APPLICATION EXECUTION CONTROL APPARATUS AND APPLICATION EXECUTION CONTROL METHOD

• US 20120110078A1
• Filed: 08/09/2011
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: YEO, Ansley
• Application Number:
  US13/206,377
• Publication Number:
  US 20120110078A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/52 during program execution, e.g. stack integrity ; Preventing unwanted data erasure; Buffer overflow
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/629 to features or functions of an application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2117 User registration

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an application execution control apparatus includes a memory, a wireless communication module, and a controller. The memory is configured to store a relationship between a first application and a first wireless communication device, and a relationship between a second application and a second wireless communication device. The wireless communication module is configured to make a wireless communication with one of the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device. The controller is configured to select the first application based on the wireless communication with the first wireless communication device, and to select the second application based on the wireless communication with the second wireless communication device.

Claims

1. An application execution control apparatus comprising:

a memory configured to store data indicative of a relationship between a first application and a first wireless communication device, and data indicative of a relationship between a second application and a second wireless communication device;

a wireless communication module configured to execute a wireless communication with one of the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device; and

a controller configured to select the first application when the executed wireless communication is with the first wireless communication device, and to select the second application when the wireless communication is with the second wireless communication device.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to activate the first application based on the wireless communication with the first wireless communication device, and to activate the second application based on the wireless communication with the second wireless communication device.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to accept a login request to the first application via the wireless communication with the first wireless communication device, and to accept a login request to the second application via the wireless communication with the second wireless communication device.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the memory is configured to store a relationship between first user information and the first wireless communication device, and a relationship between second user information and the second wireless communication device.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to request selection of one of the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device when the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device are detected via wireless communications, and is further configured to accept a login request to the first application via the wireless communication with the first wireless communication device in response to selection of the first wireless communication device, and to accept a login request to the second application via the wireless communication with the second wireless communication device in response to selection of the second wireless communication device.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, further comprising:

a notification module configured to provide a notification of a selection request of one of the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device when the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device are detected via wireless communications.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to request selection of one of the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device when the second wireless communication device is detected during the login to the first application via the wireless communication with the first wireless communication device, to continue a login process to the first application via the wireless communication with the first wireless communication device in response to selection of the first wireless communication device, and to deactivate the login process to the first application via the wireless communication with the first wireless communication device and to accept a login request to the second application via the wireless communication with the second wireless communication device in response to selection of the second wireless communication device.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the memory is configured to store a relationship between the first wireless communication device and a first setting, and

the controller is configured to select the first application based on the wireless communication with the first wireless communication device, and to control an operation corresponding to the first application based on the first setting.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication module is configured to support a wireless communication based on the Bluetooth Low Energy.

10. An application execution control method, the method comprising:

executing wireless communication with one of a first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device; and

selecting a first application associated with the first wireless communication device based on the wireless communication with the first wireless communication device, and

selecting a second application stored in association with the second wireless communication device based on the wireless communication with the second wireless communication device.