MOBILE INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE, STORAGE, SERVER, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING STORAGE REGION
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Abstract
A user-dedicated storage area (97) of a cellular phone (10) is retained in a storage server (9) on a network (6). Software purchased by a user via a sales server (12) is not transferred directly to the user'"'"'s cellular phone (10) but is stored in the user-dedicated storage area (97) of the user. The user downloads the software from his or her own dedicated storage area (97) to his or her own cellular phone (10) before using the software.
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21 Claims
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1-13. -13. (canceled)
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14. A method for providing storage areas in a storage server for a plurality of wireless communication terminals connected over a public network, said method comprising the steps of:
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allocating a uniquely dedicated storage area for each of users of said plurality of wireless communication terminals; causing a software sales site on the public network to receive an access directly from one of the wireless communication terminals so as to allow a user of said one of the wireless communication terminals to make a purchase-request of software; storing the software, which was purchase-requested at the software sales site by said one of the users from a wireless communication terminal of said one of the users over the public network, sent from the software sales site into one of dedicated storage areas uniquely allocated to said one of the users of the storage server without sending the software from the software sales site directly to the wireless communication terminal of said one of the users over the public network; and making available the software, stored in said one of the dedicated storage areas in said storage server, to said one of the users in response to a request from said one of the users, by using the wireless communication terminal of said one of the users. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A storage server connected to a plurality of wireless communication terminals over a wireless communication network, said storage server comprising:
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a storage unit having dedicated storage areas, each uniquely allocated to an individual user of one of said plurality of wireless communication terminals; means for receiving software, which is purchase-requested directly to a software sales site by one of the users from a wireless communication terminal of said one of the users over the public network, sent from the software sales site for storing the software into one of the dedicated storage areas uniquely allocated to said one of the users; a management table storing therein management information about the software stored in the dedicated storage areas of the users; and means for referencing said management table in response to access from one of the users by using the wireless communication terminals of said one of the users, and for sending the software, which is stored in one of the dedicated storage areas uniquely allocated to said one of the users, to the wireless communication terminal of said one of the users, by using the wireless communication terminal of said one of the users. - View Dependent Claims (21)
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