Patent ID: 9407223
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: G06F,H03G

Claim Text:
1. A mobile terminal to control an output sound, the mobile terminal comprising: a processor configured to execute a plurality of applications on the mobile terminal; a sound control unit configured to identify, in response to determining at least two sound outputting applications that play sounds among the plurality of applications, application identifiers of the sound outputting applications, and to determine sound data to be output based on a sound control interface that provides at least one of a user selection from the sound outputting applications and a priority setting for the sound outputting applications; a sound output unit to output the determined sound data by muting other sound data; a sound hardware controlled by the sound output unit; and a mapping information storing unit configured to map and store the application identifiers of the sound outputting applications to a corresponding sound track index, wherein the sound control unit determines whether a first application of the sound outputting applications is playing a sound different from a sound being played by a second application of the sound outputting applications already being executed by verifying whether the first application of the sound outputting applications is mapped in the mapping information storing unit.