KR20020080775A - mobile station having menu icon and confirm method of message using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method of confirming a message using a mobile terminal and a message confirming method using the same are provided to distinguish a corresponding icon of a new message on an initial screen to display the icon, when the new message is not confirmed, thereby immediately selecting the icon on the initial screen. CONSTITUTION: A mobile terminal system confirms whether a new message is not confirmed(S100). If so, the system displays an icon group or an icon corresponding to the new message(S110). If the new message does not exist, the system decides whether an icon selection key is inputted(S120). If so, the system displays the icon group(S110), and if not, the system displays an initial screen(S130). If the new message does not exist, the system decides whether a key is inputted for selecting the icon among icon groups, and if the new message exists, the system decides whether a key is inputted for selecting the icon corresponding to the new message(S140). If so, the system displays a corresponding menu(S150), and displays the message(S160), then converts/stores attributes of the message in a memory as a reading state(S170). If the key is not inputted, the system decides whether a key for confirming the message is inputted(S180). If so, the system retrieves menu trees to display a sub menu(S180), and displays the message(S190), then converts/stores the attributes of the message as a reading state(S170). If the key is not inputted, the system converts/stores the attributes as an unreading state(S210).

Description

Mobile terminal having menu icon and message confirmation method using same {mobile station having menu icon and confirm method of message using the same}

The present invention relates to a message confirmation method in a mobile terminal, and more particularly, to a mobile terminal having a menu icon and a message confirmation method using the same.

There are several types of messages in a mobile terminal.

In order to use various types of messages such as voice SMS (short message service) and text SMS, e-mail, broadcast message, recorded message, schedule, etc., the user must know exactly the location on the menu tree to check each message. have.

This is not a big problem for teenagers in their 20s or 20s who are good at using mobile phones.However, those who are not used to using mobile phones do not know how to check when these messages arrive. Sometimes it is not easy to erase the user, which may cause inconvenience to users.

That is, in order to perform one function in the mobile terminal, the user selects a menu screen and performs a function through several key manipulations.

1 is an example of a display screen of a display unit for searching for a menu in a conventional mobile terminal.

As shown in Fig. 1, various functions are listed under the menu, and various functions are listed under the functions.

In Fig. 1, for example, the shortest path for finding a "schedule" menu is shown. 10 is the initial screen when the menu key is pressed on the terminal, and 20 is the next screen by pressing an up-down key or a specific key.

At this time, if the user selects the number key 2 to select “2. Electronic Organizer”, 30 screens will appear. At 30, the submenu corresponding to the organizer is displayed, and at 40, the schedule management is pressed or the schedule check is pressed.

This path can be conveniently made on the assumption that the user knows all of the submenus. Therefore, the user must find out where the desired function is by trial and error.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and by integrating and managing various types of messages or various data received by the mobile terminal into a group, a new message has arrived, or more in managing a stored message. An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile terminal having a menu icon for convenience and a message checking method using the same.

1 is a display screen of a display unit for finding a menu in a conventional mobile terminal.

2 is a mobile terminal system according to the present invention.

3 is a flow chart showing the operation of the system of the mobile terminal according to the present invention as shown in FIG.

4 is an example of an initial screen of a display unit 140 of a mobile terminal according to the present invention upon arrival of a new message.

5 is an example of an initial screen of a display unit 140 of a mobile terminal according to the present invention in the presence of an unread message.

6 is an example of a process of checking a message when the icon of FIG. 5 is selected.

7 is an example of an initial screen showing an icon group of a display unit 140 of a mobile terminal according to the present invention when only a read message exists.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

100: control unit 110: first memory

120: second memory 130: key input unit

140: display unit 150: RF unit

160: ring tone generator 170: voice processing unit

A feature of a mobile terminal having a menu icon according to the present invention for achieving the above object is to a mobile terminal having an RF unit for transmitting and receiving a message wirelessly, decoding the coded received message and converts it into a desired received message and outputs it. A memory device comprising: a memory configured to store a message including the output message received as a lead and an unlead under predetermined control, and to store an icon of a menu to which the message belongs; A display unit displaying an icon or an icon group including the icon when the message is unread according to whether the message stored in the memory is read or unread according to a predetermined control; A key input unit including a function key for selecting an icon displayed on the display unit or a predetermined icon of an icon group; And a control unit for accessing the memory to register the change of the read and unread attributes of the message and to control the display unit according to the attribute.

The display unit displays the icon group when the message stored in the memory is a lead, and the message includes data directly input by the user.

A feature of the message confirmation method of a mobile terminal having a menu icon according to the present invention for achieving the above object is provided with an RF unit for transmitting and receiving a message wirelessly, decode the coded received message and converts it into a desired received message and outputs it. A message checking method of a mobile terminal, comprising: displaying an icon of a menu to which a message belongs or an icon group including the icon when a new message including a received message exists; Displaying a corresponding menu of a message when the predetermined icon is selected, displaying a message when the menu is selected, and converting and storing an attribute of the message as a lead; If the predetermined icon is not selected, searching for each menu tree and displaying the searched sub-menu, selecting a desired sub-menu, displaying a message, and converting and storing the attribute of the message into a lead are performed.

If a new message does not exist, the icon group is displayed when the key is input according to whether a key for selecting an icon is input, and when the key is not input, the initial screen of the terminal is displayed.

Each icon of the icon group is distinguished and displayed according to the lead and unread attributes of the corresponding message.

Other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of embodiments taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

A preferred embodiment of a mobile terminal having a menu icon and a message checking method using the same according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

2 briefly illustrates a mobile terminal system according to the present invention. The control unit 100 includes a control unit 100, a first memory 110, a second memory 120, a key input unit 130, a display unit 140, an RF unit 150, a ring tone generator 160, and a voice processor 170.

The second memory 120 receives the received message output from the RF unit 150 and receives a predetermined control to read the output received SMS, broadcast message, e-mail, and the like, and various data (schedule) input by the user of the terminal. And store the predetermined icon corresponding to a menu to which the received message and various data belong.

The second memory 120 processes a ROM in which an operation program is embedded, a message such as a received text SMS, a message received by a service request, a message such as an e-mail, and the like, and stores the processed data. RAM).

The first memory 110 is a voice memory, which stores various voice data such as voice SMS and an auto-response message storing voice SMS into leads and unreads, and stores a predetermined icon corresponding to a menu to which the various voice data belong. Save it.

The display unit 140 displays only the icon or displays an icon group including the icon when the message is unread according to whether the received message and various data stored in the memories 110 and 120 are read and unloaded under the control of the controller 100. Display and distinguish the icon. In the case of a lead, an icon of a menu is displayed by grouping the icon.

The display unit 140 is a display device such as a liquid crystal display (LCD). The display unit 140 displays the state of the mobile terminal or the progress of the program under the control of the control unit 100.

The key input unit 130 includes a function key for selecting a predetermined icon from the icon group displayed on the display unit 140.

The function key may be an arrow key or a rotation key (jog dial) pointing in two directions, and the predetermined value is selected by scrolling the icon using the key.

Alternatively, the function key may be a key for selection, confirmation, etc. for selecting the corresponding menu item, or a separate key for selecting the icon under each icon.

The key input unit 130 includes a plurality of numeric keys, menu keys, and function keys for performing various functions, and outputs key data to the controller 100.

The control unit 100 selectively accesses the memories 110 and 120 to register attribute changes of read and unread of the received message and various data, and controls to display the corresponding icons by distinguishing the icons of the corresponding menus according to the attributes.

The RF unit 150 is controlled by the controller 100, converts the signal output from the controller 100 into a radio signal, and converts the radio signal received through an antenna for transmitting / receiving high frequency into a desired signal.

The ring tone generator 160 generates a sign language through the speaker under the control of the controller 100.

The voice processor 170 modulates the voice signal input from the microphone and converts the voice signal into voice data, and demodulates the speaker by demodulating the voice data input from the RF unit 150 and voice data stored in the first memory 110 into a voice signal. Output through voice.

3 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of a system of a mobile terminal according to the present invention as shown in FIG.

It is checked whether a new message including a message received from the RF unit 150, that is, a message not confirmed exists (S100).

If the new message exists as a result of the check, an icon group consisting of an icon corresponding to a menu to which the message belongs or an icon corresponding to the new message are displayed (S110).

Each icon of the icon group is distinguished and displayed according to the read and unread attributes of the corresponding message. The read icon may not be displayed or may be separately displayed.

If there is no new message as a result of the check, it is determined whether the user selects an icon selection key from the key input unit 130 (S120).

As a result of the determination, when an icon selection key for selecting an icon is inputted, the icon group is displayed (S110). Otherwise, the initial screen of the terminal is displayed (S130).

If the new message does not exist, it is determined whether there is a key input for selecting a corresponding icon of a predetermined message among the icon group. If the new message exists, the user selects an icon or icon icon corresponding to the new message. It is determined whether there is a key input (S140).

As a result of the determination, if there is a key input, the corresponding menu of the message is displayed in the menu list (S150), the message is displayed when the menu is selected (S160), and the attribute of the message is converted into a read in the memory 120 (S170).

As a result of the determination, if there is no key input, it is determined whether there is a key input for message confirmation (S180).

As a result of the determination, if there is a key input, the user searches for each menu tree according to the key input and displays the searched sub menu (S180), and if a desired sub menu is selected, a message is displayed (S190), and the attribute of the message is converted into a lead and stored. (S170).

As a result of the determination, if there is no key input, the attribute of the message is converted to unread and stored (S210).

4 illustrates an example of an initial screen of the display unit 140 of the mobile terminal according to the present invention when a new message arrives.

When the message first arrives as shown in FIG. 4, the entire message is shown on the display unit 140.

Normally, the user closes the flip or folder immediately without pressing the confirmation key or reply to confirm that the message has been confirmed. The next time the folder is opened, the user forgets that a new message exists.

5 illustrates an example of an initial screen of the display unit 140 of the mobile terminal according to the present invention in the presence of an unread message (including a new message).

If a text message confirmation key or the like is not input as shown in Fig. 5, the next time the folder is opened, an icon indicating an unchecked text message is highlighted.

The display unit 140 shown in FIG. 5 displays five icons on five different locations.

Each displayed icon corresponds to a menu item of a menu. Each icon visualizes the meaning of each of the menu items, so the icons can be used regardless of the phone's selected user language.

The icons shown in Fig. 5 are menu item "messaging (text SMS, voice SMS)", menu item "auto-reply message", menu item "e-mail", menu item "broadcast message" and menu item "schedule". Corresponds to ".

FIG. 6 illustrates an example of a process of confirming a message when the icon of FIG. 5 is selected, and then confirms a text message through a series of processes illustrated in FIG.

7 shows an example of an initial screen showing an icon group of the display unit 140 of the mobile terminal according to the present invention when only a read message exists.

That is, when there is no unread message, pressing a specific key for selecting an icon on the initial screen displays a group of icons, indicating that there is no new message. If a predetermined icon is selected among the icon groups, the stored message can be managed. Can be.

As described above, the mobile terminal having the menu icon and the message checking method using the same have the following effects.

If you do not need to understand the structure of each menu tree, and you do not check the new message using the group of message icons, you can select the icon directly on the initial screen and display the message by distinguishing the icon of the new message on the initial screen. Do.

Even if a new message does not exist, selecting a message icon group displays a group of icons, thus facilitating message management, thus providing convenience for a skilled user.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various changes and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

Therefore, the technical scope of the present invention should not be limited to the contents described in the embodiments, but should be defined by the claims.

Claims (6)

A mobile terminal having an RF unit for transmitting and receiving a message wirelessly, decoding a coded received message, converting the message into a desired received message, and outputting the received message, A memory configured to store a message including the output message received as a read and an unread under predetermined control, and store an icon of a menu to which the message belongs; A display unit displaying an icon or an icon group including the icon when the message is unread according to whether the message stored in the memory is read or unread according to a predetermined control; A key input unit including a function key for selecting an icon displayed on the display unit or a predetermined icon of an icon group; And a control unit which accesses the memory to register the change of the read and unread attributes of the message and controls the display unit according to the attribute. The method of claim 1, And the display unit displays the icon group when the message stored in the memory is a lead. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the message includes data directly input by a user. In the message confirmation method of a mobile terminal having an RF unit for transmitting and receiving a message wirelessly, decode the coded received message, converts it into a desired received message and outputs it. Displaying an icon of a menu to which the message belongs or an icon group including the icon if a new message including the received message exists; Displaying a corresponding menu of a message when the predetermined icon is selected, displaying a message when the menu is selected, and converting and storing an attribute of the message as a lead; If the predetermined icon is not selected, searching for each menu tree and displaying the searched sub-menu, selecting a desired sub-menu displays a message, and converts and stores the attribute of the message as a lead. Message checking method using a mobile terminal having a. The mobile device of claim 4, wherein when a new message does not exist, the icon group is displayed when the key is input according to whether a key for selecting an icon is input, and when the key is not input, the initial screen of the terminal is displayed. Message confirmation method using the terminal. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein each icon of the icon group is distinguished and displayed according to a lead and an unread attribute of the corresponding message.