Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Dong-Eup Ham

Ki-Huk Lee

Dong-Il Son

Bo-Kun Choi

Jae-Hwan Kim

Hyung-Jin Park

Sun-Kee Lee

Chan-Ho Jung

Dong-Soo Han

Joo-Man Han

An electronic device according to various embodiments comprises: a housing; a mounting structure connected to the housing; a touchscreen display; an input interface; a processor operatively connected to the touchscreen display and the input interface; a volatile memory operatively connected to the processor; and a nonvolatile memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the nonvolatile memory is configured to store a plurality of application programs, and may store instructions which, when executed, enables the processor to receive, from an external electronic device, data including association information between a user-related event and one or more of the application programs, store the data in the nonvolatile memory, detect the user-related event, and load the one or more application programs into the volatile memory, while a user interface of the application program is not displayed on the touchscreen display. Other embodiments are also possible.

Electronic device for controlling application program and control method thereof

An electronic device and a control method of the electronic device are provided. The control method includes acquiring second device information on a second electronic device connected to the first electronic device, and determining a first application corresponding to a combination of the first electronic device and the second electronic device based on first device information on the first electronic device and the second device information.

Electronic device connected to another electronic device and method of controlling same

A method of operating a portable terminal for encrypting application data is provided. The method includes receiving data input to an application, encrypting the received data by using at least one of an application unique key and a combination of a device unique key of the portable terminal and an application IDentification (ID) that is globally unique, and storing the encrypted data.

Apparatus and method of portable terminal for application data protection

Provided is an apparatus and method for managing Digital Rights Management (DRM) contents in a portable terminal. The method includes when a license of the DRM content is consumed, changing license information, which is stored in an external memory, on the DRM content; storing information relating to changed data of the external memory into an internal memory; determining whether the changed license information stored in the external memory has changed by using the information stored in the internal memory when the DRM content is used; and determining whether the DRM content is available according to whether the changed license information has changed.

Growing community of inventors

Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Dong-Eup Ham