Patent ID: 8855720

Claim:
A method of setting an idle screen to be displayed in an idle state of a mobile terminal among a plurality of screens usable as the idle screen, the method comprising: selecting application programs from application programs installed in the mobile terminal, based on a selection from a user, wherein each of the selected application programs is allocated to one of the screens so that the screens present shortcut icons of the application programs allocated thereto; displaying, in the idle state, one of the screens as the idle screen on a display unit of the mobile terminal, wherein the displayed idle screen presents the shortcut icons corresponding to the application programs allocated thereto; displaying, in response to an idle screen switch request, a next one of the screens on the display unit according to an order of the screens; and setting a currently displayed screen as the idle screen to be displayed in the idle state, wherein the idle screen is displayed on the display unit with indicators corresponding to the screens, and an indicator corresponding to the screen, which is set as the idle screen, is displayed distinguishably from the rest of the indicators.