Mobile communication terminal and application control method

• US 7,784,048 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2005
• Issued: 08/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Oi, Tatsuro, Abe, Mitsuyuki, Asai, Mao, Watanabe, Nobuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Dam; Tuan Q
• Assistant Examiner(s): DAO, THUY CHAN
• Application Number:
  US11/150,230
• Publication Number:
  US 20050278717A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,898 Days
• Field of Search: 717/173
• US Class Current: 717/178
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal comprises: a download portion which downloads an application program from an outside WWW server, and secures a data region for reference parameters to which the application program refers at the time of execution; a control signal receiving portion which receives a control signal containing the reference parameters to which the application program refers, and a parameter saving portion which saves the reference parameters contained in the control signal to the data region.

Claims

1. An application control method for controlling an application program inside a mobile communication terminal from a remote control device, the application control method comprising:

securing a data region in the mobile communication terminal in which, when downloading an application program from the remote control device, the mobile communication terminal secures the data region for reference parameters to which the application program refers at the time of execution of the application program;

securing a reference parameter region dedicated to the application program;

judging whether or not the reference parameter region dedicated to the application program is successfully secured;

if the reference parameter region is not successfully secured, repeating securing the reference parameter region dedicated to the application program;

if the reference parameter region dedicated to the application program is successfully secured, downloading the application program;

transmitting a control signal from the remote control device to the mobile communication terminal, the control signal controlling operational states of the downloaded application program, including stopping and restarting the downloaded application program, the control signal including the reference parameters to which the downloaded application program refers;

saving the reference parameters included in the control signal to the secured data region in the mobile communication terminal; and

the mobile communication terminal simultaneously executing the downloaded application program and referring to the saved reference parameters in the secured data region during execution as needed.

2. The application control method according to claim 1, wherein the external server is a World Wide Web server.

3. The application control method according to claim 1, wherein the application program is a program to display news.

4. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

downloading means for downloading an application program from an external control server and securing a data region in the mobile communication terminal for reference parameters to which the application program refers at the time of execution of the application program;

securing means for securing a reference parameter region dedicated to the application program;

judging means for judging whether or not the reference parameter region dedicated to the application program is successfully secured;

if the reference parameter region is not successfully secured then repeating securing the reference parameter region dedicated to the application program;

if the reference parameter region dedicated to the application program is successfully secured then downloading the application program;

control signal receiving means for receiving a control signal, from the external control server, to control operational states of the downloaded application program, including stopping and restarting the downloaded application program, the control signal including the reference parameters to which the downloaded application program refers;

parameter saving means for saving the reference parameters contained in the control signal received from the external control server to the secured data region; and

simultaneously executing the downloaded application program and referring to the saved reference parameters in the secured data region as needed.

5. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 4, wherein the control signal receiving means notifies the application program of receiving the reference parameters.

6. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 4, wherein the external server is a World Wide Web server.

7. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 4, wherein the application program is a program that provides a game function.