Terminal and operating method thereof

• US 9,596,672 B2
• Filed: 12/24/2014
• Issued: 03/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Kwangsik, Jin, Soojong, Choi, Kwanghee, Park, Hyunuk, Kang, Minseok
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Ajit
• Application Number:
  US14/582,605
• Publication Number:
  US 20150223200A1
• Time in Patent Office: 811 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/00 Speaker identification or verification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H03G 3/20 Automatic control H03G3/005 takes precedence; combined with volume compression or expansion H03G7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/005 Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/02 Arrangements for increasing efficiency of notification or paging channel

Abstract

A method of controlling a mobile terminal, and which includes receiving, via a controller of the mobile terminal, an event trigger indicating a first event has occurred on the mobile terminal; checking, via the controller, a notification level allocated to the first event corresponding to the event trigger; and outputting a notification notifying the first event has occurred on the mobile terminal with a notification strength corresponding to the notification level allocated to the first event.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

receiving, via a controller of the mobile terminal, an event trigger indicating a first event of a plurality of events occurred on the mobile terminal, wherein each of the plurality of events is allocated to a corresponding notification level among a plurality of notification levels;

checking, via the controller, a first notification level among the plurality of notification levels allocated to the first event corresponding to the event trigger;

obtaining importance information of the first event from the event trigger;

determining a notification strength of the first event with respect to a reference value; and

outputting a notification notifying the first event with the notification strength obtained based on the importance information and the first notification level to a user of the mobile terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the outputting the notification includes outputting a voice notification of the first event with the notification strength.

3. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the importance information is irrelative to a setting of the mobile terminal, and

wherein the first notification level represents how important the mobile terminal considers the first event.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the event trigger is a message including text converted from speech and including speech characteristic information of the speech, and

wherein the importance information corresponds to the speech characteristic information.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the speech characteristic information includes one or more of a speech rate information, a speech voice tone information, and a speech word importance information of the user speech.

6. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

changing the first notification level in response to a user input to the output voice notification of the first event.

7. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

decreasing the first notification level in response to the user input indicating an end of the notification.

8. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

increasing the first notification level in response to the user input indicating a user'"'"'s reaction requested by the first event.

9. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

increasing the first notification level in response to the user input indicating the voice notification of the first event is not detected.

10. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

executing an application corresponding to the first event, in response to a user input unlocking the mobile terminal during the notification of the first event.

11. The method according to 2, further comprising:

adjusting an amount of content of the voice notification of the first event according to the notification strength.

12. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

adjusting an audio volume of the voice notification according to the notification strength.

13. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

adjusting a type of at least one other terminal that outputs the voice notification according to the notification strength.

14. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication;

a display unit configured to display information; and

a controller configured to;

receive an event trigger indicating a first event of a plurality of events occurred on the mobile terminal, wherein each of the plurality of events is allocated to a corresponding notification level among a plurality of notification levels,

check a first notification level among the plurality of notification levels allocated to the first event corresponding to the event trigger,

obtain importance information of the first event from the event trigger,

determine a notification strength of the first even with respect to a reference value, and

output a notification notifying the first event with the notification strength obtained based on the importance information and the first notification level to a user of the mobile terminal.

15. The mobile terminal according to claim 14, wherein the controller outputs the notification as a voice notification of the first event with the notification strength.

16. The mobile terminal according to claim 14,

wherein the importance information is irrelative to a setting of the mobile terminal, and

wherein the first notification level represents how important the mobile terminal considers the first event.

17. The mobile terminal according to claim 16, wherein the event trigger is a message including text converted from speech and including speech characteristic information of the speech, and

wherein the importance information corresponds to the speech characteristic information.

18. The mobile terminal according to claim 17, wherein the speech characteristic information includes one or more of a speech rate information, a speech voice tone information, and a speech word importance information of the user speech.

19. The mobile terminal according to claim 15, wherein the controller is further configured to:

change the first notification level in response to a user input to the output voice notification of the first event.

20. The mobile terminal according to claim 15, wherein the controller is further configured to:

decrease the first notification level in response to the user input indicating an end of the notification.