Mobile communication terminal for downloading contents and method thereof

• US 20070038639A1
• Filed: 08/07/2006
• Published: 02/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Han-Su
• Granted Patent: US 7,783,595 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/64 file transfer between terminals download of applications H04M1/72406; transfer of messages, e.g. SMS, e-mail or MMS H04M1/7243
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/913 Multimedia

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal for downloading contents and a method thereof. The mobile communication terminal comprises: a memory for storing at least one multimedia data to be outputted while downloading contents; a controller for outputting at least one control signal to control an output of the stored multimedia data when prediction time for downloading the contents is more than a preset time; and at least one output device for outputting the stored multimedia data based on the outputted control signal.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal for downloading contents, comprising:

a memory for storing at least one multimedia data to be outputted while downloading contents;

a controller for outputting at least one control signal to control an output of the stored multimedia data when a prediction time for downloading the contents is more than a preset time; and

at least one output device for outputting the stored multimedia data based on the outputted control signal.

2. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the multimedia data includes audio data, video data, text data, and image data.

3. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the memory stores at least one group including at least one multimedia data.

4. The mobile communication terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller controls the stored groups to be outputted sequentially or at random.

5. The mobile communication terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller controls the stored groups to be selectively outputted according to a prediction time taken to download the contents.

6. The mobile communication terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller stores a group including multimedia data of which output has been ended while the contents downloading is performed, and then performs an output from the stored group.

7. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the output device includes at least one of:

an audio processor for outputting audio data according to a first control signal; and

a display unit for outputting at least one among text data, image data, and video data according to a second control signal.

8. The mobile communication terminal of claim 7, wherein the display unit outputs at least one among the text data, the image data, and the video data at an upper portion thereof, and outputs a downloading rate of the contents at a lower portion thereof.

9. The mobile communication terminal of claim 7, wherein the preset time is pre-determined by a user.

10. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein when the contents downloading has been completed, the controller ends the output of the multimedia data and outputs at least one of preset ending sound and messages.

11. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication terminal includes a portable phone, a personal digital assistant, a notebook, a portable multimedia player.

12. A method for downloading contents in a mobile communication terminal, comprising:

storing at least one multimedia data to be outputted while downloading contents;

outputting at least one control signal to control an output of the stored multimedia data when a prediction time for downloading the contents is more than a preset time; and

outputting the stored multimedia data based on the at least one outputted control signal.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the multimedia data includes audio data, video data, text data, and image data.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein in the step of storing, at least one group including at least one multimedia data is stored.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein in the step of outputting the stored multimedia data, the stored groups are outputted sequentially or at random.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein in the step of outputting the stored multimedia data, the stored groups are selectively outputted according to a prediction time taken to download the contents.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising storing a group including multimedia data of which output has been ended while the contents downloading is performed.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the step of outputting the stored multimedia data includes at least one of:

outputting audio data according to a first control signal; and

outputting at least one among text data, image data, and video data according to a second control signal.

19. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

calculating a prediction time taken to download the contents; and

comparing the calculated prediction time with a preset time.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein in the step of outputting at least one control signal, when the prediction time is more than the preset time, whether preset multimedia data to be outputted during the contents downloading exists is judged thereby to output at least one control signal.

21. The method of claim 12, wherein the preset time is pre-determined by a user.

22. The method of claim 12, further comprising ending the output of the multimedia data and outputting at least one of preset ending sound and messages when the contents downloading has been completed.