Lg Electronics Inc.

Gahee Shin

Soojin Kim

Chanwoo Lee

Jungbin Lee

Taeyong Kim

Jaecheol Kwak

Seungwoo Nam

Kwanghyuk Lim

Inho Kang

Taejeong Seo

Byoungpyo Moon

A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which restoration and backup operations are performed for the mobile terminal. For example, the mobile terminal includes a controller performing a backup operation and a restoration operation on the mobile terminal, the controller including an application module for activating a backup restoration application and at least one or more applications; and a Linux kernel module for managing a basic hardware function of the mobile terminal, the Linux kernel module including a backup restoration service unit having an access authority for accessing a file system of each of the at least one or more applications, wherein the backup restoration application accesses the file system of each of the at least one or more applications and then performs the backup and restoration operations on data of each of the at least one or more applications.

Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof

A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which restoration and backup operations are performed for the mobile terminal. The present invention includes backing up data for at least one application included in a backup target terminal and restoring the data for the at least one application in a restoration target terminal, the restoring including the performing a basic restoration operation on the data related to the at least one application, determining whether a previously provided restoration error occurs in a data restoring process for a specific application among the at least one or more applications, and performing a restoration operation corresponding to the restoration error in accordance with a result of the determining.

A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the mobile terminal are disclosed. In the mobile terminal, at least one second application executable in a second operating system different from a first operating system can be searched and provided among at least one first application executable in the first operating system. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a user interface for efficiently managing applications so as to be appropriate for various operating systems.

Mobile terminal

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Seoul, South Korea

Gahee Shin