Huawei has registered a trademark for its upcoming operating system designed to replace Android and Windows on its own devices.

Called Hongmeng, the operating-system turned up within the documents of the Trademark Office of China's National Intellectual Property Administration earlier this year, confirming that Huawei is working at full speed on getting it ready for launch.

As per CGTN, the applying was submitted on August 24, 2018, and also the Hongmeng trademark is valid between May 14, 2019, and May 13, 2029.

Huawei trying to register the Hongmeng trademark in the summer of 2018 implies that the organization indeed expected a potential ban that will restrict the use of Android and Windows. Huawei officials said on several occasions these were working on an in-house operating system to replace Windows and Android, but the company only accelerated the development of this project once the Usa government set new restrictions over its licensing handles American companies.

Earlier this year, US President Mr . trump signed a purchase banning Huawei from receiving any products from companies located in the Usa, including here Google and Microsoft, both of which provide the Chinese tech giant with os's for its devices.

Huawei's smartphones run Android, whereas the laptops it sells worldwide are run by Windows.

"Universal operating system"

Hongmeng is thus designed to replace each of them, and based on the information we received so far, is developed as a universal platform that will run on both smartphones and tablets. This idea isn't new, as Microsoft itself attempted to make Windows 10 a practical system for all types of devices, and Huawei hopes it will make this happen with Hongmeng.

Based on Huawei officials, Hongmeng is projected to launch in China as soon as this year, while the international debut should take place in 2020.

The larger challenge for Huawei, however, isn't to develop a practical system, but to produce the app ecosystem that would support its adoption. And Huawei officials know this.

"It's not really a difficult task to come up with a new OS, but it's difficult to build up an ecosystem for that," Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei was quoted as saying by the cited source.

Hongmeng includes Huawei's own App Gallery pre-installed, so users would have access to pick apps already available in this app store. However, it'll be hard for the company to expand it in order to become a worthy option to Google Play Store.