US 8,819,572 B2 · Mobile terminal supporting detachable memory cards and detachable memory card management method thereof

Abstract

A mobile terminal supporting detachable memory cards and a method for managing the detachable memory cards attached to the mobile terminal is provided. The detachable memory card management method of the present invention includes displaying, if at least two memory cards are detected, icons representing the memory cards on an idle mode screen, detecting selection of at least one of the icons, and creating files, stored in a source memory card represented by one of the selected icons, in a destination memory card represented by another icon. The detachable memory card management method of the present invention is capable of displaying the card icons representing the memory cards attached to the mobile terminal on the idle mode screen such that the user can identify the attached memory cards.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A method for managing memory cards, the method comprising:

displaying, if at least two memory cards are detected, icons representing the memory cards on an idle mode screen;
detecting selection of at least one of the icons;
creating files, stored in a source memory card represented by one of the selected icons, in a destination memory card represented by another icon;
and
in response to an attachment of a new memory card, displaying a list of files stored in the card for a predetermined length of time, and if no input related to the displayed list of files is received for the predetermined time, displaying an icon corresponding to the new memory card on the idle mode screen,
wherein each of the displayed icons includes an image to indicate amounts of data stored in the memory cards.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/942,189Filed 9 Nov 2010

Priority

KR 10-2009-01178831 Dec 2009

Published

US 2011/0131490 A12 Jun 2011

Granted

26 Aug 2014

Term ends

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Classification5 codes

G06F 3/0481
Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]: based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a…
G06F 3/04817
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
G06F 3/0486
For the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a…:…
G06F 13/387
Using universal interface adapter: for adaptation of different data processing systems to different peripheral devices, e.g. protocol converters…

Mobile terminal supporting detachable memory cards and detachable memory card management method thereof

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Mobile terminal supporting detachable memory cards and detachable memory card management method thereof

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Abstract

Claims15