Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same

• US 9,959,034 B2
• Filed: 06/09/2015
• Issued: 05/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kang, Hokyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): BENNION, AARON V
• Application Number:
  US14/735,023
• Publication Number:
  US 20160085878A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,057 Days
• Field of Search: 715201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The mobile terminal according to the present invention includes a touchscreen configured to display an execution screen of an application, and a controller configured to respectively display, on the execution screen, a mark corresponding to a page displayed on the execution screen and a mark corresponding to a page changed from the page and, upon reception of input for selecting one of the displayed marks, to display a page corresponding to a selected mark on the execution screen. According to the present invention, a mark corresponding to a page displayed on an application execution screen is displayed to allow a specific page to be easily accessed.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touchscreen;

and a controller configured to cause the touchscreen to;

display an execution screen of a web browser, the execution screen including a page display area and an address bar that concurrently displays one or more Uniform Resource Locator (URL) addresses for each page that is displayed on the execution screen;

display a first page in the page display area and a first mark corresponding to the first page in the address bar such that the first mark fills the address bar, a first URL address corresponding to the first page superimposed over the first mark, and the address bar comprising an address bar area that encompasses the first URL;

display a second page in the page display area in response to an input for displaying the second page, wherein the address bar is divided by dividing the address bar area into two regions when the second page is displayed such that the first mark fills a first region of the address bar and a second mark corresponding to the second page fills a second region of the address bar, and wherein the first URL address is superimposed over the first mark in the first region, and a second URL address corresponding to the second page is superimposed over the second mark in the second region;

and redisplay the first page in response to selection of the first mark, the first mark selected while the execution screen includes the second page, first mark, and the second mark, such that the execution screen includes the first page, the first mark, and the second mark when the first page is redisplayed,

wherein the address bar is divided into a number of regions corresponding to a number of pages displayed such that each mark corresponding to one of the pages is displayed to fill a corresponding one of the regions.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to:

display a third page in the page display area in response to an input for displaying the third page that is received while the second page is displayed or while the first page is redisplayed;

and display a third mark corresponding to the third page in addition to the first and second marks in the address bar such that the first mark is included in a resized first region of the address bar, the second mark is included in a resized second region of the address bar, and the third mark fills a newly formed third region of the address bar.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the third mark is not displayed prior to receiving the input for displaying the third page such that the address bar includes only the first region displaying the first mark and the second region displaying the second mark while the second page is displayed or while the first page is redisplayed prior to receiving the input for displaying the third page.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the first URL address is superimposed over the first mark in the first region, the second URL address is superimposed over the second mark in the second region, and a third URL address corresponding to the third page is superimposed over the third mark in the third region.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the address bar is extended in one direction such that the extended address bar is divided into a first area and a second area;

the first area displays the address corresponding to the displayed page; and

the second area displays the first and second marks such that the first mark is included in the first region of the second area and the second mark is included in the second region of the second area.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the input comprises selection of a link included in the first page, the second page corresponding to the selected link.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the first and second marks are displayed in at least different colors or different shapes.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein:

a first size of the first mark is based on a first time period for which the first page is displayed on the execution screen;

a second size of the second mark is based on a second time period for which the second page is displayed on the execution screen; and

the first size is greater than the second size when the first time period is greater than the second time period.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to divide the execution screen into a first area and a second area in response to the selection of the first mark such that the second page is displayed in the first area and the first page is redisplayed in the second area at a same time.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to:

display a plurality of marks including the first and second marks, the plurality of marks respectively corresponding to a plurality of pages that are displayed on the execution screen, the plurality of pages including the first and second pages;

display a plurality of thumbnail images respectively corresponding to the plurality of marks in response to selection of one of the plurality of marks; and

display one of the plurality of pages corresponding to one of the plurality of thumbnail images in response to selection of the one of the plurality of thumbnail images,

wherein the plurality of marks are continuously displayed in the address bar while the plurality of thumbnail images are displayed.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein each of the plurality of thumbnail images is displayed in a size corresponding to a time period for which a corresponding page is displayed on the execution screen such that all of the plurality of thumbnail images are displayed in different sizes when time periods for which respectively corresponding pages are displayed on the execution screen are different.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the plurality of thumbnail images are displayed in a translucent manner such that all contents of a page that is displayed while the plurality of thumbnail images are displayed are visible.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to no longer display at least one of the plurality of thumbnail images when:

a pre-defined type of input is applied with respect to the at least one of the plurality of thumbnail images;

the at least one of the plurality of thumbnail images is displayed for longer than a threshold time period;

or

a number of plurality of thumbnail images displayed on the execution screen is greater than a threshold number.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to display an indicator with respect to the first mark when the first page is displayed on the execution screen for more than a threshold time period, the indicator indicating the first page as a page of interest or high importance.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 14, wherein the controller is further configured to:

extract a keyword from the first page indicated as the page of interest;

search pages including the keyword; and

cause the touchscreen to display searched pages.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to display the first mark on the execution screen in response to a pre-defined type of input applied to a specific region of the execution screen while the first page is displayed on the execution screen.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the touchscreen to:

display a new page on the execution screen;

display a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to previously displayed pages including the first and second pages while the new page is displayed, each of the plurality of thumbnail images including an area or an indicator for selection of the thumbnail image;

display a mark corresponding to one of the previously displayed pages in the address bar when one of the plurality of thumbnail images is selected via the area or indicator, the one of the plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to the one of the previously displayed pages; and

redisplay the one of the previously displayed pages when the mark is selected, the mark selected while the new page is displayed on the execution screen.

18. A method for controlling a mobile terminal, comprising:

displaying an execution screen of a web browser, the execution screen including a page display area and an address bar that concurrently displays one or Uniform Resource Locator (URL) addresses for each page that is displayed on the execution screen;

displaying a first page in the page display area and a first mark corresponding to the first page in the address bar such that the first mark fills the address bar, a first URL address corresponding to the first page superimposed over the first mark, and the address bar comprising an address bar area that encompasses the first URL;

displaying a second page in the page display area in response to an input for displaying the second page, wherein the address bar is divided by dividing the address bar area into two regions when the second page is displayed such that the first mark fills a first region of the address bar and a second mark corresponding to the second page fills a second region of the address bar, and wherein the first URL address is superimposed over the first mark in the first region, and a second URL address corresponding to the second page is superimposed over the second mark in the second region;

and redisplaying the first page in response to selection of the first mark, the first mark selected while the execution screen includes the second pane, first mark, and the second mark, such that the execution screen includes the first page, the first mark, and the second mark when the first page is redisplayed,

wherein the address bar is divided into a number of regions corresponding to a number of pages displayed such that each mark corresponding to one of the pages is displayed to fill a corresponding one of the regions.