KR101000154B1 - Mobile phone and method for informing update widget contents - Google Patents
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The mobile communication terminal according to the present invention includes an update control means for receiving update information on widget content from a content server, identification means for identifying a widget associated with the received update information, and a dictionary corresponding to the identified widget. It characterized in that it comprises an output means for outputting the update notification information set in.
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The present invention provides an update notification output by receiving update information on widget content from a content server, identifying a widget associated with the received update information, and outputting preset update notification information corresponding to the identified widget. The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal and a widget content update notification method for allowing a user to know what widget content has been updated using only information.
Mobile carriers are striving to provide more convenient and diverse services to meet various needs of customers. As one of them, the mobile communication company provides a mobile widget service to the mobile communication terminal so that the user can directly use services such as MSN messenger, stock, weather, and clock on the standby screen in the mobile communication terminal.
Such a widget is a graphic interface that supports the interaction between the user and the application / operating system more smoothly, and the terminal (mobile communication terminal or computer) does not have to visit the portal service or content providing site. Allows you to use the services you want on your standby screen. For example, there may be various widgets that provide services such as 'MSN messenger, stock, keyword search box, weather, clock, game, notepad, quote', and the like. A user can install a widget providing a service mainly used by the user on the terminal by accessing the corresponding site, and after installing, the user can easily use the service on the standby screen of the terminal through the widget without visiting the website. Will be.
However, when the user sets one or more widgets in the mobile communication terminal, the mobile communication terminal notifies the widget update by a ringtone each time each widget content is updated. In this case, regardless of the type of widget content, by uniformly announce the widget update to the same one ringtone, the user has a disadvantage that it is not easy to know what widget content has been updated.
For example, if a user sets four widgets, such as news, stocks, shopping, and blogs on a mobile terminal, even though only the 'news' widget content is updated, the user does not see a widget on the screen of the mobile terminal. There was the inconvenience of not knowing if the content was updated.
In addition, even if the 'news' widget content is updated, when the same ringtone is output as when a text message is received, the user does not update the widget content, but recognizes that the text message has been received. There is a problem to do.
Therefore, in the present invention, by receiving the update information on the widget content from the content server, identifying the widget associated with the received update information, and outputting the preset update notification information corresponding to the identified widget, the output We would like to propose a new technology that allows the user to know what widget contents have been updated with the update notification information alone.
The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, from the content server, receives the update information for the widget content, identifies the widget associated with the received update information, in advance corresponding to the identified widget It is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile communication terminal and a widget content update notification method for outputting set update notification information so that a user can know what widget content has been updated only by the output update notification information.
In addition, the present invention outputs a voice including any one of the widget name, time, or update content as the update notification information, so that the user can easily identify that the widget content has been updated. It is an object to provide a method.
In addition, the present invention by setting the voice, ringtone, vibration or screen brightness degree differently for each widget, and outputs a voice, ringtone, or vibration corresponding to the updated widget content, or by controlling the screen brightness, alarm, text message An object of the present invention is to provide a method for notifying a mobile communication terminal and widget content update, which can be easily identified by a user, distinguished from a ring tone output when an incoming call or a call comes.
The present invention also compares an update notification sound set as update notification information with a terminal setting notification sound set in advance and, if the comparison result is the same, retrieves an update notification sound different from the terminal setting notification sound from a ring tone storage means. By outputting the information, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method for notifying an update of a mobile terminal and widget contents that an user can intuitively distinguish from a ringtone output when an alarm, a text message is received or a call comes.
In order to achieve the object of the present invention as described above, the mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, the update control means for receiving the update information for the widget content from the content server, and associated with the received update information Identification means for identifying a widget, and output means for outputting preset notification information corresponding to the identified widget.
In addition, the widget content update notification method according to an embodiment of the present invention, receiving from the content server, the update information for the widget content, identifying the widget associated with the received update information, and the identified And outputting preset update notification information corresponding to the widget.
According to the present invention, the content server outputs by receiving update information on widget content, identifying a widget associated with the received update information, and outputting preset notification notification information corresponding to the identified widget. The update notification sound allows the user to know which widget contents have been updated.
In addition, according to the present invention, by outputting the voice including any one of the widget name, time, or update content as the update notification information, the user can easily determine that the widget content has been updated.
In addition, according to the present invention, by setting the voice, ringtone, vibration or screen brightness degree differently for each widget, by outputting the voice, ringtone, or vibration corresponding to the updated widget content or by controlling the screen brightness degree, receiving a text message Alternatively, the user may easily identify the ringer according to the call request.
Further, according to the present invention, an update notification sound set as update notification information is compared with a terminal setting notification sound set in advance, and if the comparison result is the same, an update notification sound different from the terminal setting notification sound from a ring tone storage means. By searching for and outputting, the user can intuitively distinguish from the ringtone that is output when receiving an alarm, text message or call.
Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, a mobile communication terminal and a widget content update notification method according to the present invention will be described in detail.
1 is a view showing the overall connection between a mobile communication terminal and a content server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
As illustrated, the
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As another example, when the update notification identifier associated with the vibration is recorded in the storage means as the update notification information, the
As another example, when the update notification information associated with the screen brightness is recorded in the storage means as the update notification information, the
Thereafter, the
A description with reference to FIG. 2 is as follows.
2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
As shown, the
The update control unit 210 receives the update information on the widget content from the
The widget is a graphic interface that supports the interaction between the user and the application / operating system more smoothly, and the terminal (mobile communication terminal or computer) does not have to visit the portal service or content providing site. You can use the service you want on your standby screen.
As described above, the
Conventionally, even when the widget content is updated, the mobile communication terminal outputs the same ringtone as when the text message is received, so that the user is mistaken that the widget content is not updated, but the text message is received. There was a problem to check.
To this end, the update control unit 210 notifies the receiving unit 220 of the reception of the update information, corresponding to the widget content updated through the output unit 240, update notification information is set to be distinguished from other widget content You can output
The identification means 220 identifies the widget associated with the received update information. One or more
The output means 240 outputs preset update notification information corresponding to the identified widget. In the present invention, the update notification information includes a ringtone, vibration, voice, screen brightness, the output means 240 may output any one of the ringtone, vibration, voice, screen brightness as the update notification information. .
Accordingly, the output unit 240 outputs update notification information differently set according to each widget, so that the user can know which widget contents are updated only by the update notification information.
To this end, the
A description with reference to FIG. 4 is as follows.
4 is a view showing an example of a storage means in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
As shown, the
Accordingly, the output means 240 may output an update notification sound associated with the update notification identifier stored in the storage means 230 in response to the identified widget.
In an embodiment of the present invention, when the update notification identifier associated with the ringtone is recorded in the storage means 230 as the update notification information, the output means 240 outputs a ringtone associated with the update notification identifier stored in the storage means. Can be retrieved from the storage means and output.
For example, in response to the "news" widget, when "
According to another embodiment of the present invention, when the update notification identifier associated with the vibration is recorded in the storage means 230 as the update notification information, the output means 240 is stored in the storage means 230 in response to the identified widget. The vibration module 250 may be controlled according to the vibration associated with the stored update notification identifier to output the vibration.
For example, when "strong / weak vibration" is recorded as the update notification identifier in response to the "securities" widget, the output means 240 controls the vibration module 250 to generate vibration in accordance with the strong / weak vibration. You can output it.
According to another embodiment of the present invention, the output means 240 may output a voice including any one of a widget name, a time, or an update content as the update notification sound.
For example, in response to the "weather" widget, when "
As another example of the present invention, when the update notification identifier associated with the screen brightness is recorded in the storage means 230 as the update notification information, the display module 260 is stored in the storage means 230 as the update notification information. The degree of screen brightness may be controlled according to the screen brightness associated with the stored update notification identifier.
For example, in response to the "shopping" widget, when the update notification identifier is recorded as the screen brightness "strong", the display module 260 controls the screen brightness degree to "strong" to indicate that the "shopping" widget content has been updated. I can tell you.
Therefore, the
In an embodiment of the present invention, the output means 240 compares the update notification sound set as the update notification information with a terminal setting notification sound set in advance, and, if the comparison result is the same, set the terminal from a ring tone storage means. The update notification sound different from the notification sound may be searched for and output.
Here, the terminal setting notification sound may be a notification sound output when an alarm, a text message is received, or a call comes. If the update notification sound and the terminal setting notification sound are the same, the user may not know whether the widget content is updated, the alarm is received, the text message is received, or the call is received only by the notification sound.
Accordingly, when the update notification sound and the terminal setting notification sound are the same, the output means 240 may search for and output an update notification sound different from the terminal setting notification sound from a ring tone storage means. Thereafter, the
However, even if the user knows that the update notification sound and the terminal setting notification sound are the same, and if the update notification sound and the terminal setting notification sound are not changed so as not to be the same, then the output means 240 beforehand The set update notification sound can be output as it is.
The update control unit 210 may update the widget content related to the received update information according to the update information. The update control unit 210 may update at the same time as the reception, or may update after outputting an update notification sound.
Hereinafter, a description will be given with reference to FIG. 3.
3 is a diagram illustrating an example of notifying an update of widget contents in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
As illustrated, at 310 and 320, the
In general, as shown by the
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As shown by the reference numeral 350, the widget content (news) may be transmitted to the
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Thereafter, as shown at 370, the
5 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of a widget content update notification method in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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In another example, when the update notification identifier associated with the vibration is recorded in the storage means 230 as the update notification sound, the
In another example, when the update notification identifier associated with the screen brightness is recorded in the storage means 230 as the update notification information, the
Further, embodiments of the present invention include a computer readable medium having program instructions for performing various computer implemented operations. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. The media may be program instructions that are specially designed and constructed for the present invention or may be available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like.
While specific embodiments of the present invention have been described so far, various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined by the equivalents of the claims and the claims.
1 is a view showing the overall connection between a mobile communication terminal and a content server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram illustrating an example of notifying an update of widget contents in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a view showing an example of a storage means in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of a widget content update notification method in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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