KR100725048B1 - Method of displaying information window on standby picture of mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for displaying an information window in an idle screen image of a mobile communication terminal is provided to supply a service according to user's demand by displaying various information through the information window set in a portion of the idle screen image on which user's eyes are focused. At least one content is transmitted to a mobile terminal from a service server. The mobile terminal receives and stores the content(ST20). The idle screen image of the mobile terminal is started(ST30). The mobile terminal divides the idle screen image into a part edited by a user and an information window. The mobile terminal displays a picture or an image selected by the user on the part edited by the user, and displays the stored content on the information window. A new content is received from the server so that the stored content is updated to the new content. The updated content is displayed on the information window.

Description

Method of displaying information window on standby picture of mobile terminal}

1 is a diagram illustrating a system for displaying contents on a standby screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying content on an idle screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 and 4 illustrate various methods of displaying various contents in an information window of an idle screen.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of drawings *

10: mobile terminal 20: mobile communication network

30: service server 40: Internet network

50: content providing server 52: web server

54: Content DB

The present invention relates to a standby screen of a mobile terminal, and more particularly, to a method of sequentially displaying various types of information through an information window displayed on a portion of the standby screen.

Cellular mobile communications, which originated from the analog-type Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS), commonly referred to as the first generation, are the second generation that provide digital traffic channels to overcome the available limitations of rapid mass adoption and to ensure higher data rates and signal quality. Evolved into mobile communications.

Recently, PCS (Personal Communication Services), which is referred to as 2.5G mobile communication with enhanced multimedia services by using the CDMA method and the frequency of 1.8GHz band, which is twice as high as the existing method, is commercially available.

With the rapid development of mobile communication technology, each mobile service provider develops a new value-added service or a more convenient user interface to meet various user's preferences and desires in order to gain an advantage in subscriber competition and create new revenue sources. It invests a lot of time and manpower to provide.

The present invention relates to a standby screen displayed through a liquid crystal panel when the mobile terminal is not used. Generally, when a folder of a mobile terminal is opened or a slide is up, a standby screen displaying basic information such as date and time and a predetermined image or photo is displayed.

The user enters the next step by operating the keypad in such a standby screen, making a call, writing and sending a text message, and accessing the wireless Internet.

However, since the user can arbitrarily select an image, a photo, or a color, such a standby screen may be said to be the part where the user's taste or preference is most reflected in the mobile terminal.

In addition, the standby screen is in a state in which the user is on the verge of performing a function such as voice call, text message writing, and wireless internet connection.

Therefore, if the information required by the user is displayed on the standby screen, the user can easily recognize the value of utilization in terms of information transmission.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in this background, and an object of the present invention is to enhance user's convenience by providing various information that meets a user's needs through a standby screen of a mobile terminal.

The present invention comprises the steps of transmitting at least one content from the service server to the mobile terminal to achieve the above object; Receiving and storing the content at the mobile terminal; Driving a standby screen of the mobile terminal; A method of displaying an information window on a standby screen of a mobile terminal, the method comprising: setting an information window on a portion of the standby screen, and sequentially displaying the stored content on the information window.

In this case, the transmitting of the one or more contents from the service server to the mobile terminal includes transmitting the updated contents, and when the mobile terminal receives the updated contents, updating the already stored contents with the updated contents. It features.

The transmitting of the updated content from the service server to the mobile terminal may be automatically performed when the content stored in the DB of the service server is updated, or may be periodically performed at a predetermined time interval.

The transmitting of the updated content from the service server to the mobile terminal may include transmitting a content update request signal from the mobile terminal to the service server; And transmitting the updated content to the mobile terminal after receiving the request signal from the service server.

In this case, the step of transmitting a content update request signal from the mobile terminal to the service server may be automatically performed when a folder of the mobile terminal is opened or a slide is up.

Hereinafter, with reference to the drawings will be described a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1 schematically shows a system for displaying an information window on a standby screen of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The system includes a mobile terminal 10, a service server 30 of a mobile communication service provider communicating with the mobile terminal 10 via the mobile communication network 20, and additionally the service server 30 and the Internet network ( 40 may further include a content providing server 50 connected through, in this case, the content providing server 50 includes a web server 52 and a content DB 54 for providing a web page.

The mobile terminal 10 is meant to include all electronic devices having mobile communication functions such as cellular phones, PCS phones, DMB phones, PDAs, and handheld PCs. In particular, the mobile terminal 10 is preferably equipped with a program that can use the wireless Internet, such as WAP browser in case of connecting to the service server 30 through the wireless Internet.

The mobile communication network 30 refers to a communication network that transmits a voice signal or a data signal including a base station transmitter (BTS), a base station controller (BSC), a mobile switching center (MSC), and the like. .

Here, the base station transmitter is a network terminal device connected to the mobile terminal 20 through a wireless channel, and the base station controller is a control of the transmission output of the mobile terminal 20 and the base station transmitter, inter-cell handoff determination, and wireless for the mobile terminal 20. It performs functions such as channel assignment and release. In addition, the mobile switching center handles incoming / outgoing call processing of subscribers, handoff procedure processing, interworking with other networks, and the like.

The service server 30 transmits the content to be displayed on the idle screen to the mobile terminal 10, and transmits a predetermined WAP page to the user accessing the service server 30.

In order for the service server 30 of the Internet environment to communicate with the mobile communication network 20, a WAP gateway must be installed in the middle, and the WAP gateway has a wireless Internet language, such as HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language) or WML (Wireless Markup Language). It converts HTML, the Internet language.

The service server 30 preferably includes a DB for storing contents to be transmitted to the mobile terminal 10, but from the content providing server 50 installed in an external institution such as a securities company or a broadcasting station in order to provide more various contents, the Internet is provided. It is also preferable to receive and store predetermined content through the network 40 and then transmit it to the mobile terminal 10.

In this case, the content providing server 50 should include a content DB 54 and a web server 52 which converts the content stored in the content DB 54 into a web page format and provides it to the service server 30. .

According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the content displayed in the information window of the mobile terminal 10 is preferably information that varies with time such as stock information, weather information, athletic game information, etc., but is not necessarily limited thereto.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 which is a flowchart.

First, the user should access or access the service server 30 through the mobile terminal 10 and select or add content to be displayed on the standby screen of his mobile terminal 10.

At this time, access to the service server 30 is allowed only for the user who applied for the service according to the embodiment of the present invention, and in case the non-applicant accesses, it is preferable to provide a WAP page for a predetermined application procedure.

The selection or addition process of the content is also made through the WAP page provided from the service server 30 to the mobile terminal 10, and the default content is provided to the mobile terminal 10 in a state where the user does not go through such selection or addition procedure. do. (ST 10)

The service server 30 transmits the content stored in its own DB to the mobile terminal 10 or receives a predetermined content from an external content providing server 50 and stores it in its own DB and transmits it to the mobile terminal 10. .

The service server 30 may provide the user-selected content or the default content only once, but the content that varies with time such as weather information, stock information, athletic game information, etc. may be updated continuously in its own DB. If it is made it should be sent back to the mobile terminal (10).

The method of transmitting the updated content from the service server 30 to the mobile terminal 10 may be divided into a push method and a pull method.

The push method is a method in which the service server 30 transmits the content to the mobile terminal 10 according to a predetermined condition, which is again periodically transmitted at a predetermined time interval and new contents in the DB of the service server 30. When updated, the updated content may be classified into a method of automatically transmitting updated content to the mobile terminal 10.

On the contrary, when the mobile terminal 10 transmits an update request signal to the service server 30, the service server 30 transmits the updated content in response thereto.

In this case, since it is inconvenient for the user to operate the mobile terminal 10 one by one and transmit the update request signal to the service server 30, the user is automatically operated at a predetermined interval or when a specific operation is applied to the mobile terminal 10. It is easy to send the content update request signal to the service server (30).

In the latter case, for example, when the folder of the mobile terminal 10 is opened or the slide is up, the content update request signal is automatically transmitted from the mobile terminal 10 to the service server 30. It is easy not to apply a separate operation.

The route for transmitting the content or updated content from the service server 30 to the mobile terminal 20 is preferably a wireless Internet service via the WAP gateway, but depending on the type of content, a short message service (SMS) or a multimedia message service (MMS) routes can also be used.

The mobile terminal 10 stores the content received from the service server 30 in its own memory and then updates the stored content with the updated content when the updated content is received for the same item. (ST 20)

As described above, if a standby screen is driven by a user opening a folder or up a slide while a predetermined content is stored in the memory of the mobile terminal 10, the idle screen of the mobile terminal 10 is stored in the idle screen. The contents of are sequentially displayed automatically.

On the other hand, since the standby screen is often edited by the user with a particular picture, image, color, etc. according to his or her taste, the contents are displayed only through the information window after setting the information window at a predetermined position that is separated from the user edited part. desirable.

Therefore, the user edited portion reflecting the user's preferences and the information window displaying the contents are simultaneously displayed on the standby screen of the mobile terminal 10.

3 illustrates the configuration of the standby screen of the mobile terminal 10, and shows a state in which the stock information, the weather information, the athletic competition information, etc. are sequentially displayed through the information window set on the upper portion of the standby screen. The lower part of the information window is a user edited portion, in which a photo or an image selected by the user can be displayed.

Figure 4 shows another way of displaying a plurality of content in the information window, as time goes by previous information (for example, securities information) is up and other information (for example, athletics information) gradually from the bottom up It shows the process shown. (ST 30) (ST 40)

If the user wants to know detailed information about the specific content among the displayed contents while the predetermined content is being displayed through the information window, the user accesses the service server 30 using the specific menu or the hot key. At this time, the connection method is preferably wireless Internet, but a short message transmission route may be used. (ST 50) (ST 60)

When the service server 30 receives the detailed information request signal from the mobile terminal 10, the service server 30 searches for detailed information of the corresponding content in its own DB or receives detailed information from the content providing server 50 and converts the WAP page into a WAP page format. The mobile terminal 10 transmits the received WAP page through the liquid crystal panel so that the user can check the detailed information of the corresponding content.

In this case, since the amount of data is too large to be displayed in the aforementioned information window, it is preferable to display the detailed information through the entire liquid crystal panel. After the user confirms the detailed information, the user returns to the original standby screen mode by operating the keypad. (ST 70)

On the other hand, while the predetermined content is displayed through the information window, when the user presses the call button or text message related menu of the mobile terminal 10, the information window is terminated when the standby screen state is terminated.

The same applies to the case where the folder of the mobile terminal 10 is closed or the slide is down, so that the standby screen is turned off. (ST 80)

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a service that meets the needs of the user by displaying various information required by the user through an information window set on a part of the standby screen where the user's eyes are concentrated.

In addition, by using only a part of the standby screen as an information window, the background or color of the standby screen reflecting the user's preference can be utilized.

Claims (9)

A first step of transmitting one or more contents from the service server to the mobile terminal; A second step of receiving and storing the content at the mobile terminal; Driving a standby screen of the mobile terminal; A fourth step of dividing the idle screen into a user edited portion and an information window, displaying a picture or image selected by the user on the user edited portion, and displaying the stored content on the information window; A fifth step of receiving update content for updating the content stored in the mobile terminal from the service server and updating the already stored content; A sixth step of displaying the updated contents in the information window; How to display the information window on the standby screen of the mobile terminal comprising a The method of claim 1, In the fourth step, when the content is displayed on the information window, a plurality of contents are sequentially displayed, wherein the information window is displayed on the standby screen of the mobile terminal. The method of claim 1, Receiving the update content from the service server in the fifth step, characterized in that the service server automatically transmits the update content to the mobile terminal when the content stored in the DB of the service server is updated. How to display the information window on the standby screen of the terminal The method of claim 1, Receiving the update content from the service server in the fifth step, the method for displaying the information window on the standby screen of the mobile terminal, characterized in that is made periodically at a predetermined time interval in the service server The method of claim 1, Receiving the update content from the service server in the fifth step, Transmitting, by the mobile terminal, a content update request signal to the service server; Transmitting the update content to the mobile terminal after receiving the request signal from the service server; How to display the information window on the standby screen of the mobile terminal comprising a The method of claim 5, The step of transmitting a content update request signal from the mobile terminal to the service server is performed automatically when the folder of the mobile terminal is opened or the slide is up (up). How to The method of claim 1, After the fourth step, Transmitting a detailed information request signal for the content displayed on the information window to the service server when a specific menu is selected or a hot key is input in the mobile terminal; Transmitting detailed information of the contents to the mobile terminal after the service server receives the request signal; Displaying the detailed information in the mobile terminal through the entire standby screen; How to display the information window on the standby screen of the mobile terminal, characterized in that it further comprises The method of claim 7, wherein After the step of displaying the detailed information through the entire standby screen in the mobile terminal, when a user operation signal is input to the mobile terminal, the screen of the mobile terminal is divided into the user edit section and the information window. How to display the information window on the standby screen of the mobile terminal, characterized in that restored The method of claim 7, wherein The service server displays the information window on the standby screen of the mobile terminal, characterized in that for transmitting the detailed information to the mobile terminal in the form of a WAP page.

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