KR100817811B1 - Method for providing personallized menu of a mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for configuring customized menus in a mobile terminal is provided to enable a user to easily access frequently used menus by displaying menu items in the order of frequency in use of supplemental service menus. If the user of a mobile terminal selects a specific menu, the mobile terminal displays a main menu item list for supplemental service menus, a submenu item list for a specific main menu, and detailed menu items for a specific submenu item in sequence(S1). If it is required to apply initial hiding menus, the mobile terminal menu displays menus and detailed menu items except the initial hiding menus(S2,S3). If the user sequentially selects a specific main menu, a submenu item, and a detailed menu item(S4). the mobile terminal calculates how frequently each menu item has been selected and used(S5). Then the mobile terminal compares the frequency ratio of each menu item with a lower limit value(S6). If the frequency ratio of an arbitrary menu item is lower than the lower limit value, the mobile terminal sets an automatic hiding function for the arbitrary menu item so as not to be displayed on the screen(S7,S8). In case that the frequency ratio of an arbitrary menu item is higher than an upper limit value, the mobile terminal sets a shortcut function for the arbitrary menu item so that the arbitrary menu item can be directly executed at its main menu(S9,S10).

Description

How to configure customized menu of mobile terminal {METHOD FOR PROVIDING PERSONALLIZED MENU OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL}

1 illustrates the appearance of a mobile communication terminal to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

2 is a flow chart of a user-customizable menu configuration method of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a screen displaying a basic menu of an electronic organizer among additional service menus of a mobile communication terminal.

4 is a screen displaying a menu of an electronic organizer of a user A to which a user-customized menu configuration method of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

5 is a screen displaying a menu of an electronic notebook of a user B to which a user-customized menu configuration method of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a method of constructing a user-customized menu of a mobile communication terminal to output only a menu item having a large number of user accesses according to a frequency of use.

The mobile phone is a mobile phone which is connected to the other party at any time and anywhere while communicating within a service area of a registered and registered mobile communication system. The mobile phone is convenient to carry and various additional service functions are added.

Various additional service functions added to the mobile communication terminal include Internet access function, game download and play, video download and watch, video communication, music file download and play, text communication, phone book record management, memo function, etc. It is very diverse, and more and more kinds of additional services are developed and provided in the future.

In order to select and execute one of various types of supplementary services with a limited number of key buttons, the mobile terminal divides each of the selectable supplementary services by a specific group, and classifies each classified group as a corresponding menu. When each menu is selected, the sub item is displayed and selected.

The menu configuration method of the mobile communication terminal of the prior art is arranged in order from the frequent use of the additional service menu disclosed in Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2004-0093234 ("Dynamic menu configuration device and selection method of a mobile terminal") and dynamically reconfigured and displayed. There is a way.

The above-described method may provide a supplementary service menu sequentially arranged according to user habits by reconfiguring and storing the sequentially arranged menus by counting the number of menu selections.

As various functions are implemented in the mobile communication terminal, the length of the menu list is also increasing. Therefore, the above-described method is effective in the case of a menu having few sub-items, but in the case of a menu having many sub-items, all of the sub-items of the menu should be sequentially displayed on the screen of the terminal. There is a problem in that the remaining items must be displayed on the page, and as a result, the screen cannot be used efficiently.

In addition, the above-described method is cumbersome because the user must execute the sub-menu from the additional service menu to the main menu, the sub-menu item, and the sub-item through various steps.

The menu configuration method of the conventional mobile communication terminal is displayed as the function of the mobile communication terminal disclosed in Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2004-0081512 ("Method for controlling a menu or a recent call list using a hidden function in a wireless communication terminal") is increased. There is a menu control method for selectively displaying a menu by setting a hidden mode when the number of menus increases.

The above method is to selectively display only the preset menus by setting the hidden mode regardless of the frequency of use by the user, even though the menu frequently used by the user is different. Therefore, when the number of menus displayed on the mobile communication terminal is large, the use of the mobile communication terminal rarely uses the menus that are frequently used by various users such as teenagers, twenties, men, women, students, and workers. Even though the menus are divided, there is a problem that cannot be reflected.

That is, the mobile communication terminal is insufficient to provide a personalized menu display service.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method of constructing a user-customized menu of a mobile communication terminal which records a user's access to a menu and outputs only a menu having a high frequency of use.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for configuring a user-customized menu of a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising: a) sequentially listing menu items according to user selection for an additional service menu in a mobile communication terminal; And counting the number of times of selection of the menu item selected by the user, b) calculating a frequency of use for each menu item based on the number of times of counting the number of selected menu items, and lowering a threshold value based on the frequency of use. And c) setting a hiding function of the menu item whose frequency ratio is lower than or equal to the lower limit threshold, and setting the priority of the menu items that are higher than or equal to the lower limit threshold and setting the priority based on the usage frequency ratio. And displaying the screen by rank.

In the method for constructing a user-customized menu of the mobile communication terminal, step b) further includes setting an upper limit threshold based on the use frequency rate, and step c) includes a menu in which the use frequency rate is equal to or higher than an upper limit threshold value. The item may further include setting a shortcut to a main menu according to a user's selection.

The method for configuring a user-customized menu of the mobile communication terminal may further include the step d) of displaying the remaining menu items on the screen in order of priority except for the menu item in which the hidden function is applied by the user applying the step c). Can be.

In step d), selecting the lower (▽) key from the navigation keys on the screen to which the hiding function is applied will display the items to which the hiding function is applied, or select the lower (▽) key from the side keys. In this case, at least one method of displaying the items to which the hiding function is applied may be used.

The method for configuring a user-customized menu of the mobile communication terminal may update the use frequency rate of the additional service menu for a predetermined use time according to the actual use of the user, thereby displaying the display state for each menu item corresponding to the updated use frequency rate. The method may further include the step e) of updating.

The method for configuring a user-customized menu of the mobile communication terminal updates the display status for each menu item according to the updated usage frequency rate by updating the usage frequency rate for the additional service menu whenever the user selects a specific menu. e) may further comprise the step.

In step a), the first hidden menu may be set by referring to the frequency of use of statistical menu items for each user, and the menu items except the first hidden menu may be displayed, and the first hidden menu may be used for actual use of the user. Accordingly, the first hidden menu may be updated by counting a personalized use frequency for a predetermined use time.

The step a) maintains the initial hidden menu display without applying the update of the initial hidden menu when the frequency of use of the specific menu is less than a predetermined threshold during the predetermined usage time, and maintains the initial hidden menu display during the predetermined usage time. When the frequency of use is greater than a predetermined threshold, the initial hidden menu may be updated to apply the updated initial hidden menu to the display.

Steps b) and c) may adjust a threshold value of a usage frequency rate and a hidden function option in a usage environment setting menu of the additional service menu before the update is performed.

As the invention allows for various changes and numerous embodiments, particular embodiments will be illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the written description. However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to specific embodiments, it should be understood to include all modifications, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention. In describing the drawings, similar reference numerals are used for similar elements.

Terms such as first and second may be used to describe various components, but the components should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another. For example, without departing from the scope of the present invention, the first component may be referred to as the second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as the first component. The term and / or includes a combination of a plurality of related items or any item of a plurality of related items.

When a component is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" to another component, it may be directly connected to or connected to that other component, but it may be understood that other components may be present in between. Should be. On the other hand, when a component is said to be "directly connected" or "directly connected" to another component, it should be understood that there is no other component in between.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. In this application, the terms "comprise" or "have" are intended to indicate that there is a feature, number, step, operation, component, part, or combination thereof described in the specification, and one or more other features. It is to be understood that the present invention does not exclude the possibility of the presence or the addition of numbers, steps, operations, components, components, or a combination thereof.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art. Terms such as those defined in the commonly used dictionaries should be construed as having meanings consistent with the meanings in the context of the related art, and are not construed in ideal or excessively formal meanings unless expressly defined in this application. Do not.

The present invention can be embodied as computer readable codes 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 device, and the like, and 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.

In describing the drawings, similar reference numerals are used for similar components.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, it will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, the same reference numerals are used for the same components in the drawings, and duplicate descriptions of the same components are omitted.

1 illustrates the appearance of a mobile communication terminal to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

Referring to Figure 1, the mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided with a keypad assembly consisting of a plurality of keys on the main body (10). The keypad assembly may be composed of a plurality of numeric / letter keys 20 at the bottom and predetermined navigation keys 30 at the top. In the mobile communication terminal, a menu search key for searching an additional service menu may be separately installed on the left or right side of the navigation keys 30.

The navigation keys 30 may be composed of up (▲), down (▼), left (◀) and right (▶) keys. On the lower side of the keypad assembly, a microphone device, which is a transmitter for inputting voice by a terminal during a call, is installed. On the left side of the main body 10, a side key 40 composed of an upper (▲) and a lower (▼) key is provided.

The mobile communication terminal is provided with a display device 50, the display device 50 is coupled to the LCD (LCD) module, a speakerphone device that is a receiver for outputting the other party's voice during the call is installed on the top.

In the mobile communication terminal configured as described above, the user selects a desired additional service menu by sequentially searching from the first item of the main menu using the menu search key, the navigation key 30, and the side key 40.

2 is a flow chart of a user-customizable menu configuration method of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, in the method for configuring a user-customized menu of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, when a specific menu is selected using a user's menu search key, navigation key, or side key, A list of main menu items of the additional service menu is sequentially displayed, and a list of sub menu items for the specific main menu and detailed menu items of the specific sub menu items are displayed (step S1).

For example, the mobile communication terminal has Internet access, screen control, sound control such as ring tone, message, camera, MP3, additional function control such as file transfer, phone book, electronic organizer, contents storage box, usage environment setting, etc. There is a service menu.

For example, when the user presses the menu search key, the above main menu item list is displayed on one screen, and the navigation menu or the side key moves the menu cursor up and down to press a specific main menu to display the lower menu item list. If a specific sub menu item is selected, the corresponding detailed menu items are displayed.

Alternatively, when the user presses the menu search key, the main menu items are arranged in a certain order so that the main menu at position 1 and the corresponding submenu item items are displayed at once, and the menu cursor is moved to a specific submenu item item of the submenu items. When selected, the corresponding detailed menu items may be displayed on the screen.

3 is a screen displaying a basic menu of an electronic organizer among additional service menus of a mobile communication terminal, and FIG. 4 is a menu of an electronic organizer of user A to which a user-customized menu configuration method of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied. FIG. 5 is a screen displaying a menu of an electronic notebook of a user B to which a user-customized menu configuration method of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

As shown in FIG. 3, when the user selects the organizer menu 100 from the list of main menu items of the supplementary service, the mobile communication terminal selects the organizer menu, the submenu item list, and the detailed menu item lists of the specific submenu item. Display sequentially.

The lower menu item list 200 of the electronic notebook includes items such as a wake-up call / alarm, schedule management, a timetable, a notepad, an electronic calculator, a Korean / English dictionary, a unit conversion, a world time check, and a stopwatch.

Among the lower menu items of the electronic notebook, in the case of the Korean-English / English-Korean dictionary, the detailed menu item 300 includes items such as a word search, a recent search word, a wordbook, and a word quiz.

In this case, the first hidden menu may be set by referring to the frequency of use of statistical menus for various users such as age, gender, and occupation of the user. When the first hidden menu is applied, the mobile terminal displays menus and detailed menu items except for the first hidden menu (steps S2 and S3).

The first hidden menu updates the first hidden menu by counting the personalized use frequency for a predetermined use time according to the actual use of the user. In this case, when the frequency of use of a particular menu is less than the predetermined threshold for a predetermined time of use, the update of the first hidden menu is not applied and the initial hidden menu is maintained, and the frequency of use of the specific menu is greater than the predetermined threshold for a predetermined time of use. The first hidden menu is updated on the screen to apply the updated first hidden menu to the display.

When the user sequentially selects a specific main menu, a lower menu item, and a detailed menu item, the mobile terminal calculates the frequency of use by counting the number of selections of the menu item. (Step S4 and step S5).

The mobile terminal has a lower limit threshold and an upper limit threshold of a frequency of use for setting a menu item to be displayed on the screen. The upper limit threshold and the lower limit threshold may use default values in the mobile terminal. The user may arbitrarily set in consideration of the screen size of the mobile communication terminal or the text or image displayed on the screen.

The mobile terminal compares the usage rate calculated for each menu and detailed menu item with the lower limit threshold so that only the detailed menu items whose usage rate is greater than or equal to the lower limit threshold are displayed on the screen. Set the auto hide function so that the menu item is not displayed on the screen (steps S6 and S7).

In this case, the sub-menu item or the detailed menu item whose usage rate is higher than the upper threshold is determined to be the sub-menu item or the detailed menu item that the user frequently uses during the actual use period. Allows to execute the sub menu item or the detailed menu item immediately (steps S9 and S10).

For example, if the user selects the word search item, which is a detailed menu item of the Korean-English / English-Korean dictionary item, 32 times in three days from the list of submenu items of the organizer menu, the mobile terminal is executed more than 10 times a day. The word search item is moved to the main menu to eliminate the hassle of running through (electronic notebook) → submenu items (Korean-English / English-Korean dictionary) → detail items (word search).

In this case, when the user presses the menu search key, the word search item is displayed along with the other main menus, so that the user can immediately select and execute the word search item.

In this case, the item to which the shortcut is applied to the main menu may be canceled when the usage frequency drops below the upper threshold, and the shortcut of the main menu may be applied / canceled according to the user's usage environment setting. Can be.

On the other hand, the detailed menu items whose usage rate is higher than or equal to the lower limit threshold are set in priority order so that they are displayed on the screen in ascending order of use. (S11 step)

In the above, the mobile communication terminal selects " ▽ " shown in FIG. 4 by pressing the Down (▽) key or the Down (▽) key among the navigation keys in the case of the menu items for which the first hidden menu or the automatic hidden function is set. To display the items with hidden functions.

When the menu items to be displayed on the screen are determined by comparing the frequency of use, the lower limit threshold, and the upper limit threshold for all the detailed menu items, the mobile terminal subsequently selects a menu item that is higher than or equal to the lower limit threshold. The items are sorted and displayed in order of priority, and menu items that are lower than the lower threshold value are not displayed (step S12).

For example, assuming that the upper limit threshold is 60% and the lower limit threshold is set to 10% as shown in FIG. 4, User A accesses the organizer menu several times and executes a specific detailed menu item. , The detailed menu items whose usage rate is calculated for each detailed menu item and which are above the lower threshold based on the usage rate are Wake Call / Alarm, Calendar, Notepad, Korean / English Dictionary, and the detailed menu items below the threshold are timetable, Calculator, three time stamps, unit conversion, stopwatch.

 Therefore, the screen of the user A's mobile communication terminal displays the wake-up call / alarm, schedule management, Korean / English-Korean dictionary, and memo pad in order of high frequency of use, and the other items are not displayed with the auto hide function set.

As shown in FIG. 5, assuming that the upper limit threshold is 60% and the lower limit threshold is set to 10%, User B has a detailed menu item that is equal to or greater than the lower limit threshold based on the frequency of use of each submenu item. Wake-up / alarm, notepad, calculator, Korean-English / English-Korean dictionary, the remaining items are below the lower threshold.

On the screen of User B's mobile terminal, Notepad, Calculator, Wake-up / Alarm will be displayed in order of high usage rate, and the remaining items will not be displayed. Set the shortcut to the main menu.

As shown in FIG. 5, when only the menu items having a lower threshold or more are applied to the display, the menu items are arranged and displayed on the upper part of the screen so that the bottom part of the screen is left as a margin. Therefore, the user may perform phone decorating by using a character, an image, or a character in the margin of the screen.

The user may adjust the upper and lower threshold values of the usage frequency rate and the auto-hidden function option in the usage environment setting menu of the additional service menu of the mobile communication terminal.

In addition, among the detailed menu items displayed on the screen of the mobile communication terminal, the detailed menu items having a frequency ratio higher than or equal to the threshold value can be set to be hidden so that others cannot easily access the detailed menu items frequently used by the user. It may be.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of configuring a user-customized menu of a mobile communication terminal uses a frequency of use of an additional service menu for a predetermined use time (eg, 1 day, 3 days, 7 days, etc.) according to a user's actual use. Update the display status for each menu item in accordance with the updated usage frequency rate, or update the usage frequency rate for the supplementary service menu whenever the user selects a specific menu. Correspondingly, the display status of each menu item may be updated.

As described above, the method for configuring a user-customized menu of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention may display only a detailed menu item having a high frequency of use according to a user's access level to an additional service menu without a user's special manipulation. This makes it easy to access frequently used menus and to use the screen efficiently.

According to the method of configuring a user-customized menu of the mobile communication terminal as described above, only the frequently used menu items can be displayed in order of priority according to the user's access level to the additional service menu without the user's special operation, so that the user frequently Easy access to menus used.

In addition, according to the method of configuring a user-customized menu of the mobile communication terminal as described above, only the menu items with high frequency of use are displayed on the screen, so that a margin is formed on the screen, and the user can utilize an image or the like in the margin of the screen to further display the screen. There is an effect that can be used efficiently.

Although described with reference to the embodiments above, those skilled in the art will understand that the present invention can be variously modified and changed without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the claims below. Could be.

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a) displaying a list of menu items sequentially according to a user selection of an additional service menu in the mobile communication terminal, and counting the number of selections of the menu item selected by the user; b) calculating a frequency of use for each menu item based on the number of selection of the counted menu item, and setting a lower threshold value based on the frequency of use; And c) a menu item whose use rate is less than or equal to the lower limit threshold is set to a hidden function, and a menu item that is more than or equal to the lower limit is set to priority based on the use rate so that each menu item is displayed on the screen by priority. Steps to Method for configuring a user-customized menu of the mobile communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, The step b) further comprises setting an upper threshold value based on the frequency of use; The c) may further include setting a shortcut to a main menu according to a user's selection of a menu item whose usage rate is equal to or higher than an upper threshold. The method of claim 1, The step a) of setting a first hidden menu by referring to the frequency of use of the statistical menu items for each user, and a menu item except for the first hidden menu, the menu configuration of the user customized menu, characterized in that for displaying. The method of claim 3, And the initial hidden menu is configured to update the initial hidden menu by counting a personalized use frequency for a predetermined use time according to a user's actual use. The method of claim 4, wherein The step a) maintains the initial hidden menu display without applying an update of the initial hidden menu when the frequency of use of a particular menu is less than a predetermined threshold during the predetermined usage time. And when the frequency of use of a particular menu is greater than a predetermined threshold during the predetermined time of use, updating the initial hidden menu and applying the updated initial hidden menu to a display. Claim 6 was abandoned when the registration fee was paid. The method of claim 1, When the user searches for the menu, the method further includes the step d) of displaying the remaining menu items on the screen in order of priority, except for the menu item in which the hidden function is applied by applying the step c). Configuration method. Claim 7 was abandoned upon payment of a set-up fee. The method of claim 6,  In step d), selecting the lower (▽) key of the navigation keys on the screen to which the hiding function is applied will display the items to which the hiding function is applied, or select the lower (▽) key of the side keys. And at least one of the methods of displaying the items to which the hiding function is applied. The method of claim 1, And e) updating the display status for each menu item according to the updated usage frequency rate by updating the usage frequency rate for the supplementary service menu according to the actual usage of the user. How to customize your menu. The method of claim 1, And e) updating the display status for each menu item in response to the updated usage frequency rate by updating the usage frequency rate for the supplementary service menu whenever the user selects a specific menu. How to customize your menu. delete

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