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Apparatus and method for displaying traffic information using widgets in mobile terminal

  • US 8,200,204 B2
  • Filed: 07/22/2009
  • Issued: 06/12/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of displaying traffic information in a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

  • receiving traffic information from at least one broadcasting station through at least one digital broadcasting channel;

    receiving information of a location of the mobile terminal,determining traffic information matched to the location information from the received traffic information by determining whether a distance between coordinates corresponding to a present location of the mobile terminal and coordinates corresponding to each respective received traffic information is within a predefined threshold,extracting the traffic information matched to the location information from the received traffic information,displaying the extracted traffic information matched to the location information on a standby screen with at least one of an image file and a text file using at least one widget without actively running a map information application.

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