Patent ID: 8644883

Claim:
A display control method in a mobile terminal capable of outputting video data to an external display device, the method comprising the steps of: wirelessly transmitting, by the mobile terminal, video data to be displayed on the external display device; determining whether an event occurs while displaying the video data on the external display device; upon occurrence of the event, displaying a sender/caller identifying event indicator at a screen of the mobile terminal device; and displaying a sender/caller non-identifying event indicator at an edge of a screen of the external display device while the video data is being displayed on the external display device, wherein the event comprises one of a receipt of a text message and a receipt of a phone call, and wherein, the sender/caller identifying event indicator comprises a sender identification and contents of the text message if the event is the receipt of the text message, and the sender/caller identifying event indicator comprises a caller identification or a caller number if the event is the receipt of the phone call.