Terminal and repeater

• US 7,478,136 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2001
• Issued: 01/13/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamada, Kazuhiro, Kamiya, Dai, Hiramatsu, Yoshiaki, Wakabayashi, Tatsuaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Caldwell; Andrew
• Assistant Examiner(s): BLAIR, DOUGLAS B
• Application Number:
  US10/181,837
• Publication Number:
  US 20030037105A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,590 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/207, 709/217, 715/749, 715/864
• US Class Current: 709/207
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

An application title, storage location information, and a download flag F is stored in an application control table TBL provided in table area 14b of EEPROM 14 of mobile phone MS. The download flag F indicates whether the application is a downloaded application. When downloading an application from IP server W, CPU 11 changes the download flag corresponding to the application to “1”. When executing the application, CPU 11 reads out the download flag F corresponding to the application and displays a predetermined image on a liquid crystal display MS4 when the download flag F has a value of “1”.

Claims

1. A terminal device comprising:

a communication unit that obtains one or more applications from an external device;

a memory that stores each of one or more applications in association with attribute data indicating whether the application was obtained by the communication unit;

an instruction input unit that generates, in response to an input operation made by a user, an execution instruction to execute an application stored in the memory;

a notification unit that provides to the user a notification indicating that an application under execution was obtained by the communication unit from an external device; and

a processing unit that;

(a) executes the application in accordance with the execution instruction generated by the instruction input unit,

(b) determines, for the application subject to execution and on the execution of the application, whether the application was obtained by the communication unit on the basis of the attribute data stored in the memory in association with the application, and

(c) controls the notification unit to provide to the user the notification at least partly during a time the application is under execution only when it was determined that the application is obtained by the communication unit.

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

the communication unit obtains one or more applications from a data source in a network through the network.

3. The terminal device according to claim 1, wherein:

the communication unit obtains one or more applications from an external storage medium through the external device that reads out the one or more applications from the external storage medium.

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

the one or more applications obtained by the communication unit are Java applications.

5. A terminal device comprising:

a communication unit that obtains one or more applications from an external device;

a memory that stores each of one or more applications in association with attribute data indicating whether the application was obtained by the communication unit;

an instruction input unit that generates, in response to an input operation made by a user, an execution instruction to execute an application stored in the memory;

a notification unit that provides to the user a notification indicating that an application under execution was not obtained by the communication unit from an external device; and

a processing unit that;

(a) executes the application in accordance with the execution instruction generated by the instruction input unit,

(b) determines, for the application subject to execution and on the execution of the application, whether the application was obtained by the communication unit on the basis of the attribute data stored in the memory in association with the application, and

(c) controls the notification unit to provide to the user the notification at least partly during a time the application is under execution only when it was determined that the application is not obtained by the communication unit.

6. The terminal device according to claim 5, wherein:

the communication unit obtains one or more applications from a data source in a network through the network.

7. The terminal device according to claim 5, wherein:

the communication unit obtains one or more applications from an external storage medium through the external device that reads out the one or more applications from the external storage medium.

8. The terminal device according to claim 5, wherein:

the one or more applications obtained by the communication unit are Java applications.

9. A terminal device comprising:

a communication unit that obtains one or more applications from an external device;

a memory that has a first memory area in which one or more applications are stored before shipment of the terminal device and a second memory area in which one or more applications obtained by the communication unit are stored after the shipment of the terminal device;

an instruction input unit that generates, in response to an input operation made by a user, an execution instruction to execute an application stored in the memory;

a notification unit that provides to the user a notification indicating that an application under execution was obtained by the communication unit from an external device after the shipment of the terminal device; and

a processing unit that;

(a) executes the application in accordance with the execution instruction generated by the instruction input unit,

(b) determines, for the application subject to execution and upon execution of the application, whether the application is stored in the second memory area, and

(c) controls the notification unit to provide to the user the notification at least partly during a time the application is under execution only when it is determined that the application is stored in the second memory area.

10. The terminal device according to claim 9, wherein:

the communication unit obtains one or more applications from a data source in a network through the network.

11. The terminal device according to claim 9, wherein:

the communication unit obtains one or more applications from an external storage medium through the external device that reads out the one or more applications from the external storage medium.

12. The terminal device according to claim 9, wherein:

the one or more applications obtained by the communication unit are Java applications.

13. A terminal device comprising:

a communication unit that obtains one or more applications from an external device;

a memory that has a first memory area in which one or more applications are stored before shipment of the terminal device and a second memory area in which one or more applications obtained by the communication unit are stored after the shipment of the terminal device;

an instruction input unit that generates, in response to an input operation made by a user, an execution instruction to execute an application stored in the memory;

a notification unit that provides to the user a notification indicating that an application under execution is stored in the memory before the shipment of the terminal device; and

a processing unit that;

(a) executes the application in accordance with the execution instruction generated by the instruction input unit,

(b) determines, for the application subject to execution and on the execution of the application, whether the application is stored in the first memory area, and

(c) controls the notification unit to provide to the user the notification at least partly during a time the application is under execution only when it is determined that the application is stored in the first memory area.

14. The terminal device according to claim 13, wherein:

the communication unit obtains one or more applications from a data source in a network through the network.

15. The terminal device according to claim 13, wherein:

the communication unit obtains one or more applications from an external storage medium through the external device that reads out the one or more applications from the external storage medium.

16. The terminal device according to claim 13, wherein:

the one or more applications obtained by the communication unit are Java applications.

17. A terminal device comprising:

a communication unit that obtains one or more applications from an external device;

a memory that stores each of one or more applications obtained by the communication unit in association with attribute data indicating whether the application was obtained by the communication unit along with a reliability indicator indicating a degree of reliability of the application;

an instruction input unit that generates, in response to an input operation made by a user, an execution instruction to execute an application stored in the memory;

a notification unit that provides to the user a notification indicating that an application under execution does not have a certain degree of reliability; and

a processing unit that;

(a) determines, on reception of an application by the communication unit, whether the application is received along with the reliability indicator,

(b) controls the memory to store the received application in association with the attribute data indicating a result of the determination on whether the application is received along with the reliability indicator,

(c) executes the received application in accordance with the execution instruction generated by the instruction input unit,

(d) determines, for the received application subject to execution and on the execution of the received application, whether the received application has the certain degree of reliability on the basis of the attribute data stored in the memory in association with the application, and

(e) controls the notification unit to provide to the user the notification at least partly during a time the application is under execution only when it is determined that the application does not have the certain degree of reliability.

18. The terminal device according to claim 17, wherein:

the communication unit obtains one or more applications from a data source in a network through the network.

19. The terminal device according to claim 18, wherein:

the communication unit obtains one or more applications from an external storage medium through the external device that reads out the one or more applications from the external storage medium.

20. The terminal device according to claim 19, wherein:

the one or more applications obtained by the communication unit are Java applications.

21. A terminal device comprising:

a communication unit that obtains one or more applications from an external device;

a memory that stores each of one or more applications obtained by the communication unit in association with attribute data indicating whether the application was obtained by the communication unit along with a reliability indicator indicating a degree of reliability of the application;

an instruction input unit that generates, in response to an input operation made by a user, an execution instruction to execute an application stored in the memory;

a notification unit that provides to the user a notification indicating that an application under execution has a certain degree of reliability; and

a processing unit that;

(a) determines, on a reception of an application by the communication unit, whether the application is received along with the reliability indicator,

(b) controls the memory to store the received application in association with the attribute data indicating a result of the determination on whether the application is received along with the reliability indicator,

(c) executes the received application in accordance with the execution instruction generated by the instruction input unit,

(d) determines, for the received application subject to execution and on the execution of the received application, whether the received application has the certain degree of reliability on the basis of the attribute data stored in the memory in association with the application, and

(e) controls the notification unit to provide to the user notification at least partly during a time the application is under execution only when it is determined that the application has the certain degree of reliability.

22. The terminal device according to claim 21, wherein:

the communication unit obtains one or more applications from a data source in a network through the network.

23. The terminal device according to claim 21, wherein:

the communications unit obtains one or more applications from an external storage medium through the external device that reads out the one or more applications from the external storage medium.

24. The terminal device according to claim 21, wherein:

the one or more applications obtained by the communication unit are Java applications.