USER CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD IN COMMUNICATION TERMINAL

• US 20080270941A1
• Filed: 04/30/2008
• Published: 10/30/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2007
• 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:
  US12/112,413
• Publication Number:
  US 20080270941A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/830
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

A user content management method in a communication terminal is provided. A virtual wheel in which one or more content icons corresponding to one or more items of user content and generation times of the one or more items of user content in vicinity of the content icons are arranged in temporal order according to generation time.

Claims

1. A user content management method in a communication terminal, said method comprising:

displaying a virtual wheel in which one or more content icons corresponding to one or more items of user content and generation times of the one or more items of user content in the vicinity of the content icons, wherein the content icons are arranged in temporal order according to generation time.

2. The user content management method of claim 1, further comprising:

changing a display area of the virtual wheel, when the virtual wheel rotates.

3. The user content management method of claim 2, wherein displaying a predetermined area of a virtual wheel comprises extracting at least one of the one or more content icons satisfying a condition and rearranging the at least one of the one or more content icons in temporal order according to generation time in the virtual wheel, when the condition of rearranging the one or more content icons is satisfied.

4. The user content management method of claim 3, wherein a generation time is disposed at a side of a corresponding content icon.

5. The user content management method of claim 4, wherein the one or more content icons and the one or more generation times are arranged in different columns in the virtual wheel.

6. The user content management method of claim 4, wherein the one or more content icons and the one or more generation times are arranged in different rows in the virtual wheel.

7. The user content management method of claim 3, further comprising:

creating a content icon corresponding to an item of user content, when the item of user content is generated; and

storing the content icon.

8. The user content management method of claim 2, further comprising displaying an item of user content corresponding to a content icon before changing the display area of the virtual wheel, when the content icon is selected from the display area.

9. The user content management method of claim 2, further comprising displaying an item of user content corresponding to a content icon after changing the display area of the virtual wheel, when the content icon is selected from the display area.

10. The user content management method of claim 4, wherein sizes of a content icon and of a generation time located in a center of the display area of the virtual wheel are greater than sizes of a content icon and of a generation time point, respectively, located at an end of the display area of the virtual wheel.

11. The user content management method of claim 3, wherein the condition for rearranging the one or more content icons is at least one of a generation time point, an item of user content, a tag contained in an item of user content, and a keyword input by a user of the communication terminal.

12. The user content management method of claim 2, wherein changing the display areas comprises rotating the virtual wheel according to requested scrolling, when scrolling is requested.