Patent ID: 7251504

Claim:
A method for playing interactive contents for standby mode in a mobile communication terminal, which can be used as a standby mode screen and provide interactive actions for a key input from a user, wherein the interactive contents include action information defining at least one manipulation key input to perform the interactive actions and at least one operation corresponding to the manipulation key input, and the interactive contents include a plurality of play regions, in each of which at least one corresponding action key input is defined in the action information, the method comprising the steps of: (1) causing the mobile communication terminal to enter a standby mode; (2) driving an interactive contents player for playing the interactive contents for standby mode; (3) playing a first play region of first interactive contents set as the standby mode screen for the mobile communication terminal and displaying the played first play region on a display screen of the mobile communication terminal; (4) waiting and receiving the manipulation key input defined in the action information for the first interactive contents; and (5) playing a play region corresponding to the corresponding action key input defined for the first interactive contents and displaying the played play region on the display screen of the mobile communication terminal when the received manipulation key input is the corresponding action key input, or otherwise obtaining a definition of an operation corresponding to the manipulation key input from the action information and performing the defined operation.