KR20050073704A - The method of displaying the received information of the mobile phone and the mobile phone adapted to it - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for displaying received information of a mobile phone with enhanced function as an information terminal and a mobile phone adopting the same, wherein the information providing unit of the mobile phone is a background screen, that is, a default screen in a receiving mode, and the information providing unit is horizontal. A plurality of windows including a window scrolled in a direction and a window scrolled in the longitudinal direction. The information displayed in each window includes various link information including SMS, MMS, WAP, and telephone connection to integrate the connection environment of the mobile phone, and various symbols (icons) for the user to intuitively recognize the information content. Provide together.

Description

The method of displaying the received information of the mobile phone and the mobile phone adapted to it}

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for displaying a message received on a mobile phone. Specifically, the present invention is intended to enhance user convenience and increase information transmission effect by simultaneously displaying a plurality of windows.

Recently, the use of mobile phones is increasing rapidly, the functions of the mobile phones are very diverse, and the data processing performance is also remarkably developed. However, since the cellular phone has been started to be used for the purpose of a conventional voice call, the mobile phone is already equipped with an environment to be used as a multimedia data terminal due to the improvement of the function and performance of the cellular phone and the development of the communication network. It is used only by a mobile telephone and cannot fully utilize the function as an information terminal.

In other words, the user must enter a separate menu mode such as SMS, MMS, WAP, etc., so that the user must perform a separate complicated button operation for using information on various media, that is, transmitting and receiving and wireless Internet access. Since the classification of each connection medium is made up of a tree-type menu method, a user has to perform complicated manual operations in order to view received information, use SMS, and perform wireless Internet access. Was not easy.

In particular, when receiving an information message, the conventional mobile phone is not automatically displayed on the terminal display at the same time as the reception of the information, but instead of a method of notifying that the message has been received. In order to view the contents of the information, a complicated manual operation such as switching to the message viewing mode and selecting one of the received messages must be performed.

Recently, some mobile phones display the received message by simultaneously displaying the received message on the display and operating the up and down scroll keys, but in this case, only one message can be read. In order to view a message, a manual operation of selecting a message to be viewed among the messages by switching to the message viewing mode as described above should be accompanied.

In addition, since the received information is expressed in a simple text format, there is no room for intuitive understanding to the user, and there is a problem that information transmission power and ease of use are inferior.

In addition, the number or arrangement of windows on which information is displayed is determined and fixed at the time of manufacturing a terminal according to a predetermined standard, and at present, since only one window is used, the user has no possibility of manipulating the number, arrangement, and size of the windows. Accordingly, there is no choice but to manually view the information display according to the unilaterally determined display format, and there is no way to configure the window according to one's taste.

The content provider (CP) may also display the number of windows displayed on the receiving terminal so that the presentation of the information provided by the CP may be automatically performed without requiring a separate user operation, and the delivery of the information provided by the content provider is most efficiently performed. Although it is desired to control the arrangement and presentation form arbitrarily, there is no means to realize this conventionally.

The present invention continuously displays the information on the background screen of the mobile phone display unit, that is, the default screen in the reception mode, in order to enhance the function of the mobile phone to the information terminal, thereby automatically eliminating the need for any manual button operation when viewing the received information. It is an object to be able to view all of one or more pieces of received information scrolled at a time.

In addition, the displayed information includes graphic symbols (icons) to intuitively grasp the subject or content of the information, and by enabling the action such as communication connection through the selection of some of these icons and / or specific characters. To promote calendar and information availability.

Still another object of the present invention is to maximize the value of utilizing a mobile phone as an information device of a person by allowing a user and / or a CP to select and control the number and arrangement of windows.

In order to achieve the above object, the mobile phone information display method of the present invention includes a wireless interface step of transmitting and receiving information through a wireless communication network, interpreting the information received through the wireless interface unit, and one or more of the received information to be expressed. Selecting the size and position of the window, distributing each received information to the window selected by the window selecting means according to the analysis result of the received information, and receiving the received information distributed by the distributing means. And displaying the content in one or more windows.

In particular, the information display window may be a background screen of the mobile phone. The displaying may include automatically scrolling the received information horizontally and / or vertically according to the characteristics of the window, and the automatic scrolling may be stopped by a user's operation. In addition, the information display window is to display the text and the icon associated with the content of the text together, the text and icon may include link information that can be connected to various communication environments.

A mobile phone having an enhanced information use function for achieving the above object includes a wireless interface means for transmitting and receiving information through a wireless communication network, means for interpreting information received through the wireless interface unit, and at least one window for displaying the received information. Means for selecting a size and a position, means for distributing each received information to a window selected by the window selecting means, and receiving information distributed by the distributing means according to a result of the analysis of the received information. And display means for displaying in the window.

 In addition, the number and arrangement of the plurality of windows may be arbitrarily combined by a user and / or a CP, and the horizontal scroll window and the vertical scroll window are configured to display related information.

At least a portion of the text and the icon may include link information, so that the user may select an icon or text including the link information and directly access the telephone or an Internet site connected thereto.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of displaying information by simultaneously using a plurality of windows on a background screen of a mobile phone, that is, a default screen in a reception mode according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, a display unit of a mobile phone expresses received information using three windows. Window (DW-N1; Display Window-Number1) displays information such as comprehensive stock index, weather, overseas emergency correspondence, etc. by automatically scrolling in the horizontal direction, and window (DW-N2) is related to window (DW-N1) or Uncorrelated information messages are automatically scrolled and displayed in the longitudinal direction. The window DW-N3 may display an emergency notice or advertisement message by automatically scrolling in the horizontal direction, and other information related to the windows DW-N1 and DW-N2 may be displayed.

Each window (DW-N1, DW-N2, DW-N3) is configured to continuously search and view not only one information but also a plurality of information messages received before, without the need for a separate message selection operation. . The scrolling operation of each window can be stopped by operating a specific key of the mobile phone.

Information messages can be stored in FIFO mode in the order in which they are received, or by creating a separate message identifier in the mobile phone and storing it in a queue, or by adding a pointer in the message to define the order between messages. Can be correlated. In the order of reception, the correlated messages are automatically displayed continuously on the background screen without the operation of the mobile phone user. As described above, the messages may be correlated according to the reception order. In addition, the messages may be classified and correlated according to a message sender including a CP, message content, and the like.

Meanwhile, it can be seen that the message expressed in the window DW-N2 of FIG. 1 is not a simple text-based message but includes an icon to increase information transmission power and visibility. Some of these icons (e.g., chain icons, phone icons) contain a function of connecting to the outside in addition to functions as simple symbols. When the phone-shaped icon in the message displayed in the window DW-N2 of FIG. 1 is selected, the embodiment of FIG. 1 attempts to connect to the telephone of “Buan-gun Office”. The display of icons and access to other communication environments such as telephones, WAPs, etc. are accomplished by adding a specific tag in a message and the mobile phone interprets it. The tag includes a display-type tag displaying an icon for improved visibility and a connection-type tag added to a connection function to various communication environments. Hereinafter, a process of adding, transmitting, and interpreting a tag will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a process of generating, transmitting, and presenting an integrated data message (IDM) message including icon information. A message producer such as a CP inputs a message including an icon-related tag in the message input window 1, and at this time, the IDM message production tool provides a preview screen with reference to the tag database 2 so that the message producer can input his own message. Check the contents. When an IDM message is generated, a message producer such as a content provider transmits it to the IDM information service server 3, and the IDM information service server 3 sends IDM messages from various content providers or individual users by content provider, category, etc. Classify and store, perform message creator authentication, and send to IDMSS (4). The IDMSS 4 calculates the charging information for the IDM message and sends the IDM message to the IDM mobile phone. The IDM mobile phone embeds the same icon database as the tag database (2) of the creator, encodes the received IDM data with reference to it, and checks the content or creator of the message to display the window (DW-N1, DW-N2, DW-N3). The message is displayed in each window by defining a message to be displayed in the window and distributing it to each window.

Hereinafter, the shape and arrangement of the window will be described in more detail.

The IDM message, which is an information message according to the present invention, is a symbol type tag for increasing content and visibility, and a connection type tag for enabling connection to each communication environment. It also contains the control code for. Table 1 below is an embodiment of the control code, it is assumed that the control code is composed of 16 bits.

division options Description (example) 0 (LSB) Message type Indicates this is an IDM message One Message presentation type Display on screen in red 2 Message arrival guidance type Display in flickering character form 3 Message arrival guidance type Receive notification by lamp firing 4 Message arrival guidance type Receive notifications by vibration 5 Message processing type Show busy message 6 Reservation 7 Reservation 8 Frame 1 Screen composition 9 Frame 2 Screen composition 10 Frame 3 Screen composition 11 Frame 4 Screen composition 12 Frame 5 Screen composition 13 Frame 6 Screen composition 14 Frame 7 Screen composition 15 Frame 8 Screen composition

In Table 1, the eighth to fifteenth bits of the control code take the frame configuration value of the window, and the shape of each frame is shown in FIG. That is, the number, shape, position, and size of a window for displaying a message may be determined according to which of the eighth to fifteenth bits of the control code is selected.

4 illustrates several embodiments of expressing information in various ways using windows of various frames. As shown in FIG. 4, a message sender including a CP can express a message to a receiving terminal freely in various frames by adding a control code to its transmission message, thereby improving information transmission power.

5 is a diagram illustrating a message presentation method according to another embodiment of the present invention. In the display method of FIG. 5, each message is expressed in a message format window as a data representation of a message format. A frame information code is added to each message, and the frame information code includes frame color, upper left and lower right coordinates of the frame, so that the size, color, and display position of each message window can be arbitrarily selected.

The frame information code may be configured as follows.

Code classification Explanation Frame color code (0-9) Choose from 10 colors Frame top left point (P1) x coordinates (0 to 100) If the value is 60, it is located at 60% of the screen along the x-axis from the upper left point of the terminal display window. Frame upper left point (P1) y coordinate (0 to 100) If the value is 50, it is located at 50% of the screen along the y axis from the upper left point of the terminal display window. Frame lower right point (P2) x coordinates (0 to 100) If the value is 90, it is located at 90% of the screen along the x-axis from the upper left point of the terminal display window. Frame lower right point (P2) y coordinate (0 to 100) If the value is 90, it is located at 90% of the screen along the y axis from the upper left point of the terminal display window.

According to the display method shown in FIG. 4, the size and position of the window are selected within a predefined frame. However, according to the message display method of FIG. 5, the shape and position of the message window can be freely selected.

As an extension of the message display method, the content provider may arbitrarily select the number, shape, and position of the windows most suitable for the information provided by the content provider. For example, a content provider who wants to provide fortune-telling information may attempt to display the fortune of the day, the fortune of the week, the fortune of the year, love fortune, money fortune, etc. in different windows, in which case, five windows are used to The size and position can be arbitrarily selected. When delivering a message to a mobile phone, the window shape and location information is added to each message (today's fortune, this week's fortune, etc.), and the received mobile phone arranges the size, color, and location of the window according to the window information and displays the message. Express. The content provider may arbitrarily define his or her information providing layout on the number, size, and shape of windows using a separate message generating tool. This message generating tool can be implemented to work based on the GUI, and those skilled in the art will be able to easily implement the above message generating tool according to the technical spirit and common sense of the present invention. The description is omitted.

On the other hand, the user of the mobile phone can also arbitrarily select and configure the number, shape and location of the windows. For example, by accessing a website such as a service provider or a communication service provider that provides a service according to the present invention, using the layout generating tool provided by the website, the number, shape, and location of the windows are selected and the user wants to receive each window. If a message is selected and registered (eg, local weather information, national weather information, today's horoscope, etc.), the message is generated by the message producer and transmitted through the server of the service provider or telecommunication service provider according to the present invention installed in the communication network. When the registered window information is added to the message, the mobile phone will receive the message to which the window information is added and display the information according to the number, shape and position of the window as selected by the user.

6 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of selecting a message in a tab format. As illustrated, a plurality of contents identifiers (cids) added to a message are displayed at the top of the message window, and a message corresponding to a tab selected by the user is displayed.

7 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a mobile phone according to the present invention to receive an IDM message, determine the shape and layout of one or more windows, and display the corresponding information message in each window.

The mobile phone 10 receives the IDM information message through the air interface unit 5. The received message is delivered to the reception information analyzing unit 6, and the reception information analyzing unit 6 analyzes the arrangement, the content, and the color of various tags and messages to form an expression message including an icon. At this time, the reception information analyzing unit 6 configures a message so that the icon can be displayed at a predetermined position when the icon tag related to the icon is added with reference to the tag database 2 embedded in the mobile phone 10.

Alternatively, if the delivery of the message is made without data capacity limitations, such as in the case of packet type services, the graphic information itself constituting the icon may be delivered without the need for using a markup tag, in which case the content provider Will be able to select and transmit icon shapes very freely and in various ways, and the mobile phone 10 does not need to embed a database for the display tag. It is preferable that the connected tag has a common shape that mobile phone users can intuitively understand, such as a phone and a chain, so that the connected tag database can be provided in the terminal in consideration of communication efficiency to provide graphic information (icon information). It would be desirable to store and only send and receive connection information. Of course, both the graphic information of the display type tag and the graphic information and connection information of the connection type tag may be added to the message to transmit and receive and the tag database in the terminal may not be completely set.

Since the received information message has a control code for determining the shape and position of the window, the reception information analyzing unit 6 transmits the control code to the window control unit 7, and the window control unit 7 controls the control code. According to the number of windows to display the message, the shape and position of each window is determined, and the result is transmitted to the reception information distribution unit (8). The reception information distribution unit 8 receives the display window determination result from the window control unit 7 and the message content from the reception information analysis unit 6 and assigns a message to be displayed in one or more windows. According to the processing result of the reception information distribution unit 8, the display control unit 9 controls the message to be automatically scrolled and displayed in one or more windows on the background screen or the information reception mode screen of the mobile phone. In addition, the display control unit 9 stops the scrolling message in response to an operation of the mobile phone user, and allows the user to select an object (eg, an icon or text with link information) on the stopped message.

8 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying information in a mobile phone according to the present invention. When power is supplied to the cellular phone (step S1), and an information message is wirelessly received (step S2), the cellular phone 10 interprets the received information to recognize a control code and a tag added to the information message, and to identify the type of tag (e.g., And an icon and / or connection link information at a predetermined position in the message to be displayed according to the display type tag and the connection type tag), and determine the property and position of the window in which the information message is to be displayed according to the control code (step S3). Then, a message to be displayed for each window is assigned (step S4). In the present embodiment, the information is displayed on the background screen of the mobile phone, that is, the default screen in the reception mode, but the information may be displayed on another screen set according to a preset of the mobile phone user. In step S5, it is determined whether or not the cellular phone user has made a preset setting, and according to the determination result, a window is placed on a background screen or other setting screen to automatically scroll and display information (steps S6 and S7). . If the user performs an operation such as pressing a specific button while the information is automatically scrolled (step S8), the scrolling stops and the navigation mode is entered (step S9). In this mode, when a connection type icon or a specific character is selected (S10), the user accesses various communication environments such as dialing, SMS, MMS, and WAP, or performs a user-selected operation such as storing an information message (step S11). . When the user selection operation is completed, the information is automatically scrolled again and displayed in the corresponding window, and upon receiving the radio information, the process after step S2 is repeated again.

The message presentation order of the present invention will basically be based on the reception order, but may be expressed in other criteria, such as information content classification, information provider classification, and user preset order.

The information displayed in the plurality of windows through the above process may be configured to be related to each other. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating some embodiments for displaying contents correlated to a plurality of windows illustrated in FIG. 1, respectively.

As shown in FIG. 9, for example, while the composite stock index, the KOSDAQ index, and the foreign stock information are automatically scrolled and displayed horizontally in the window DW-N1, the stock registered by the user in the window DW-N2. Stock price information such as the current price of stocks, disclosures and major economic news can be provided, and a link can be provided using an icon, which can be configured to provide expert consultation over the telephone or easily access to the securities site. Alternatively, as the national weather information is displayed in the window DW-N1, detailed weather information on the location of the receiving terminal may be provided in the window DW-N2.

According to the present invention, by continuously displaying the information on the background screen of the mobile phone, that is, the default screen in the reception mode, it is possible to view all of one or more received information which is automatically scrolled without the need for a separate operation. The function of the cellular phone as an information terminal can be enhanced. In addition, by including an icon in the display information and enabling access to various communication environments through icon selection, information transmission power and ease of use can be enhanced, thereby significantly improving the usability of the mobile phone and the function as an information terminal.

In addition, according to the present invention, by allowing the user and / or the CP to select and control the number and arrangement of the windows, it is possible to maximize the value of utilizing the mobile phone as a personal information device.

1 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of displaying information using a plurality of windows simultaneously according to the present invention.

2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a process of delivering IDM message information according to the present invention.

3 is a view showing the form of the various windows according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating one embodiment of variously implementing the number and arrangement of windows using the windows shown in FIG. 3;

5 is a view showing a window display form of the message form according to the present invention.

6 illustrates an embodiment of selecting a message in a tabbed manner according to the present invention.

7 is a conceptual diagram showing the configuration of the reception, interpretation and display of IDM messages of the mobile phone according to the present invention.

8 is a flowchart of an information presentation method according to the present invention;

9 illustrates various representations of an information package according to the present invention.

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An air interface step of transmitting and receiving information through a wireless communication network; An analyzing step of analyzing the information received through the air interface unit; Selecting a shape and a position of one or more windows to display the received information; Distributing each piece of received information to a window selected by the window selecting means according to a result of the analysis of the received information; A display step of displaying the received information distributed by the distributing means in the one or more windows Information display method of the mobile phone comprising a. The method of claim 1, wherein the information display window is a background screen of the mobile phone. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying step includes automatically scrolling the received information horizontally and / or vertically according to a characteristic of the window. 4. The method of claim 3, wherein the automatic scrolling step is stopped by user manipulation. The method of claim 1, wherein the information presentation window displays together text and an icon associated with the content of the text. 6. The method of claim 5, wherein at least some of the text and icons include link information to various communication environments. Wireless interface means for transmitting and receiving information through a wireless communication network; Means for interpreting information received via the air interface unit; Means for selecting a size and position of at least one window to display said received information; Means for distributing each piece of received information to a window selected by the window selecting means, in accordance with a result of the analysis of the received information; Display means for displaying the received information distributed by the distributing means to the one or more windows Cell phone containing. In the receiving information display method of the mobile phone, Arrange a plurality of windows including a window scrolled horizontally and a window scrolled in the vertical direction on the display unit of the mobile phone, the number and arrangement of the plurality of windows and the content to be displayed therein And / or may be arbitrarily combined by the user Receiving information display method of a mobile phone characterized in that.