Patent ID: 8849355

Claim:
A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising: allowing, via a wireless communication unit of the mobile terminal, wireless communication with at least one other terminal; displaying, via a touch screen display unit of the mobile terminal, an idle screen having predefined first and second display portions in which a multi-touch input simultaneously in both the first and second display portions is defined as a multi-site multi-touch input and a multi-touch input simultaneously only in one of the first and second predefined display portions is defined as a single-site multi-touch input, the predefined first and second display portions being left and right halves of the touch screen display unit; receiving, via a controller of the mobile terminal, the multi-site multi-touch input in both of the first and second display portions; executing, via the controller, a first function based on the received multi-site multi-touch input, said first function displaying a first menu screen that includes a plurality of applications executable on the mobile terminal; receiving, via the controller, the single-site multi-touch input; and executing, via the controller, a second function different from the first function based on the received single-site multi-touch input.