Patent ID: 8884893

Claim:
A mobile terminal, comprising: a touchscreen configured to display at least one content item on a screen and to receive an area touch motion corresponding to one area of the screen, the area touch motion corresponding to a hand touch of the screen by at least one of a substantially full length of a hand or a substantially full width of a hand; and a controller configured to: analyze the received area touch motion and to control a specific content item of the at least one content item displayed on the screen in accordance with a content control operation corresponding to the received area touch motion based on a result of the analysis; receive a vertically oriented initial touch corresponding to a substantially fall palm and finger extension of a hand and a movement corresponding to a folding or squeezing of the hand into a fist, and perform a control operation on multiple content items touched by the initial touch, the control operation comprising at least one of fixing one or more of the multiple content items at particular locations, copying one or more of the multiple content items, pausing execution of one or more of the multiple content items, grasping one or more of the multiple content items for a subsequent control operation, or terminating execution of one or more of the multiple content items.