Mobile terminal displaying page region and history region in different manners for different modes and operation control method thereof

• US 9,619,576 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2012
• Issued: 04/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kwon, Joonho, Yun, Chungha, Moon, Eunyoung
• Primary Examiner(s): Ries, Laurie
• Application Number:
  US13/369,223
• Publication Number:
  US 20130047060A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,889 Days
• Field of Search: 715205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

Embodiments discussed herein relate to a mobile terminal providing a user interface capable of more conveniently searching a user'"'"'s visited web pages. To this end, a mobile terminal according to an embodiment discussed herein may include a storage unit configured to store link information between a first web page and a second web page when the second web page is approached from the first web page; a display unit configured to display a first indicator indicating the first web page and a second indicator indicating the second web page together with the link information; and a controller configured to control the display unit to display a web page corresponding to the selected indicator when either one of the first indicator and second indicator is selected.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a memory configured to store link information, the link information being information about a link between a first web page and a second web page that is stored when the second web page is approached from the first web page;

a display configured to display the second web page on a page region and simultaneously display a first indicator indicating the first web page, a second indicator indicating the second web page in a tree format together with an indicator corresponding to the link information on a history region; and

a controller configured to;

detect a selection of one of the first indicator and the second indicator, and control the display to display a web page corresponding to the selected one of the first indicator and the second indicator,

control the display to display the page region and the history region in a screen dividing manner in a horizontal view mode, and to display the history region to be overlapped with the page region in a vertical view mode,

reduce a size of left and right sides of a current page in a center direction when a touch is applied to the current page and preview a previous page and a next page in vacant spaces created by the reduced current page while the applied touch is maintained, and

switch the current page into the previous page or the next page according to a movement direction when the applied touch is moved, the previous page and the next page indicating pages that have been displayed on the history region.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the display to display the first indicator, the second indicator and the indicator corresponding to the link information to be overlapped with or adjacent to the web page corresponding to the selected one of the first indicator and the second indicator.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the display to display the first indicator and second indicator together with the indicator corresponding to the link information when a history providing menu of visited web pages is selected.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first indicator and second indicator are thumbnails of the first web page and the second web page, respectively.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first indicator and second indicator reflect a uniform resource identifier (URI) of the first web page and the second web page, respectively.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the memory to store the link information when the second web page is approached through a hyperlink included in the first web page.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to display only the current page after the applied touch is removed.