the application icon, or display an icon of another application from amongst one or more applications shown on said page in form of application icons. 15. The method as claimed in claim 10 further comprising: providing an option to enable or disable the rendering of the application icon as the page indicator. 16. A computing device for providing quick access to applications from page indicators in its graphical user interface, the computing device comprising: a data processor configured to determine, based on a preconfigured criterion, an application from amongst one or more applications shown on a page of the graphical user interface in form of application icons; and a rendering engine configured to render an application icon corresponding to said application as a page indicator for said page. 17. The computing device as claimed in claim 16 further comprising: an event handler configured to receive an input event on the application icon rendered as the page indicator. 16 18. The computing device as claimed in claim 17, wherein the data processor is further configured to perform an action according to the input event received on the application icon. 19. The computing device as claimed in claim 18, wherein the action is to open the page, or to launch the application, or display icons of other applications from amongst the one or more application shown on said page that match the preconfigured criterion. 20. The computing device as claimed in claim 16, wherein the graphical user interface is configured to provide an option to enable or disable the rendering of the application icon as the page indicator. 21. The computing device as claimed in claim 16, wherein the rendering engine is further configured to render a default page indicator when the preconfigured criterion is unsatisfied. 22. A computing device for providing quick access to applications from page indicators in its graphical user interface, the computing device comprising: a rendering engine configured to render a page indicator for each page of the graphical user interface; an event handler configured to receive an input event on the page indicator; and a data processor configured to perform an action according to the input event received on the page indicator. 23. The computing device as claimed in claim 22, wherein the rendering engine is further configured to render an application icon as the page indicator for a page showing an application corresponding to the application icon. 24. The computing device as claimed in claim 23, wherein the graphical user interface is configured to provide an option to enable or disable the rendering of the application icon as the page indicator. 25. The computing device as claimed in claim 23, wherein the action is to open said page showing the application corresponding to the application icon, or launch the application corresponding to the application icon, or display an icon of another application from amongst one or more applications shown on said page in form of application icons. 26. The computing device as claimed in claim 23, wherein the data processor is further configured to determine, based on a preconfigured criterion, said application from amongst one or more applications shown on said page in form of application icons. 17 27. The computing device as claimed in claim 26, wherein the rendering engine is further configured to render a default page indicator when the preconfigured criterion is unsatisfied.