KR101223893B1 - Apparatus and method for capacity scacle of widget loading - Google Patents

Abstract

The apparatus for configuring a widget setting capacity according to the present invention includes adding / removing a widget to at least one widget, at least one idle screen panel, a memory in which the occupied resource size of a resource to be occupied by the widget, and a widget is added to the idle screen panel. And a resource occupancy state calculator for calculating the resource occupancy state of the widgets included in the idle screen panel by summing the occupied resource sizes of the widgets included in the idle screen panel, and a display unit for displaying the calculated resource occupancy state. .

According to the present invention, by displaying the resource occupancy state of the widgets included in the idle screen panel according to the widget added / removed from the mobile terminal has the advantage that it is possible to check the state of the occupied resources in accordance with the addition / removal of the widget . In addition, this has the advantage that can provide an environment that can run the service stably within the limited resource range.

Idle screen, widget, resource occupancy status, mobile terminal

Description

Widget setting capacity configuration device and method {APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CAPACITY SCACLE OF WIDGET LOADING}

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for configuring a widget setting capacity, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for configuring a widget setting capacity in consideration of a state of occupancy of resources.

More particularly, the present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for configuring a widget setting capacity for checking the occupied resource state according to the addition / removal of a widget in a mobile terminal.

In a general communication system, a mobile terminal has evolved into a device capable of providing various additional services as well as a voice call service between existing users. Accordingly, mobile terminal users can use various additional functions such as wireless internet and broadcasting service as well as simple voice calls. As various functions are implemented in the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal is gradually evolving in design, performance, and size. In particular, the display of the mobile terminal has greatly increased display performance such as resolution and size.

Among the screens displayed through the display unit of the mobile terminal, the standby screen is a screen provided when the user first boots the mobile terminal and is a screen displayed on the mobile terminal without any key input. Currently, the standby screen displays an image, text, time, date, etc. set by the user, and is the screen which is accessed the most times by the mobile terminal user.

In addition to the diversification of functions provided through the mobile terminal, there has been an increase in the demand for interfacing various application programs supported internally or externally through the standby screen.

As a result, various functions are developed / added to meet these demands.

In particular, the widget service has a feature that a user arbitrarily downloads and installs a desired widget on a widget engine and a service platform provided by an operator. This is because the service stability is guaranteed because other idle screen services are already thoroughly planned and verified, and the memory and service quality used by the system are determined by adding / removing widgets by the user. I have a difference.

However, there are no specific methods to check the status and amount of logical / physical resources occupied by the idle screen engine or service platform when various widgets are added / removed by the user in terms of providing the idle screen service. .

Since the mobile terminal user cannot determine the size of the resource occupied by the widget on the idle screen of the mobile terminal, it is difficult to efficiently add / remove the widget from the idle screen of the mobile terminal.

Therefore, when a widget is added / removed to the idle screen, a method for checking the status of resources occupied by the widget is needed.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for configuring a widget setting capacity that can check the status of resources occupied when configuring an idle screen.

In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a widget setting capacity providing apparatus, comprising: at least one widget, at least one idle screen panel, a memory in which the occupied resource size of a resource to be occupied by the widget is stored, and an idle screen panel In the case of adding / removing a widget to the resource occupancy state, the resource occupancy state calculation unit calculates the resource occupancy state of the widgets included in the idle screen panel by adding up the occupied resource sizes of the widgets included in the idle screen panel; It includes a display for displaying the status.

In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a widget setting capacity providing method. (A) When adding / removing a widget to a standby screen panel, a resource size occupied by a resource occupied by each of the widgets included in the idle screen panel Summing the resource occupancy state of the widgets included in the idle screen panel; and (b) displaying the calculated resource occupancy state.

In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a recording medium on which a program for configuring a widget setting capacity is recorded, the method comprising: (a) adding / removing a widget to a standby screen panel, each of the widgets included in the standby screen panel; A program for executing the step of calculating the resource occupancy state of the widgets included in the idle screen panel by summing the occupied resource sizes of the occupied resources, and (b) displaying the calculated resource occupancy state is recorded.

According to the present invention, by displaying the resource occupancy state of the widgets included in the idle screen panel according to the widget added / removed from the mobile terminal has the advantage that it is possible to check the state of the occupied resources in accordance with the addition / removal of the widget . In addition, this has the advantage that it can provide an environment that can run the service stably within the limited resource range. In addition, there is an advantage that it is possible to perform optimal resource allocation according to the performance of each of the mobile terminals having various characteristics (hardware, software, or performance).

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that in the following description, only parts necessary for understanding the operation according to the present invention will be described, and descriptions of other parts will be omitted so as not to distract from the gist of the present invention.

The present invention proposes an apparatus and method for configuring a widget setting capacity in a mobile terminal. In particular, an apparatus and method for configuring a standby screen for configuring a widget setting capacity in consideration of a resource occupancy state are proposed.

The mobile terminal of the present invention includes at least one widget, at least one idle screen panel, a memory in which the size of the resource occupied by the widget is stored, and a standby screen panel when the widget is added / removed to the idle screen panel. A resource occupancy state calculator for calculating the resource occupancy state of the widgets included in the idle screen panel by summing up the occupied resource sizes of each of the widgets included in the widget, and a display unit for displaying the calculated resource occupancy state.

The idle screen panel setting unit may further include setting a standby screen panel by adding / removing a widget to the idle screen panel.

The mobile terminal may further include an occupancy resource calculator for calculating an occupied resource size of each widget and storing the occupied resource size in the memory.

The method for configuring a widget setting capacity of the present invention includes (a) when adding / removing a widget to an idle screen panel, each of the widgets included in the idle screen panel is included in the idle screen panel by adding up the occupied resource sizes of the resources occupied by the widget. Calculating a resource occupation state of the widgets; and (b) displaying the calculated resource occupation state.

After the step (b), (c) further comprises the step of setting the idle screen panel by adding / removing the widget on the idle screen panel.

In addition, before the step (a) (d) further comprises the step of calculating the occupied resource size of each widget.

In step (d), when calculating the occupied resource size for at least two resources, determining the occupied resource size is the largest value among the occupied resource sizes of each resource.

The recording medium on which the program for configuring the widget setting capacity of the present invention is recorded may include (a) when adding / removing widgets to the idle screen panel, the resource size of the resources occupied by each of the widgets included in the idle screen panel. The programs for executing the step of calculating the resource occupancy state of the widgets included in the idle screen panel and summing (b) displaying the calculated resource occupancy state are recorded.

The mobile terminal of the present invention uses a widget to interface with a mobile terminal user. The widget is a graphical user interface that supports interaction between an application running through the mobile terminal and the user of the mobile terminal.

The application program is divided into a content service / additional service application program and an application program for controlling a mobile terminal. The content service / additional service application program may be an application program related to securities, education, news, broadcasting, search, transportation, music, games, fortune telling, shopping, email, and the like. In addition, the application program for controlling the mobile terminal may be an application program related to a clock, a phone book, a camera, a message, an electronic diary, a ringtone, a screen setting, and the like.

On the other hand, when the widget is displayed in the mobile terminal may have a variety of icons including a still image and a video.

In the present invention, for convenience of description, an interface with a mobile terminal user is performed using a widget on an idle screen, but an example of the present invention will be described with all the interface tools capable of performing the user interface through the idle screen as well as the widget. The invention can be extended and applied.

The mobile terminal may select one idle screen panel from among at least one idle screen panel and display the selected idle screen panel as the idle screen. That is, the standby screen of the mobile terminal is provided on a plurality of standby screen panels, and the mobile terminal can display the idle screen panel selected from the provided idle screen panels as the standby screen. The idle screen panel may be stored in the mobile terminal or received from a server outside the mobile terminal. The idle screen panel includes a widget set that is at least one widget or a collection of widgets.

In the present invention, the resource occupancy state of the idle screen panel of the widget is displayed by adding / removing the widget included in the idle screen panel.

Next, a structure of a mobile terminal constituting a widget setting capacity using a widget will be described with reference to FIG. 1 below.

1 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a mobile terminal constituting a widget setting capacity according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the mobile terminal includes a communication unit 111, an audio unit 113, an input unit 115, a memory 117, a resource occupancy state calculation unit 119, a display unit 121, and an idle screen panel setting unit ( 123). In addition, the mobile terminal may further include an occupied resource size calculator 125.

The communication unit 111 is connected to a communication network to perform data transmission and reception.

The audio unit 113 reproduces an audio signal and outputs it through a speaker, or processes an audio signal generated from a microphone.

The input unit 115 may be configured as a keypad or a touch screen, and when a button is pressed or touched by a user, the input unit 115 receives a user input signal. In particular, the input unit 115 receives a user input signal for configuring a standby screen panel, for example, a user input signal for adding / removing a widget.

The memory 117 may be composed of a program memory and a data memory. Programs are stored in the program memory for controlling general operations of the mobile terminal. Data generated during the execution of programs are temporarily stored in the data memory, and particularly, at least one widget and at least one idle screen panel are stored. The widget may be added / removed to the idle screen panel and stored with the occupied resource size that should be allocated to the widget as the widget is located on the idle screen panel.

The occupied resource size is an occupied resource size for at least one of a data memory, a heap memory, and a display size. In addition, the occupied resource size is a resource size required for each widget to be located on the idle screen.

The resource occupancy state calculator 119 calculates a resource occupancy state occupied by the widgets included in each idle screen panel. The resource occupancy state calculator 119 calculates the sum of all occupied resource sizes of the widgets included in the idle screen panel.

The resource occupation state calculation unit 119 controls the displayed resource occupation state to be displayed through the display unit 121. The resource occupancy state is a value indicating a ratio of the resources occupied by the widgets included in the idle screen panel on the basis of the resources available in the idle screen panel.

For example, when the resource occupancy state calculator 119 sets a resource that can be provided in the idle screen panel to '100', the resource occupancy state calculator 119 may calculate the resource state occupied by the widgets included in the idle screen panel. If three widgets having an occupied resource size of '20' are present in the idle screen panel, the resource occupancy state of the idle screen may be '60 (20 + 20 + 20) '. As such, the resource occupancy state may be represented using a percentage value or the like. Therefore, the resource occupancy information and the resource occupancy state use the same unit.

The display unit 121 may be configured as a liquid crystal display (LCD), and displays display data generated while performing a mobile terminal function. The display unit 121 displays a standby screen including the widget, and when adding / removing the widget from the standby screen panel, displays the operation according to the addition / removal of the widget. In particular, according to the addition / removal of the widget on the idle screen panel, the resource occupancy state occupied by the widgets included in the idle screen panel is displayed.

For example, the display unit 121 simultaneously displays the size of resources that can be provided in the idle screen panel and the size (resource occupancy state) of the resources currently occupied by the widgets. Thus, the size of resources occupied by widgets included in the idle screen panel and resources not occupied by widgets can be checked. In addition, when a widget selection operation is performed to add / remove each widget, the occupied resource size of the corresponding widget may be displayed.

The display unit 121 displays one standby screen panel selected from a plurality of idle screen panels as a standby screen.

After displaying the resource occupancy state, the idle screen panel setting unit 123 adds / removes a widget to the idle screen panel according to a user input signal received from the input unit 115 to generate the idle screen panel including the widget. Set it. The idle screen panel setting unit 123 stores the set idle screen panel in the memory 117.

For example, the idle screen panel setting unit 123 assumes that all resources that can be provided in the idle screen panel are '100', and the resource occupation state occupied by the units included in the idle screen panel is '80'. If the first widget to be added to the idle screen panel has resource occupancy information of '10', the first widget may be added to the idle screen panel. However, when the second widget to be added to the idle screen panel has resource occupancy information of '30', since the second widget to be added to the idle screen panel exceeds '100' which is the total resources that can be provided by the idle screen panel, You cannot add widgets.

The occupied resource size calculator 125 calculates the occupied resource size to be occupied by the idle screen panel for each widget. If the occupied resource size calculator 125 is stored with the occupied resource size for each widget, the occupied resource size calculator 125 may not be included in the mobile terminal.

If the occupied resource size calculator 125 calculates the occupied resource size for at least two resources, the occupied resource size having the largest value is determined as the occupied resource size of the corresponding widget.

The operation of calculating the occupied resource size by the occupied resource size calculator 125 will be described.

In this case, it is assumed that the resource occupied by the widget is data memory. If the resource size provided by the idle screen panel is '3.2Mbyte' and the resource size required for a specific widget to be located on the idle screen is '0.8Mbyte', the occupied resource size may be '0.25', for example. In terms of percentage, it can be '25'.

Therefore, the occupied resource size calculator 125 may calculate the size of the occupied resource for not only the data memory but also the remaining resources, and sets the largest value among the calculated occupied resource sizes as the occupied resource size of the corresponding widget.

Next, an operation of the mobile terminal configuring the widget setting capacity using the widget will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a mobile terminal constituting a widget setting capacity according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, in step 211, the mobile terminal selects an add / remove mode of the widget on the idle screen panel and proceeds to step 213.

In step 213, the mobile terminal calculates a resource occupancy state of widgets included in the idle screen panel and proceeds to step 215.

Each widget may store in advance the size of the occupied resources needed for each widget to be located at widget creation time. If the occupied resource size does not exist in each widget, the mobile terminal calculates the occupied resource size for each widget. In this case, when the calculated occupied resource size is calculated for at least two resources, the largest occupied resource size is determined as the occupied resource size of the corresponding widget.

The mobile terminal can calculate the resource occupancy state of the widgets by summing the occupied resource sizes of the mobile terminals included in the idle screen panel.

In step 215, the mobile terminal displays the calculated resource occupancy state of the widgets and proceeds to step 217.

In step 217, the mobile terminal selects a widget to be added / removed to the idle screen and proceeds to step 219. In this case, when selecting a widget to be added / removed to the idle screen, the mobile terminal may simultaneously display the size of the occupied resource occupied or occupied by the selected widget on the idle screen panel.

In step 219, the mobile terminal determines whether to add the selected widget to the current idle screen panel.

When adding the widget as a result of the confirmation, the flow proceeds to step 221.

In step 221, the mobile terminal determines whether the corresponding widget can be added to the idle screen panel.

If it is determined that the widget can be added to the idle screen panel, the controller proceeds to step 223.

In step 223, the mobile terminal adds a widget to the idle screen panel and proceeds to step 229.

If it is impossible to add the widget to the idle screen panel, the process proceeds to step 229.

If it is determined that the widget is not added, the process proceeds to step 225.

In step 225, the mobile terminal determines whether to remove the selected widget from the current idle screen panel.

If the widget is removed as a result of the check, step 227 is performed.

In step 227, the mobile terminal is removed from the idle screen panel and the control proceeds to step 229.

If it is determined that the widget is not removed, the process proceeds to step 229.

In step 229, the mobile terminal determines whether to add / remove a new widget.

In the case where the new widget is added / removed as a result of the determination, step 213 is performed.

If it is determined that the new widget is not added / removed, the procedure ends.

The mobile terminal displays the size of the occupied resource occupied by the added widget when the widget is added, and displays the size of the occupied resource occupied by the widget when the widget is removed.

The user using the mobile terminal checks the occupied resource state occupied by the widgets currently included in the idle screen panel and the occupied resource size of the widget to be added / removed, and takes the widget into the idle screen panel in consideration of the resource state of the mobile terminal. Can be added / removed.

Next, an operation of configuring the widget setting capacity through the display unit of the mobile terminal will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

3 is a diagram illustrating a display unit of a mobile terminal constituting a widget setting capacity according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the display unit of the mobile terminal constituting the idle screen is shown as an example, 'a' is a display for selecting a standby screen configuration mode, and 'b' is a widget for adding a widget to the idle screen. 'C' displays the removal of the widget from the idle screen.

Referring to 'a', an operation of selecting a menu 311 for adding / removing a widget is displayed.

Looking at 'b', the total resource provided in the idle screen panel is '100', and the unit is used as a unit representing the resource. Therefore, the total resource provided in the idle screen becomes '100' units. However, the unit of resources provided in the idle screen panel may be implemented in various ways, and the unit is described as an example.

As an example, a widget called 'star candy 300' is added to an idle screen, and a resource to be occupied to be added to the idle screen panel is '10' unit. Therefore, the occupied resource size of the widget 'star candy 300' becomes '10' units.

The idle screen panel includes three widgets, and the resource occupancy state of the three widgets is displayed at 321. The resource occupancy state of the three widgets is 40 units, and the ratio of the resources occupied by the widgets included in the standby screen is 40% of the total resources provided by the standby screen panel.

Referring to 'c', the standby screen panel includes a widget called 'star candy 300', and the 'star candy 300' is displayed as '333' on the standby screen panel. As the 'star candy 300' widget is included in the idle screen panel, the idle screen panel includes four widgets. The resource occupancy state occupied by the four widgets is displayed in '333'. The resource occupancy state of the four widgets is '50', and the ratio of the resources occupied by the widgets included in the idle screen is 50% of the total resources provided by the idle screen panel.

If the widget 'star candy 300' is removed from the 'c', the resource occupancy state becomes a '40' unit as in 'b'.

In the meantime, the size of the occupied resource of each widget is determined in order to add / remove the widget to the idle screen panel.

When a specific widget is added to the idle screen panel, it is assumed that necessary resource size information is data memory (0.8 Mbyte), driving memory (2 Mbyte), and display size (240 * 160).

If the resource provided by the idle screen panel of the first mobile terminal is a data memory (1.6 Mbytes), a driving memory (6 Mbytes), and a display size (240 * 320), the widget sets the data memory resource to a '50' unit (50). %), Drive memory resources occupy '33 .3 'units (33.3%), and display size resources occupy' 50 'units (50%).

The resource information to be occupied by the widget in the idle screen panel of the first mobile terminal is determined as the largest unit '50'.

If the resource provided by the standby screen panel of the second mobile terminal is a data memory (3.2 Mbytes), a driving memory (24 Mbytes), and a display size (480 * 800), the widget sets the data memory resource to a '25' unit 25. %), Drive memory resources occupy '8.5' units (8.5%), and display size resources occupy '25' units (25%).

The resource information to be occupied by the widget in the idle screen panel of the second mobile terminal is determined to be the largest value '25' unit.

In this way, by checking the resource occupancy state of the widgets included in the standby screen panel, it is possible to stably perform the addition / removal operation of the widget, and to prevent unnecessary operation due to the addition / removal of the widget. When the mobile terminal user adds / removes the widget to the idle screen panel, the mobile terminal user can check the resources occupied by the idle screen panel and resources not occupied.

In addition, the same widget has different unit values depending on what performance, hardware, software, and the like are set in the mobile terminal, so that the optimal resource allocation is possible according to the mobile terminal performance.

Meanwhile, in the detailed description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the embodiments described, but it is natural that the scope of the claims extends to the equivalent scope of the claims as well as the claims to be described later.

The above-described method for configuring a mobile terminal widget setting capacity of the present invention can be applied to a communication system and adds / removes a widget by displaying a resource occupancy state of widgets included in a standby screen panel according to a widget added / removed in the mobile terminal. It is possible to check the status of occupied resources.

1 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a mobile terminal constituting a widget setting capacity according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of a mobile terminal constituting a widget setting capacity according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a diagram illustrating a display unit of a mobile terminal constituting a widget setting capacity according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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111: communication unit 113: audio unit

115: input unit 117: memory

119: resource occupancy state calculation unit 121: display unit

123: standby screen panel setting unit

125: occupied resource size calculation unit

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At least one widget, at least one idle screen panel, a memory in which an occupied resource size of a resource to be occupied by the widget is stored; When adding / removing widgets to the idle screen panel, the resource occupancy state calculation unit calculates the resource occupancy state of the widgets included in the idle screen panel by summing the size of each occupied resource of the widgets included in the idle screen panel; An occupied resource calculator for calculating an occupied resource size of each widget and storing it in the memory; An indicator for displaying the calculated resource occupancy status, The resource necessarily includes a display size and further includes at least one of a data memory and a drive memory, When the occupied resource calculator calculates occupied resource sizes for two or more resources, the occupied resource size determines the largest value among occupied resource sizes of each resource as the occupied resource size. The method of claim 1, The mobile terminal And a standby screen panel setting unit configured to set a standby screen panel by adding / removing a widget to the idle screen panel. delete delete delete The method of claim 1, The occupied resource size has a percentage value. The method of claim 1, The resource occupancy state is a value representing a ratio of the resources occupied by the widgets included in the idle screen panel on the basis of the resources available in the idle screen panel. Calculating the size of occupied resources for each widget, In the case of adding / removing the widget to the idle screen panel, calculating the resource occupancy state of the widgets included in the idle screen panel by summing the resource size of the resources occupied by each of the widgets included in the idle screen panel; Displaying the calculated resource occupancy status, The resource necessarily includes a display size and further includes at least one of a data memory and a drive memory, If the occupied resource calculation unit calculates the occupied resource size for two or more resources, the widget setting capacity configuration method, characterized in that for determining the largest value of the occupied resource size of each resource. 9. The method of claim 8, After displaying the calculated resource occupancy state; And setting a standby screen panel by adding / removing a widget to the idle screen panel. delete delete delete 9. The method of claim 8, The occupied resource size has a percentage value. 9. The method of claim 8, The resource occupancy state is a value indicating a ratio of the resources occupied by the widgets included in the idle screen panel on the basis of the resources available in the idle screen panel. In the recording medium recording a program for configuring the widget setting capacity, Calculating the size of occupied resources for each widget, In the case of adding / removing the widget to the idle screen panel, calculating the resource occupancy state of the widgets included in the idle screen panel by summing the resource size of the resources occupied by each of the widgets included in the idle screen panel; Displaying the calculated resource occupancy status, The resource necessarily includes a display size and further includes at least one of a data memory and a drive memory, When the occupied resource calculator calculates the occupied resource size for two or more resources, the program for executing the above steps is characterized in that the largest value among the occupied resource sizes of each resource is determined as the occupied resource size. Record carrier.

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