Method for providing mobile terminal with software keyboard suitable for language used in country where it is located

• US 20020047831A1
• Filed: 12/14/2000
• Published: 04/25/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Korea Telecom (KT Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Korea Telecom (KT Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Mi-Yeon, Lee, Sang-Soo, Park, Hoon-Kyu, Won, Young-Wook
• Granted Patent: US 7,193,615 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0238 Programmable keyboards key guide holders G06F3/0224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A method for providing a mobile terminal with a software keyboard proper for the language of a country where it is located in a mobile communications network providing global roaming, comprises the steps of constructing a database on the information of multinational software keyboards in a server, transmitting the information on the location of the mobile terminal to the server, and transmitting the information on the proper software keyboard to the mobile terminal by ascertaining the country.

Claims

1. A method for providing a mobile terminal with a software keyboard proper for the language of a country where it is located in a mobile communications network providing global roaming, comprising the steps of:

constructing a database on the information of multinational software keyboards in a server;

transmitting the information on the location of the mobile terminal to the server; and

transmitting the information on the proper software keyboard to the mobile terminal by ascertaining the country.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, further including the step of transmitting the information on another software keyboard requested to the mobile terminal instead of the software keyboard proper for the country where it is located.

3. A method as recited in claim 2, further including the step of canceling the transmitting of the information on the software keyboard on the user'"'"'s request.

4. A recording medium programmed by a computer to perform a method for providing a mobile terminal with a software keyboard proper for the language of a country where it is located in a mobile communications network providing global roaming, the method comprising the steps of:

constructing a database on the information of multinational software keyboards in a server;

transmitting the information on the location of the mobile terminal to the server; and

transmitting the information on the proper software keyboard to the mobile terminal by ascertaining the country.