Patent ID: 8745495

Claim:
A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising: displaying an operation screen on a display module of the mobile terminal; determining whether there is at least one access-failed website, wherein the at least one access-failed website is a website that the mobile terminal previously failed to access; displaying an icon on a portion of the operation screen when at least one access-failed website is determined, the displayed icon to indicate that there is the at least one access-failed website; periodically determining whether the at least one access-failed website is currently accessible by the mobile terminal; in response to the determining that at least one access-failed website is currently accessible, displaying an indicator on an outer area of the displayed icon for a predetermined time period and removing the displayed indicator from the operation screen after the predetermined time period has passed, the displayed indicator to notify a user of the mobile terminal that the at least one access-failed website is currently accessible by the mobile terminal; when a proximity signal is detected from a proximity sensor in response to a user input approaching near the icon, temporarily redisplaying the removed indicator on the outer area of the displayed icon, the indicator being a thought balloon indicating a number of the access-failed websites that are currently accessible and a number of the access-failed websites that are still inaccessible; in response to selection of the icon displayed on the display module, displaying a website list on the display module that includes information of the access-failed website that is currently accessible; and displaying a web page corresponding to a selected website when one of currently accessible websites included in the website list is selected, and then displaying a new website list that excludes the selected website on the display module when the icon is selected again while displaying the web page.