MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL

• US 20140080541A1
• Filed: 04/30/2013
• Published: 03/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Joon Son
• Original Assignee: Design Limit Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: SON, Joon
• Application Number:
  US13/873,366
• Publication Number:
  US 20140080541A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/026 Details of the structure or mounting of specific components
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0281 for providing single handed use or left/right hand conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/236 including keys on side or rear faces

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal has a basic button unit including at least one of a home button, a back button, an option button, and a search button, and at least one button of the basic button unit is formed on a side of the mobile communication terminal. The mobile communication terminal may further include a button signal recognizer configured to generate an additional function event signal according to a previously set form of a button signal generated from the button formed on the side of the mobile communication terminal and an additional function performer configured to perform an additional function previously set in an application currently executed in the mobile communication terminal or a current screen state when the additional function event signal is generated.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal having a basic button unit comprising a home button, a back button, an option button, a search button, or a combination thereof, wherein at least one button of the basic button unit is formed on a side of the mobile communication terminal.

2. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the button of the basic button unit formed on the side of the mobile communication terminal is a press-type button.

3. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein all the buttons of the basic button unit are on the side of the mobile communication terminal, and

a display screen of the mobile communication terminal is extended to a lower end of a front of the mobile communication terminal.

4. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a button signal recognizer configured to generate an additional function event signal according to a previously set form of a button signal generated from the button formed on the side of the mobile communication terminal; and

an additional function performer configured to perform an additional function previously set in an application currently executed in the mobile communication terminal or a current screen state when the additional function event signal is generated.

5. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the basic button unit comprises plural buttons;

some buttons of the basic button unit are formed at an upper end of a left side of the mobile communication terminal, and

the other buttons are formed at an upper end of a right side of the mobile communication terminal.

6. The mobile communication terminal of claim 5, wherein button functions of the respective buttons of the basic button unit are exchanged according to a setting of a user.

7. A mobile communication terminal having a basic button unit comprising at least one button formed on a side of the mobile communication terminal, said at least one button performing a function of at least one of a home button, a back button, an option button, a search button, or a combination thereof.

8. The mobile communication terminal of claim 7, wherein said at least one button is a press-type button.

9. The mobile communication terminal of claim 7, wherein the basic button unit comprises a single button.

10. The mobile communication terminal of claim 7, wherein the basic button unit comprises a plurality of buttons.

11. The mobile communication terminal of claim 10, wherein all the buttons of the basic button unit are on the side of the mobile communication terminal, and

a display screen of the mobile communication terminal is extended to a lower end of a front of the mobile communication terminal.

12. The mobile communication terminal of claim 10, further comprising:

a button signal recognizer configured to generate an additional function event signal according to a previously set form of a button signal generated from the button formed on the side of the mobile communication terminal; and

an additional function performer configured to perform an additional function previously set in an application currently executed in the mobile communication terminal or a current screen state when the additional function event signal is generated.

13. The mobile communication terminal of claim 12, wherein a first button of the plurality of buttons is positioned on a right side of the mobile communication terminal, and a second button of the plurality of buttons is positioned on a left side of the mobile communication terminal;

and

the previously set form the button signal is generated when said first and second buttons are pressed at the same time.