Method Of Changing Idle Screen Template Type Of Mobile Communication Termianl, Computer Readable Recording Medium In Which Program For Executing The Same Is Recorded And Mobile Communication Terminal Having Function Thereof

• US 20080178095A1
• Filed: 11/21/2005
• Published: 07/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Insprit Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Insprit Company Limited
• Inventors: Lee, Chang Seok
• Application Number:
  US11/910,347
• Publication Number:
  US 20080178095A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/747
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42153 by subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4872 Non-interactive information services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal having an idle screen function, and more particularly, to a method of changing idle screen templates of the mobile communication terminal. A method of changing an idle screen template type of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention comprising the steps of (a) selecting any one of template types that has been previously set to display the selected template type on an idle screen of the mobile communication terminal, (b) configuring a channel according to the selected template type, (c) changing a template type that is already displayed to a changed template type in accordance with the template type in which the channel is configured and (d) displaying the changed template type on the idle screen.

Claims

1. A method of changing an idle screen template type of a mobile communication terminal, comprising the steps of:

(a) accepting a template type which is selected from any one of template types by user;

(b) configuring a channel according to the accepted template type;

(c) changing a template type in accordance with the accepted template type in which the channel is configured.

2. A computer-readable recording medium in which a program for executing a method of changing an idle screen template type of a mobile communication terminal in a computer, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) accepting a template type which is selected from any one of template types by user;

(b) configuring a channel according to the accepted template type;

(c) changing a template type in accordance with the accepted template type in which the channel is configured.

3. The computer-readable recording medium as claimed in claim 2, wherein the selection of the template type in the step (a) is performed using a template type change application program within the mobile communication terminal or through a web or a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).

4. The computer-readable recording medium as claimed in claim 3, wherein the template type is selected using the application program, a template type code corresponding to the changed template type is transmitted to a service server.

5. The computer-readable recording medium as claimed in claim 3, wherein the template type is selected through the web or WAP, a template type code corresponding to the changed template type is transmitted from the service server to the mobile communication terminal.

6. The computer-readable recording medium as claimed in claim 2, wherein the method further comprises the steps of:

after the step (b),

(b-1) determining whether information content has been allocated in each of the configured channels; and

(b-2) if it is determined that information content has not been allocated in the step (b-1), allocating the desired information content to a channel.

7. The computer-readable recording medium as claimed in claim 6, wherein in the step (b-2), the desired information content can be allocated by selecting the information content that has already been received within the mobile communication terminal.

8. The computer-readable recording medium as claimed in claim 7, wherein the information content is transmitted or received as a content code.

9. The computer-readable recording medium as claimed in claim 2, wherein the channel included in the selected template type is a sliding region in which characters or images are displayed while being moved, or a multimedia region in which images or motion picture is displayed.

10. A mobile communication terminal in which an idle screen template type can be changed, comprising:

selection means for selecting any one of template types that have been previously set to display the selected template type on an idle screen;

channel configuration means for configuring a channel according to the selected template type;

template type change means for changing a template type that is already displayed to a changed template type in accordance with the template type in which the channel is configured by the channel configuration means; and

display means for displaying the changed template type on the idle screen.

11. The mobile communication terminal as claimed in claim 10, wherein the selection of the template type is performed using a template type change application program within the mobile communication terminal or through a web or a WAP.

12. The mobile communication terminal as claimed in claim 11, wherein the template type is selected using the application program, a template type code corresponding to the changed template type is transmitted to a service server.

13. The mobile communication terminal as claimed in claim 11, wherein the template type is selected through the web or WAP, a template type code corresponding to the changed template type is transmitted from the service server to the mobile communication terminal.

14. The mobile communication terminal as claimed in claim 10, comprising:

channel check means for determining whether information content has been set in each of the configured channels; and

channel allocation means for allocating desired information content so that the desired information content can be set in a channel, if it is determined that information content has not been set by the channel check means.

15. The mobile communication terminal as claimed in claim 14, wherein the desired information content is received from the service server by requesting the desired information content to the service server, or allocated by selecting the information content that has already been received within the mobile communication terminal.

16. The mobile communication terminal as claimed in claim 15, wherein information content that is requested to the service server is transmitted as a content code.

17. The mobile communication terminal as claimed in claim 10, wherein the channel included in the selected template type is a sliding region in which characters or images are displayed while being moved, or a multimedia region in which a images or a motion picture is displayed.

18. A method of adding or deleting an idle screen template type of a mobile communication terminal, comprising the steps of:

(a) adding or deleting template types displayed on an idle screen of the mobile communication terminal by user;

(b) communicating with a service server to add or delete a selected template type; and

(c) configuring an idle screen of the mobile communication terminal depending on the result of the addition or deletion of the template type, and displaying the configured idle screen,

wherein the addition or deletion of the template type in the step (a) is performed using a template type change application program within the mobile communication terminal or through a web or a WAP.

19. The method as claimed in claim 18, further comprising the steps of:

after the step (b),

(b-1) determining whether any template type to be added or deleted exists in a service server; and

(b-2) after the step (b-1), transmitting template type information, which will be added or deleted in an idle screen template type change program of the mobile communication terminal, to the service server.

20. The method as claimed in claim 19, further comprising the steps of:

after the step (b-2),

(b-21) determining whether the deleted template type is a current idle screen template type; and

(b-22) configuring the information content so the information content is allocated to a channel according to the basic template types other than the deleted template type, depending on the result of the step (b-21).