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Patent Application
App. No. 17/236,808

TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR HIDING AND RESTORING MESSAGE

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App. No.
17/236,808
Abstract

A terminal to hide a message includes an input unit to receive a signal to hide a message and a signal to restore a hidden message; a display unit to display the message and the hidden message; and a control unit to control display of the message. The terminal hides messages or applications on a separate screen. The separate screen may be a virtual screen or a different display screen. A hidden message may be displayed on the separate screen according to a conversation partner. A hidden message may be restored to a location in which the message would have originally been displayed. A portion of the stored message may be extracted and provided to an application of the terminal.

Claims (20)

1 . A terminal, comprising:

a touch screen display to display a main screen comprising messages associated with a determined user, the message comprising a sent message transmitted from the terminal to the determined user and a received message received from the determined user to the terminal;

a touch panel of the touch screen display to receive a first input signal with respect to at least one of the messages; and

a controller to activate an application configured to register information related to the message associated with the first input signal onto the application.

2 . The terminal according to claim 1 ,

wherein the touch panel of the touch screen display receives a second input signal to select the application to be activated from a menu of a plurality of applications, and

wherein the controller receives the second input signal to activate the application.

3 . The terminal according to claim 2 , wherein the plurality of applications included in the menu comprises at least one of a schedule application, a calendar application, a memo application and a bookmark application.

4 . The terminal according to claim 2 , wherein the menu displaying the plurality of applications is displayed on a first side of the touch screen display.

5 . The terminal according to claim 2 , wherein the menu displaying the plurality of applications is a pop-up.

6 . A method, comprising:

displaying a main screen comprising messages associated with a determined user, the messages comprising a sent message transmitted from the terminal to the determined user and a received message received from the determined user to the terminal;

receiving a first input signal with respect to at least one of the messages; and

activating an application configured to register information related to the message associated with the first input signal onto the application.

7 . The method according to claim 6 , further comprising:

receiving a second input signal to select the application to be activated from a menu of a plurality of applications,

wherein the application is activated based on the second input signal.

8 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein the plurality of applications included in the menu comprises at least one of a schedule application, a calendar application, a memo application and a bookmark application.

9 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein the menu displaying the plurality of applications is displayed on a first side of a touch screen display.

10 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein the menu displaying the plurality of applications is a pop-up.