Apparatus and method for displaying discount data in a mobile communication terminal

• US 8,761,724 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2007
• Issued: 06/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Ku, Ah-Young
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Michael T
• Application Number:
  US11/807,965
• Publication Number:
  US 20070287416A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,581 Days
• Field of Search: 455405-408, 455/461, 455/463, 455452-453, 455/558
• US Class Current: 455/406
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/00 Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP

Abstract

An apparatus and a method for displaying discount data in a mobile communication terminal are provided. The method includes determining whether displaying discount data is set; and when the displaying of the discount data is set, checking discount data provided by a billing system of a subscriber recorded on a Subscriber Identification Module/Universal Subscriber Identification Module (SIM/USIM) card.

Claims

1. A method for displaying discount data in a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

receiving and displaying a menu including at least one item associated with the discount data, from a Subscriber Identification Module/Universal Subscriber Identification Module (SIM/USIM);

selecting one of the at least one item of the displayed menu;

transmitting the selected item to the SIM/USIM card;

receiving the discount data associated with the selected item, from the SIM/USIM card; and

displaying the received discount data associated with the selected item,

wherein the discount data is information associated with a billing system of a subscriber, recorded on the SIM/USIM card.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the discount data on a predetermined position of a display unit.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the discount data recorded on the SIM/USIM card is checked using an SIM/USIM Application Toolkit (SAT).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the discount data comprises at least one of a discount time band and a discount price for each time band.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising, when non-displaying of the discount data is set, deleting the discount data displayed on a predetermined position of a display unit.

6. A mobile communication terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a SIM/USIM card for transmitting a menu including at least one item associated with the discount data requested, from the mobile communication terminal; and

a control unit for receiving and displaying the menu including the at least one item associated with the discount data, from a Subscriber Identification Module/Universal Subscriber Identification Module (SIM/USIM), selecting one of the at least one item of the displayed menu, transmitting the selected item to the SIM/USIM card, and receiving the discount data associated with the selected item from the SIM/USIM card; and

displaying the received discount data associated with the selected item,

wherein the discount data is information associated with a billing system of a subscriber, recorded on the SIM/USIM card.

7. The mobile communication terminal of claim 6, further comprising a display unit for receiving the discount data from the control unit and displaying the received discount data.

8. The mobile communication terminal of claim 6, wherein the discount data comprises at least one of a discount time band and a discount price for each time band.

9. The mobile communication terminal of claim 6, wherein the control unit and the SIM card perform data communication using an SIM/USIM Application Toolkit (SAT).