Method of displaying an event in a mobile terminal and mobile terminal implementing the same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSu-A Baek, Kyoung-Ae Lim, Seung-Chul Choi, Jae-Won Chang
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Abstract
A method of, and a mobile terminal configured for, efficiently displaying an event indication in the form of a pop-up box during idle mode of a mobile terminal is provided. Upon occurrence of a second event in idle mode, it is determined whether an event pop-up box indicating an occurrence of a first event of the same type as the second event exists. When the event pop-up box indicating the occurrence of the first event exists, the event pop-up box is updated with information indicating the occurrence of the second event and displayed on a display.
Claims21
A method of displaying an event indication in a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
- determining, upon occurrence of a second event in idle mode, whether an event pop-up box indicating an occurrence of a first event exists, the first and second events being of the same type;
- when the event pop-up box indicating the occurrence of the first event exists, updating the event pop-up box with information indicating the occurrence of the second event;
- and
- displaying the updated event pop-up box on a display.
A mobile terminal comprising:
- a controller for, upon occurrence of a second event in idle mode, and an event pop-up box indicating occurrence of a first event exists, the first and second events being of the same type, updating the event pop-up box with information indicating the occurrence of the second event;
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- a display configured to display the updated event pop-up box under control of the controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.