TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DATA THEREOF

• US 20120331417A1
• Filed: 05/02/2012
• Published: 12/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Jee Won, NAM, Seung Wook
• Application Number:
  US13/462,174
• Publication Number:
  US 20120331417A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A method for displaying tag information in a region that matches with the data displayed in another region on the screen includes displaying at least one tag information item in a list navigation region and a data item in a data display region on a screen in a data display mode; checking, when a selection event is detected in the data display region, the displayed data item; and picking the tag information item mapped to the data item in the list navigation region. The data display method of the present invention facilitates displaying the tag information in match with the data, the tag information and the data being displayed in a list navigation region and a data display region respectively.

Claims

1. A data display method of a terminal, comprising:

displaying at least one tag information item in a list navigation region of a display and a data item in a data display region on a screen in a data display mode in which the tag information item is associated with the data item;

determining by a controller the displayed data item, when a selection event is detected in the data display region; and

identifying by the controller the tag information item associated with the data item in the list navigation region of the display.

2. The data display method of claim 1, wherein the tag information item is mapped to the data item.

3. The data display method of claim 2, further comprising:

navigating by the controller the display of at least one tag information item, when an input event for navigating the display of at least one tag information item is detected in the list navigation region; and

displaying the tag information item mapped to the data item in the list navigation region as rearranged when the selection event is detected in the data display region.

4. The data display method of claim 1, wherein the navigating the display comprises scrolling the display of at least the navigation region of the display screen.

5. The data display method of claim 2, wherein identifying the tag information item comprises:

rearranging the display of the tag information item in the list navigation region; and

visually discriminating the display of the tag information item mapped to the data item from a remainder of tag information items.

6. The data display method of claim 5, wherein visually discriminating display of the tag information comprises highlighting the tag information item mapped to the data item.

7. The data display method of claim 5 wherein visually discriminating the display of the tag information comprises isolating the tag information mapped to the data item with a block.

8. The data display of claim 5, wherein visually discriminating the display of the tag information comprises distinguishing the display of the tag information associated with the selected data item by one or more of size, color, flashing/blinking, blocking, highlighting background display, font, italics, underlining, alternating colors or formats.

9. A data display terminal comprising:

a display unit which displays two or more regions in which at least one tag information item is displayed in a list navigation region and an associated data item is displayed in a data display region on a screen in a data display mode; and

a control unit which determines when a selection event is detected in the data display region of the displayed data item and identifies the tag information associated with the data item in the list navigation region.

10. The data display terminal of claim 9, wherein the control unit maps the identified tag information to the displayed data item selected by the selection event.

11. The data display terminal of claim 9, wherein the display unit comprises a touchscreen with a touch sensor for determining selection of a data item by sensing touch of a particular data item.

12. The data display terminal of claim 10, wherein the display unit comprises a touchscreen with a touch sensor for determining selection of a data item by sensing touch of a particular data item.

13. The data display terminal of claim 10, wherein the control unit navigates the display, when an input event for navigating the at least one tag information item is detected in the list navigation region, the at least one tag information item and displays, when the selection event is detected in the data display region, the display of the tag information item mapped to the data item in the list navigation region as rearranged relative to a respective display of other tag information associated with other data items.

14. The data display terminal of claim 10, wherein the control unit rearranges the display of the tag information item in the list navigation region and discriminates display of the tag information item mapped to the data item from a display of other tag information items associated with other respective data items.

15. The data display terminal of claim 14, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to highlight display of the tag information item mapped to the data item.

16. The data display terminal of claim 14, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to isolate display of the tag information mapped to the data item with a block.

17. The data display terminal of claim 14, wherein a display of the tag information associated with a respectively selected data item is visually discriminated from other tag information by the list navigation region.

18. The data display terminal of claim 17, wherein the visual discrimination includes at least one of size, color, flashing/blinking, blocking, highlighting, background display, font, italics, underlining, alternating colors or formats.

19. The data display terminal of claim 9, further comprising a communication unit for wireless communication with a base station or server.