MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF PROVIDING USER INTERFACE USING THE SAME

• US 20100058211A1
• Filed: 01/22/2009
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: KIM, Moosung, SONG, Yoomee, LEE, Junghun
• Granted Patent: US 8,850,340 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1624 with sliding enclosures, e.g. sliding keyboard or display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a display configured to display a graphical user interface, a user identification unit configured to connect at least first and second user identification modules to the mobile terminal, in which the first and second user identification modules include first and second telephone numbers, respectively, a memory configured to store at least first and second user interface information respectively corresponding to the first and second user identification modules, respectively, and a controller configured to control the display to display the graphical user interface using the first user interface information when the first user identification module is used and to display the graphical user interface using the second user interface information when the second user identification module is used.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display configured to display a graphical user interface;

a user identification unit configured to connect at least first and second user identification modules to the mobile terminal, said first and second user identification modules including first and second telephone numbers, respectively;

a memory configured to store at least first and second user interface information respectively corresponding to said first and second user identification modules, respectively; and

a controller configured to control the display to display the graphical user interface using the first user interface information when the first user identification module is used and to display the graphical user interface using the second user interface information when the second user identification module is used.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first and second user interface information include different image characteristics including at least one of a different color, a different brightness, a different saturation, a different image characteristic value and a different intensity.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first and second user interface information include information corresponding to different background images.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the different background images include at least one of still images and moving images.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first and second user interface information include different audio outputting profiles for outputting different audio data.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first and second user interface information include different text characteristics including at least one of a different font and a different color.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the memory is further configured to store at least one indicator item indicating a corresponding function of the mobile terminal, and

wherein the controller is further configured to control the display to display the at least one indicator item on the graphical user interface using the first user interface information when the corresponding function of the mobile terminal corresponds to a function for the first user interface module, and to display the at least one indicator item on the graphical user interface using the second user interface information when the corresponding function of the mobile terminal corresponds to a function for the second user interface module.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the corresponding function is at least one of a file function, a phonebook function, a call history function and a message function.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the at least one indicator item includes at least one of a menu and an icon.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

an input unit configured to select characteristics of the first user information for the first user identification module and to select characteristics of the second user information for the second identification module.

11. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

connecting at least first and second user identification modules to the mobile terminal, said first and second user identification modules including first and second telephone numbers, respectively;

storing at least first and second user interface information respectively corresponding to said first and second user identification modules, respectively; and

displaying a graphical user interface using the first user interface information when the first user identification module is used and displaying the graphical user interface using the second user interface information when the second user identification module is used.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first and second user interface information include different image characteristics including at least one of a different color, a different brightness, a different saturation, a different image characteristic value and a different intensity.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the first and second user interface information include information corresponding to different background images.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the different background images include at least one of still images and moving images.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the first and second user interface information include different audio outputting profiles for outputting different audio data.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the first and second user interface information include different text characteristics including at least one of a different font and a different color.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

storing at least one indicator item indicating a corresponding function of the mobile terminal; and

displaying the at least one indicator item on the graphical user interface using the first user interface information when the corresponding function of the mobile terminal corresponds to a function for the first user interface module, and displaying the at least one indicator item on the graphical user interface using the second user interface information when the corresponding function of the mobile terminal corresponds to a function for the second user interface module.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the corresponding function is at least one of a file function, a phonebook function, a call history function and a message function.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the at least one indicator item includes at least one of a menu and an icon.

20. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

selecting characteristics of the first user information for the first user identification module and selecting characteristics of the second user information for the second identification module.