Mobile terminal for displaying human contact data and method thereof

• US 8,413,078 B2
• Filed: 04/02/2008
• Issued: 04/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Jung Hun, Rhee, Young Ho, Kim, Jae Hwan
• Primary Examiner(s): TILLERY, RASHAWN N
• Application Number:
  US12/061,133
• Publication Number:
  US 20080263457A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,826 Days
• Field of Search: 715/751, 715/764, 715/810, 715/811, 715/835, 715/864
• US Class Current: 715/864
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2746 Sorting, e.g. according to history or frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/56 Arrangements for indicating or recording the called number at the calling subscriber's set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/576 associated with a pictorial or graphical representation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• 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 and a method of displaying human contact data are provided. Human contact data corresponding to a human contact event is created when a human contact event is generated. A name tag is displayed in a standby screen corresponding to the created human contact data. Accordingly, a user may easily identify human contact data through log data displayed in a user-oriented method.

Claims

1. A method of displaying human contact data in a mobile terminal, comprising the steps of:

creating a name tag, when a human contact event is generated, by analyzing log data corresponding to the human contact event;

calculating at least one group level from the log data according to human contact frequency of a corresponding human contact event;

determining the group level of the created name tag based on the human contact frequency corresponding to the created name tag; and

displaying the created name tag according to the determined group level in a standby screen, wherein characters of the name tag are displayed in a manner corresponding to their calculated group level, visually distinguishable from name tags corresponding to other group levels,

wherein calculating the group level comprises calculating a range of each group level by subtracting a lowest human contact frequency from a highest human contact frequency on a log data list, and dividing the difference by a predetermined number of group levels.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein calculating the at least one group level further comprises setting a range of each group level to determine a display manner of the name tag according to the human contact frequency.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the name tag is displayed using a font color, font size, and background color set according to a human contact frequency of the corresponding human contact event.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the name tag comprises:

arranging the classified name tags on the standby screen;

displaying a log data list corresponding to a selected name tag, when the name tag is selected from the arranged name tags; and

displaying detailed information corresponding to a selected log data, when the log data is selected from the log data list.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising executing a human contact event corresponding to a selected name tag, when a name tag is selected from the arranged name tags and a specific input key for executing the human contact event is input.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the human contact event is at least one of call reception, call transmission, message transmission, and message reception.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the log data comprises at least one of a name of a contact person, a telephone number, a type of human contact event, a generation time point of the human contact event, and a human contact frequency of the human contact event.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein the log data list comprises at least one of a total frequency of communication with a contact person, frequencies of communication according to a type of human contact event, and a data file corresponding to individual contact persons.

9. The method of claim 4, wherein displaying the log data list further comprises displaying a photograph or an image corresponding to the name tag.

13. The method of claim 4, wherein arranging the name tags comprises:

arranging the name tags in order of their group level.

14. The method of claim 4, wherein arranging the name tags comprises:

arranging the name tags in order of human contact frequency within the group level.

10. A mobile terminal comprising:

a control unit for creating human contact data corresponding to a human contact event, a name tag corresponding to the created human contact data, when the human contact event is generated, calculating at least one group level from log data according to human contact frequency of a corresponding human contact event and determining the group level of the name tag based on the human contact frequency corresponding to the name tag;

a storage unit for storing the human contact data and the name tag created by the control unit; and

a display unit for displaying the name tag created by the control unit, according to the determined group level, wherein name tag characters are displayed in a manner corresponding to their calculated group level, visually distinguishable from name tags corresponding to other group levels,

wherein calculating the group level comprises calculating a range of each group level by subtracting a lowest human contact frequency from a highest human contact frequency on a log data list, and dividing the difference by a predetermined number of group levels.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the storage unit further stores name tag display data and the log data.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the name tag display data comprises at least one of a font color, a font size, and a background color for the name tag corresponding to the group level.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein calculating the group level further comprises setting a range of each group level, to determine a display manner of the name tag according to the human contact frequency.