METHOD FOR MANAGING USER CONTENT IN COMMUNICATION TERMINAL

• US 20080256487A1
• Filed: 03/27/2008
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Jae Hwan, Rhee, Young Ho, Kim, Jung Hun
• Application Number:
  US12/056,831
• Publication Number:
  US 20080256487A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs

Abstract

Provided is a method for managing user content in a communication terminal. The method includes if a user content item is generated, adding a content icon corresponding to the user content item to a content icon arrangement path on which content icons are arranged in an integrated manner in the order of time point of generation of the content icons; if a search for user content is performed, displaying the content icons arranged on the content icon arrangement path in a first display window located on a screen; and if a content icon is selected, displaying the user content item corresponding to the selected content icon in a second display window located on the same screen as the first display window.

Claims

1. A method for managing user content in a communication terminal, the method comprising:

if a user content item is generated, adding a content icon corresponding to the user content item to a content icon arrangement path on which content icons are arranged in an integrated manner in an order of time points of generation of the content icons;

if a search for user content is performed, displaying the content icons arranged on the content icon arrangement path in a first display window located on a screen; and

if a content icon is selected, displaying a user content item corresponding to the selected content icon in a second display window located on the same screen as the first display window.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the user content item comprises:

displaying a background image corresponding to the selected content icon in the second display window; and

displaying the user content item in a predetermined region of the background image.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein displaying the content icons further comprises displaying dates at which the content icons are generated at one side of the content icon arrangement path.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the content icon arrangement path is displayed in a form of a rotatable wheel.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the displayed content icons are linked to the corresponding generation dates of the content icons to rotate together upon receiving a request to rotate the content icon arrangement path.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying attributes of the user content item corresponding to the selected content icon in a third display window located on the same screen as the first and second display windows.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying conditional data in a fourth display window located on the same screen as the first and second display windows, wherein the conditional data is used for arranging the content icons on the content icon arrangement path; and

if a conditional data is selected, arranging the content icons according to the selected conditional data.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the conditional data are dates at which each user content item is generated, and

wherein the fourth display window has a calendar display region for displaying months and corresponding dates.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein each date is displayed in the calendar display region in a manner preset to correspond to a number of user content items generated at the date.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the conditional data are categories to which user content items belong, and wherein the fourth display window has a category display region for displaying a list of categories.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the category display region further displays a number of user content items for each category.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the conditional data are tags assigned to user content items, and

wherein the fourth display window has a tag display region for displaying the tags.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein each tag is displayed in the tag display region in a manner preset to correspond to a number of user content items to which the tag is assigned.

14. The method of claim 7, wherein the conditional data is a search word input to the communication terminal, and

wherein the fourth display window has a search word input region.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

if the user content item corresponding to the selected content icon contains a facial image, identifying the facial image; and

arranging the content icon corresponding to the user content item containing the facial image on the content icon arrangement path on the first display window.

16. A method for managing user content stored in a communication terminal on a Personal Computer (PC), the method comprising:

if a user content item is generated on the communication terminal, adding a content icon corresponding to the user content item to a content icon arrangement path on which content icons are arranged in an integrated manner in an order of time points of generation of the content icons;

if a search for user content is performed on the PC, receiving the content icons arranged on the content icon arrangement path from the communication terminal and displaying the received content icons in a first display window located on a screen of the PC; and

if a content icon is selected on the PC, receiving a user content item corresponding to the selected content icon from the communication terminal and displaying the received user content item in a second display window located on the same screen of the PC as the first display window.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein displaying the user content item comprises:

displaying a background image corresponding to the selected content icon in the second display window; and

displaying the received user content item in a predetermined region of the background image.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein displaying the content icons further comprises displaying dates at which the content icons are generated at one side of the content icon arrangement path.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the content icon arrangement path is displayed in a form of a rotatable wheel.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the displayed content icons are linked to corresponding generation dates of the content icons to rotate together upon receiving a request from the PC to rotate the content icon arrangement path.

21. The method of claim 16, further comprising displaying attributes of the user content item corresponding to the selected content icon in a third display window located on the same screen of the PC as the first and second display windows.

22. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

displaying conditional data in a fourth display window located on the same screen of the PC as the first and second display windows, wherein the conditional data is used for arranging the content icons on the content icon arrangement path; and

if a conditional data is selected, arranging the content icons according to the selected conditional data.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the conditional data are dates at which each user content item is generated, and

wherein the fourth display window has a calendar display region for displaying months and corresponding dates.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein each date is displayed in the calendar display region in a manner preset to correspond to a number of user content items generated at the date.

25. The method of claim 22, wherein the conditional data are categories to which user content items belong, and wherein the fourth display window has a category display region for displaying a list of categories.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the category display region further displays a number of user content items for each category.

27. The method of claim 22, wherein the conditional data are tags assigned to user content items, and

wherein the fourth display window has a tag display region for displaying the tags.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein each tag is displayed in the tag display region in a manner preset to correspond to a number of user content items to which the tag is assigned.

29. The method of claim 22, wherein the conditional data is a search word input to the PC, and

wherein the fourth display window has a search word input region.

30. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

if the user content item corresponding to the selected content item contains a facial image, identifying the facial image on the PC and transmitting the identified facial image to the communication terminal; and

extracting the content icon corresponding to the user content item having the facial image in the communication terminal and arranging the extracted content icon on the content icon arrangement path on the first display window.