Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100262933 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SELECTING AN ITEM - A method and an apparatus of selecting an item rapidly and with a high degree of precision in devices including but not limited to portable terminals. The method of selecting an item includes: displaying a cursor having an area where an item can be selected; checking an item located in the area; and recognizing the item in the area as a selection schedule item. A user may quickly select a desired item to execute a properly corresponding function. | 10-14-2010 |
20110018808 | INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD FOR PORTABLE TERMINAL AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - Provided is an information display method of a portable terminal, which includes activating a user function of the portable terminal; determining a relation function related to the user function; collecting relation information according to the determined relation function; and outputting the relation information. | 01-27-2011 |
20110021243 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND OPERATION METHOD FOR THE SAME - A mobile terminal and operational method may store or output log information related to usage histories according to at least one of a condition, location, and status indicated by situation information. The mobile terminal can be conveniently operated on the basis of past usage histories. The operation method for the mobile terminal includes: creating situation information on the basis of at least one of location information, status information and condition information of the mobile terminal; collecting log information related to usage histories of the mobile terminal from the time of situation information creation or within a preset time after situation information creation; linking the situation information with the log information and storing the linked information; and outputting, when new situation information equal to the stored situation information is created, log information linked to the stored situation information. | 01-27-2011 |
20110034129 | PORTABLE TERMINAL PROVIDING ENVIRONMENT ADAPTED TO PRESENT SITUATION AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - Provided is a portable terminal providing environment adapted to a current situation and a method for operating the same. The method includes the steps of: collecting current situation information of the portable terminal; searching preset situation information classified as a same situation as the current situation information; extracting function information of the portable terminal corresponding to the searched preset situation information; and constituting a Graphic User Interface (GUI) according to the extracted function information. | 02-10-2011 |
20110045803 | METHOD OF INFORMING OCCURRENCE OF A MISSED EVENT AND MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE SAME - A method of informing occurrence of an event and a mobile terminal using the same are disclosed. The method includes: determining whether a missed event occurs; sensing a user's attention to the mobile terminal; and informing the occurrence of the missed event when the user's attention is sensed. Since the mobile terminal informs the occurrence of the missed event only when the user gives attention to his/her mobile terminal, the number of times for informing the missed event is reduced and damage of people around the mobile terminal and power consumption of the mobile terminal caused by sound or vibration of informing the occurrence of the event can be minimized. | 02-24-2011 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090292782 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF MANAGING MEETING INFORMATION USING THE SAME - A mobile terminal and a method of managing meeting information using the same are provided. The method of managing meeting information using a first mobile terminal includes acquiring meeting information including identification data of at least one location data sharing mobile terminal existing within a meeting distance from the present location of the first mobile terminal in response to a request to acquire meeting information, and displaying the meeting information in response to a request to search the meeting information. | 11-26-2009 |
20090299620 | METHOD FOR SEARCHING ROUTES OF A PORTABLE TERMINAL - The present invention relates to a navigation function of a portable terminal. The invention provides a route search method of a portable terminal to provide various route search option in the navigation function, besides a conventional search option that guides a shortest route. | 12-03-2009 |
20090305725 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SERVICE INFORMATION USING LOCATION INFORMATION - The present invention relates to a method and system to provide service information to a portable terminal based on the location information associated with the portable terminal. The service information providing method is performed in such a way that a server acquires location information associated with the portable terminal and service information corresponding to the location information. The portable terminal may acquire and store the service information from the server. The portable terminal user can also identify new service information regarding a place where the user is located. | 12-10-2009 |
20090315705 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LOCATION ALARM IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method that can control a location alarm in a portable terminal. The apparatus can operate in multiples modes. The apparatus can determine whether set location information exists, and can check if location information corresponding to a current location of the apparatus exists. The apparatus can also determine whether the current location information corresponds to the set location information and may output an alarm if the current location information corresponds to the set location information. | 12-24-2009 |
20100004854 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING LOCATION INFORMATION-BASED SCHEDULING SERVICE OF PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method and apparatus for providing a location information-based scheduling service is disclosed. The method includes determining a meeting point or appointed place based on location information associated with a plurality of portable terminals. The method includes suggesting various routes and means to travel to the appointed place; and providing data content to a user of a first portable terminal until one or more users associated with the other portable terminals arrive at the appointed place. The appointed place can be determined based on a distance between all the portable terminals and/or their respective movement times. Users can share their expected arrival times and information regarding their current locations while traveling towards the appointed place. If a portable terminal user requests a content while waiting for other users to arrive, the surplus time can be calculated and available contents can be provided within the surplus time. | 01-07-2010 |
20110035675 | PORTABLE TERMINAL REFLECTING USER'S ENVIRONMENT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A portable terminal reflecting a user's environment and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The method includes: generating usage pattern information that contains pattern environment information of the portable terminal and function information corresponding to the pattern environment information; collecting current environment information of the portable terminal; searching for pattern environment information that substantially identical to the collected current environment information; extracting function information corresponding to the searched pattern environment information; and configuring a graphic user interface (GUI) based on the extracted function information. | 02-10-2011 |
20110193804 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EDITING LIST IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method and an apparatus for editing a list in a portable terminal including a touch screen are provided. The method includes displaying a list screen including a plurality of items, displaying a moving affordance area for inputting a touch event for moving a position of a selected item when at least one of the plurality of items is selected, and moving the position of the selected item in accordance with the touch event. A user may thereby easily edit an arrangement order of items included in a list. | 08-11-2011 |
20130065539 | METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION INPUTTED WHILE A MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL IS IN AN ACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS STATE - A method of processing information inputted while a mobile communication terminal is in an active communications state is provided. The method of processing information inputted while a mobile communication terminal is in an active communications state includes receiving information inputted while the mobile communication terminal is in an active communications state; displaying, if the active communications state is terminated before processing the inputted information, the unprocessed inputted information that exists; and processing the unprocessed inputted information. The inputted information can be input using various input modes such as a numeral, Korean character, English character, and special character input modes. | 03-14-2013 |