KR100656344B1 - Method for notifying arrived calls and messages while running application program on communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for handling incoming calls or messages, which enables a smooth application of a running application without interruption of incoming calls when a call or a message is received while driving an application program embedded in a communication terminal.

An incoming call processing method disclosed in the present specification includes: (a) determining an incoming call notification mode of a terminal when a call or a text message is received by a communication terminal running an application program; (b) when the mode is 'always notification', informing the incoming call by displaying a call reception or a message reception on the entire screen of the terminal; (c) if the mode is 'always do not notify', storing the contents of the call or message without notifying the incoming call; And (d) when the mode is 'selection notification', informing the incoming call according to the option related to the 'selection notification' of the application to achieve the object and technical problem of the present invention.

Description

Method for notifying arrived calls and messages while running application program on communication terminal}

1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a setting menu screen for setting a call or message incoming notification mode of a communication terminal according to the present invention.

2 is a view showing the flow of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a process of notifying a user of contents of an incoming communication or a message stored in a memory when the incoming notification mode is not always informed and then switched to selection notification or always notification.

The present invention relates to a method for notifying an incoming call or a message in a communication terminal, and more particularly, an application program that is running without interruption by an incoming call when an incoming call or message occurs while driving an application program embedded in the terminal. The present invention relates to a method of notifying an incoming call or message that facilitates the use of.

Since the basic functions of mobile phones, which have been developed and released to date, are voice calls and message transmission and reception, stable operation of incoming or outgoing calls and message notifications under any circumstances is an important factor in evaluating the performance of mobile phones. Even nowadays, when the additional functions of the mobile phone are diversified, calls or messages that are received while using the application, regardless of the type of application on the mobile phone, are unconditionally notified of incoming calls and messages. It is displayed on the page to handle the notification.

On the other hand, in smartphones combined with a PDA and a mobile phone, or in recent mobile phones with various multimedia functions, voice calls and message transmission / receiving functions themselves are not the main functions of the terminal. It is becoming a degree that can be recognized as some functions. For example, it includes everything from simple editor functions to voice recording, cameras, camcorders, and MP3 players. In situations where a smartphone is using a function such as a camcorder or a voice recording that needs to be guaranteed in real time, an unwanted call or a message may cause a great inconvenience to the user.

From this point of view, unlike the case where some additional functions are added to existing mobile phones, various terminal usage scenarios can be applied to smart phones and modern multimedia mobile phones, and to use other functions than the phone functions. In the context of running the application, a new method for the method itself of receiving an incoming call at any moment and notifying the user itself should be studied and applied.

Although the method of completely rejecting or selectively allowing an incoming call has been proposed, only a specific number blocking and allowance is dealt with separately from the usage scenarios on the terminal described above. On the functional side, the ability to allow selective call rejection or selective call admission can be supported by the mobile operator through the mobile network, or through the terminal's own processing to determine whether to allow calls or messages to be received. It can only support blocking and allowing, but also requires the user to edit and save.

In addition, this method is inconvenient to implement a function called blocking all calls and messages or blocking notifications while maintaining the power of the terminal. In addition, in terms of the user's terminal use, only the functional aspects such as blocking and allowing specific numbers have been implemented, and the smartphone that integrates various functions because it is an incoming call without considering the terminal usage situation of the user using the actual terminal. In terms of the need for an improved incoming call processing method is gradually increasing.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems and to meet the above necessity, and an object of the present invention and the technical problem to be achieved is to handle incoming calls or messages received while driving an application program embedded in a communication terminal. The present invention provides a method of informing a call or a message reception in a communication terminal in which an application program is running, which can guarantee the smooth running (use) of an application program.

In order to achieve the above object and technical problem, a method of notifying an incoming call or a message in a communication terminal running an application disclosed in the present specification is

(a) determining an incoming call notification mode of the terminal when a call or a text message is received by a communication terminal running an application program;

(b) when the mode is 'always notification', informing the incoming call by displaying a call reception or a message reception on the entire screen of the terminal;

(c) if the mode is 'always do not notify', storing the contents of the call or message without notifying the incoming call; And

(d) when the mode is 'selection notification', informing the incoming call according to the option related to the 'selection notification' of the application to achieve the object and technical problem of the present invention, and (e) the If the mode is changed from always not notification to always notification, further comprising the step of informing the user of the stored content to achieve the object and technical problem of the present invention.

The step (b) is preferably implemented by stopping the application program to achieve the object and technical problem of the present invention.

Step (d) may include: (d1) determining whether the application program is a program to which the selection notification mode is applied; (d2) in the case of an applied program, notifying an incoming call or a message to a part of the terminal screen; And (d3), if not set, including the step of notifying the incoming call or the message of the entire terminal screen is implemented to achieve the object and technical problem of the present invention.

In the step (d2), it is preferable to maintain the driving state of the application program in order to achieve the object and technical problem of the present invention.

The step (d3) is preferably implemented by stopping the driving of the application program in order to achieve the object and technical problem of the present invention.

Hereinafter, in order to clarify the technical spirit of the present invention, the configuration and operation thereof will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings based on the embodiments of the present invention. Although the same reference numerals have been given even in different drawings, it will be appreciated that components of other drawings may be cited when necessary in describing the drawings.

1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a setting menu screen for setting a call or message incoming notification mode of a communication terminal according to the present invention.

The communication terminal to which the present invention can be applied includes a program having a setting menu for setting an incoming notification mode and a menu for setting an application to which the selective notification is to be applied in the selective notification setting. It includes a function that shows the icon of the current incoming call notification mode. Prior to the incoming call processing, the user selects an application using the incoming call notification mode and the incoming call notification mode through this program. At this time, the communication terminal may include all kinds of communication terminals, including a simple mobile phone, a smart phone.

As shown in Fig. 1, the incoming notification setting menu can set the incoming notification mode, and always select one of the notification mode, the selected notification mode, and always do not notify mode, when the call or message is received in the terminal Regardless of the type of application being run, notification will be triggered according to this mode setting.

1 is a menu for setting a selection notification option of an application when the incoming notification mode is set as the selection notification mode, and is a menu for determining which application to apply the selection notification to. This menu allows you to set optional notification options for the application. In addition, the option 'Display format when selecting notification' is also selected whether the call or message call indication to be displayed in the status bar of the smartphone system due to the application of the selection notification in the actual operation is based on text or icon. Is provided.

If a call or a message is received when using a program registered as a program to which the selection notification is to be applied, the reception status is briefly displayed as a text or an icon in the status bar on a part of the screen of the terminal (for example, in the form of a text caller). Information such as an ID can be displayed). If an application program other than the registered application program is in use, the operation is always the same as when the notification mode is set. Detailed operation will be described later.

2 is a view showing the flow of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

First, when a call or a message is received (S21), it is determined whether the current incoming notification mode is set to 'always notification' (S22). The term 'call' mainly refers to a voice call but includes all types of calls such as a video call. When the call notification mode is set to 'always notification', the call or message is displayed on the full screen of the terminal to notify the call (S26). At this time, in the notification of the call can be terminated or stopped (S25) and informs the currently running program. However, it can be informed without terminating or stopping, and how to implement it is optional. However, in the case of setting the notification through the 'full screen' and always the notification, it is preferable to terminate or stop the running application in consideration of the aspect that the user mainly gives priority to the 'incoming'.

If the incoming notification mode is not set to 'always notification', it is determined whether the incoming notification mode is set to 'not always notify' (S23). If it is set as 'not always notify', the contents of the received call and message are stored in the memory of the terminal (S27), and the notification is not received. In addition, the currently running application program is kept in the running state and the application program continues to run.

If the incoming notification mode is not set to 'not always notify', check the option related to the 'selection notification' and notify the incoming according to the option (S24). At this time, the option can be set through the menu shown in FIG. First, it is determined whether the incoming notification mode is set to 'selection notification' (S241). If the call notification mode is not 'selective notification', the contents of the received call and message are stored in the memory of the terminal (S27), and if it is set to 'selective notification', the currently running application is selected. Check whether the program is registered as a target (S242).

When the running application is a 'selection notification' target, the incoming program is notified to a part of the screen of the terminal while maintaining the state of the foreground program, that is, while maintaining the driving state (S243). At the location of the status bar, the processing is simply displayed in the form of text or icon. If the application is not a "selection notification" target is always the same process as the notification process (S25 to S26).

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of notifying a user of contents of an incoming communication or a message stored in a memory when the incoming notification mode is changed from 'not always informed' to 'selective notification' or 'always notification'.

After changing the incoming notification mode (S31), the memory of the terminal is examined to determine whether there is stored call or message incoming information (S32). Next, it is determined that the stored information is the incoming call information (S33), if the incoming call information is confirmed (S34) to process the call list with the missed call screen display (S35). If the stored information is message incoming information as a result of the determination in step S33, the stored message information is checked (S36) and the message incoming indication is displayed (S37).

The invention can also be embodied as computer readable code on a computer readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording devices in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored.

Examples of computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage, and the like, which are also implemented in the form of a carrier wave (for example, transmission over the Internet). It also includes. The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion.

So far I looked at the center of the preferred embodiment for the present invention. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention can be implemented in a modified form without departing from the essential features of the present invention.

Therefore, the disclosed embodiments should be considered in descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation. The scope of the present invention is shown in the claims rather than the foregoing description, and all differences within the equivalent scope will be construed as being included in the present invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, notification processing for an incoming call or message while using various application programs built in the communication terminal is performed in various ways according to the mode setting, and according to the user's terminal usage scenario, The advantage is that you can continue to use certain applications without being interrupted by incoming calls or messages at the moment.

A representative example to which these advantages can be applied is when using a camcorder function implemented in a smartphone. Camcorder functions built into recent smartphones and newer mobile phones have the same performance as dedicated devices, so you can use your smartphone to make important recordings.

In such a situation, the disturbance of the camcorder shooting due to a call or a message reception that may occur due to the combination of the mobile phone function may be rather inconvenient in utilizing the camcorder function. If you apply the off method, it is not a good solution because the call or message coming from the CDMA module is turned off.

The present invention, in particular, when using an application that requires real-time processing, such as the above-described camcorder, proposes a method of not missing the contents of the incoming call or message while eliminating the problem of using the program due to incoming call or message Doing.

Claims (6)

(a) determining an incoming call notification mode of the terminal when a call or a text message is received by a communication terminal running an application program; (b) when the mode is 'always notification', informing the incoming call by displaying a call reception or a message reception on the entire screen of the terminal; (c) if the mode is 'always do not notify', storing the contents of the call or message without notifying the incoming call; And (d) when the mode is a 'selection notification', notifying the incoming call according to the option related to the 'selection notification' of the application. To announce your call. The method of claim 1, (e) when the mode is changed from 'not always notified' to 'always notifying', further comprising informing the user of the stored contents; receiving a call or a message from a communication terminal running an application. How to tell. The method of claim 1, The step (b) is implemented after stopping or terminating the running application program, characterized in that the communication terminal running the application program to notify the incoming call or message. The method of claim 1, wherein step (d) (d1) determining whether the application program is a program to which the 'selection notification' mode is applied; (d2) in the case of an applied program, notifying an incoming call or a message to a part of the terminal screen; And and (d3) if the program is not applied, informing the incoming call or message of the call or message on the entire terminal screen. The method of claim 4, wherein In the step (d2) it is implemented while maintaining the driving state of the application program. The method of claim 4, wherein The step (d3) is implemented after stopping or terminating the driving of the application program, characterized in that the communication terminal running the application program to notify the incoming call or message.

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