EXTERNAL REQUEST TYPE FUNCTION CONTROL SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, EXTERNAL REQUEST TYPE FUNCTION CONTROL METHOD, AND EXTERNAL REQUEST TYPE FUNCTION CONTROL PROGRAM

• US 20110082567A1
• Filed: 12/13/2010
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Tomoharu, Takahashi, Mie
• Granted Patent: US 8,200,218 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces

Abstract

A function control information transmitter 30 transmits function control information 40 for controlling the function of a terminal device 10 such as a mobile telephone. When the terminal device (mobile telephone 10) receives the function control information 40 from the function control information transmitter 30, the terminal device analyzes the received function control information 40 so as to control the function of the control object even without preparing in advance a correspondence table for controlling the function. Thus, it is possible to easily use the optimal function, application software, and a service in accordance the environment and the situation.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A terminal device comprising:

reception means for receiving function control information that an external function control information transmitting device of the terminal device transmits, said function control information including an instruction for controlling a function of said terminal device;

monitoring means for monitoring a state of the function that could be specified in said function control information;

determination means for, based upon a monitoring result by said monitoring means, determining whether or not the function specified in said function control information received by said reception means is controllable, and determining whether a control of the function indicated by said function control information is executable; and

function control means for, based upon a determination by said determination means, executing the control of the function specified in said function control information; and

wherein the monitoring means stores a control source, being a cause of having changed a state of the function into a current state; and

the determination means compares a priority degree of a current control source of the function specified in the function control information, said current control source being stored by said monitoring means, with a priority degree that is included in said function control information, thereby to determine whether or not the function control by said function control information is executable.

4. The terminal device according to claim 2, characterized in comprising credibility determination means for determining whether or not the function control information transmitting device, being a transmission source that has transmitted the function control information, and a transmission source described in said function control information coincide with each other, and determining existence of tampering of said function control information.

5. The terminal device according to claim 2, characterized in comprising condition determination means for determining whether or not a state of the terminal device meets a condition under which the function control described in the function control information is executed.

6. The terminal device according to claim 5, characterized in that the condition determination means decides whether or not a permission for executing the function control is requested of a user of the terminal device based upon evaluation information described in the function control information.

7. The terminal device according to claim 5, characterized in that in a case where the reception means has received plural kinds of the function control information, the condition determination means decides an order in which a function control process is executed based upon evaluation information described in said function control information.

8. The terminal device according to claim 2, characterized in:

comprising storage means for pre-storing an execution order of the controllable function;

and that in a case where the reception means has received plural kinds of the function control information, the determination means decides an order in which a function control process is executed based upon the execution order of the function that said storage means stores.

9. The terminal device according to claim 7, characterized in:

comprising storage means for pre-storing an execution order of the controllable function;

and that in a case where the reception means has received plural kinds of the function control information, the condition determination means decides an order in which a function control process is executed based upon the execution order of the function that said storage means stores, and the evaluation information described in said function control information.

3. (canceled)

10-31. -31. (canceled)