Mobile terminal, operation control program, and data access control program

• US 8,095,125 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2007
• Issued: 01/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Company Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Niimi, Tomohiro
• Primary Examiner(s): GARY, ERIKA A
• Application Number:
  US11/703,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20070201682A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,798 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724634 With partially locked states, e.g. when some telephonic functional locked states or applications remain accessible in the locked states
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/04 including near field communication means, e.g. RFID
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver

Abstract

In a cellular phone, when a coming-to-the-office signal is detected by a non-contact IC section, a CPU selects an official mode as a telephone number mode. Meanwhile, when a leaving-the-office signal is detected by the non-contact IC section, the CPU selects a private mode as a telephone number mode. In an application menu, applications usable and not usable in the current telephone number mode are displayed according to the availability mode added for the applications so that a user can identify these applications. Only the files corresponding with the current telephone number mode can be selected according to the mode identifier added for the file, or the type of the folder storing the file. Thereby, a plurality of processing functions included in the cellular phone, or many files stored therein can be automatically used selectively either on official use or on private use.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal which stores a plurality of telephone numbers corresponding to a plurality of telephone number modes, and executes communication by a telephone number corresponding to a telephone number mode selected from the plurality of telephone number modes comprising:

a telephone number mode selection means for selecting one of the plurality of telephone number modes;

a plurality of processing means for executing given processing other than the communication with corresponding availability limitation information which indicates whether or not the processing is available according to each of the plurality of telephone number modes, wherein the given processing other than communication is at least one of a camera function, a browser function, an electronic money function, a music reproduction function, a television reception function, and a radio function; and

an execution availability determination means for determining execution availability of each of the plurality of processing means based on the telephone number mode selected by the telephone number mode selection means and the availability limitation information corresponding to the plurality of processing means.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the execution availability determination means determines execution availability of each of the plurality of processing means by determining presence of an availability limitation in relation to the telephone number mode selected by the telephone number mode selection means with reference to the availability limitation information corresponding to one of the plurality of processing means, when execution is directed to the one of the plurality of processing means, and prohibits executing the one of the plurality of processing means when the availability limitation exists.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1 comprising:

a display means for displaying a list of the plurality of processing means so that each of the plurality of processing means can be selected; and

a display control means for identifiably displaying the execution availability of each of the plurality of processing means as selection availability information indicating whether or not each processing means can be selected on the display means.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 3, comprising:

an extraction means for extracting a processing means with no availability limitations in the telephone number mode selected by the telephone number mode selection means from the plurality of processing means based on the execution availability determined by the execution availability determination means for each of the plurality of processing means, wherein

the display control means displays the processing means extracted by the extraction means as a selectable processing means on the display means.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of telephone number modes include official mode and private mode comprising:

a detection means for detecting whether a user comes to the office or leaves the office by non-contact communication with an external terminal provided in the office; and

a mode switch means for switching the telephone number mode to the official mode when the detection means detects that the user comes to the office, and switching the telephone number mode to the private mode when the detection means detects that the user leaves the office.

6. A mobile terminal which stores a plurality of telephone numbers corresponding to a plurality of telephone number modes, and executes communication by a telephone number corresponding to a telephone number mode selected from the plurality of telephone number modes comprising:

a telephone number mode selection means for selecting one of the plurality of telephone number modes;

a memory means for storing a plurality of data to be controlled corresponding to the one of the plurality of telephone number modes, wherein the plurality of data to be controlled relates to a camera function, a browser function, an electronic money function, a music reproduction function, a television reception function, or a radio function; and

an accessibility determination means for determining accessibility to each of the plurality of data to be controlled based on whether or not a telephone number mode corresponding to each of the plurality of data to be controlled corresponds with the telephone number mode selected by the telephone number mode selection means.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 6 comprising:

a mode matching means for matching a telephone number mode selected at this point with each of the plurality of data when the plurality of data is stored in the memory means, wherein

the accessibility determination means admits accessing to designated data when one of the plurality of data stored in the memory portion is designated, in the case that the telephone number mode corresponding to the designated data corresponds with the telephone number mode selected by the telephone number mode selection means.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, wherein the accessibility determination means prohibits accessing to designated data when one of the plurality of data stored in the memory portion is designated, in the case that the telephone number mode corresponding to the designated data does not correspond with the telephone number mode selected by the telephone number mode selection means.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an operation control program executed by a processor in a mobile terminal, the operation control program comprising:

a telephone number mode selection function for selecting one of a plurality of telephone number modes corresponding to a plurality of telephone numbers;

a plurality of processing functions for executing given processing other than communication with corresponding availability limitation information which indicates whether or not the processing is available according to each of the plurality of telephone number modes, wherein the given processing other than communication is at least one of a camera function, a browser function, an electronic money function, a music reproduction function, a television reception function, and a radio function; and

an execution availability determination function for determining execution availability of each of the plurality of processing functions based on the telephone number mode selected by the telephone number mode selection function and the availability limitation information corresponding to the plurality of processing functions.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a data access control program executed by a processor in a mobile terminal, the data access control program comprising:

a telephone number mode selection function for selecting one of a plurality of telephone number modes corresponding to a plurality of telephone numbers;

a matching function for matching each of a plurality of data to be controlled with the one of the plurality of telephone number modes, wherein the plurality of data to be controlled relate to a camera function, a browser function, an electronic money function, a music reproduction function, a television reception function, or a radio function; and

an accessibility determination function for determining accessibility to each of the plurality of data to be controlled based on whether or not the telephone number mode corresponding to each of the plurality of data to be controlled corresponds with the telephone number mode selected by the telephone number mode selection function.