Mobile terminal and method of controlling the operation of the mobile terminal
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsIl Byoung Yi, Sung Pil Yoon
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Abstract
A mobile terminal and a method may be provided for controlling an operation of the mobile terminal. This may include displaying a first webpage on a display module, and if a second webpage is chosen to be displayed, determining whether the second webpage is provided by the same website that provides the first webpage. If the second webpage is provided by the same website that provides the first webpage, the first and second webpages may be merged into a third webpage and the third webpage may be displayed on the display module. Therefore, a plurality of webpages provided by a same webpage may be displayed at a same time by merging the webpages into a single webpage.
Claims13
A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
- displaying a first webpage on a display module;
- receiving an input signal for requesting a display of a second webpage while the first webpage is displayed on the display module;
- determining, at the mobile terminal, whether the second webpage is provided by a same website that provides the first webpage;
- combining, at the mobile terminal, a top portion of the first webpage and a bottom portion of the second webpage into a third webpage and simultaneously displaying the third webpage on the display module when the determining determines that the same website provides the second webpage and the first webpage;
- storing a list of webpages visited for each website in a memory of the mobile terminal, wherein the webpages of the list are classified into one or more website groups based on their respective websites;
- scrolling through the third webpage line by line when the third webpage displayed on the display module is touched and dragged by a long distance, and scrolling through the third webpage page by page when the third webpage displayed on the display module is touch and dragged by a short distance;
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- displaying, on the display module, another webpage obtained by combining one or more webpages belonging to a second website group of the list different from a first website group of the first webpage and the second webpage when the third webpage is scrolled through a touch and drag input such that a left boundary or a fight boundary of the third webpage encounters a left side or a right side of the touch screen.
A mobile terminal having a touch screen, the mobile terminal comprising:
- a display module configured to display webpage information;
- an input unit configured to receive a signal for accessing a website that provides the webpage information;
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- a controller configured:
- to determine whether a second webpage is provided by a same website that provides a first webpage that is displayed on the display module,
- to combine a top portion of the first webpage and a bottom portion of the second webpage into a third webpage and to simultaneously display the third webpage on the display module when the controller determines that the second webpage is provided by the same website that provides the first webpage,
- to store a list of webpages visited for each website in a memory of the mobile terminal, wherein the webpages of the list are classified into one or more website groups based on their respective websites,
- to scroll through the third webpage line by line when the third webpage displayed on the display module is touched and dragged by a long distance, and to scroll through the third webpage page by page when the third webpage displayed on the display module is touch and dragged by a short distance;
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- to control the display module to display another webpage obtained by combining one or more webpages belonging to a second website group of the list different from a first website group of the first webpage and the second webpage when the third webpage is scrolled through a touch and drag input such that a left boundary or a right boundary of the third webpage encounters a left side or a right side of the touch screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.