MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100100842A1
• Filed: 01/29/2009
• Published: 04/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Jun-Hee
• Granted Patent: US 8,423,904 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/808
• 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 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

Disclosed are a mobile terminal capable of executing web browsing with consideration of a user'"'"'s convenience, and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal comprises: a wireless communication unit which accesses any web page; a display module for displaying the accessed web page; and a controller for automatically displaying popup windows in a virtual space when the accessed web page has any popup windows. Popup windows can be hidden at the time of web browsing, and the hidden popup windows can be displayed according to a user'"'"'s necessity. This enhances the user'"'"'s convenience.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a wireless communication unit which accesses any web page;

a display module for displaying the accessed web page; and

a controller for automatically displaying popup windows in a virtual space when the accessed web page has any popup windows.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising a memory having any memory region for storing information relating to the popup windows.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the virtual space corresponds to any memory region.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising a user input unit for receiving a command to substantially display the popup windows displayed in the virtual space on the display module.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller substantially displays the popup windows displayed in the virtual space on the display module upon receipt of a user'"'"'s command, and immediately deletes information relating to the popup windows from the virtual space upon receipt of an indication to delete the popup windows.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller adjusts display layers of the web page or the popup window, and thus controls the popup windows not to be viewed by being blocked by the web page.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller controls information to be displayed on the display module, the information indicating that one or more popup windows exist in the virtual space.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller controls a popup window list displayed in the virtual space to be displayed on the display module.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein when proximity touch is applied to a specific popup window item from the popup window list, the controller controls a popup window corresponding to the specific popup window item to be displayed in a preview manner.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 8, wherein when a specific popup window item selected from the popup window list is dragged or flickered, the controller controls the popup window to be displayed in the dragged or flickered direction.

11. A method for controlling a mobile terminal, comprising:

accessing any web page,

displaying the accessed web page; and

automatically displaying popup windows in a virtual space when the accessed web page has any popup windows.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein in the step of displaying popup windows in a virtual space, information relating to the popup windows are stored in any memory region.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising substantially displaying the popup windows on a display module upon receipt of a user'"'"'s preset indication.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising immediately deleting information relating to the popup windows from any memory region when the popup windows have been deleted.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising blocking the popup windows by the web page by adjusting display layers of the web page or the popup windows when any popup windows exist on the web page.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying information indicating that one or more popup windows exist in the virtual space when displaying the popup windows in the virtual space.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the information indicating that one or more popup windows exist in the virtual space is displayed as an indicator in the form of an image or a text having a specific color or shape at one side of a web browser or a display region.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the one or more popup windows are displayed in the form of a popup window list at one side of a web browser or a display region.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the popup window list is displayed with including information such as numbers to select the respective popup windows.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein when proximity touch is applied to a specific popup window item on the popup window list, a popup window corresponding to the popup window item is displayed in a preview manner.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein when a specific popup window item selected from the popup window list is dragged or flickered, the popup window is displayed in the dragged or flickered direction.