Terminal device and program

• US 20050003850A1
• Filed: 03/26/2004
• Published: 01/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2003
• 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, Oi, Tatsuro, Hattori, Yasunori, Watanabe, Nobuyuki, Yamada, Kazuhiro, Nishida, Masakazu, Murakami, Keiichi, Tsuda, Masayuki, Naruse, Naoki, Kamiya, Dai
• Granted Patent: US 7,647,075 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/550.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications

Abstract

In a terminal device equipped with a function of running an application program, operation of an application program is suspended when an event is detected, the type of the event is predetermined, and event data representing the detected event is stored. Then, the terminal device delivers stored event data to the application program, after the suspended application is resumed.

Claims

1. A terminal device, comprising:

detection means for detecting an event and generating event data representing the event, and the type of the event is predetermined;

suspension means for suspending operation of an application program when an event is detected by the detection means;

storage means for storing event data generated by the detection means; and

resume means for resuming operation of the application program suspended by the suspension means; and

delivery means for delivering the event data stored by the storage means to the application program resumed.

2. The terminal device of claim 1, wherein:

the storage means stores a set of event data each representing an events between the time period from the time of suspending operation of the application program by the suspension means to the time of resuming operation of the application program by the resume means.

3. The terminal device of claim 1, further comprising means for communicating via a communication network, and wherein:

the suspension means suspends operation of the application program, when the communicating means receives a message designating the user carrying the terminal device.

4. A program product for causing a computer device to execute the process of:

detecting an event and generating event data representing the event, and the type of the event is predetermined;

suspending operation of an application program when an event is detected in the detecting process;

storing event data generated in the detecting process;

resuming operation of the application program suspended in the suspending process; and

delivering the event data stored in the storing process to the application program resumed in the resuming process.