Patent ID: 8806364

Claim:
A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising: displaying a data list including a plurality of data items and a plurality of icons representing different applications in a display window of a touch screen of the mobile terminal, wherein each of the icons is contiguous to a corresponding edge line of the display window, each of the different applications performs a plurality of functions using the data items, and a managing application of the data items is different from the each of the different applications; selecting a specific icon from among the icons based on a touch operation received through the specific icon; slidingly displaying an execution screen of a specific application corresponding to the specific icon, from an edge line corresponding to the specific icon to the center of the display window, based on a drag operation in a direction to the center of the display window continuously received following the touch operation received on the specific icon, wherein an area of the execution screen is increased according to an increase of a distance of the drag operation; controlling at least positions or sizes of the data items such that the execution screen and a region including the data items are not overlapped with each other according to the increase of the area of the execution screen, wherein the positions of the data items are determined based on use states of the data items in the managing application; selecting a specific data item from the data list based on a touch operation on the specific data item; and executing the specific application using the selected specific data item based on a drag and drop operation continuously received following the touch operation received on the selected specific data item.