KR100617701B1 - Method for composing menu in mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of configuring a menu of a mobile communication terminal, and in particular, a menu that reorders the menu list in order of the highest frequency of selection by calculating the frequency of selection for each menu item and which is outside the range of the number of menus that can be displayed on one screen. Groups together to form a submenu of one menu. As described above, the present invention has the effect of improving the convenience of the user by minimizing the step of selecting the menu that has been used more than once by displaying the one menu on the screen together with the menus arranged in the order of high frequency of selection. have.

Menu composition, frequency of selection

Description

How to configure menu in mobile terminal {METHOD FOR COMPOSING MENU IN MOBILE PHONE}             

1 is a flowchart illustrating a menu selection operation of a conventionally used mobile communication terminal;

2 is a screen example for explaining a menu configuration method of a conventional mobile communication terminal,

3 is a table showing a menu structure of a mobile communication terminal;

4 is a schematic internal block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

5 is a control flowchart for rearranging a menu configuration in order of a menu having a high selection frequency according to an embodiment of the present invention;

6 is a control flowchart for displaying a menu according to a rearranged menu configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention;

7 is a screen example of displaying menus having a high frequency of selection when a shortcut menu mode is set according to an embodiment of the present invention;

The present invention relates to a method of operating a menu of a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a method of operating a menu of a mobile communication terminal so that a user can easily access the menu item according to the frequency of using the menu.

Recently, the functions of the mobile terminal are not limited to the functions of the phone, but new functions that can store various information such as user's schedule or phone number and act as an electronic notebook with additional functions such as an electronic calculator are added. It is becoming. In addition, the wireless networking structure in the mobile communication terminal itself is gradually expanding the range of mobile phone functions such as information retrieval, e-mail use, online games, and chat through the Internet connection. As the functions of the mobile communication terminal are diversified as described above, the structure of the menu of the mobile communication terminal becomes more complicated and diverse, so that a lot of time is required to find a menu desired by the user.

Meanwhile, a menu operating method for managing various functions in a conventional mobile communication terminal is operated in a form called 'hierarchical static menu'. Here, the hierarchical static menu is a menu provided in the production of the mobile communication terminal. To use one function by hierarchically configuring menus of various functions, the hierarchical static menu has to go through several steps of the hierarchically configured menu. These menus take the form of a hierarchical structure of pop-up menus, where there is a submenu for one menu and another submenu for that menu. The sun is a hierarchical structure.

However, when various additional functions are created, the programs for operating the mobile communication terminal become more complicated, and the configuration of menus for managing such many functions becomes more complicated. Accordingly, the user can configure and use a menu for managing many functions. You should be familiar with

1, a brief description of a conventional menu operation method is as follows. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a menu selection operation of a conventionally used mobile communication terminal. Referring to FIG. 1, the mobile communication terminal in the standby mode checks whether a user inputs a menu key in step 100. In this case, when there is a menu key input, the mobile communication terminal proceeds to step 110 to display a predetermined initial menu when the product is released, and maintains an activation state of a cursor for selecting the displayed menu.

The mobile communication terminal determines whether the user moves the cursor using the direction keys in step 120, and if there is a direction key input, the process proceeds to step 130 to search for the desired menu by moving the cursor in the corresponding direction of the input direction key. This is done. Then, if the corresponding menu is selected by the user in step 140, the mobile communication terminal proceeds to step 160. On the other hand, since the corresponding number of the specified index number in the menu displayed when the numeric key is input from the user in step (120), the mobile communication terminal in this case proceeds to step (150) the number entered The menu corresponding to the key is selected and the process proceeds to step 160 to perform the corresponding function of the selected menu.

However, in order to easily select a menu of a desired function from a menu screen displaying many additional functions as described above, it should be appropriately grouped according to the characteristics of a service and mapped to a main menu and its submenu relations. Because the screen displaying various information in the current mobile communication terminal is small in size, usually only 8 characters can be displayed on one line, and all service menus cannot be displayed on one screen. That is, when a menu key is input by a user, a menu item that can be displayed on the screen of the mobile communication terminal has a limitation. Therefore, a menu displayed on a conventional screen is displayed as shown in FIG. Therefore, if the menu item of the function to be used by the user is not displayed on the screen when the user presses the menu key in FIG. 2 (a), the menu item of the desired function is displayed through the key manipulation to FIG. 2 (b). Let's move.

In this way, a case in which the cursor is positioned on the menu item to use the phone book function will be described with reference to FIG. 3. That is, a conventional menu search process will be described with reference to the menu configuration table of the mobile communication terminal shown in FIG. 3. Referring to FIG. 3, when a user intends to use a phone book function using a mobile communication terminal, a user must first enter a menu key. When such a menu key is input, the main menu items of various functions as shown in FIG. 2A are displayed as a general menu basically provided on the screen of the mobile communication terminal. On the screen where the main menu items are displayed, various menus such as My Mobile Phone, Phone Book, and Music Box are displayed. When a phone book menu is selected by the user, a plurality of submenus belonging to the selected phone book menu are displayed on the screen of the mobile communication terminal. The submenu displayed at this time includes '1.Recently Called Number', '2.Recently Received Number', '3.Find Phone Number', '4.Register Phone Number', '5.Edit Group'. When the user selects one menu again, the mobile communication terminal has a sequential menu search method of displaying another submenus belonging to the selected submenu.

As described above, the menu selection by the conventional menu searching method requires more key operations as the types and steps of the lower menus increase, which requires a long time for menu searching. In addition, since a menu item that can be displayed on a screen of a mobile communication terminal is limited in the related art, when the index number of a menu item of a function to be used by a user is high, it is not displayed on one screen. Therefore, if a menu item of a function to be used by the user is not displayed, unnecessary key operations are increased to select the menu. As described above, in order to select a desired menu item, the user needs to go through several steps every time, so there is a problem that a menu of a desired function is cumbersome and takes a long time.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for constructing a menu of a mobile communication terminal that enables a user to perform faster access to a desired menu item.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method of configuring a menu in a mobile communication terminal which enables a user to conveniently search for a desired menu item in a short time by minimizing a step for selecting a menu in a complicated menu structure.

The present invention for achieving the above object in the menu configuration method in the mobile terminal, the process of rearranging the menu list in order of the frequency of selection by calculating the frequency of selection for each menu item each time the user uses the menu And, if there is a menu key input by the user, grouping out menus out of a range of the number of menus that can be displayed on one screen among sequentially rearranged menu lists according to the frequency of selection, and configuring non-preferred menus. And displaying the menu list rearranged in the order of the high frequency of selection on the screen.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that the same elements in the figures are represented by the same numerals wherever possible. In addition, detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted.

Hereinafter, a method of configuring a menu in a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the embodiment of the present invention, since there is a limit to the menu items that can be displayed on the screen of the mobile communication terminal of limited size, the frequency of selection is checked for each menu item to display all the menus on one screen. As described above, the present invention checks the frequency of selection and displays them on one screen in order of menus having the highest frequency of selection, and groups the remaining menus into sub-menus of one menu called a menu that is not frequently used, that is, one folder. It consists of the same concept and displays it on one screen together with the menu displayed in order of menu with the highest frequency of selection.

That is, the present invention displays a menu in the order of the most recently used menu or the most frequently used menu in the existing menu configuration, and manages the remaining infrequently used menus as separate menu groups. Then, by aligning the menus in order of frequently used menus, it is characterized by minimizing the steps for selecting menus for future use. Accordingly, the present invention takes into consideration the user's menu use characteristics, and thus allows the user to conveniently find a desired menu in a short time in a complicated menu structure through the menu configuration as described above.

Hereinafter, the role of the internal components of the mobile communication terminal according to the menu configuration processing according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 4. 4 is a schematic internal block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. The controller 200 shown in FIG. 4 performs the overall control operation of the mobile communication terminal, and serves as a data processing stored in the memory unit 230 according to the present invention as described below. That is, the control unit 200 processes the corresponding function according to the menu selection by the user according to an embodiment of the present invention. Therefore, in the following description, the description of the processing and control of the control unit 200 for ordinary telephone call, data communication, and wireless Internet connection is omitted.

The controller 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention calculates the frequency of selection by using the number of times for each menu item whenever the user uses the menu, and stores the selected frequency in the memory unit 230. In addition, when the selection frequency is calculated according to each menu item, the controller 200 manages a predetermined amount of the menu list and the remaining infrequently used menus in separate menu groups in the order of the high selection frequency. Then, when the shortcut menu mode is set to show the user the menu configuration by the frequency of selection, the control unit 200 sets the menu as a menu group grouped into a predetermined amount of menu lists and infrequently used menus at the end of the menu list. Display on the screen. In other words, when there is a menu key input by the user, the menus are rearranged and displayed in sequence according to the checked frequency of each menu item, and menus outside the range of the number of menus that can be displayed on one screen are grouped together. It is composed of menu submenus and displayed on one screen with rearranged menus.

As such, in order to prevent the hassle of scrolling or passing to the next screen when the number of menus that can be displayed at one time is too large, an embodiment of the present invention restricts the menu list to a certain number, and displays the remaining items after displaying the menus. The rest of the menus are grouped and displayed as a submenu of one menu, with the menu list on one screen at a time. However, according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the menu list may be rearranged in order of increasing the frequency of selection by calculating the frequency of selection for each menu item, except for the lower menu of one menu. In addition, the menu list according to another embodiment of the present invention may be rearranged in order of priority of the most recently used order for each menu item.

In addition, the display unit 210 receives and displays display data on key input data input from the key input unit 220 under the control of the controller 200, or displays an operation state and a plurality of information of the mobile communication terminal as icons and text. do. In addition, the display unit 210 allows the user to visually know the state in setting or driving a required function under the control of the controller 200. In addition, the display unit 210 displays a menu screen showing various functions and a menu screen configured according to the frequency of selection under the control of the controller 200. In addition, the key input unit 220 includes various keys including numeric keys to provide the control unit 200 with key input data input by the user. That is, the key input unit 220 outputs its own key input data according to the input of each key provided, and the key input data output from the key input unit 220 is applied to the control unit 200 so that such key input data is stored. It is detected that the key input data according to the key input, the control unit 200 performs the operation according to the result.

In addition, the memory unit 230 connected to the control unit 200 may include a read only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), and a voice for storing a plurality of programs and information necessary for controlling the operation of the mobile communication terminal. Memory, etc. The memory unit 230 stores a message processed by the controller 200 or a predetermined program for realizing user convenience and basic functions, and data provided to the mobile communication terminal. In addition, the memory unit 230 according to an embodiment of the present invention calculates the frequency of selection for each menu item under the control of the controller 200 and stores a program constituting a menu for each frequency of selection and data generated by the program. do.

As described above, the present invention includes a program for checking the frequency of selection for each menu item and maintaining the result. In addition, a menu configuration mode of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention is largely divided into a general menu mode and a shortcut menu mode. Here, the general menu mode refers to a conventional menu configuration method provided because the frequency of selection for each menu item cannot be checked at the initial use of the mobile communication terminal. Short menu mode, on the other hand, refers to a menu configuration method that allows all menus to be configured on one screen by using a menu list which is not frequently used as a single menu group. Such a shortcut menu mode may be set or released by the user through any key or an item for setting the function.

On the other hand, the menu configuration according to the present invention is composed of a general menu of the menu list that is frequently used by the user and a non-preferred menu among all the menus provided by the mobile communication terminal. In this case, a menu group that is not frequently used separately is referred to as 'non-preferred menu' for convenience of description. This menu configuration may be configured by counting the frequency of selection when the shortcut menu mode is set by the user. In addition, such a menu configuration may be basically provided by configuring the menus of the functions frequently used in the mobile terminal development stage in advance, and then composed of general menus and non-preferred menus that are frequently used according to priority.

As such, a menu consisting of menu items that are frequently used by the user together with a menu consisting of menu items that are not frequently used by the user can be listed and displayed on one screen. You can access the menu items you want more quickly.

Hereinafter, a method of configuring a menu of a mobile communication terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure will be described with reference to FIG. 5. 5 is a control flowchart for rearranging the menu configuration in order of the menu having the highest frequency of selection according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, in a state in which menu items are displayed on the screen, the controller 200 determines whether there is a key input for selecting one of the menu lists from the user in step 500. If there is a key input for selecting a menu, the controller 200 proceeds to step 510 and checks whether the list of groups to which the selected menu belongs is a predetermined number or more. In other words, the controller 200 determines whether the number of menu items to be displayed on the screen is out of the limited number that can be displayed on one screen. If the controller 200 determines that the number of menu items to be displayed on the screen is the number that can be displayed on one screen at a time, the controller 200 may display the screen without checking the frequency of selection separately.

Meanwhile, if the number of menu items to be displayed on the screen is greater than the limited number that can be displayed on one screen in step 510, the controller 200 proceeds to step 520 to check the frequency of selection for the selected menu. The frequency of selection is increased and stored in the memory unit 230. In operation 530, the controller 200 increases the total number of counts of the menu group to which the selected menu belongs. In operation 540, the controller 200 determines whether the total count is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold. The reason for checking the total number of counts of the menu group to which the selected menu belongs is that the number of times the user selects a predetermined number or more, that is, the threshold value, in order to rearrange the menu list in the menu group according to the priority. In particular, in rearranging the menu list of the menu group, the priority is determined according to the frequency of the user's selection for each menu item. That is, the higher the frequency of selection for each menu item, the higher the priority, and the rearrangement of the menu list is in order of priority.

As described above, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 550 when the total number of counts of the menu group to which the menu selected in step 540 belongs is equal to or greater than a threshold value capable of rearranging the list of the menu group. The control unit 200 rearranges the menu structure, that is, the menu list, of the group to which the menu selected by the user belongs in order of increasing selection frequency according to the selection frequency checked for each menu item in step 550. As described above, the frequency of selection increases for the menu selected more than once by the user. Therefore, for the selected menu, the control unit 200 increases the frequency of selection and stores and manages it in the memory unit 230. And this rearranges the menu list to limit the number of menus to avoid scrolling when there are too many menus to display on the screen at once. This is done by displaying on the screen.

Subsequently, in the menu configuration method of the mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, the display of the menu list when the shortcut menu mode is set will be described with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7. 6 is a control flowchart for displaying a menu according to a rearranged menu configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 7 illustrates an example of a screen displaying menus having a high frequency of selection when a shortcut menu mode is set according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

First, when the user selects a menu having a tree form step by step and uses the final submenu, the controller 200 determines whether there is a menu key input from the user in step 600. If there is a menu key input for displaying a menu item as a result of the determination, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 610 to check whether the shortcut menu mode is set by the user. If the shortcut menu mode is not set by the user as a result of the test, that is, if the current mode is the general menu mode, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 620 and proceeds to the general menu mode as shown in FIG. Displays the menu list according to. That is, when the number of menus that can be displayed at one time is too large according to the general menu mode, the controller 200 displays the menus that fall outside the range of the number of menus that can be displayed on the screen on the next screen.

On the other hand, when the shortcut menu mode is set by the user in step 610, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 630 to determine whether the rearranged menu configuration through the process shown in FIG. If the rearrangement of the menu configuration is not performed, the controller 200 displays a fixed menu having a conventional tree structure on the screen. On the other hand, when the menu configuration rearrangement is performed, the control unit 200 proceeds to step 640 to display the menu list in the order of the menus having the highest frequency of selection as shown in FIG. In operation 640, the controller 200 may group a menu that is out of the range of the number of menus that can be displayed on the screen, that is, the remaining menus that are not frequently used by the user, and are grouped together as shown in FIG. 7A. Displayed by menu 700.

As such, when the user inputs a menu key to select a desired menu, the controller 200 displays the non-preferred menu 700 on one screen together with the menu list sorted in the order of high frequency of selection. That is, when a user selects a desired function from the menu items as shown in FIG. 7A, the controller 200 sets a function corresponding to the selected menu and ends. Meanwhile, when a menu of a desired function is not displayed on the screen, when the user selects the non-preferred menu 700 in FIG. 7 (a), the control unit 200 shows the remaining menus that are not displayed on the screen in FIG. 7 (b). As indicated. In this case, the number of menus that can be displayed on the screen may be determined by the user input or the maximum number of menus that can be displayed on one screen set in advance in the mobile communication terminal.

As described above, in the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, when the number of menus to be displayed at one time in the shortcut menu mode is too large to display all the menus on one screen, the menus are displayed in the order of high frequency of selection. The remaining menus are displayed as one non-preferred menu on the screen together with the sorted menu list in turn. On the other hand, in another embodiment of the present invention by placing a non-preferred menu consisting of menus of functions that are not frequently used by the user, the user can arbitrarily add or delete detailed items of the non-preferred menu, thereby implementing a menu based on the user. Can be.

This menu configuration allows the user to avoid the hassle of scrolling to find a desired menu, and the navigation keys allow users to quickly select a menu that they frequently use without having to move through the menu screen.

As described above, the present invention configures a menu item that is not frequently used by the user as a non-preferred menu together with the main menu, and displays it on one screen so that the user can easily and quickly use the menu. There is an advantage to making it accessible. In addition, the menu configuration method of the present invention has the effect of improving the user's convenience by minimizing the steps that the user goes through for selecting a menu that has been used more than once.

Claims (6)

In the menu configuration method in a mobile communication terminal, Rearranging the menu list in order of high frequency of selection by calculating the frequency of selection for each menu item each time a user uses the menu; If there is a menu key input by the user, grouping out menus that are out of the range of the number of menus that can be displayed on one screen among sequentially rearranged menu lists according to the frequency of selection; And displaying, on the screen, a menu list rearranged in order of high selection frequency together with the non-preferred menu. The method of claim 1, wherein rearranging the menu list comprises: Determining whether the number of items of a menu group to which the selected menu belongs is a predetermined number or more each time the user uses a menu; Increasing the frequency of selection for the selected menu when more than the predetermined number; Increasing the total number of counts of the menu group to which the selected menu belongs; And rearranging the list of the menu group to which the selected menu belongs in order of increasing selection frequency if the total count number is greater than or equal to a threshold value. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether the shortcut menu mode is set by the user and proceeding to the menu list rearranging process when the shortcut menu mode is set. The submenu of claim 1, wherein And a menu arbitrarily selected by the user from the menu list. delete The method of claim 1, wherein the rearranged menu list And rearranging the most recently used order for each of the menu items except the lower menu of the non-preferred menu as a priority.

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