Mobile terminal and method of controlling operation of the mobile terminal

• US 8,661,350 B2
• Filed: 06/07/2010
• Issued: 02/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Tae Hun, Lee, Dong Hyun, Lee, Jin Won, Hwang, Sun Young, Baek, Sung Min, Nam, Gung Hyun, Kim, Jin Young
• Primary Examiner(s): Abdul-Ali, Omar
• Assistant Examiner(s): TANK, ANDREW L
• Application Number:
  US12/794,974
• Publication Number:
  US 20110029891A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,359 Days
• Field of Search: 715/738, 715744-747, 715/753, 715/811, 715/835, 715/863, 715/864, 715/821, 715/839
• US Class Current: 715/744
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4856 resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine migration G06F9/5088 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications

Abstract

A mobile terminal and an operating method of the mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal may be coupled, either wirelessly or by wire, to an external terminal and the mobile terminal may thus receive sync data including information regarding a webpage currently being displayed by the external terminal from the external terminal or a server. The mobile terminal may display the same webpage as is currently being displayed by the external terminal based on the received sync data.

Claims

1. An operating method of a mobile terminal, the operating method comprising:

receiving, at the mobile terminal, sync data including information regarding a webpage or a messenger being displayed by an external terminal, the received sync data further including text information that was input to the webpage or the messenger at the external terminal;

displaying, on a display module while maintaining a login state of a user of the external terminal, the webpage or the messenger as is displayed by the external terminal based on the received sync data, and the display module further displaying the text information that was input to the webpage or the messenger;

displaying, on the display module, an icon corresponding to the webpage or the messenger included in the sync data provided by the external terminal, wherein the displaying includes displaying the webpage or the messenger on the display module in response to receipt of a command to select the icon; and

removing the icon displayed on the display module after a user selects the icon and an application corresponding to the icon is executed.

2. The operating method of claim 1, wherein the sync data includes user interface (UI) information regarding a UI set in the webpage or the messenger being displayed by the external terminal,

wherein the webpage or the messenger displayed on the display module based on the received sync data is a webpage or a messenger corresponding to the UI information.

3. The operating method of claim 1, wherein the icon includes an image or a number of characters included in the webpage or the messenger.

4. The operating method of claim 1, further comprising:

extracting, from the received sync data, webpage history information regarding a plurality of webpages that have been displayed by the external terminal; and

displaying the webpage history information on the display module.

5. The operating method of claim 4, wherein displaying the webpage history information comprises displaying the webpage history information as a text list or using a number of tabs.

6. The operating method of claim 4, wherein displaying the webpage history information comprises displaying the webpage history information such that a popup window or a webpage having a low importance level is differentiated from other windows or webpages.

7. The operating method of claim 4, wherein the webpage history information includes at least one of information specifying a plurality of webpages displayed by the external terminal during a predetermined period of time or information specifying a plurality of webpages displayed by the external terminal on each date.

8. The operating method of claim 4, further comprising:

receiving a command to display one of the webpages listed in the webpage history information, and

displaying the corresponding webpage on the display module in response to receiving the command.

9. The operating method of claim 8, wherein when the display module is a touch screen, displaying the corresponding webpage comprises displaying the webpage listed in the webpage history information that has been touched.

10. The operating method of claim 8, further comprising, after displaying the corresponding webpage:

when the display module is a touch screen, determining whether a webpage displayed on the touch screen has been flicked; and

when the webpage displayed on the touch screen is determined to have been flicked, displaying a webpage listed in the webpage history information as having been accessed before the flicked webpage or displaying a webpage listed in the webpage history information as having been accessed after the flicked webpage on the touch screen.

11. The operating method of claim 1, further comprising:

extracting, from the received sync data, webpage history information regarding a plurality of webpages displayed by the external terminal;

storing webpage history info nation regarding a plurality of webpages that have been accessed by the mobile terminal; and

displaying the extracted webpage history information and the stored webpage history information differently on the display module so as to be distinguishable from each other.

12. The operating method of claim 1, wherein the sync data includes the text information regarding a plurality of text strings input to the webpage or the messenger displayed by the external terminal, and the method further comprises:

extracting the text information from the received sync data; and

when there is a match for a text string input to the webpage, the messenger, the email or the word-processer screen displayed on the display module from among the text strings specified in the extracted text information, executing a text auto-complete function.

13. The operating method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether a command to transmit sync data has been received; and

when the command to transmit sync data is determined to have been received, transmitting sync data to an external terminal, the transmitted sync data including at least one of;

information regarding a webpage or a messenger being displayed on the display module,

text information regarding a plurality of text strings that have been input to a webpage or a messenger, and

webpage history information regarding a plurality of webpages that have been displayed on the display module.

14. The operating method of claim 13, further comprising displaying, on the display module, an icon for issuing the command to transmit sync data,

wherein the determining comprises determining that the command to transmit sync data has been received when the icon has been selected.

15. The operating method of claim 13, further comprising determining whether a command to select a screen to be transmitted to the external terminal has been received,

wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting the sync data including information regarding the screen selected to be transmitted to the external terminal when the command to select a screen to be transmitted to the external terminal is determined to have been received.

16. The operating method of claim 1, further comprising performing an auto-complete function.

17. A mobile terminal comprising:

a display module;

a wireless communication unit to receive sync data including information regarding a webpage or a messenger being displayed by an external terminal, the received sync data further including text information that was input to the webpage or the messenger at the external terminal; and

a controller to display, on the display module while maintaining a login state of a user at the external device, the webpage or the messenger as is displayed by the external terminal based on the received sync data, and the display module further displaying the text information that was input to the webpage or the messenger, wherein the controller displays, on the display module, an icon corresponding to the webpage or the messenger included in the sync data provided by the external terminal, and the controller displays the webpage or the messenger in response to receipt of a command to select the icon, and wherein the controller removes the icon displayed on the display module after a user selects the icon and an application corresponding to the icon is executed.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the sync data includes user information (UI) information regarding a UI set in the webpage or the messenger being displayed by the external terminal,

wherein the webpage or the messenger displayed on the display module is a webpage or a messenger corresponding to the UI information.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the controller extracts, from the received sync data, webpage history information regarding a plurality of webpages that have been displayed by the external terminal, and the controller displays the webpage history information on the display module.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 19, wherein the mobile terminal receives a command to display one of the webpages listed in the webpage history information, and the controller displays the corresponding webpage on the display module in response to receiving the command.

21. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the controller extracts, from the received sync data, webpage history information regarding a plurality of webpages displayed by the external terminal, and webpage history information regarding a plurality of webpages that have been accessed by the mobile terminal is stored, and the controller displays the extracted webpage history information and the stored webpage history information differently on the display module so as to be distinguishable from each other.

22. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the sync data includes the text information regarding a plurality of text strings input to a webpage or a messenger displayed by the external terminal, and the controller extracts the text informiation from the received sync data, and when there is a match for a text string input to the webpage or the messenger displayed on the display module from among the text strings specified in the extracted text information, the controller executes a text auto-complete function.

23. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the controller determines whether a command to transmit sync data has been received, and when the command to transmit sync data is determined to have been received, sync data is transmitted to an external terminal, the transmitted sync data including at least one of:

information regarding a webpage or a messenger being displayed on the display module,

text information regarding a plurality of text strings that have been input to a webpage or a messenger displayed on the display module, and

webpage history information regarding a plurality of webpages that have been displayed on the display module.

24. The mobile terminal of claim 17, wherein the controller further performs an auto-complete function.

25. A terminal sync system comprising:

a first terminal to display a webpage or a messenger;

a server to receive sync data including information regarding the webpage or the messenger displayed by the first terminal, the received sync data further including text information that was input to the webpage or the messenger at the external terminal; and

a second terminal to display, while maintaining a login state of a user at the external terminal, the webpage or the messenger as is displayed by the first terminal based on the sync data, and the second terminal to further display the text information that was input to the webpage or the messenger, wherein the second terminal to display an icon corresponding to the webpage or the messenger included in the sync data provided by the external terminal, wherein the webpage or the messenger is displayed on the second terminal in response to receipt of a command to select the icon, and the displayed icon is removed after a user selects the icon and an application corresponding to the icon is executed.