APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA OF MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20070036346A1
• Filed: 06/20/2006
• Published: 02/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kwon, Seo-Young
• Granted Patent: US 8,161,400 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/413
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

An apparatus and method for processing data of a mobile terminal are disclosed to easily and quickly process data stored in a mobile terminal. When particular data is associated with a particular menu linked to a program for processing the particular data by a user, the program linked to the particular menu is automatically executed to automatically process the particular data.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a storage unit for storing a list including at least one data and an application for executing the data;

a display unit for displaying the list and at least one menu for representing the application; and

a controller for allowing user selection of one or more data displayed on the display unit and linking the selected data to the at least one menu to execute the data.

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein when one of the data is selected, the controller displays a menu for executing the selected data through the display unit.

3. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the display unit is a touch screen, and the controller executes and processes one of the data by draging and droping the data onto the menu through the touch screen.

4. The terminal of claim 1, wherein after particular data is selected, when a particular menu is selected within a pre-set time, the controller automatically executes a program linked to the particular menu to process the data.

5. The terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a notifying unit for notifying about completion of the operation of the application linked to the particular menu.

6. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the data is at least one or more of image data, video data, music data and a phone number, and the menu is at least one or more of a menu linked to a program for processing an image, a menu linked to an e-mail program, a menu linked to a video reproducing program for reproducing video data, a menu linked to a music reproducing program for reproducing music data, a menu linked to a call signal processing program, and a program linked to a registration program for registering a phone number.

7. The terminal of claim 6, wherein the e-mail program automatically attaches image data as an attachment file to an e-mail.

8. The terminal of claim 6, wherein when the phone number is dragged and dropped onto the menu linked to the call signal processing program by the user, the controller automatically executes the call signal processing program linked to the menu.

9. The terminal of claim 6, wherein when a particular phone number is inputted, dragged and dropped onto a menu linked to the registration program for registering the phone number, the controller automatically registers the particular phone number in a phone number list through the registration program.

10. A method for processing data of a mobile terminal comprising:

displaying a list including at least one data and at least one menu representing an application for executing the data on a display unit;

associating one or more of data with at least one menu according to a user inputting; and

executing an application corresponding to the menu and processing the selected data as the data is associated with the menu.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

displaying a menu for executing data through the display unit when the data is selected.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

automatically executing a program linked to a particular menu and processing the data, when the particular data is selected and then the particular menu is selected within a pre-set time.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the associating step comprises:

when one of the data is selected, displaying a menu for executing the selected data; and

selecting one of the menus according to a user inputting.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the display unit is touch screen, and the associating step is performed by dragging and dropping the data to the menu.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the associating step is performed by selecting one of the menus within a pre-set time after one of the data is selected.

16. An apparatus for processing data of a mobile terminal, in which particular data is dragged by a user through a touch screen or a touch pad of a mobile terminal and dropped onto a particular menu linked to a program for processing the particular data, the program linked to the particular menu is automatically executed and then the particular data is automatically processed through the program.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the particular data is at least one or more of image data, video data, music data and a phone number, and the particular menu is at least one or more of a menu linked to a program for processing an image, a menu linked to an e-mail program, a menu linked to a video reproducing program for reproducing video data, a menu linked to a music reproducing program for reproducing music data, a menu linked to a call signal processing program, and a program linked to a registration program for registering a phone number.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein when the particular data is selected by the user, a menu for executing the particular data is displayed on a display unit.

19. A graphical user interface displayed on a screen, the interface comprising:

a first region of the screen showing one or more text objects that can be selected by user touch input; and

a second region of the screen showing one or more icons that are activated when a text object selected by the user is dragged and dropped thereon.

20. A user interface of an electronic device, the interface comprising:

a touch sensitive screen;

a detector to detect user touch inputs on the screen; and

a processor connected to and cooperating with the screen and the detector to allow a user to select a text item displayed on a first portion of the screen and then to drag and drop the selected text item onto an active region displayed on a second portion of the screen such that the text item is processed according to a function associated with that active region.