MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND APPLICATION EXECUTION CONTROL METHOD

• US 20130219342A1
• Filed: 02/20/2013
• Published: 08/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: NOSOU, Mitsukuni, IWAIZUMI, Tomoki
• Application Number:
  US13/772,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20130219342A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/835
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons

Abstract

A mobile terminal device includes an image generating module which generates a first image by which an user selects one of contact objects respectively correlated to contact information and a second image by which the user selects one of application programs utilizing contact information, and displays the first image and the second image on a display module; a receiving module which receives a first operation with respect to the first image and a second operation with respect to the second image; and an executing module which executes a processing of activating the application program selected by the second operation, and of applying, to the activated application program, the contact information correlated to the contact object selected by the first operation, as contact information to be utilized in the activated application program, based on a determination that the first operation and the second operation are received by the receiving module.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal device, comprising:

a display module;

an image generating module which generates a first image by which an user selects one of a plurality of contact objects respectively correlated to contact information and a second image by which the user selects one of a plurality of application programs utilizing contact information, and displays the first image and the second image on the display module;

a receiving module which receives a first operation with respect to the first image and a second operation with respect to the second image; and

an executing module which executes a processing of activating the application program selected by the second operation, and of applying, to the activated application program, the contact information correlated to the contact object selected by the first operation, as contact information to be utilized in the activated application program, based on a determination that the first operation and the second operation are received by the receiving module.

2. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

the contact object is correlated to the contact information of a plurality of items,

the executing module holds correspondence information for specifying the item corresponding to the application program, and

the executing module applies, to the activated application program, the contact information of the item corresponding to the application program selected by the second operation, among the contact information of the plurality of items correlated to the contact object selected by the first operation, as the contact information to be utilized.

3. The mobile terminal device according to claim 2, wherein

the item includes at least one of a name of the contact object, a telephone number, an electronic mail address, a location, a connection destination for utilizing a social networking service (SNS), and a connection destination for utilizing a predetermined on-line service.

4. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

the receiving module receives, as the first operation, a operation by which the user selects the plurality of contact objects with respect to the first image, and

the executing module applies, to the activated application program, the contact information correlated to each of the contact objects selected by the first operation, as the contact information to be utilized.

5. The mobile terminal device according to claim 4, wherein

the executing module activates the application program selected by the second operation by a same number as the number of the contact objects selected by the first operation, and applies, to each of the activated application programs, the contact information correlated to each of the contact objects selected by the first operation, as the contact information to be utilized.

6. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

the receiving module receives, as the second operation, a operation by which the user selects the plurality of application programs with respect to the second image, and

the executing module activates each of the application programs selected by the second operation, and applies, to each of the activated application programs, the contact information correlated to the contact object selected by the first operation, as the contact information to be utilized.

7. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

the receiving module invalidates the second operation, with respect to the second image, by which the user selects the application program incapable of utilizing the contact information correlated to the selected contact object in a state that the contact object is selected by the first operation.

8. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, wherein

the receiving module invalidates the first operation, with respect to the first image, by which the user selects the contact object that is not correlated to the contact information usable by the selected application program in a state that the application program is selected by the second operation.

9. A storage medium which stores a computer program for providing a computer of a mobile terminal device with:

a function of generating a first image by which an user selects one of a plurality of contact objects respectively correlated to contact information and a second image by which the user selects one of a plurality of application programs utilizing contact information, and of displaying the first image and the second image on a display module;

a function of receiving a first operation with respect to the first image and a second operation with respect to the second image; and

a function of activating the application program selected by the second operation, and of applying, to the activated application program, the contact information correlated to the contact object selected by the first operation, as contact information to be utilized in the activated application program, based on a determination that the first operation and the second operation are received.

10. An application execution control method for a mobile terminal device, comprising:

a step of generating a first image by which an user selects one of a plurality of contact objects respectively correlated to contact information and a second image by which the user selects one of a plurality of application programs utilizing the contact information, and of displaying the first image and the second image on a display module;

a step of receiving a first operation with respect to the first image and a second operation with respect to the second image; and

a step of activating the application program selected by the second operation, and of applying, to the activated application program, the contact information correlated to the contact object selected by the first operation, as contact information to be utilized in the activated application program, based on a determination that the first operation and the second operation are received.