Patent ID: 8787994

Claim:
A method for operating a mobile terminal, comprising: detecting touch on a touch screen by a touch sensor; generating a touch event in response to detecting the touch, the touch event comprising at least one of a touch down event and a touch up event; storing the touch event in a buffer; determining whether the touch is one of accidental or intentional by detecting whether a sliding event corresponding a sliding motion occurs within a present time in which the touch event is generated; ignoring the touch event by discarding the touch event stored in the buffer when the touch event is determined to be accidental when a sliding event corresponding to sliding motion occurs within a preset time duration; and processing the touch event as intentional when the sliding event corresponding to sliding motion does not occur within the preset time duration, setting a delay zone on the touch screen, wherein setting a delay zone on the touch screen at which a buffering time for the touch event generated at the delay zone is longer than a buffering time for the touch event generated at a non-delay zone, and wherein a left-zone or a right zone is set as the delay zone according by a user changeable default.