Method for selecting desired item information in mobile terminal

• US 7,894,771 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2006
• Issued: 02/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Pyo, Cheol-Sig, Son, Myung-Hee, Lee, Yong-Joon
• Primary Examiner(s): MIZRAHI, DIANE D
• Application Number:
  US11/507,269
• Publication Number:
  US 20070080785A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,646 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.3, 455/41.2, 455/456.3, 455/553.1, 455/566, 455/574, 373/38
• US Class Current: 455/41.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10079 the collision being resolved in the spatial domain, e.g. temporary shields for blindfolding the interrogator in specific directions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

Provided is a method for selecting only desired item information in a mobile terminal. The method includes the steps of: a) setting up an item category desired and selected by a user in the mobile terminal; b) reading item information stored in tags attached to items with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader loaded in the mobile terminal; and c) performing filtering and displaying only the item information of an item that belongs to the selected item category among the item information acquired by the RFID reader of the mobile terminal.

Claims

1. A method for selecting only desired item information in a mobile terminal, comprising the steps of:

a) setting up an item category desired and selected by a user in the mobile terminal;

b) reading item information stored in tags attached to items with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader loaded in the mobile terminal; and

c) performing filtering and only displaying the item information of an item from the user selected item category at the mobile terminal,

wherein the item category set up, which was the desired and selected item category set up by the user in the mobile terminal prior to reading any of the item information stored in the tags, was done before receiving and displaying any of the item information stored in the tags, and

wherein only the item information of the items, which was read from the information stored in the tags, is displayed according to the desired and selected item category set up by the user in the mobile terminal.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising selecting an item category in a menu by the user in step a).

3. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising storing a mapping table mapping item categories to codes in the mobile terminal.

4. A method for selecting only desired item information in a mobile terminal, comprising the steps of:

a) reading item information stored in tags attached to items with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader loaded in the mobile terminal;

b) setting up an item category desired and selected by the user; and

c) performing filtering and only displaying item information from the user selected item category at the mobile terminal,

wherein the item category set up, which was the desired and selected item category set up by the user in the mobile terminal prior to reading any of the item information stored in the tags, was done before receiving and displaying any of the item information stored in the tags.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, further comprising selecting an item category from a menu by the user in step b).

6. The method as recited in claim 4, further comprising storing a mapping table mapping item categories to codes in the mobile terminal.