KR20060070972A - Method and mobile communication terminal of managing contents - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention automatically deletes the contents downloaded to the mobile terminal when the user-deleted automatic deletion period elapses, so that the memory area is not allocated for unnecessary contents, and the user does not want to be deleted due to the carelessness of the user. It is to provide a content management method and a mobile communication terminal that can prevent content from being deleted automatically. The mobile communication terminal according to the present invention includes a memory unit for storing downloaded content, automatic deletion period information corresponding to each content, and deletion notification information; A display device controller and a display device for displaying various kinds of information; A user interface unit providing an interface with a user; And storing the automatic deletion period information and the deletion notification information about the content corresponding to the corresponding content in the memory unit, checking whether there is content that has passed the automatic deletion period every predetermined time, and the automatic deletion period has elapsed. If the content is present, the deletion notification information of the content is read, and if the deletion notification information indicates the deletion notification, the deletion notification screen of the content is displayed on the display device, and the user is displayed after displaying the deletion notification screen. And a controller for deleting a corresponding content from the memory unit when a delete command is input through an interface unit. The present invention has the effect that not only the memory area is allocated for the unnecessary content, but also the content that the user does not want to delete due to the carelessness of the user is not automatically deleted.

Mobile terminal, content management

Description

Content management method and mobile communication terminal {METHOD AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL OF MANAGING CONTENTS}

1 is a block diagram of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2, 6, and 7 are flowcharts of a content management method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

3 to 5 and 8 are screen examples of a mobile communication terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

9 is a structural diagram of information for content management according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

110: control unit

112: mobile communication unit

114: memory section

116: user interface unit

118: display device control unit

120: display device

122: voice processing unit

124: microphone

126: Speaker

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a content management method and a mobile communication terminal for automatically deleting downloaded content.

Various contents can be downloaded through a mobile communication terminal through a mobile Internet service or a multimedia messaging service.

Since the data amount of the content is very large compared to the SMS (Short Message Service) message, it is necessary to efficiently manage the content.

A method of managing an SMS message of a conventional mobile communication terminal will be briefly described.

Patent No. 10-2001-0066883 filed under the name of `` Method of Automatically Deleting SMS Message in Mobile Communication Terminal '' by the Korean Intellectual Property Office indicates that when one of the SMS messages stored in the mobile communication terminal is selected, the time is automatically deleted by the user. Querying whether to set up, receiving an automatic deletion time for a corresponding message from a user when a request for setting the automatic deletion time is set, setting an automatic deletion time, and determining whether the automatic deletion time of the corresponding message has elapsed. If the automatic deletion time has elapsed, an SMS message automatic deletion technique including deleting the message is disclosed.

In addition, Patent Application No. 10-1999-0007534 filed under the name of the "Message processing method received at the terminal of the communication system" to the Korean Patent Office, storing the message and the received time when the message is received, and the message And deleting the message after the set automatic deletion time has elapsed at the received time.

As described above, the conventional SMS message management automatically deletes the SMS message when the automatic deletion time has elapsed based on the reception time of the SMS message.

In general, the SMS message may be re-received as needed since the cost of re-receipt is small, but the re-receipt of content has a relatively difficult problem because it is relatively expensive.

Accordingly, in the related art, there is an urgent need to develop a technology capable of efficiently managing content downloaded to a mobile communication terminal and preventing content from being automatically deleted due to carelessness of a user.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a content management method and a mobile communication terminal capable of automatically deleting contents downloaded to a mobile terminal when the user-defined automatic deletion period elapses, so that memory areas are not allocated for unnecessary contents. do.

In addition, another object of the present invention to provide a content management method and a mobile communication terminal that can not automatically delete the content that the user does not want to be deleted due to user carelessness.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a content management method and a mobile communication terminal capable of distinguishing unnecessary contents by calculating an automatic deletion period based on an unused period and deleting the contents.

The mobile communication terminal according to the present invention according to the present invention for achieving the above object and to solve the problems of the prior art is to store the downloaded content and the automatic deletion period information, deletion notification information corresponding to each content; A memory unit; A display device controller and a display device for displaying various kinds of information; A user interface unit providing an interface with a user; And storing the automatic deletion period information and the deletion notification information about the content corresponding to the corresponding content in the memory unit, checking whether there is content that has passed the automatic deletion period every predetermined time, and the automatic deletion period has elapsed. If the content is present, the deletion notification information of the content is read, and if the deletion notification information indicates the deletion notification, the deletion notification screen of the content is displayed on the display device, and the user is displayed after displaying the deletion notification screen. And a controller for deleting a corresponding content from the memory unit when a delete command is input through an interface unit.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described an embodiment of the present invention;

First, the configuration of a mobile communication terminal to which the present invention is applicable will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

The control unit 110 not only controls the mobile communication terminal as a whole, but also automatically deletes downloaded contents after an automatic deletion period set by a user according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The display device 120 displays a guide screen for inquiring the user of whether to delete. In particular, the control unit 110 deletes the content on the basis of the unused period by setting the start time of the automatic deletion period as the end time of playing the content.

The mobile communication unit 112 provides a mobile communication service inherent in the mobile communication terminal. The memory unit 114 stores a variety of information including the control program of the control unit 110, in particular, the content in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and stores the content playback end time for each content playback end, by content Save the automatic deletion period. The user interface 116 receives a variety of information or commands from a user by using a keypad or the like and provides the received information or command to the controller 110. The display device controller 118 displays various types of information on the display device 120 under the control of the controller 110. The voice processing unit 112 converts the audio data into an audio signal under the control of the controller 110 and outputs the audio data through the speaker 126 or converts the audio signal provided from the microphone 124 into audio data to the controller 110. to provide.

A content management method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention applicable to the above mobile communication terminal will now be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2 to 9.

First, a process of setting the automatic deletion period for the downloaded content will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 2.

The controller 110 checks whether the content is downloaded, and if the content is downloaded, stores it in the memory unit 114 (steps 210 and 212).

After the storage of the content is completed through the above process, the control unit 110 checks whether the user commands the entry of the automatic deletion setting menu through the user interface unit 116 (step 214).

Here, the entry of the automatic deletion setting menu may be made through a menu screen as shown in FIG. 3, and the automatic deletion setting item (A) is included in the menu screen. That is, the user may instruct the entry into the automatic deletion setting menu by selecting the automatic deletion setting item A of the menu screen through the user interface unit 116.

When the user instructs the user to enter the automatic deletion setting menu through the menu screen, the controller 110 displays a list of contents stored in the memory unit 114 and selects contents to perform automatic deletion setting among the displayed contents. The user is guided to select (step 216).

Here, the content list and the guide screen for guiding content selection may be configured as shown in FIG. 4. In the guide screen configured in FIG. 4, the identification information B of the contents stored in the memory unit 114 is displayed in the form of a list, and the user displays one of the displayed content identification information through the user interface unit 116. You can choose.

After displaying the content list and the guide screen for guiding the selection of the content, the controller 110 checks whether the user selects the content to perform the automatic deletion setting through the user interface 116 with reference to the guide screen ( Step 218).

When the user selects the content to perform the automatic deletion setting, the controller 110 displays a guide screen for selecting the automatic deletion period and whether to notify the deletion on the display device 120 (step 220).

The guide screen for selecting the automatic deletion period and the deletion notification may be configured as shown in FIG. 5. The guide screen configured in FIG. 5 includes a selection button C for selecting various automatic deletion periods, that is, one, one week, one month, one year, and the like, and a selection button D for selecting a deletion notification. In addition, the user may select whether or not to automatically delete period and deletion notification through the selection button (C, D).

After displaying the guide screen for selecting the automatic deletion period and whether to delete the notification, the controller 110 determines whether the user selects the automatic deletion period and the deletion notification through the user interface unit 116 with reference to the guide screen. Check (step 222).

When the user selects the automatic deletion period and the deletion notification, the controller 110 stores the selected automatic deletion period and the deletion notification in the memory unit 114 corresponding to the selected content.

In addition, the control unit 110 of the mobile communication terminal stores information on the content playback end time to detect the last content playback end time to determine the content deletion time, which will be described with reference to FIG.

Each time the content is played, the controller 110 checks the end time of playing the content (step 610). If the content finishes playing, the controller 110 stores the playback end time of the reproduced content in the memory unit 114 corresponding to the corresponding content (step 612).

As a result, as shown in FIG. 9, the contents of the memory unit 114 are stored correspondingly to the end of playback, automatic deletion period, and deletion notification information indicating the time of the last playback.

A method of automatically deleting content by using the information configured as described above will now be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 7.

The controller 110 of the mobile communication terminal checks whether there is content whose automatic deletion period has elapsed every time a predetermined time has elapsed, and checks whether a predetermined time has elapsed (step 710).

If the predetermined time has elapsed, the controller 110 checks whether the content stored in the memory 114 has elapsed in the automatic deletion period. Here, the content of which the automatic deletion period has elapsed refers to content whose time from the end of playback to the current time exceeds the automatic deletion period.

If there is content that has passed the automatic deletion period, the controller 110 checks whether a plurality of content that has passed the automatic deletion period has passed.

If the content of which the automatic deletion period has elapsed is not large, the controller 110 reads deletion notification information from the memory unit 114 corresponding to the content to be deleted.

When the deletion notification status information is read, the controller 110 checks whether the read deletion notification information indicates a deletion notification (step 718).

If the read deletion notification information does not indicate the deletion notification, the controller 110 deletes the corresponding content (step 724). Here, the playback end time, automatic deletion period, and deletion notification information stored corresponding to the content to be deleted are also deleted.

On the other hand, if the read deletion notification information indicates the deletion notification, the controller 110 displays a screen for asking whether to delete the corresponding content on the display device 120 to guide the user to the deletion of the corresponding content (720). step).

As shown in FIG. 8, the query screen includes a screen for querying whether to automatically delete content such as “sky” and the like, and a user may select deletion or deletion hold for the corresponding content through the user interface 116. .

After displaying the query screen, the controller 110 checks whether the user commands deletion of the corresponding content according to the query screen (step 722).

When the user instructs to delete the corresponding content, the controller 110 deletes the corresponding content from the memory unit 114 (step 724). Here, the playback end time, automatic deletion period, and deletion notification information stored corresponding to the content to be deleted are also deleted.

On the other hand, when the user commands the deletion hold, the controller 110 terminates the process without deleting the content.

On the other hand, if there is a large number of contents that have passed the automatic deletion period, the controller 110 reads deletion notification information on any one of the contents to be deleted after the automatic deletion period has passed (step 726).

When the deletion notification information is read, the controller 110 checks whether the read deletion notification information indicates a deletion notification (step 728).

If the read deletion notification information does not indicate the deletion notification, the controller 110 deletes the corresponding content (step 734). Here, the playback end time, automatic deletion period, and deletion notification information stored corresponding to the content to be deleted are also deleted.

On the other hand, if the read-out deletion notification information indicates a deletion notification, the controller 110 displays a screen that asks whether to delete the corresponding content on the display device 120 to inform the user of the deletion of the corresponding content (730). step).

After displaying the query screen, the controller 110 checks whether the user commands deletion of the corresponding content according to the query screen (step 732).

When the user instructs to delete the corresponding content, the controller 110 deletes the corresponding content from the memory unit 114 (step 734). Here, the playback end time, automatic deletion period, and deletion notification information stored corresponding to the content to be deleted are also deleted.

On the contrary, if the user commands the deletion hold, the controller 110 proceeds to step 736 without deleting the corresponding content.

After the deletion notification information does not indicate the deletion notification, the corresponding content is deleted without the deletion notification, or the deletion notification information indicates the deletion notification, and after the deletion notification of the corresponding content is deleted or the deletion is suspended, the controller ( 110 checks whether the deletion of all the content to be deleted is completed (step 736).

If the deletion of all the content to be deleted has not been completed, the controller 110 returns to step 726 to perform the deletion of the next content to be deleted and ends the process if the deletion of all the content to be deleted is completed.

In addition, the above-described embodiment of the present invention includes a computer-readable medium containing program instructions for performing various computer-implemented operations. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. The program instructions on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. The medium may also be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal wire, a waveguide, or the like including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal specifying a program command, a data structure, or the like.

According to the present invention, the contents downloaded to the mobile communication terminal are automatically deleted when the user-defined automatic deletion period elapses, thereby preventing the memory area from being allocated for unnecessary contents.

In addition, the present invention has the effect that the content that the user does not want to be deleted due to the carelessness of the user is not automatically deleted.

In addition, the present invention has the effect of distinguishing unnecessary content by deleting the content by calculating the automatic deletion period based on the unused period.

As described above, the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which can be variously modified and modified by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Modifications are possible.                     

Accordingly, the spirit of the present invention should be understood only by the claims set forth below, and all equivalent or equivalent modifications thereof will belong to the scope of the present invention.

Claims (5)

In the mobile communication terminal, A memory unit for storing the downloaded content, automatic deletion period information corresponding to each content, and deletion notification information; A display device controller and a display device for displaying various kinds of information; A user interface unit providing an interface with a user; And The automatic deletion period information and the deletion notification information about the content are stored in the memory unit corresponding to the corresponding content, and the content that has passed the automatic deletion period is checked by checking whether there is any content that has passed the automatic deletion period every predetermined time. If present, the deletion notification information of the corresponding content is read. If the deletion notification information indicates the deletion notification, the deletion notification screen of the corresponding content is displayed on the display device, and after displaying the deletion notification screen, the user interface unit is displayed. A control unit for deleting a corresponding content from the memory unit when a delete command is input through the memory unit; Mobile communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, wherein the control unit, And determining whether the automatic deletion time has elapsed depending on whether the time from the end of playback of the content to the current time exceeds the automatic deletion period information. The method of claim 2, wherein the control unit, Mobile communication terminal, characterized in that for storing the automatic deletion period information and the deletion notification information for any content input through the user interface unit corresponding to the content. In the content management method of a mobile communication terminal, Storing the automatic deletion period information and the deletion notification information about the downloaded content in a memory unit corresponding to the corresponding content; Checking whether there is content whose automatic deletion period has elapsed every predetermined time; Reading the deletion notification information on the corresponding content from the memory unit if the content of which the automatic deletion period has elapsed exists; If the deletion notification information indicates a deletion notification, displaying a deletion notification screen of the corresponding content on a display device; Checking whether a deletion command is input through a user interface unit after displaying the deletion notification screen; And Deleting the content when the delete command is input; Content management method of a mobile communication terminal comprising a. A readable recording medium for recording a program for executing the method of claim 4 on a computer.

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