Event display apparatus for mobile communication terminal and method thereof

• US 20070060205A1
• Filed: 07/24/2006
• Published: 03/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Huhn
• Granted Patent: US 7,869,833 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/025 Coordination of plural reservations, e.g. plural trip segments, transportation combined with accommodation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/56 Arrangements for indicating or recording the called number at the calling subscriber's set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal including a memory unit configured to store at least one call related event, a display configured to display a time line, and a controller configured to display the at least one call related event on the time line based on a time information of the at least one call related event. Further, the time line includes a circular-shaped time line, a chart-shaped time line, a spiral-shaped time line, a snowman-shaped time line, a star-shaped time line, a rectangular-spiral-shaped time line, or a square-shaped time line.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a memory unit configured to store at least one call related event;

a display configured to display a time line; and

a controller configured to display the at least one call related event on the time line based on a time information of the at least one call related event.

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the at least one call related event comprises at least one from a voice call history and a data call history.

3. The terminal of claim 2, wherein the data call history comprises at least one from a short message service (sms) data call, a multimedia service (mms) data call, a wireless Application Protocol (wap) call, a Video telephony (vt) call, a Digital Mobile Broadcasting (dmb) call, an Instant Messaging Service (ims) call and a Push To Talk (ptt) call.

4. The terminal of claim 2, wherein the voice call history comprises at least one from a missed call event, a sent call event, and a received call event.

5. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller displays the at least one call related event on the time line in the form of an icon representative of the at least call related event.

6. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the memory unit further stores at least one event from scheduling events, alarm events, wakeup call events, task events, D-day events, and reservation message events, and

wherein the controller displays a respective event on the time line based on the time information of the respective event.

7. The terminal of claim 6, wherein the controller displays a plurality of same events occurring simultaneously at a same time as a single icon with a numeral on or next to the icon indicating a number of the plurality of events occurring simultaneously at the same time.

8. The terminal of claim 6, wherein the controller displays a plurality of different events occurring simultaneously at a same time as a single icon with a highest priority overlapping other icons corresponding to events having a lower priority.

9. The terminal of claim 1, wherein when the displayed at least one event is selected, the controller displays a menu list with at least one executable process such that a user can select the at least one executable task to have the task executed.

10. The terminal of claim 9, wherein the at least one executable process comprises a perform call process, a send message process, a delete event process, and change a size or color of event process.

11. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller displays a current time on the time line.

12. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller changes a position of the at least one call related event displayed on the time line as time elapses.

13. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller changes a size of the icons displayed on the time line as time elapses.

14. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the time line comprises a circular-shaped time line, a chart-shaped time line, a spiral-shaped time line, a snowman-shaped time line, a star-shaped time line, a rectangular-spiral-shaped time line, or a square-shaped time line.

15. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the circular-shaped time line comprises a first circular time line for representing a present time, a second circular time line for representing a past time, and a third circular time line for representing a future time.

16. The terminal of claim 15, wherein the first, second and third circular time lines have a different diameter, respectively.

17. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the circular-shaped time line comprises a first circular time line for representing a present morning time, a second circular time line for representing a present afternoon time, a third circular time line for representing a future morning time and a fourth time line for representing a future afternoon time.

18. The terminal of claim 17, wherein the first, second, third and fourth circular time lines have a different diameter, respectively.

19. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the spiral-shaped time line comprises a first spiral time line for representing a present time, a second spiral time line for representing a past time, and a third spiral time line for representing a future time.

20. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the spiral-shaped time line comprises a first spiral time portion for representing a present morning time, a second spiral time portion for representing a present afternoon time, a third spiral time portion for representing a future morning time and a fourth spiral time portion for representing a future afternoon time.

21. The terminal of claim 1, wherein when a specific time on the time line is selected, the controller sets a requested event on the specific time.

22. The terminal of claim 1, wherein when a specific event displayed on the time line is selected by a user, the controller performs the selected specific event according to the user'"'"'s request.

23. The terminal of claim 1, wherein when a specific event displayed on the time line is selected by a user, the controller displays detailed information about the selected specific event.

24. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the controller prompts a user to select one of the circular-shaped time line, the chart-shaped time line, the spiral-shaped time line, the snowman-shaped time line, the star-shaped time line, the rectangular-spiral-shaped time line, or the square-shaped time line to display on the display of the terminal.

25. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the controller prompts the user selects one of circular-shaped time line, the chart-shaped time line, the spiral-shaped time line, the snowman-shaped time line, the star-shaped time line, the rectangular-spiral-shaped time line, or the square-shaped time line to be a default time line to be displayed on the display of the terminal.

26. A computer program product configured to execute computer instructions on a mobile terminal, comprising:

a first computer code configured to store at least one call related event in a memory unit of the mobile terminal;

a second computer code configured to display a time line on a display of the mobile terminal; and

a third computer code configured to display the at least one call related event on the time line based on a time information of the at least one call related event.

27. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein the at least one call related event comprises at least one from a voice call history and a data call history.

28. The computer program product of claim 27, wherein the data call history comprises at least one from a short message service (sms) data call, a multimedia service (mms) data call, a wireless Application Protocol (wap) call, a Video telephony (vt) call, a Digital Mobile Broadcasting (dmb) call, an Instant Messaging Service (ims) call and a Push To Talk (ptt) call.

29. The computer program product of claim 27, wherein the voice call history comprises at least one from a missed call event, a sent call event, and a received call event.

30. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein the third computer code displays the at least one call related event on the time line in the form of an icon representative of the at least call related event.

31. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein the first computer code further stores at least one event from scheduling events, alarm events, wakeup call events, task events, D-day events, and reservation message events, and

wherein the third computer code displays a respective event on the time line based on the time information of the respective event.

32. The computer program product of claim 31, wherein the third computer code displays a plurality of same events occurring simultaneously at a same time as a single icon with a numeral on or next to the icon indicating a number of the plurality of events occurring simultaneously at the same time.

33. The computer program product of claim 31, wherein the third computer code displays a plurality of different events occurring simultaneously at a same time as a single icon with a highest priority overlapping other icons corresponding to events having a lower priority.

34. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein when the displayed at least one event is selected, the third computer code displays a menu list with at least one executable process such that a user can select the at least one executable task to have the task executed.

35. The computer program product of claim 34, wherein the at least one executable process comprises a perform call process, a send message process, a delete event process, and change a size or color of event process.

36. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein the third computer code displays a current time on the time line.

37. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein the third computer code changes a position of the at least one call related event displayed on the time line as time elapses.

38. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein the third computer code changes a size of the icons displayed on the time line as time elapses.

39. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein the time line comprises a circular-shaped time line, a chart-shaped time line, a spiral-shaped time line, a snowman-shaped time line, a star-shaped time line, a rectangular-spiral-shaped time line, or a square-shaped time line.

40. The computer program product of claim 39, wherein the circular-shaped time line comprises a first circular time line for representing a present time, a second circular time line for representing a past time, and a third circular time line for representing a future time.

41. The computer program product of claim 40, wherein the first, second and third circular time lines have a different diameter, respectively.

42. The computer program product of claim 39, wherein the circular-shaped time line comprises a first circular time line for representing a present morning time, a second circular time line for representing a present afternoon time, a third circular time line for representing a future morning time and a fourth time line for representing a future afternoon time.

43. The computer program product of claim 42, wherein the first, second, third and fourth circular time lines have a different diameter, respectively.

44. The computer program product of claim 39, wherein the spiral-shaped time line comprises a first spiral time line for representing a present time, a second spiral time line for representing a past time, and a third spiral time line for representing a future time.

45. The computer program product of claim 39, wherein the spiral-shaped time line comprises a first spiral time portion for representing a present morning time, a second spiral time portion for representing a present afternoon time, a third spiral time portion for representing a future morning time and a fourth spiral time portion for representing a future afternoon time.

46. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein when a specific time on the time line is selected, the third computer code sets a requested event on the specific time.

47. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein when a specific event displayed on the time line is selected by a user, the third computer code performs the selected specific event according to the user'"'"'s request.

48. The computer program product of claim 26, wherein when a specific event displayed on the time line is selected by a user, the third computer code displays detailed information about the selected specific event.

49. The computer program product of claim 39, wherein the third computer code prompts a user to select one of the circular-shaped time line, the chart-shaped time line, the spiral-shaped time line, the snowman-shaped time line, the star-shaped time line, the rectangular-spiral-shaped time line, or the square-shaped time line to display on the display of the terminal.

50. The computer program product of claim 39, wherein the third computer code prompts the user selects one of circular-shaped time line, the chart-shaped time line, the spiral-shaped time line, the snowman-shaped time line, the star-shaped time line, the rectangular-spiral-shaped time line, or the square-shaped time line to be a default time line to be displayed on the display of the terminal.