TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20160170946A1
• Filed: 03/03/2014
• Published: 06/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: LEE, Jungsu
• Granted Patent: US 10,331,772 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems

Abstract

A method for controlling an application in a terminal includes receiving a request for executing the application from a user, executing the application, outputting one or more pieces of guide data in a first area of a screen for the executed application based on context data of the terminal and controlling the application according to the user selection.

Claims

1. A method for controlling an application in a terminal, the method comprising:

receiving a request for executing the application from a user;

executing the application;

outputting one or more pieces of guide data in a first area of a screen for the executed application based on context data of the terminal; and

controlling the application according to the user selection.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more pieces of guide data are output without user input after executing the application.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the controlling the application includes switching the screen to a screen corresponding to selected guide data when the user selects the one or more pieces of guide data output in the first area.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the controlling the application further includes:

when the user does not select the one or more pieces of guide data output in the first area, determining whether user input is received within a predetermined time; and

outputting one or more pieces of new guide data in the first area when it is determined that the user input is not received.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the guide data includes at least one of image, video, audio, text including one or more keywords or sentences, uniform resource locator (URL) data and a combination thereof.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the application is executed by an intelligent agent and the application includes an application for an interactive service.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein a user interface for an input tool for receiving the user input is output in a second area of the screen for the application and voice or text data is received from the user via the user interface for the input tool.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the context data includes a conversation history of the user, pattern data according to application and service use history analysis, pattern data according to use or selection pattern analysis of other users having similar tendency based on basic data about the user, location data of the terminal and one or more link terminals connected to or capable of being connected to the terminal and use pattern data of functions or applications used for a predetermined time before an interactive service is executed or a combination thereof.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the context data includes data for accessing a function or application which is used not once or is not used by a predetermined number of times by the user among functions and applications provided by or installed in the terminal, image, moving image and text data received from at least one link terminal connected to or capable of being connected to the terminal.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising collecting data regarding the terminal at an intelligent agent for the application.

11. A terminal for controlling an application, the terminal comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a request for executing the application from a user;

a controller configured to execute the application, to output one or more pieces of guide data in a first area of a screen for the executed application based on context data of the terminal and to control the application according to the user selection; and

an output unit configured to output the screen for the executed application and the guide data.

12. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the controller outputs the one or more pieces of guide data without user input after executing the application.

13. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the controller switches the screen to a screen corresponding to selected guide data when the user selects the one or more pieces of guide data output in the first area.

14. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein, when the user does not select the one or more pieces of guide data output in the first area, the controller determines whether user input is received within a predetermined time;

and outputs one or more pieces of new guide data in the first area when it is determined that the user input is not received.

15. The terminal according to claim 14, wherein the guide data includes at least one of image, video, audio, text including one or more keywords or sentences, uniform resource locator (URL) data and a combination thereof.

16. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the controller executes and controls the application via an intelligent agent and the application includes an application for an interactive service.

17. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the controller outputs a user interface for an input tool for receiving the user input in a second area of the screen for the application and receives voice or text data from the user via the user interface for the input tool.

18. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the context data includes a conversation history of the user, pattern data according to application and service use history analysis, pattern data according to use or selection pattern analysis of other users having similar tendency based on basic data about the user, location data of the terminal and one or more link terminals connected to or capable of being connected to the terminal and use pattern data of functions or applications used for a predetermined time before an interactive service is executed or a combination thereof.

19. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the context data includes data for accessing a function or application which is used not once or is not used by a predetermined number of times by the user among functions and applications provided by or installed in the terminal, image, moving image and text data received from at least one link terminal connected to or capable of being connected to the terminal.

20. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the controller collects the context data of the terminal at an intelligent agent for the application.