MOBILE TERMINAL AND OPERATION CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20130047060A1
• Filed: 02/08/2012
• Published: 02/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kwon, Joonho, Yun, Chungha, Moon, Eunyoung
• Granted Patent: US 9,619,576 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

Embodiments discussed herein relate to a mobile terminal providing a user interface capable of more conveniently searching a user'"'"'s visited web pages. To this end, a mobile terminal according to an embodiment discussed herein may include a storage unit configured to store link information between a first web page and a second web page when the second web page is approached from the first web page; a display unit configured to display a first indicator indicating the first web page and a second indicator indicating the second web page together with the link information; and a controller configured to control the display unit to display a web page corresponding to the selected indicator when either one of the first indicator and second indicator is selected.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a storage unit configured to store link information, the link information being information about a link between a first web page and a second web page that is stored when the second web page is approached from the first web page;

a display unit configured to simultaneously display a first indicator indicating the first web page, a second indicator indicating the second web page and an indicator corresponding to the link information; and

a controller operatively connected to the storage unit and the display unit, the controller configured to

detect a selection of one of the first indicator and the second indicator, and control the display unit to display a web page corresponding to the selected one of the first indicator and the second indicator.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the display unit to display the first indicator and second indicator in a tree format together with the indicator corresponding to the link information.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the display unit to display a web page corresponding to the selected one of the first indicator and the second indicator together with the first indicator, the second indicator and the indicator corresponding to the link information.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller is configured to control the display unit to display the first indicator, the second indicator and the indicator corresponding to the link information to be overlapped with or adjacent to the web page corresponding to the selected one of the first indicator and the second indicator.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the display unit to display the first indicator and second indicator together with the indicator corresponding to the link information when a history providing menu of visited web pages is selected.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first indicator and second indicator are thumbnails of the first web page and the second web page, respectively.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first indicator and second indicator reflect a uniform resource identifier (URI) of the first web page and the second web page, respectively.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the storage unit to store the link information when the second web page is approached through a hyperlink included in the first web page.

9. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display unit configured to display a web page on a screen;

an input unit configured to sense a gesture being carried out on the screen; and

a controller operatively connected to the display unit and the input unit, the controller configured to

detect a direction of the sensed gesture, and

control the display unit to display a previous web page or next web page of the web page based on the detected direction.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller is configured to control the display unit to display an indicator corresponding to the previous web page or the next web page while displaying the web page.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the indicator is a preview of the previous web page or the next web page.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein the controller is configured to control the display unit to display a partial region of the previous web page or the next web page while the gesture is sensed.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 9, further comprising:

a storage unit operatively connected to the controller and configured to store the displayed web page in an image format.

14. An operation control method of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

storing link information, the link information being information about a link between a first web page and a second web page that is stored when the second web page is approached from the first web page;

simultaneously displaying a first indicator indicating the first web page, a second indicator indicating the second web page together and an indicator corresponding to the link information;

detecting a selection of one of the first indicator and the second indicator; and

displaying a web page corresponding to the selected one of the first indicator and the second indicator.

15. An operation control method of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

displaying a web page on a screen;

sensing a gesture being carried out on the screen;

detecting a direction of the sensed gesture; and

displaying a previous web page or a next web page of the web page based on the detected direction.