Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Young-June Woo

Sin-Jae Lee

Yong Il Kwon

Jae-hwan Kim

Ji-Yeon Yoo

Jin-Pyo Eun

Myung-Kyu Yang

Myung-Ji Kang

Young-Hoon Min

Suck-Ho Seo

Seok-Kyu Jang

A method and apparatus for providing a phonebook using an image in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes recording contact information in metadata of an image, and performing a linkage function using the image having the contact information recorded therein.

Method and apparatus for providing phonebook using image in a portable terminal

A method and apparatus for managing metadata in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes, upon insertion of an external memory, acquiring a unique identifier of an external memory, determining whether a record having information identical to information of a file included in the external memory exists if the unique identifier is identical to a previously stored unique identifier, and reusing metadata included in the record if the record exists.

Apparatus and method for managing metadata in portable terminal

A method for changing an application User Interface (UI) in a portable terminal using menu theme information is provided. UI theme information contained in menu theme information is loaded, a main window image is selected from the loaded UI theme information, and theme index table information is selected. A user interface consistent with a menu UI is created using the selected theme index table information and the selected main window image. The created user interface is stored as a basic interface. The created user interface is applied and displayed.

Apparatus and method for changing application user interface in portable terminal

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Hwaseong-si, South Korea

Young-June Woo