Hybrid mobile terminal and method for controlling the same

• US 20050130705A1
• Filed: 09/07/2004
• Published: 06/16/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Shin, Yeung-Seob
• Application Number:
  US10/935,605
• Publication Number:
  US 20050130705A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1613 for portable computers cooling arrangements therefor G06F1/203; constructional details or arrangements for pocket calculators, electronic agendas or books G06F15/0216; constructional details of portable telephone sets: with several bodies H04M1/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3209 Monitoring remote activity, e.g. over telephone lines or network connections
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3287 by switching off individual functional units in the computer system
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/50 in wire-line communication networks, e.g. low power modes or reduced link rate

Abstract

A hybrid mobile terminal integrating a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) module including a display with a mobile phone module. The mobile phone module inserts display data in an indicator of an interrupt signal and transmits the interrupt signal including the display data to the PDA module. The PDA module receives the interrupt signal in a sleep mode, analyzes the indicator of the interrupt signal, determines if the analyzed interrupt signal includes the display data, and displays the display data on the display, if the analyzed interrupt signal includes display data.

Claims

1. A hybrid mobile terminal, comprising:

a mobile phone module that inserts display data in an indicator of an interrupt signal and transmits the interrupt signal including the display data; and

a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) module for receiving the interrupt signal during a sleep mode, analyzing the indicator included in the interrupt signal, determining whether the analyzed interrupt signal includes the display data, and displaying the display data on a display, if the analyzed interrupt signal includes the display data.

2. The hybrid mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the display data comprises at least one of antenna reception sensitivity data, remaining battery power data, time data, SMS (Short Message Service) data, and telephone message data.

3. The hybrid mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the PDA module enters a doze mode, instead of entering a full-on mode, upon receiving the interrupt signal from the mobile phone module, and the displays data on the display in the doze mode.

4. A method for controlling a display in a hybrid mobile terminal in which a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) module including the display is integrated with a mobile phone module, comprising the steps of:

inserting display data in an indicator of an interrupt signal and transmitting the interrupt signal including the display data to the PDA module;

analyzing the indicator of the interrupt signal, when the PDA module receives the interrupt signal from the mobile phone module in a sleep mode;

determining if the analyzed interrupt signal includes the displaying data; and

displaying the display data on the display, if the analyzed interrupt signal includes the display data.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the display data includes at least one of antenna reception sensitivity data, remaining battery power data, time data, SMS (Short Message Service) data, and telephone message data.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the PDA module enters a sleep mode after the display data has been displayed on the display.