Communication terminal

• US 20040242205A1
• Filed: 03/25/2004
• Published: 12/02/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Ichikawa, Yuichi, Asai, Mao, Takeshita, Masato, Yamane, Naoki, Tomioka, Atsuki, Washio, Satoshi, Hattori, Yasunori, Watanabe, Nobuyuki, Yamada, Kazuhiro, Nishida, Masakazu, Tsuda, Masayuki, Naruse, Naoki, Kamiya, Dai
• Granted Patent: US 7,590,411 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

A native mailer operated in accordance with a native program installed by a manufacturer of mobile phone 200 obtains an e-mail generated by using an application mailer. A native mailer obtains an e-mail, and stores in a folder for an application mailer, an e-mail generated by using an application mailer.

Claims

1. A communication terminal comprising:

reception means for receiving data, transmitted from a server, by a first application;

specifying means for specifying a second application on the basis of said data received by said first application, said second application using said data received by said first application;

writing means for writing in a storage unit, an identifier for indicating said second application specified by said specifying means, and said data received by said first application, said identifier correlating with said data received by said first application and;

reading means for, when said second application uses said data received by said first application, reading out from said storage unit to provide to said second application, data correlating with an identifier for indicating said second application.

2. A communication terminal according to claim 1,

wherein said communication terminal further comprises limiting means for limiting a use of data by said second application, said, data used by said second application correlating with an identifier for indicating said second application in the case that said second application uses said data received by said first application.

3. A communication terminal according to claim 2,

wherein said second application is an application which is not able to communicate with said server.

4. A communication terminal according to claim 1,

wherein said data is an e-mail, said first application receives an e-mail from a mail server which distributes the e-mail, and said second application displays the content of the e-mail.

5. A communication terminal according to claim 4,

wherein said writing means writes an identifier correlating with said e-mail in a removable storage unit, the identifier for identifying said second application specified by said specifying means.

6. A communication terminal according to claim 4,

wherein said first application transmits an e-mail to said mail server, and said writing means writes an e-mail generated by said second application in said storage means, the e-mail including an identifier for identifying said second application, and said communication terminal further comprises a transmitting means for transmitting to said mail server, an e-mail read out from said storage unit by using said first application.

7. A communication terminal according to claim 1,

wherein a program for realizing said second application is a program generated by using a Java programming language.

8. A communication terminal according to claim 1,

wherein a communication terminal further comprises means for installing a program for realizing said second application by way of the network.