MOBILE TERMINAL HAVING STORAGE BOX AND SAVING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20090098910A1
• Filed: 10/06/2008
• Published: 04/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Oh, Young-Suk, Yoon, Jeong-Hyuk, Soh, Hyo-Jin, Roh, Byung-Nam
• Granted Patent: US 8,401,592 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• 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 1/605 involving control of the receiver volume to provide a dual operational mode at close or far distance from the user
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs logging of telephone numbers H04M1/56, H04M1/57

Abstract

A mobile terminal having a touch function is presented. The mobile terminal includes a display unit to display one or more content on a screen and a storage box positioned on the screen for storing at least one of the one or more content dragged on the screen.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal having a touch function, the mobile terminal comprising:

a display unit to display one or more content on a screen; and

a storage box positioned on the screen for storing at least one of the one or more content dragged on the screen.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the screen of the display unit is a touch screen.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the storage box is positioned at one end of the screen.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the one end portion refers to a lower end portion of the display unit.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the storage box comprises a region with a pre-determined size and shape

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the number of stored content is visually displayed on the storage box.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the storage box is constantly displayed on the display unit.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the storage box is temporarily displayed when a particular region is selected on the screen.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein contents are drag-and-dropped to the region of the storage box for storage.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the storage box comprises a linear shape.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the content is stored in the storage box via dragging the content over a line corresponding to the storage box.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the stored content is displayed on the screen if the storage box is selected.

13. A method for storing information in a mobile terminal having a touch function, comprising:

displaying content information on a screen;

storing content information dragged on the screen in a storage box displayed in the screen; and

selectively using the stored content information for an application.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the content information comprises at least one of a picture, a schedule, text, website information, content information, a map, or e-mail information.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the storage box is located at a lower end region of the screen.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the storage box comprises a region with a pre-determined size and shape.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the storage box comprises a linear shape.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the number of stored content is visually displayed on the storage box.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein the storage box is constantly displayed.

20. The method of claim 13, wherein the storage box is temporarily displayed when a particular region of the screen is selected.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein content is drag-and-dropped to the region of the storage box for storage.

22. The method of claim 17, wherein the content is stored by dragging the content through a line corresponding to the storage box.