KR20170118667A - Method and apparatus for providing clipboard function in a portable terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing a clipboard function capable of copying and pasting one or more clip data according to a user's selection in a portable terminal and then pasting the clip data whenever necessary, and a portable terminal supporting the clipboard function. A portable terminal provided with a board, comprising: a touch screen; Displaying a display area for displaying a screen corresponding to a user's command on the touch screen in response to execution of at least one application, displaying a clipboard area in a part of the touch screen by a user's command, And controlling the display of the clip data selected by the user among the one or more clip data displayed in the area on the display area.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a clipboard function in a mobile terminal,

The present invention relates to a method of providing a clipboard function and a portable terminal supporting the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for copying text and multimedia data and storing the same in a clipboard as clip data, And a portable terminal supporting the clipboard function.

2. Description of the Related Art [0002] With the recent development of digital technology, various portable terminals capable of mobile communication and personal information processing such as a mobile communication terminal, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), an electronic notebook, a smart phone, a tablet PC, Such a mobile terminal has various functions such as a video call, an electronic note function, a document function, an e-mail function, and an internet function in the initial simple voice call and short message transmission function through rapid technology development.

Meanwhile, recently, a portable terminal supports a clipboard function for copying and pasting predetermined data. However, in the conventional portable terminal, the clipboard function supports copying and pasting only one data at a time. Therefore, when a user wishes to copy and paste multiple data, it is necessary to repeat the operation of moving to the screen having the source data every time, copying it, switching to the screen to paste again, and pasting the copied text .

In addition, the existing clipboard function can copy and paste only one independent object such as text or image, which can be copied and stored. Therefore, there is a problem that text and image can not be copied and pasted at the same time on a web browsing screen provided by interworking with the Internet function.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of providing a clipboard function capable of implementing an optimal environment for supporting a clipboard function in a portable terminal and a portable terminal supporting the same.

An object of the present invention is to provide a clipboard capable of copying a plurality of data in advance in a portable terminal and storing the clip data in the clipboard as respective clip data, A function providing method and a portable terminal supporting the same.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a method of providing a clipboard function capable of copying and pasting a combination of multimedia data such as image, sound, and moving picture and text data, and a portable terminal supporting the same.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a clipboard function providing method for improving user convenience, usability of a portable terminal, competitiveness of a portable terminal by implementing an optimal environment for supporting a clipboard function of the portable terminal, .

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for providing a clipboard, the apparatus comprising: a touch screen; Displaying a display area for displaying a screen corresponding to a user's command on the touch screen in response to execution of at least one application, displaying a clipboard area in a part of the touch screen by a user's command, And controlling the display of the clip data selected by the user among the one or more clip data displayed in the area on the display area.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of operating a clipboard in a portable terminal provided with a clipboard, the method comprising: executing at least one application; Displaying a display area on a touch screen for displaying a screen corresponding to a user command when the application is executed; Displaying a clipboard area on a part of the touch screen by an instruction of the user; And displaying clip data selected by a user among one or more clip data displayed in the clipboard area on the display area.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a clipboard function of a portable terminal, the method comprising: displaying a first screen of original data for data copy; Displaying a second screen for inputting clip data, displaying a clipboard window on the second screen, selecting a user selected in the clipboard window, And then pasting the clip data on the second screen.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a clipboard function of a mobile terminal, the method comprising: displaying a screen including original data; displaying a screen including the original data; The method comprising the steps of: assigning copying data according to a first event in a state where copying data is designated; copying the copying data according to a second event in a state where the copying data is designated to generate clip data; And storing the preview data corresponding to the preview data in the clipboard.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a clipboard function of a portable terminal, including the steps of: displaying a screen capable of inputting predetermined data; Displaying clipboard windows according to a clip data call event stored in a clipboard on the screen; calling clip data of preview data according to a selection event among preview data of the clipboard window from a clipboard; Pasting the called clip data into the area designated according to the selection event on the screen, and maintaining or removing the clipboard window on the screen after pasting the clip data.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a clipboard function of a portable terminal, the method comprising: displaying a screen on which a user can input predetermined data; Displaying a clipboard window including at least one preview data, detecting an event instructing to paste clip data by predetermined preview data while the clipboard window is displayed, The method comprising the steps of: determining whether the type of the application is a web-language-supported application, determining whether the type of the application is a web-language-supported application, Confirming the support format, Converting the format of the data to correspond to the support format of the application, and pasting the converted data on the screen.

In order to accomplish the above objects, an embodiment of the present invention includes a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for causing a processor to execute the method.

The foregoing is a somewhat broad summary of features and technical advantages of the present invention in order that those skilled in the art will be better able to understand it from the following detailed description of the present invention. Additional features and advantages of the present invention, which form the subject matter of the claims of the invention, in addition to those features and advantages, will be better understood from the following detailed description of the invention.

As described above, according to the method and apparatus for providing the clipboard function in the portable terminal proposed by the present invention, it is possible to realize an optimal environment for supporting the clipboard function in the portable terminal. According to the present invention, a user can collect various data in a mobile environment and then paste the desired clip data through the clipboard window at any time without any time and space restrictions, thereby providing convenience for the user. In addition, according to the present invention, it is possible to solve the inconvenience of copying a plurality of different data and pasting them one by one through application switching for each data when pasting on the execution screen of another application.

In addition, according to the present invention, a portable terminal can copy a plurality of data in advance, store the clip data in the clipboard as respective clip data, and call the stored clip data through the clipboard window according to a user's desire to support pasting at any time. According to the present invention, it is possible to copy and paste a combination of multimedia data such as image, sound, and moving picture data and text data. The clipboard function of the present invention can be implemented in all types of portable terminals and various devices corresponding thereto. According to the present invention, it is possible to implement an optimal environment for supporting the clipboard function in the portable terminal, thereby improving the convenience of the user in the clipboard function in the portable terminal and improving the usability and competitiveness of the portable terminal .

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing a configuration of a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of copying data and generating and storing clip data in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.
3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a clip data generation operation in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;
4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a preview data generation operation in a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of pasting clip data stored in a clipboard in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.
6 is a view illustrating an example of a screen in which a clipboard window is displayed in a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a view illustrating an example of a screen on which clip data pasted in a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention is displayed;
8A and 8B are views illustrating an operation example of operating a clipboard function in a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention,
9 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of pasting clip data stored in a clipboard in a mobile terminal according to an application-specific format according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Note that, in the drawings, the same components are denoted by the same reference symbols as possible. Further, the detailed description of well-known functions and constructions that may obscure the gist of the present invention will be omitted. In other words, it should be noted that only parts necessary for understanding the operation according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described, and descriptions of other parts will be omitted so as not to disturb the gist of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a method of providing a clipboard function capable of copying and pasting one or more clip data according to a user's selection in a portable terminal, and then pasting the clip data whenever necessary, and a portable terminal supporting the same. In particular, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the portable terminal can copy the copy data in which text and multimedia data are combined on a predetermined application execution screen (for example, a web page screen) and store the copied data as clip data in the clipboard. The present invention relates to a method of providing a clipboard function capable of calling one or more clip data stored in a clipboard window on a new application execution screen and pasting the clip data at any time according to a user's need, and a portable terminal supporting the same.

Hereinafter, a configuration of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention and a method of controlling an operation thereof will be described with reference to the following drawings. However, it should be noted that the configuration of the mobile terminal and the control method thereof according to the embodiment of the present invention are not limited to or limited to the following description, and thus can be applied to various embodiments based on the following embodiments.

1 is a view schematically showing a configuration of a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, the portable terminal includes a communication module 110, a display unit 120, a storage unit 130, and a controller 150. [ In addition, the portable terminal may include an audio processing unit including a microphone and a speaker, a digital broadcasting module for performing reception and reproduction of digital broadcasting (e.g., mobile broadcasting such as DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) and DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) At least one short range communication module for supporting short range wireless communication based communication functions such as Bluetooth (BLUETOOTH) communication, IrDA (Infrared Data Association), RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) communication, NFC A touch pad and a touch screen for supporting touch-based input, an input unit for supporting a physical key input, and a battery for supplying power to the above-described configurations. And a description thereof will be omitted.

The communication module 110 represents a module for supporting services such as a mobile communication based mobile communication service, a wireless local area network (WLAN) based Internet service (e.g., Wi-Fi service) The communication module 110 forms a communication channel established with a network to which the mobile terminal belongs, and can process data transmission / reception through the formed communication channel. Particularly, in the embodiment of the present invention, the communication module 110 can receive web-based data (for example, a web page written in a web language).

The display unit 120 may display data related to an operation state and an operation of the portable terminal. For example, the display unit 120 may include a home screen, a message function, an email function, an internet function, a search function, a communication function, an electronic book (e. Function, a photo / video playback function, a mobile broadcast playback function, a music playback function, a game function, and the like. In particular, the display unit 120 may display a display area for displaying a screen capable of inputting predetermined data according to a user command, and a clipboard area called by a user command. The display unit 120 may display a web page screen received by the communication module 110 in the display area. The display unit 120 displays a portion corresponding to the user selection on the web page screen in a block designation and pastes clip data including at least one of text and multimedia data in a position specified by a user in another screen . In the present invention, the display unit 120 may display a clipboard window, which is copied by a user and indicates preview data according to designated clip data, in the clipboard area. A screen example in which the clipboard window is displayed will be described later.

The display unit 120 may be a liquid crystal display (LCD) or a light emitting diode (LED), an organic light emitting diode (OLED), an active OLED , Active Matrix OLED) or the like may be used. The display unit 120 may provide a horizontal mode or a vertical mode according to the rotating direction (or the loaded direction) of the portable terminal when displaying the execution screen (for example, a display area, a clipboard area, can do. In addition, in the embodiment of the present invention, the display unit 120 may include an interface for supporting touch-based input. For example, the display unit 120 may support a touch-based user interaction input by touch screen configuration, and may generate an input signal corresponding to the user interaction input and transmit the input signal to the controller 150.

The storage unit 130 may store various programs and data to be executed and processed by the portable terminal, and may include one or more nonvolatile memories and volatile memories. In the present invention, the non-volatile memory may correspond to a ROM (Read Only Memory), a flash memory, or the like, and the volatile memory may correspond to a RAM (Random Access Memory) or the like. The storage unit 130 stores programs and data related to the operating system of the portable terminal, the display control operation of the display unit 120, a program and data related to the input control operation using the display unit 120, The program and data related to the control operation, the clip data, and the program and data related to the preview data generating operation can be continuously or temporarily stored.

In particular, the storage unit 130 may store various configuration information for operating the clipboard function of the present invention. In the present invention, the setting information may include information on a method of generating clip data and information on a method of downloading multimedia data. The storage unit 130 may store one or more clip data selected by a user and corresponding preview data. In the present invention, the clip data and the preview data are stored in the clipboard 140, and the clip data and preview data stored in the clipboard 140 can be continuously stored until deletion by the user.

The controller 150 controls the overall operation of the portable terminal. In particular, the controller 150 may control operations related to clipboard function operation of the present invention. For example, the control unit 150 copies predetermined data (e.g., text, multimedia data, or text and multimedia data) according to a copy command, and controls generation of clip data and generation of preview data of the copied data can do. In the present invention, the controller 150 may generate and convert clip data based on a Web Language such as HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and XML (eXtensible Markup Language). And generation of preview data using representative data (typical data) or capture data corresponding to the clip data can be controlled when clip data is generated.

The controller 150 may control operations related to clipboard operation. For example, the control unit 150 may display a display area for displaying a screen (e.g., a web page screen, an e-mail creation screen, etc.) corresponding to a user command at the time of executing at least one application according to a user request, As shown in FIG. Also, the controller 150 may control the display of the clipboard window (clipboard area) in a part of the display unit 120 according to a user's command. In addition, the controller 150 may control display of clip data selected by a user from among one or more clip data displayed in the clipboard window on the display area. The detailed control operation of the controller 150 will be described in the operation example of the mobile terminal and the control method thereof with reference to the drawings described later.

In addition to the functions described above, the controller 150 may control various operations related to the normal functions of the portable terminal. For example, the control unit 150 may control its operation and screen display when executing a specific application. In addition, the control unit 150 can receive input signals corresponding to various input methods supported by the touch-based input interface and control the function operation accordingly. In addition, the control unit 150 can control transmission and reception of various data based on a wired communication or a wireless communication.

Meanwhile, the portable terminal of the present invention shown in FIG. 2 can be applied to all types of devices such as a bar type, a folder type, a slide type, a swing type, and a flip type. The portable terminal of the present invention may include all information communication devices, multimedia devices and application devices supporting the clipboard function of the present invention. For example, the mobile terminal may be a mobile communication terminal operating based on communication protocols corresponding to various communication systems, a device such as a tablet PC, a smart phone, . The method of operating the clipboard function of the present invention can be applied to a portable multimedia player (PMP), a digital broadcast player, a PDA (personal digital assistant), a portable game terminal, a television (TV), a large format display (LFD) And may be applied to a device such as a media pole.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a clipboard function in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Particularly, FIG. 2 illustrates an operation of copying predetermined data and generating and storing clip data.

Referring to FIG. 2, the controller 150 may control screen display including predetermined data (operation 201). For example, the control unit 150 may execute a predetermined application in response to a user request, and may control screen display of the executed application. In one example, the control unit 150 may execute a web browsing application according to a user request, and may control the display of a screen (web screen) corresponding to a predetermined web server connected thereto. In the present invention, the predetermined data displayed on the screen includes text, multimedia data such as static images and dynamic images. In addition, the multimedia data may include sound data related to reproduction of a specific audio file. Hereinafter, in the present invention, the text and multimedia data are collectively referred to as source data.

Next, the controller 150 can detect the first event input (step 203). For example, the control unit 150 may input an event for selecting a part of the screen or an entire area in a state where a screen including predetermined data is displayed as described above. In the present invention, the first event may be input based on a touch or physical key input. In the present invention, the first event may correspond to a selection event for selecting a part of original data or original data to be copied and stored according to a clipboard function among blocks constituting the screen. Accordingly, the control unit 150 may designate an area according to the first event on the screen (step 205).

Next, the controller 150 may detect a second event input in a state in which a predetermined region of original data is designated on the screen (Step 207). In the present invention, the second event may correspond to a copy event that instructs the copying of the selected data (i.e., the block designated data) according to the first event (selection event). The second event may be input based on a touch or physical key input.

Next, in step 211, the control unit 150 copies the selected data according to the second event (copy event) (step 209) and generates clip data (step 211). For example, when detecting the second event, the control unit 150 may execute a copy command for data in a block designated area, and generate copied data as clip data. In the present invention, the control unit 150 may generate the selected data in a web language such as HTML and XML when copying according to the second event. The web language may represent a basic programming language used to create a web document (e.g., a web page).

According to the present invention, the clip data includes a command (e.g., a tag) defining a character size, a color of a character, a shape of a character, a static image, a dynamic image, sound data, a hyperlink, ). Therefore, the clip data to be pasted when pasting the stored clip data to other data of a specific screen may appear while maintaining the same form (format) as that of the original data. The paste operation of the present invention will be described later.

Although not shown in FIG. 2, according to the present invention, preview data corresponding to the clip data can be generated and stored when clip data according to the second event is generated. Such preview data generation and storage operations will be described later.

Next, the control unit 150 can control the storage of the generated clip data (step 213). The controller 150 may store the clip data in the clipboard 140 in the storage unit 130 and the clip data may be stored separately from other clip data stored in the clipboard 140 . At this time, in the present invention, preview data corresponding to the clip data can be connected and stored when clip data is stored. For example, the clip data and the corresponding preview data can be matched and stored according to the meta information. Therefore, when preview data provided in the clipboard window described later is selected, the clip data linked to the selected clip data is called and may be pasted at a position corresponding to the user's selection. This operation will be described later.

Although illustration and description thereof are omitted in FIG. 2, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the area designation according to the first event and the data copy operation according to the second event can be repeatedly performed a plurality of times according to the user's selection have. Accordingly, the clip data stored in the clipboard can store a plurality of different clip data according to the user's selection. The data stored in the clipboard can be stored temporarily, semi-permanently or permanently according to the setting or management of the user.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a clipboard function operating method in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Particularly, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of clip data generation operation according to FIG.

Referring to FIG. 3, the control unit 150 distinguishes types of data (hereinafter referred to as copy data) in a designated area according to the first event when generating clip data according to data copying (step 301) It can be determined whether the data is data based on the web language or general data (step 303). For example, the control unit 150 can discriminate whether the data of the designated area is data (hereinafter, web language format data) provided by a specific server on the web or data (general format data) have. The division may be performed by an application (e.g., a web browsing application) or the like (for example, a word application or the like) provided by the mobile terminal itself, which is connected to the Internet network or the mobile communication network and displays data provided by a specific server ).

Next, if the copy data is the general format data (NO in step 303), the control unit 150 can control generation of clip data according to the setting method (step 305). For example, when the copy data is the general format data, the control unit 150 copies the copy data as it is in the original form to generate clip data, or converts the copy data into a web language (e.g., HTML or XML) And can be generated as clip data. At this time, when the copy data includes text and multimedia data such as a static image, the control unit 150 may copy both text and multimedia data to generate clip data.

Next, if the copy data is web language format data (YES in step 303), the controller 150 may extract a source of the copy data (step 307). For example, the control unit 150 may extract a tag of a web language (e.g., HTML or XML) constituting the copy data among the original data.

Next, the controller 150 may determine whether multimedia data is included in the copy data based on the extracted source (step 309). For example, the control unit 150 may determine whether there is a tag that defines a hyperlink with respect to static images, dynamic images, sound data, and the like by analyzing the source of the copy data.

If the copy data does not include the multimedia data (NO in step 309), the controller 150 controls the generation of the clip data based on the text of the copy data (step 313). At this time, the control unit 150 copies only the pure text according to the setting method when the copy data includes only text, generates clip data, or maintains the copy data in the form of a web language (e.g., HTML or XML) , And clip language data based on the web language. Here, when generating clip data based on the web language, the clip data may be configured by a tag that defines a character size, a color, a character shape, a hyperlink, and the like of a text that forms the copy data.

Next, the controller 150 downloads the multimedia data according to the setting method when the copy data includes the multimedia data (YES in step 309) (step 311), and controls the creation of the clip data according to the download method step). For example, in the present invention, a download method for multimedia data includes a first download method for downloading and copying multimedia data itself, and a second download method for copying link information (or address information) of a web server storing multimedia data Can be set in one manner.

In the case of the first download method, the controller 150 may download the multimedia data included in the copy data when copying the copy data from the corresponding web server (step 311). In step 313, the control unit 150 may generate clip data based on the web language using the text of the copy data and the downloaded multimedia data. That is, the control unit 150 generates a combination of a tag for defining a text in the copy data and a tag for defining multimedia data (for example, static image, dynamic image, sound data) Clip data generation can be controlled. For example, the control unit 150 may include a tag that defines a character size, a color, a letter, and a hyperlink (e.g., a link for accessing the corresponding web server) linked to the text in the copy data, (E.g., meta information (or link) that can be downloaded and called multimedia data stored in the mobile terminal) linked to the downloaded multimedia data among the copied data is controlled can do.

In the case of the second download method, the controller 150 skips the download of the multimedia data included in the copy data when copying the copy data, and outputs the text of the copy data and the link information (or address Information) can be generated using only the web language-based clip data (Step 313). That is, when the clip data is generated, the control unit 150 generates a clip data by a combination of a tag that defines text in the copy data and a tag that defines link information (address information) of the web server in which the multimedia data is stored Can be controlled. For example, the control unit 150 may include a tag that defines a character size, a color, a letter, and a hyperlink (e.g., a link for accessing the corresponding web server) linked to the text in the copy data, A hyperlink to which the multimedia data is linked (for example, a link for accessing the corresponding web server for displaying or reproducing the corresponding multimedia data through a web server connection through which the corresponding multimedia data is stored through a web server connection) You can control the creation of combined clip data with the tags you define.

3, it is assumed that the mobile terminal is connected to the Internet network or the mobile communication network and is connected to a predetermined web server to display a web-based screen . At this time, if the mobile terminal is not connected to the Internet network or the mobile communication network, it may check the network connection state in the previous multimedia data downloading step and connect to the predetermined network accordingly.

4 is a view illustrating an example of a clipboard function operating method in a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. In particular, FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of the preview data generation operation according to FIG.

Referring to FIG. 4, the preview data may be generated in the second event input step (step 207) or the clip data generation step (step 211) of FIG. 2 in the embodiment of the present invention. That is, the controller 150 may control the generation of the preview data at the input time of the second event for instructing the copying of the copy data as in step 207 of FIG. 2 described above. Alternatively, the control unit 150 may control generation of preview data at the time of generating the clip data as in step 211 of FIG. 2 described above (operation 410).

The controller 150 may generate the preview data using a first method using representative data and a second method using captured data when the preview data is generated. For example, when the copy data is text in the first scheme, the control unit 150 generates preview data using a part or all of the copy data. If the copy data includes one or more multimedia data (for example, a static image) And generating preview data using the stored static image or generating preview data using a combination of the text of the copy data and the downloaded static image combination.

Alternatively, the control unit 150 can internally automatically capture an area designated according to the second event in the second method to generate a captured image, and generate and save the generated captured image as preview data.

Meanwhile, the controller 150 may store actual clip data linked with the preview data when the preview data is generated and stored. For example, meta information or the like capable of calling actual clip data corresponding to each preview data may be set in the header of the preview data.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a clipboard function in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. In particular, FIG. 5 illustrates an example of an operation of pasting clip data stored in the clipboard.

Referring to FIG. 5, the controller 150 may control a screen display in which a user can input predetermined data (e.g., text and multimedia data) (operation 501). For example, the control unit 150 may execute an application capable of inputting data of a user in response to a user request, and may control screen display of an executed application. In the present invention, an application capable of inputting a user's data may include an e-mail application, a document application, a message application, a web browsing application, and a social networking service (SNS) application.

Next, the controller 150 may detect a third event input (step 503). For example, the control unit 150 may input a call event for calling clip data stored in the clipboard in a state where a screen of the execution application is displayed. In the present invention, the third event may be input based on a touch or physical key input.

Next, in step 505, the controller 150 controls the display of the clipboard window on the screen when the third event input is detected while the screen is displayed. In the present invention, the clipboard window displays one or more clip data previously copied and stored by a user as preview data, thereby providing convenience of the user's clipboard function (especially, pasting). This clipboard window of the present invention will be described later with reference to FIG.

Next, the controller 150 may detect a fourth event input when the clipboard window is displayed (step 507). In the present invention, the fourth event may correspond to a pasting event for instructing pasting of specific preview data according to a user's selection among the preview data displayed in the clipboard window to one area on the screen. The fourth event may be input by a touch-based input (e.g., drag and drop input) or by a physical key input (e.g., key input for commanding paste after selection of preview data by direction key adjustment).

Next, the control unit 150 calls the clip data corresponding to the selected preview data from the clipboard according to the fourth event (pasting event) (step 509), and transmits the called clip data to the fourth It can be displayed by pasting in a designated area according to an event (step 511). At this time, as described above, the control unit 150 may display clip data pasted according to the multimedia data download method in the case of clip data including multimedia data. In addition, the controller 150 may display the pasted clip data according to the connection state with the specific network (e.g., the Internet network or the mobile communication network) according to the embodiment of the present invention. Such a paste operation of the present invention will be described later in Fig.

Next, the control unit 150 can determine whether the paste operation is completed as described above (step 513). If the operation is not completed (NO in step 513), the controller 150 proceeds to step 507 and controls the operations below. At this time, the controller 150 may execute another application in response to a user request, display a screen corresponding thereto, and then control the operation of pasting the clip data by the above-described operation. On the other hand, if the operation is completed (YES in step 513), the control unit 150 may omit the display of the clipboard window (step 515). That is, the control unit 150 can remove the clipboard window on the screen.

6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen in which a clipboard window is displayed in a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, a user can input an event for calling clip data in a state in which a screen corresponding to an execution application is displayed in the display area 610, as shown in reference numeral 601. FIG. Then, a clipboard window (clipboard area) 630 may appear in one area on the display area 610 as shown in reference numeral 603. The clipboard window 630 may be overlaid and displayed on the display area 610. Alternatively, the clipboard window 630 may be displayed separately from the display area 610 while pushing the display area 610. In the latter case, the display area 610 is reduced in size by the size of the clipboard window 630, and the clipboard window 630 is placed in the reduced area of the display area 610 .

The clipboard window 630 may be divided into a predetermined number of regions and at least one preview data 635 corresponding to at least one clip data copied and stored by the user may be displayed in each region have. In FIG. 6, the clipboard window 630 has four regions. However, the regions may be composed of more than one according to the user definition.

For example, they can be separated into five areas on one line or eight areas on two lines. In each of the areas, preview data 635 may be displayed in all areas classified according to the number of clip data previously copied and stored by the user, or clip data may be displayed only in some areas. If more clip data than the displayed areas are stored in the clipboard, the user can move to the hidden areas on the screen by controlling the clipboard window 630 by scrolling (or by touch-based sweeping).

6, the display unit 120 of the present invention displays a screen on which predetermined data can be specified and copied according to a user command, and a screen capable of inputting predetermined data according to a user command And a clipboard window (clipboard area) 630 including preview data according to clip data cumulatively stored according to a user command. As shown in FIG. 6, the clipboard window 630 includes a status bar (not shown) indicating various states of the portable terminal (for example, a received electric field state, a message reception state, a battery state, May be provided in the region of the lower end opposite to the upper end of the region provided.

7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a clipboard function operating method in a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. Particularly, FIG. 7 is a view illustrating an example of a screen on which clip data pasted in a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention is displayed.

Referring to FIG. 7, reference numeral 701 denotes a mobile terminal in which clip data is generated using only link information of multimedia data according to a first download method, as described above, Mobile communication network). The static image display, the dynamic image reproduction or the sound data reproduction is not performed on the portion of the multimedia data 710 among the pasted clip data as shown in the reference numeral 701. [ That is, the portion of the pasted clip data where the multimedia data is arranged may appear as a mark indicating that the display or reproduction thereof is omitted.

On the other hand, as described above, the clip data is generated using the multimedia data downloaded according to the second downloading method, or the clip data is generated using only the link information of the multimedia data according to the first downloading method The mobile terminal is connected to a specific network. Dynamic image reproduction or sound data reproduction is performed in the multimedia data 730 part of the pasted clip data as shown in the reference numeral 703. That is, the portion of the pasted clip data where the multimedia data is arranged may indicate that its display or reproduction is being performed.

If there is a predetermined hyperlink in the text portion of the clip data, the web access by the corresponding text is impossible in the reference numeral 701, but the web access by the corresponding text is possible in the reference numeral 703.

In addition, although illustration and description thereof are omitted in FIG. 7, clip data in the present invention can be provided based on a web language. Therefore, the clip data to be pasted can be provided while maintaining the same form as the copy data copied from the original data. For example, letter size, letter color, letter shape, paragraph shape, and arrangement of multimedia data can be applied equally.

8A and 8B are diagrams illustrating an operation example of operating a clipboard function in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIGS. 8A and 8B, it is assumed that a screen including predetermined data (text and multimedia data) is displayed in a display area as shown in reference numeral 801. FIG. In particular, in the above reference numeral 801, it is assumed that a mobile terminal accesses a specific server through an Internet network and a web language-based screen (for example, a web page) provided by the server is displayed.

Next, in a state where the web page is displayed as in the reference numeral 801, the user can input a first event for selecting copy data to be copied. For example, a user may input a first touch-based event that is dragged to a desired end portion of a copy in a state in which a start portion desired to be copied is touched on the screen on which the web page is displayed. Then, the control unit 150 may block and indicate the area corresponding to the first event as shown in reference numeral < 803 >.

Next, the user may select the copy data according to the first event and input the second event for instructing the copying of the copy data, as shown in the reference numeral < 803 >. When detecting the second event, the control unit 150 generates clip data using the copy data specified by the first event and stores the generated clip data in the clipboard 140 Can be handled internally. However, the present invention is not necessarily limited to this. The first event and the second event may be classified into one event according to the support method of the mobile terminal, It is needless to say that the copy data designation and the clip data generation can be performed in one operation by integrating.

Next, the user can instruct execution of another application while the web page is displayed. For example, when the user instructs the execution of the e-mail application, the control unit 150 may display a screen corresponding to the e-mail application (for example, an e-mail creation screen) on the display area as shown in reference numeral 805.

Next, as shown in reference numeral < 805 >, in a state in which an e-mail creation screen according to the execution of the e-mail application is displayed, the user displays predetermined data (E.g., text) can be input.

Next, the user can input a clip data call, that is, a third event for displaying a clipboard window, during the creation of an email, as in the reference numeral. Then, the control unit 150 may display a clipboard window in a part of the display unit 120, as shown in reference numeral < 809 >. Here, in the example of FIGS. 8A and 8B, it is assumed that three clip data previously generated by the user are stored in the clipboard. Here, the last stored clip data among the three clip data may be clip data generated by the operations of the reference numeral and the reference numeral. Therefore, as shown in the reference numeral, the clipboard window displays the preview data corresponding to the three clip data in three of the divided regions, and the remaining regions are blank . 8A and 8B illustrate that the clipboard window and the display area are separately provided while the clipboard window pushes the display area, as shown in reference numerals < 809 > to < 813 > Respectively. For example, the lower area of the display area may be reduced by the size of the clipboard window, and the clipboard window may be displayed in an empty area generated according to the reduction, as shown in the reference numeral. At this time, there is no change (for example, font size, arrangement, etc.) of the input data in the display area 610 as shown in the reference numerals 809 to 813, Can only have changed forms. Although not shown in FIGS. 8A and 8B, the clipboard window may be provided as an overlay on the display area as shown in FIG. 6.

Next, the user selects a predetermined preview data as shown in reference numeral < 811 > in a state in which the clipboard window is displayed as shown in the reference number < 809 >, and pastes the fourth event Can be input. For example, as shown in reference numeral < 811 >, the user can select a predetermined preview data and drag it to an email creation screen to drop and drop the preview data to a desired location, Can be input. Meanwhile, in the present invention, the fourth event may be instructed to select preview data according to a physical key input, and to paste the selected preview data to a portion where a cursor is positioned on an e-mail creation screen according to a physical key input.

Next, when the fourth event of the user is generated as shown in reference numeral 811, the controller 150 may track the clip data corresponding to the preview data selected by the fourth event. The control unit 150 may paste and display the track data, as shown in reference numeral < 813 >. At this time, in the embodiment of the present invention, clip data in which text and image are combined as shown in reference numeral < 813 > can be pasted and displayed. And the clip data may appear with data previously entered by the user (e.g., text entered at reference numeral 807). In this case, the clip data may be stored in the form of a web language. In this case, all the types of copy data (for example, font size, font color, paragraph shape, image data arrangement, hyperlink, etc.) State. In addition, when the clip data according to the fourth event is displayed as shown in the reference numeral 813, the clipboard window can be maintained as it is. Thereby, the user can continue to paste the same clip data or other clip data.

Next, the user can input a command to complete the paste operation in the same state as the reference numeral < 813 >. The job completion command may be made by a predetermined button-based input or physical key input set for completion of the job. Then, the control unit 150 may display the clipboard window by removing the clipboard window in a state in which the data created by the user and the clip data are combined as shown in reference numeral < 815 >. At this time, even if the clipboard window is terminated, the three clip data and the corresponding preview data as described above are continuously held on the clipboard.

8, although illustration and description thereof are omitted, for example, when preview data is pasted at the reference numeral < 811 >, the method is a method of cutting and pasting instead of copying and pasting The preview data may be removed from the clipboard window. At this time, the preview data is deleted on the clipboard, and clip data corresponding to the preview data can also be deleted on the clipboard. It should be noted that the deletion of the preview data and the clip data can be deleted by an editing operation before pasting according to the user's selection.

9 is a view illustrating another example of a clipboard function operating method in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. In particular, FIG. 9 illustrates an operation of pasting clip data stored in the clipboard according to a format for each application.

Referring to FIG. 9, the controller 150 may control display of a screen on which a user can input predetermined data (operation 901). In step 903, the control unit 150 controls the clipboard window display in response to the user request as described above. At this time, the clipboard window may include at least one preview data.

Next, in step 905, the control unit 150 may detect a fourth event input for instructing paste of clip data by predetermined preview data in a state where the clipboard window is displayed.

Next, in operation 907, the controller 150 determines the type of the currently activated application when the fourth event input is sensed. For example, the control unit 150 determines whether the type of the application is an application supporting the web language (for example, a web browsing application, a social network service application, an e-mail application, a web application supporting a web language, Application (e.g., a message application, a web language non-supporting document application, etc.).

If the type of the application is a web-language-supporting application, the control unit 150 may paste the clip data on the screen based on the web language as described above (Step 909).

Next, the controller 150 can confirm the support format of the application when the type of the application is a web-language non-supported application (step 911).

Next, the controller 150 converts the format of clip data based on the web language to correspond to the support format of the application (step 913). For example, when the application is a message application, the control unit 150 may convert the web language-based clip data into a format that can be supported by the message application. Alternatively, if the application is a document application, the control unit 150 may convert clip data based on the web language into a format that can be supported by the document application. At this time, the multimedia data portion included in clip data based on the web language can be deleted or maintained according to whether the corresponding application can display the multimedia data during the format conversion. That is, the control unit 150 can control the format conversion in a state where the multimedia data included in the clip data is deleted or maintained.

Next, the control unit 150 can display the converted clip data by pasting on the screen (Step 915). At this time, depending on whether the application can display multimedia data, the control unit 150 may paste the converted clip data including the multimedia data, or may paste the text data, omitting the multimedia data .

Meanwhile, the clipboard function providing method of the present invention as described above can be implemented in the form of a program command that can be executed through various computer means, and can be recorded in a computer-readable recording medium. At this time, the computer readable recording medium may include a program command, a data file, a data structure, or the like, alone or in combination. On the other hand, the program instructions recorded on the recording medium may be those specially designed and configured for the present invention or may be available to those skilled in the art of computer software.

The computer readable recording medium may be an optical recording medium such as a magnetic medium such as a hard disk, a floppy disk and a magnetic tape, a CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read Only Memory), a DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) ), A magneto-optical medium such as a Floptical Disk, and specially configured to store and execute program instructions such as ROM (Read Only Memory), RAM (Random Access Memory), flash memory, Hardware devices. The program instructions also include machine language code, such as those generated by the compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware devices described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention can be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the foregoing description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention .

It should be noted that the embodiments of the present invention disclosed in the present specification and drawings are only illustrative of the present invention in order to facilitate the understanding of the present invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. It is to be understood by those skilled in the art that other modifications based on the technical idea of the present invention are possible in addition to the embodiments disclosed herein.

110: Communication module 120: Display
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610: Display area 630: Clipboard window (clipboard area)
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Claims (1)

A portable terminal that provides clip data,
A display section; And
And a control unit,
Displaying data on the display unit,
Receiving a first input for selecting one of the displayed data,
A second input for copying the selected data as clip data,
In response to receiving the second input, storing the clip data based on a determination whether to store the selected data as the clip data or the link address corresponding to the selected data as the clip data,
A clip data window for displaying a plurality of clip data as preview data is displayed on the display unit in response to a clip data call event,
Controls to paste the clip data selected in the clip data window of the display unit,
If the selected data is web based data including link information, the controller selects a link address corresponding to the content of the web based data or the web based data as the selected data Storing the selected data as the clip data,
The control unit stores the selected data as the clip data including the link address of the web-based data when the link address is selected to be stored as the clip data,
The control unit controls to display the link address of the web-based data in one of the plurality of clip data in response to the clip data call event when the link address is selected to be stored as the clip data A portable terminal providing clip data.

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