Patent ID: 8446429

Claim:
A method for providing a layer structure for displaying a background image representing data storage information in a mobile terminal, the method comprising the steps of: configuring a background layer, which is positioned in an undermost position of all layers displayed on a screen of the mobile terminal, to provide a plurality of rectangular tiled regions, wherein the plurality of rectangular tiled regions correspond respectively to a plurality of applications within the mobile terminal; displaying storage information about data stored by each of the plurality of applications in each of the corresponding plurality of regions, as the background image; and matching a visual item layer to each of the plurality of rectangular tiled regions provided from the background layer, wherein the storage information about the stored data is a visual representation corresponding to a numerical value of an amount of memory space occupied by the data stored by each of the plurality of applications, wherein the plurality of applications includes at least two of a phonebook application, a camera capture application, and a call log application, wherein the visual representation is determined based on a table representing information obtained by mapping numeric values of an updating time of each application data, the amount of memory space occupied by the application data, and a number of editions to the application data, to numeric values of color, brightness and contrast, and wherein the editions of the application data include at least two of a case where a telephone number in a phonebook is edited or additionally stored, a case where an image captured by a camera is deleted or a name of the image is changed, and a case where previous statistic data on a call log is deleted or new statistic data is recorded on the call log.