KR20060129633A - Method for provide history menu of mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for providing a history menu in a mobile communication terminal is provided to automatically register an executed program to an item of a history menu if a user executes an arbitrary program installed in the mobile communication terminal, thereby enabling the user to conveniently execute a program recently executed when executing it again. A method for providing a history menu in a mobile communication terminal comprises the following steps of: receiving an arbitrary item out of bottom items in a tree structure and executing a program corresponding to the item(S17); storing a start number of the executed program to pointer n of a history menu queue after deleting a program start number registered to pointer 0 of the history menu queue and changing a pointer value of the remaining registered program start number into a value lower than a current pointer value as much as 1(S19,S21); executing a program corresponding to a checked start number after receiving a history menu display command and checking the program registered to the history menu queue(S13~S31); and repeating the second step.

Description

Method for providing history menu of mobile communication terminal

1A and 1B are front and rear views showing the appearance of a mobile communication terminal applicable to the present invention, respectively;

2 is an electrical block diagram of a mobile communication terminal that can be applied to the present invention;

3 is a view illustrating a queue structure of a history menu according to the present invention;

4 is a view for explaining updating of a history menu according to the present invention;

5 is a flowchart illustrating a history menu providing method of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

*** Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawing ***

100: mobile communication terminal 110: main body

112: numeric / character key buttons 113: microphone hole

114: Volume button 115: History menu button

116: Standard terminal slot 117: Camera lens

118: flash 120: slider

121: Function key button 122: Flat panel indicator

123: speaker hole 125: infrared communication element

130: antenna 140: battery pack

143: charging terminal 210: control unit

220: radio frequency transmitting and receiving unit 222: antenna

230: key input unit 232: function keys

234: numeric / character keys 240: memory

242: program storage unit 244: data storage unit

250: voice signal processor 252: microphone

254: speaker 260: flat panel display driver

262: flat panel indicator 270: vibration generating unit

272: vibration motor 274: LED drive unit

276: LED 280: camera driver

282: CCD camera 284: image processing unit

286: infrared transmitting and receiving unit 288: GPS processing unit

300: History menu screen 310: Title bar

320: item 330: selection button bar

400: history menu cue 410: pointer

500: Program area 510: Start address

The present invention relates to a method of providing a history menu of a mobile communication terminal. In particular, when an arbitrary program installed in a mobile communication terminal is executed, the executed program is automatically registered as an item of the history menu, so that a recently executed program can be easily executed. The present invention relates to a method of providing a history menu of a mobile communication terminal.

The mobile communication terminal, which is a necessity for modern people, is not only compact and lightweight due to steady development, but also is emerging as a complex communication terminal having various functions such as mp3, camera and navigation. In addition to the above functions, such a mobile terminal has a voice mail service (called a voice mail service) that allows a sender to leave a message in a recipient's voice mailbox or a fax mailbox when the receiver cannot answer a call. Voice Activated Dialing Service, a mobile communication terminal screen that allows you to make a voice call without having to dial a phone number. You can receive numbers and text messages (about 40 ~ 50 letters in English, about 80 letters in English) or various life information as texts. If you use the voice mail service, you will be notified by mobile phone when a message arrives at the voice mail. Various features and services, including support for Short Message Service (SMS) It provides.

Meanwhile, the mobile communication terminal provides various services such as phone number search, photo shooting, tetris, text message writing, and calculator in addition to the above-described functions. These programs are classified by types to form categories, and the following menus and items have a tree structure. The user is configured to execute the necessary programs sequentially by selecting a category list and items.

However, this tree structure is cumbersome to execute a program by selecting several steps such as categories, lists, and items each time to execute an arbitrary program.

Therefore, in the case of frequently used programs, the user can compose a favorite menu in response to a predetermined key button, so that the program can be executed conveniently and quickly in 2002 Patent Publication No. 57260 and 2002 Patent Publication No. 78419. Is disclosed.

However, according to the conventional favorites menu, there is an advantage that the user can register the program frequently used and can be re-executed quickly and conveniently, while there is a problem that the user frequently registers the program frequently used to use the favorite menu.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, by automatically storing the program used by the user in sequence to register as an item of the history menu, the history of the mobile communication terminal to quickly and conveniently rerun the recently used program The purpose is to provide a menu providing method.

Method for providing a history menu of a mobile communication terminal of the present invention for achieving the above object is a history storage program and a program storage unit stored in each start address classified in a tree structure; It is performed by a control unit of a mobile communication terminal including a data storage unit for storing a history menu queue having n pointers and a control unit for controlling the key input unit, program storage unit and data storage unit, and (a) in the tree structure. Selecting an item among the lowest items and executing a corresponding program; (b) Delete the program start address registered in pointer 0 of the history menu queue, change the pointer value of the remaining registered program start address to one less than the current pointer value, and then start the address of the executed program. Storing at pointer n of said history menu queue; (c) receiving a history menu display command and checking a program registered in the history menu queue, and then displaying the name of the checked program in the history menu in the order of pointers; (d) selecting any program among the displayed history menus, checking a program start address stored in a pointer of a history menu queue corresponding to the selected program, and then executing a program corresponding to the checked start address; and (e) It provides a history menu providing method of a mobile communication terminal comprising the step of repeating step (b).

Hereinafter, a history menu providing method of a mobile communication terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail.

1A and 1B are a front view and a rear view showing an appearance of a mobile communication terminal applicable to the present invention, respectively, illustrating a slide type mobile communication terminal. Of course, it should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the terminal of this manner and structure. As shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B, a mobile communication terminal (hereinafter, also referred to as a "terminal") 100 to which the present invention can be applied includes a main body 110 and a flat panel display 122 having a main circuit built therein. It may be made to include a slider 120 that slides up and down in the main body 110 while mounting.

In the above-described configuration, the front of the main body 110 has a number / letter key button 112 is used to receive the numbers and letters, the upper surface to perform infrared communication (IrDA) with the antenna and other external communication devices The infrared communication element 125 to be used is disposed, and a microphone hole 113 communicating with an internal microphone (not shown) is drilled in a lower portion of the bottom. The main body 110 is also provided with a rear surface in place, for example, a camera lens 117 and a flash 118 for illumination at night, and a battery pack 140 is detachable at the bottom thereof. The lower surface of the main body 110 is provided with a standard connection terminal slot 116 through which power for transmitting / receiving data with other terminals or charging the battery pack 140 coupled to the main body 110 is transmitted. .

On the other hand, the front surface of the slider 120 is provided with a flat panel display 122 for displaying various characters or graphic elements indicating the operation and operation state of the mobile communication terminal 100 and still images and moving pictures, and below the terminal ( A function key button 121 used to select or receive various functions included in 100 is disposed. Further, a speaker hole 123 communicating with an internal speaker (not shown) is drilled in place of the slider 120, for example, the flat display 122. In the drawing, reference numeral 114 denotes a volume button, 115 denotes a history menu button, and 143 denotes a charging terminal exposed at a lower portion of the battery pack 140.

2 is an electrical block diagram of a mobile communication terminal to which the present invention can be applied. As shown in FIG. 2, the electrical configuration of the mobile communication terminal to which the present invention can be applied includes a radio frequency transmitter / receiver 220 and a number / character that transmit / receive a radio frequency signal with a base station through an antenna 222. Key input unit 230 and history menu including a function key input unit 232 and a numeric / character key input unit 234 for generating a corresponding key signal when the key button 112 and the function key button 121 are operated. The memory 240 includes a program storage unit 242 in which various application programs such as programs are stored in a tree structure, and a data storage unit 244 for temporarily storing data generated in a calculation process or storing data set by a user. A microphone 252 for converting an external sound wave into a corresponding analog type voice signal, a speaker 254 for converting an analog type voice signal generated inside the terminal into a sound wave, An audio signal processor 250 and a flat panel display for converting an analog voice signal input from the microphone 252 into a corresponding digital voice signal and converting the digital voice signal into a corresponding analog voice signal and outputting the same to the speaker 254. 262 and the vibrating motor 272 that generates vibration when the flat panel display driver 260 and the terminal 100 operate in the vibrate mode, and the driving unit 270 and visually display an event such as a call or message reception. Including the LED 276 and the driving unit 274, the infrared ray transmitting and receiving unit 286 for emitting infrared rays as a short-range communication means and the infrared rays emitted from the outside, and a control unit 210 for controlling them collectively Can be done.

In addition to the mobile communication terminal to which the present invention is applied, a camera driver 280 for driving the CCD camera 282 under the control of the control unit 210 and the CCD camera 282 installed in place of the main body 110 or the slider 120. ), An image processing unit 284 for processing image data output from the CCD camera 282 and a GPS processing unit 288 for receiving absolute radio signals emitted from GPS satellites and generating absolute position data of the terminal. Could be.

The above-described history menu program can be executed through the history menu button 115, and is achieved by storing a start address of an arbitrary program executed by a user in a queue structure.

3 is a diagram illustrating a queue structure of a history menu according to the present invention, a history menu screen 300 having items displayed in the order in which a program executed by a user is recently executed, and a program stored in each address; The start address 510 of the program stored in the program area 500 and the data storage 244 of the unit 242 is stored in the program storage unit 242 in the order of the items of the history menu screen 300. It comprises a history menu queue 400 stored in a first-in, first-out structure.

In the above-described configuration, the history menu screen 300 includes a title bar 310 in which the name of the executed program is displayed, an item 320 in which the name of the program is displayed in the order of registration, and a selection circle provided for each item 320 ( 340 and a selection button bar 330 provided with a confirmation button 331 capable of executing the item 320 selected by the selection circle 340 and a cancel button 333 for canceling it. Reference numeral 410 in the drawing indicates a pointer to a history menu cue.

Accordingly, after receiving and executing a history menu execution command from the history menu button 115, one of the items 320 of the history menu is selected, and a pointer of the history menu queue 400 corresponding to the selected item 320 is selected. By checking the start address of the program stored in 410 and reading the program corresponding to the identified start address 510 in the program area 500, fast redo of the recently executed program is achieved.

Figure 4 is a diagram for explaining the update of the history menu according to the present invention, the result of running the calculator program in Figure 3, the basic setting of the history menu consists of four items to register the recently used program to the upper It is.

Therefore, when the calculator program is executed in the state as shown in FIG. 3, the text message composing item 321 that was executed the longest time is deleted, and the remaining items 323, 325, and 327 are moved downward by one step, that is, down. The calculator 329 most recently executed is registered at a higher level.

At this time, the history menu queue 400 deletes the start address stored in the queue pointer 410 0 corresponding to the deleted text message creation item 321, that is, the start address of the text message creation program, and all remaining program start addresses are queued. The pointer 410 decreases by one, and the start address of the executed calculator program is registered in the cue pointer 410 3.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a history menu providing method of a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention.

As shown in Fig. 5, it is determined in step S11 whether there is a key input from the user. As a result of the determination in step S11, if there is no key input, step S11 is repeated until there is a key input, and if there is a key input, the flow advances to step S13 to determine whether the history menu execution command is performed. As a result of the determination in step S13, in the case of executing the history menu, the process proceeds to step S27 where the name of the program 320 corresponding to the start address registered in the history menu queue 400 is indicated according to the pointer 410. If it is not a history menu execution command, the flow advances to step S15 to determine whether it is an item selection command in the category.

As a result of the determination in step S15, if the item is not selected in the category, the flow proceeds to step S25 to execute a command corresponding to the key input. In case of selection of the item in the category, the flow proceeds to step S17 to execute the program corresponding to the selected item. Let's do it.

Subsequently, in step S19, the program start address registered in the pointer 410 0 of the history menu queue is deleted, and then the pointer 410 value of each program start address remaining in step S21 is changed. At this time, the value of the pointer 410 is changed to a value smaller than the value of the current pointer 410, and in step S23, the start address 510 of the executed program is stored in the pointer 410 3 of the history menu queue 400. .

On the other hand, in step S29 it is determined whether any of the items 320 of the displayed history menu is selected. As a result of the determination in step 29, if it is not selected, step S29 is repeated until it is selected, and if so, proceeds to step S31 and checks the starting address 510 stored in the pointer 410 of the selected item 320 and then confirms it. The program corresponding to the start address 510 is read from the program area 500 of the program storage unit 242 and executed, and then the process proceeds to step S19.

Meanwhile, in this detailed description, when an arbitrary program is executed, the starting address stored in the lower cue pointer 410 is deleted and the starting address of the executed program is registered in the upper cue pointer 410, but the executed program is already displayed in the history menu. In the case of a registered program, by checking this, the queue pointer 410 of the already registered start address may be moved upward, and only the queue pointers 410 of the start addresses that are located above the moved queue pointer may be moved one space downward. There will be.

The history menu providing method of the mobile communication terminal of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and can be modified in various ways within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

According to the history menu providing method of the mobile communication terminal of the present invention as described above, if any program installed in the mobile communication terminal is executed, the executed program is automatically registered by registering the executed program as an item of the history menu. When re-executing, it can be easily executed, and when another person uses the mobile communication terminal without user's knowledge, this can be easily recognized.

Claims (2)

A program storage unit classified into a history menu program and various programs in a tree structure and stored according to a start address; Is performed by the controller of the mobile communication terminal including a data storage unit for storing a history menu queue having n pointers, and a control unit for controlling the key input unit, program storage unit and data storage unit, (a) selecting any item among the lowest items in the tree structure and executing a corresponding program; (b) Delete the program start address registered in pointer 0 of the history menu queue, change the pointer value of the remaining registered program start address to one less than the current pointer value, and then start the address of the executed program. Storing at pointer n of said history menu queue; (c) receiving a history menu display command and checking a program registered in the history menu queue, and then displaying the name of the checked program in the history menu in the order of pointers; (d) selecting an arbitrary program from the displayed history menu and checking a program start address stored in a pointer of a history menu queue corresponding to the selected program, and then executing a program corresponding to the checked start address; (e) a history menu providing method of a mobile communication terminal comprising repeating step (b). The method of claim 1, The mobile communication terminal is provided with a key input unit for generating a corresponding key signal when operating a function key button including a numeric / character key button and a history menu key button. The history menu display command is a key signal generated from the history menu key button.

Images