Patent ID: 8498674
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
1. A mobile phone comprising: an operation unit configured to receive user input on the mobile phone; a display unit including a main display area and a sub display area; a speaker; a memory storing a plurality of software applications executable on the mobile phone, the software applications including an e-mail software application, a web browser, and an audio player software application, the web browser providing a search operation on the Internet, the memory further storing identification information including a telephone number; a short-range communication unit configured to provide short-range wireless communication; a modulator configured to modulate a transmission signal for phone call operation of the mobile phone; a demodulator configured to demodulate a reception signal for the phone call operation of the mobile phone; a signal processor configured to process a demodulated signal from the demodulator and to output the transmission signal to the modulator; an operating system executable on the mobile phone for controlling the mobile phone; and a controller configured to run said audio player software application together with another one of said plurality of software applications in parallel, and to control what is displayed on the display unit so that in a first state the display unit (a) always displays a first icon corresponding to a first software application of said plurality of software applications on the sub-display area and (b) automatically displays or erases a second icon corresponding to a second software application of said plurality of software applications on the sub-display area depending on whether the second software application is activated or terminated, wherein, when a predetermined operation is performed on the operation unit while in the first state when the second software application is active, (i) said first software application becomes active, (ii) the main display area is switched from a screen for said second software application to a screen for said first software application, and (iii) in a case where said second software application is said audio player software application, audio reproduction continues while said first software application is active.