MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, METHOD OF INTERCONNECTING SPECIFIC CONTENT TO ABBREVIATED NUMBER THEREOF AND METHOD OF PLAYING ABBREVIATED NUMBER INTERCONNECTED CONTENT THEREOF

• US 20080171580A1
• Filed: 01/15/2008
• Published: 07/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: KIM, Jong Hwan
• Application Number:
  US12/014,622
• Publication Number:
  US 20080171580A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2745 using static electronic memories, e.g. chips
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/56 Arrangements for indicating or recording the called number at the calling subscriber's set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/576 associated with a pictorial or graphical representation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A method of operating a mobile communication terminal. The method includes receiving a signal corresponding to a number to be interconnected with a folder stored on the mobile communication terminal, and interconnecting the folder with the selected number such that when the number is entered on the terminal in a prescribed manner, the folder is automatically displayed on a display of the terminal.

Claims

1. A method of operating a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

receiving a signal corresponding to a number to be interconnected with a folder stored on the mobile communication terminal; and

interconnecting the folder with the selected number such that when the number is entered on the terminal in a prescribed manner, the folder is automatically displayed on a display of the terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

entering a number managing mode on the mobile communication terminal such that the number can be selected.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

searching for folders on the mobile terminal when the signal corresponding to the selected number is received.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

displaying a table or list of numbers that may be selected to be interconnected with the folder when the number managing mode is entered.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein searching step displays folders on the mobile terminal as a list of folders or as thumbnails.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

interconnecting a particular function on the mobile communication terminal with the folder and the number such that when the particular function is executed on the mobile communication terminal, a content included in the folder is executed.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the particular function is a calling function or a message writing function.

8. A method of operating a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

receiving a signal corresponding to a number interconnected with a folder stored on the mobile communication terminal; and

playing content stored within the folder interconnected to the number when the number is entered on the terminal in a prescribed manner.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the playing step plays the content stored in the folder when the number is input into the terminal followed by another input command.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the receiving step receives the signal corresponding to the number comprises via a wireless signal from another party.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the wireless signal comprises at least one of a call signal and a message signal.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the playing step plays the content stored in the interconnected folder when the received signal is a signal for making a call to a phone number corresponding to the number.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the playing step plays the content stored in the interconnected folder when the received signal is a signal for creating a message to send to a phone number corresponding to the number.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the content to be played comprises at least one of an image file, a bell sound file, and a music file.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein the content in the interconnected folder includes a plurality of contents, and

wherein the playing step plays one of the plurality of contents when the signal received by the receiving step includes a specific command to play said one of the plurality of contents in addition to the input number.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the specific command indicates to play one of a music file, a bell sound file, and a video file that is stored in the folder.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the specific command comprises a command to play one of a default content file among the plurality of contents, to sequential play contents having a same type in the folder, and to randomly play the contents having of the same type.

18. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

moving or copying the content to another folder different from the folder interconnected to the number.

19. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

an input unit configured to receive a signal corresponding to a number to be interconnected with a folder stored on the mobile communication terminal; and

a controller configured to interconnect the folder with the selected number such that when the number is entered on the input unit in a prescribed manner, the control unit automatically displays the folder on a display unit of the terminal.

20. The mobile communication terminal of claim 19, wherein the control unit is further configured to enter into a number managing mode that allows the number to be selected when a number managing mode command is entered on the input unit, and

wherein the control unit displays on the display unit a plurality numbers that may be selected in a table form or in a list form.

21. The mobile communication terminal of claim 19, wherein the control unit is further configured to search for folders on the mobile terminal when the signal corresponding to the selected number is received and to interconnect a selected folder with the number when the selected folder is selected.

22. The mobile communication terminal of claim 19, wherein the control unit is further configured to interconnect a particular function on the mobile communication terminal with the folder and the number such that when the particular function is executed on the mobile communication terminal, a content included in the folder is executed, and

wherein the particular function is a calling function or a message writing function.

23. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

an input unit configured to receive a signal corresponding to a number interconnected with a folder stored on the mobile communication terminal; and

a control unit configured to play content stored within the folder interconnected to the number when the number is entered on the terminal in a prescribed manner.

24. The mobile communication terminal of claim 23, wherein the control unit is further configured to play the content stored in the folder when the number is input into the input unit followed by another input command.

25. The mobile communication terminal of claim 23, wherein the signal corresponding to the number comprises one of a wireless signal from another party, a call signal, and a message signal.