KR100765485B1 - Method for processing data of mobile terminal and apparatus thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for processing data in a portable terminal are provided to create various user data conveniently, stored in a portable terminal, into files. If a user selects a menu in a portable terminal(S201), the control part of the portable terminal displays one or more user data in the selected menu(S203). If the user makes a file creation request for the displayed user data(S205), the control part creates the displayed user data into a file(S207). Then the control part stores the created file in a file storage part(S209). If an editing request is generated for the created and stored file(S211), the control part displays the contents of the file and executes file editing(S213). If file editing is completed, the control part stores the edited file in the file storage part. Then, if the user makes a request to transmit the edited and stored file(S215), the control part transmits it to an associated terminal(S219).

Description

TECHNICAL FOR PROCESSING DATA OF MOBILE TERMINAL AND APPARATUS THEREOF

1 is a schematic block diagram of a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a flowchart illustrating a data processing procedure in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a file generation procedure in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart of processing data in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

5 and 6 schematically illustrate examples of a user interface according to file generation in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data processing method of a portable terminal, and more particularly, to a data processing method and an apparatus of a portable terminal for efficiently managing various user data stored in the portable terminal.

Recently, many additional functions have been increased due to the miniaturization and ease of portability of portable terminal batteries. For example, a mobile terminal may store a file playback function for listening to audio files and video files, such as music or learning English, a camera function for capturing an image / video of an object, and a phone number of another user. It provides various additional functions such as a phone book function, a short message service (SMS) capable of sending and receiving text messages, a text messaging function such as a multimedia messaging service (MMS), and an e-mail service.

The portable terminal generates a large amount of user data according to the use of various additional functions as described above. In recent years, a small capacity memory is supported by the rapid development of technology. For example, the mobile terminal may include pictures and videos taken using the camera function, a plurality of other user information (eg, a phone number, a birthday, an address, etc.) stored using the phone book function, and the text message function. Various user data, such as a plurality of text messages that are transmitted and received, can be stored.

Accordingly, mobile terminal users want to manage such a large amount of user data more efficiently, and also require methods for easily and quickly transmitting and receiving the above user data between different mobile terminals.

To this end, methods for more efficiently managing the user data by connecting the portable terminal with a computer have been proposed. That is, a method of connecting various types of user data in the portable terminal with a data cable between the portable terminal and the computer and using a data management program installed in the computer has been proposed.

However, the data management method is inconvenient to connect the computer if you want to manage the data of the portable terminal. That is, when managing user data in the portable terminal, the user must perform a task of connecting the portable terminal to the computer, and in addition, it is inconvenient to perform a connection procedure with the portable terminal by executing a program installed in the computer. . In addition, in order to share user data managed through the computer with other portable terminals, another portable terminal to share the user data with the computer is shared through a connection, or user data stored in the computer is again stored in the portable terminal. After moving to the storage, there is inconvenience and hassle to share through data communication between the mobile terminal.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a data processing method and apparatus for a portable terminal that can more efficiently manage user data in the portable terminal.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a data processing method and apparatus for a portable terminal capable of generating various user data stored in the portable terminal into a file.

It is still another object of the present invention to generate various user data stored in a portable terminal as a file directly in the portable terminal without a connection with a computer, thereby increasing the independence from the computer. And providing an apparatus.

In order to achieve the above objects, a data processing method of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes displaying user data to be generated as a file and a menu list, and displaying the user data selected in the user data list display state. Generating the selected data as a file of the corresponding menu when the file is requested to be displayed and generating the file; displaying menus selected in the menu list display state; and user data included in each of the selected menus when the file creation is requested. Including the process of creating a file.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, only the parts necessary for understanding the operation according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described, it should be noted that the description of other parts will be omitted so as not to distract from the gist of the present invention.

Prior to the detailed description of the present invention, for convenience of description, the mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described as an example of a mobile communication terminal, but the present invention is not limited thereto. That is, the portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention is a terminal having a function of generating various user data as a file, including a mobile communication terminal, a digital broadcasting terminal, an IMT-2000 (International Mobile Telecommunication 2000) terminal, and a UMTS ( It will be apparent that all information and communication devices such as Universal Mobile Telecommunication Service terminal and the like, and the application thereof.

1 schematically illustrates an example block configuration of a mobile terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, an RF unit 111 performs a wireless communication function of a portable terminal. The RF unit 111 includes an RF transmitter for upconverting and amplifying a frequency of a transmitted signal, and an RF receiver for low noise amplifying and downconverting a received signal.

The data processor 113 is responsible for processing voice data transmitted from the audio processor 107 or the like, or numeric / character data input from a user through the key input unit 105. The data processor 113 may include a transmitter for encoding and modulating a signal transmitted through the RF unit 111, and a receiver for demodulating and decoding a signal received through the RF unit 111.

Therefore, the data processor 113 may include a modem and a codec. The codec includes a data codec for processing packet data and an audio codec for processing an audio signal such as voice.

The audio processor 107 outputs an audio signal output from the data processor 113 through a speaker SPK or transmits an audio signal such as a voice input from a microphone MIC to the data processor 113. It performs the function.

The key input unit 105 includes a plurality of numeric, character and / or function keys for inputting numeric and character information and setting various functions. The key input unit 105 is a device that receives information related to user setting and function control of a portable terminal, and outputs a keyword input signal to the controller 101.

The controller 101 performs a function of controlling the overall operation of the portable terminal. In addition, the control unit 101 is connected to the memory unit 103, the audio processing unit 107, the display unit 109, the data processing unit 113, the key input unit 105 according to an embodiment of the present invention to exchange and process data , Control, and set up a call. In the present invention, the controller 101 controls to generate various user data stored in the memory 103 as a file. The user data represents one or more data that can be generated as a file by the user, for example, a picture and a video generated by a camera function, and a number of other user information generated by the phonebook function (eg, a phone number , Birthdays, addresses, etc.) and a plurality of transmission and reception text messages generated by a text message function.

The memory unit 103 stores the user data as described above and performs a function of temporarily storing data generated during the operation of the portable terminal. In particular, the memory unit 103 in the present invention includes a file storage unit 117 for storing the user data in a file according to an embodiment of the present invention. The memory unit 103 may include an internal memory and an external memory.

The display unit 109 displays the user data output from the control unit 101. In this case, the display unit 109 may use a liquid crystal display (LCD). In this case, the display unit 109 may include an LCD controller, a memory capable of storing image data, and an LCD display device. .

2 is a flowchart illustrating a data processing procedure in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, a mobile terminal user first selects a predetermined menu (eg, a recent history menu, a call history menu, a received message menu, a memo pad menu, etc.) including one or more user data to be created as a file. A request may be made to create a file for one or more user data in the menu to select.

Therefore, the controller 101 of the portable terminal detects a predetermined menu selected by the user in step S201, and displays one or more user data in the selected menu in step S203. In this case, when the controller 101 detects that a file generation for user data in the menu is requested from the user in step S205, the controller 101 generates the user data as a file in step S207. Hereinafter, the file generation procedure of step S207 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 3.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a file generation procedure in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, when a file generation for user data is requested from the user as described above, the controller 101 determines whether to create a file name for the generated file in step S301. If it is determined in step S301 that the file name is directly created by the user, the controller 101 receives a file name from the user in step S305. If the control unit 101 determines that the arbitrary file name is automatically created as a result of the determination in step S301, the control unit 101 generates an arbitrary file name in step S303. The arbitrary file name may be automatically generated sequentially (for example, recent record 1, recent record 2, received message 1, received message 2, etc.) based on the name of the corresponding menu including the user data. .

Next, when the file name for the file to be created in step S303 or step S305 is input / generated, the control unit 101 calls a file generation function for generating the file in step S307. Thereafter, the controller 101 completes generation of a corresponding file for the user data in step S309 based on the file generation function.

The file generation function represents a basic function used to generate a file in a file system. In the embodiment of the present invention, a function for generating the user data into a file can be called with various functions according to the file type to be created. have. For example, when "uiFCreateStreamFile" is called with the file creation function, the user data can be created as a text file.

Referring back to FIG. 2, when the controller 101 generates a file in step S207, the controller 101 proceeds to step S209 to store the generated file in the file storage 115.

Meanwhile, in the embodiment of the present invention, the files generated and stored may be edited or transmitted to another mobile terminal. This will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 2.

First, the operation of editing a file will be described. The controller 101 displays the contents of the corresponding file that is requested to be edited when editing a file generated and stored by the user as described above in step S211, and edits the file according to the user's request in step S213. Do this. Thereafter, when the file editing is completed, the edited file is stored in the file storage unit 115 according to the user request.

Next, an operation of transferring a file will be described. The controller 101 determines whether there is a transmission for any file generated or stored previously by the user as described in step S215. As a result of the determination, if a file transmission is requested from the user, the control unit 101 transmits the corresponding file requested for transmission to the corresponding portable terminal for the user in step S219.

The controller 101 may transmit the file to another mobile terminal through a multimedia message (MMS) and an e-mail.

4 is a flowchart of processing data in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In particular, in FIG. 4, a list of menus (eg, a recent record menu, missed record menu, call log menu, received message menu, etc.) including respective user data that can be generated as a file (hereinafter referred to as 'menu list'). A file generation procedure for each user data included in one or more menus (eg, recently recorded menu, received message menu, etc.) selected by the user will be described. In this case, when a plurality of menus are selected from the menu list by the user, the files generated in FIG. 4 may be generated in a form having different file names corresponding to the respective menus.

For example, as shown in FIG. 6 to be described later, when a recent history menu and a received message menu are selected by the user, a file composed of user data in the recent history menu and data in the received message menu are selected. Each file can be created. In addition, according to the setting method, the user data in the recent recording menu and the user data in the received message menu may be generated as a single file.

Referring to FIG. 4, a portable terminal user may first select one or more menus to be created as a file from a menu list and request generation of a file for user data in the selected menu. Accordingly, the controller 101 of the portable terminal detects an entry into the menu list from the user in step S401 and displays one or more menus including user data in step S403. The controller 101 detects a menu checked to be generated as a file from the user in step S405. In this case, when the controller 101 detects that a file generation for a menu checked by the user is requested in step S407, the controller 101 generates the menus in a file in step S409. In step S409, the controller 101 generates a file using the same procedure as in FIG. 3.

If the controller 101 generates a file in step S409, the controller 101 proceeds to step S411 and stores the generated file in the file storage unit 115.

Meanwhile, in the embodiment of the present invention, the files generated and stored may be edited or transmitted to another mobile terminal. This will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 4 as follows.

First, the operation of editing a file will be described. The controller 101 displays the contents of the corresponding file that is requested to be edited when a user requests editing of any file generated and stored by the user as in step S413, and edits a file according to the user's request in step S415. Do this. Thereafter, when the file editing is completed, the edited file is stored in the file storage unit 115 according to the user request.

Next, an operation of transferring a file will be described. The control unit 101 determines whether there is a transmission for any file generated or stored previously by the user as described in step S417. As a result of the determination, when a file transmission is requested from the user, the control unit 101 transmits the corresponding file requested for transmission to the corresponding portable terminal of the user in step S421.

The controller 101 may transmit the file to another mobile terminal through a multimedia message (MMS) and an e-mail.

5 is a diagram schematically showing examples of a user interface according to file generation in a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, an example of generating user data included in a recent recording menu as a file is shown in FIG. First, when a recent recording menu is selected from a menu including user data that can be generated as a file, the portable terminal displays one or more user data in the recent recording menu. The user can then create some or all of the user data in the recent history menu into a file. That is, the user may select and specify an item of user data to be created as a file, or specify all user data in the recent recording menu.

For example, the user may selectively check user data to be created as a file using the selection button 503 to generate some user data in the recent recording menu as a file, or use the menu button 501. Thus, all user data in the recent recording menu can be generated as a file. When the menu button 501 is input, the portable terminal displays sub-menus such as <send message>, <save phone number>, <delete>, and <save to file> as indicated by reference numeral 505.

Among the submenus 505, the <Save as file> submenu includes another submenu 507 of <Save All> and <Selective Storage>, as indicated by reference numeral 507. The <Save All> submenu indicates a menu for generating all the user data in the recent recording menu as a file, and the <Selective Save> submenu indicates only the user data checked by the selection button 503 as a file. Display the menu to create.

Next, the mobile terminal may display a screen requesting to input a name of the generated file in a popup form when a file generation of user data selected in whole or in part is requested from the user. Then, the user may directly input the file name of the file to be created or automatically generate the file name by the mobile terminal.

If the user presses the confirmation button 511 without inputting the file name, the portable terminal may generate a file name by quoting the file name from the name of the recent recording menu. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, a file name may be automatically generated and input into <Recent Record 1>. In addition, when a new file generation is requested for the user data in the recent recording menu and the new file name is automatically input, the file is generated as in <Recent Record 2> so as not to duplicate the name of a previously generated file. It is preferable to.

The user may check the generated file through the file list. When the user selects the file, the portable terminal displays the contents of text generated using the file generation function.

For example, when the user selects a file (eg, latest record 1) generated as indicated by reference numeral 517, the portable terminal shows the contents of the text generated using the file generation function. The content shown in the text includes information about user data. The information includes a recent recording state, contact information, day of the week, talk time, and the like. The information has different information for each menu.

The information is generated in text as shown at 511. For example, it may be expressed as "011-123-4567 time 8/26 [Sat] 7: 11p ...".

When the user wants to see the contents of the created file, the controller 101 shows the file to the user in the form of a recent recording state, a contact, a day of the week, and a call time. Here, the recent recording state indicates an outgoing / incoming call or a receiving / outgoing message.

6 is a diagram schematically showing examples of a user interface according to file generation in a portable terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, an example of generating a menu included in a menu list as a file as indicated by reference numeral 601 in FIG. 6 is illustrated. First, the portable terminal detects that a recently recorded menu and a received message are selected from a menu including user data that can be generated as a file from a user in the menu list. The user can then create a file of all of the user data in the recent history menu and the received message. That is, the user can select and specify a menu of a menu list to be created as a file.

For example, the user may selectively check a menu to be created as a file by using the selection button 605 to generate user data in the recent recording menu and the received message menu as a file. When the menu button 601 is input, the portable terminal displays submenus such as <unselect>, <select all>, and <save to file> as shown by reference numeral 607.

In the submenu 607, <Save as file> represents a menu for generating a menu checked by the selection button 603 as a file.

Next, when a file creation of a menu selected by a user is requested, the portable terminal may display a screen requesting to input a name of the generated file in a popup form. Then, the user may directly input the name of the file to be created or automatically generate the file name by the mobile terminal. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, the user may input a file name as <Recent Record>. When the user presses the confirmation button 611 after inputting a file name to be generated, the portable terminal shows that the file has been created in the form of a popup 613 with the file name. In addition, the received message selected in addition to the latest record is requested to generate a new file for the user data in the received message menu, and may input the newly generated file name as <latest received message>. When the user presses a confirmation button 617 after inputting a file name to be generated, the portable terminal shows that the file has been created in the form of a popup 619 with the file name.

If the user presses the confirmation button 611 without inputting the file name, the portable terminal may generate a file name by quoting a file name of the menu to be generated.

The user can check the generated file through the file list. When the user selects the file, the portable terminal shows the contents of the text file generated using the file generation function.

For example, when the user selects a file (eg, the latest received message) generated as indicated by reference numeral 623, the portable terminal shows the contents of the text generated using the file generation function. The content shown in the text includes information about user data. The information includes message content, date, time, telephone number, and the like. The information has different information for each menu.

The information is generated in text as shown at 627. For example, "I'm in a meeting so I'll contact you later. 8/25 5:19 pm Hong Gil-dong 016-123-4567 ..."

As described above, in the detailed description of the present invention has been described with respect to specific embodiments, various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the claims below, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

In the data processing method of the portable terminal of the present invention as described above, various user data stored in the portable terminal can be conveniently generated as a file.

Claims (5)

In the data processing method of a mobile terminal, Displaying a user data list and a menu list; Displaying user data selected in the user data list display state and generating the selected user data as a file of a corresponding menu when a file generation request is made; And displaying the menus selected in the menu list display state and generating user data included in each of the selected menus as a file of a corresponding menu when a file generation request is made. The method of claim 1, wherein the menu list is And a menu including one or more user data that can be generated as a file by the user. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the file comprises: And calling a file generation function for generating the user data into a file. The method of claim 3, wherein the file generation function And a function for generating user data in a file of a specific type. The method of claim 1, And storing each file generated for each corresponding menu as a file of the corresponding menu.

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