Patent ID: 8306515

Claim:
A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising: storing, in a memory of the mobile terminal, a plurality of weather-related personal products of a user using the mobile terminal mapped with particular types of weather conditions, said weather-related personal products being used for protecting the user from weather; displaying, on a first area of a display unit of the mobile terminal, at least one status icon for indicating a current status of the mobile terminal, displaying, on a second area of the display unit, a first screen image as an idle screen background, and displaying, on the first screen image, at least one menu icon for executing an operational function of the mobile terminal; periodically receiving, via a wireless communication of the mobile terminal, weather information through a communication network; searching for, via a controller of the mobile terminal, a semi-transparent filter effect corresponding to the weather information, the semi-transparent filter effect being stored in advance in the mobile terminal; overlaying the semi-transparent filter effect onto the first screen image to create a second composite image; displaying the second composite image as a new idle screen background; in response to manipulation of a user input, either displaying an icon corresponding to the weather information on the new idle screen background or removing the icon corresponding to the weather information on the new idle screen background, the icon being varied automatically according to the periodically received weather information; providing a function for enabling the user to add one of an image and an icon corresponding to the received weather information to a text message and transmitting the text message; and in response to determining whether it is necessary to output alarm information based on the received weather information, the method further comprises: determining, via the controller, a type of weather condition included in the weather information, and selecting weather-related personal products from the memory that are mapped to the determined type of weather condition; and outputting, via the wireless communication unit, alarm information to the selected weather-related personal products among the plurality of weather-related personal products, the selected weather-related personal products configured to output an alarm sound based on the received alarm information.