Mobile communication terminal, method for controlling execution state of application program, application program, and recording medium wherein application program has been recorded

• US 20050054372A1
• Filed: 12/05/2002
• Published: 03/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Asai, Mao, Kondo, Takashi, Watanabe, Nobuyuki, Yamada, Kazuhiro, Tsuda, Masayuki, Kamiya, Dai, Naganuma, Takefumi, Nagasawa, Hideyuki, Maeda, Fukiko, Oseki, Eriko
• Granted Patent: US 7,596,389 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/550.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0264 by selectively disabling software applications
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

In the mobile telephone 1 relating to the present invention, a control section 2 performs control for switching between a non-active state which refuses inputs to an application program, and a rest state in which the application program is temporarily halted. The control section 2 performs control for switching the execution state of the application program from the non-active state to the rest state, in accordance with instructions from an input section 3. The control section 2 further performs control for switching the execution state of the application program from the non-active state to the rest state, in accordance with a function contained in an application program.

Claims

1. A mobile communications terminal, comprising:

control means for performing control for switching between a normal execution state of an application program, and a rest state in which said application program is temporarily halted.

2. The mobile communications terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

instructing means for instructing a state transition between said normal execution state and said rest state, wherein said control means executes control for switching the execution state of said application program between the normal execution state and the rest state, in accordance with said instructions from said instructing means.

3. The mobile communications terminal according to claim 1, wherein said control means performs control for switching the execution state of said application program between the normal execution state and the rest state in accordance with a function contained in said application program.

4. The mobile communications terminal according to claim 1, wherein, in said rest state, said control means allows execution of a native application which is different to said application.

5. An application program execution state control method whereby a mobile communications terminal controls the execution state of an application program stored in said mobile communications terminal, comprising:

a control step for performing control, whereby the mobile communications terminal switches between a normal execution state of said application program, and a rest state in which said application program is temporarily halted.

6. The application program execution state control method according to claim 5, further comprising:

an instructing step for instructing a state transition of said mobile communications terminal between said normal execution state and said rest state,

wherein, in said control step, control is executed for switching the execution state of said application program between the normal execution state and the rest state, in accordance with said instructions from said instructing step.

7. The application program execution state control method according to claim 5, wherein, in said control step, control is executed for switching the execution state of said application program between the normal execution state and the rest state, in accordance with a function contained in said application program.

8. The application program execution state control method according to claim 5, wherein said control step allows execution of a native application that is different to said application.

9. An application program which is executed in a mobile communications terminal and the execution state of which is controlled by said mobile communications terminal, comprising:

functions for switching between a normal execution state of said application program and a rest state in which said application being executed is temporarily halted.

10. The application program according to claim 9, comprising:

functions for switching the execution state between the normal execution state and the rest state, on the basis of state transition instructions input from an external source.

11. A storage medium characterized in that the application program according to claim 9 is stored thereon.