System and method for executed function management and program for mobile terminal

• US 8,681,700 B2
• Filed: 09/24/2009
• Issued: 03/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Uchida, Kaoru
• Primary Examiner(s): PHUNKULH, BOB A
• Application Number:
  US13/121,226
• Publication Number:
  US 20110176451A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,643 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3476 Data logging G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/88 Detecting or preventing theft or loss
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/66 with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling verifying user identity or authority in secret or secure digital communications H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs logging of telephone numbers H04M1/56, H04M1/57

Abstract

An executed function management system of a mobile terminal, includes a mobile phone terminal configured to store an execution history when an execution history target function, whose execution history should be stored, as one of functions is executed; and a server unit configured to acquire said execution history from the mobile phone terminal to store for every the mobile phone terminal. The mobile phone terminal notifies the execution history to the server unit at said preset timing or when a notice of said execution history is requested from said server unit.

Claims

1. An executed function management system, comprising:

a mobile phone terminal configured to store an execution history of an execution history target function, which is one of functions of said mobile phone terminal and whose execution history should be stored; and

a server unit configured to acquire said execution history from said mobile phone terminal to store for said mobile phone terminal,

wherein said mobile phone terminal notifies said execution history to said server unit at preset timing or when the notification of said execution history is requested from said server unit, and

wherein said mobile phone terminal comprises;

a terminal storing operation management table in which said execution history of said execution history target function is stored as well as an immediate notice target function whose execution history should be notified to said server unit immediately upon an execution time; and

a terminal execution history management table in which said execution history of said execution history target function is stored,

wherein said mobile phone terminal determines whether said one function of the functions is said execution history target function or said immediate notice target function, based on said terminal storing operation management table, when said one function is executed, stores said execution history in said execution history management table when said one function is said execution history target function, and notifies said execution history to said server unit when said one function is said immediate notice target function.

2. The executed function management system according to claim 1, wherein said mobile phone terminal further comprises:

a terminal communication connection determining section configured to determine whether a communication connection with said server unit is possible or impossible,

wherein said mobile phone terminal stores said execution history of said immediate notice target function in said terminal execution history management table, when said immediate notice target function is executed and when the communication connection with said server unit is impossible upon executing said one function, and extracts said execution history of said immediate notice target function from said terminal execution history management table after the communication connection with said server unit becomes possible, and notifies the extracted execution history to said server unit.

3. The executed function management system according to claim 2, wherein said terminal communication connection determining section determines that a communication connection confirmation response to a communication connection confirmation request transmitted periodically can be received from said server unit, and determines whether the communication connection with said server unit is possible or impossible, based on whether radio wave reception level of said mobile phone terminal is in an inside-of-area state or an outside-of-area state.

4. The executed function management system according to claim 1, wherein said terminal storing operation management table further stores an execution prohibition indication data,

wherein said mobile phone terminal refers to said terminal storing operation management table when an instruction of execution of said one function is received, and neglects the instruction when said one function is a function assigned with said execution prohibition indication data.

5. The executed function management system according to claim 1, wherein said mobile phone terminal further comprises:

a user interface section configured to receive an input from a user of said mobile phone terminal;

a time measuring section configured to measure current time; and

a GPS receiving section configured to acquire current location data,

wherein said execution history comprises at least one of said current time, said current position data, and letters inputted through said user interface section from said user.

6. The executed function management system according to claim 1, wherein said server unit comprises a server storing operation management table in which data for said terminal storing operation management table are stored in relation to said mobile phone terminal,

wherein said mobile phone terminal acquires said server storing operation management table from said server unit and sets said terminal storing operation management table based on the data of said server storing operation management table.

7. The executed function management system according to claim 1, wherein said server unit is built in an administrative mobile phone terminal, and

said execution history is received by said administrative mobile phone terminal.

8. An executed function management method, in an executed function management system comprising a mobile phone terminal and a server unit, said executed function management method comprising:

storing an execution history of an execution history target function, which is one of functions of said mobile phone terminal and whose execution history should be stored;

acquiring said execution history from said mobile phone terminal to store for said mobile phone terminal;

notifying said execution history to said server unit at preset timing or when the notification of said execution history is requested from said server unit;

storing said execution history of an immediate notice target function whose execution history should be notified to said server unit immediately upon an execution time as well as said execution history of said execution history target function in a terminal storing operation management table; and

determining whether said one function of the functions is said execution history target function or said immediate notice target function, based on said terminal storing operation management table, when said one function is executed,

wherein said storing an execution history comprises;

storing said execution history of said one function in said execution history management table when said one function is said execution history target function; and

notifying said execution history of said one function to said server unit when said one function is said immediate notice target function.

9. The executed function management method according to claim 8, further comprising:

determining whether a communication connection with said server unit is possible or impossible;

storing said execution history of said immediate notice target function in said terminal execution history management table, when said immediate notice target function is executed and when the communication connection with said server unit is impossible;

extracting said execution history of said immediate notice target function from said terminal execution history management table after the communication connection with said server unit becomes possible; and

notifying the extracted execution history to said server unit.

10. The executed function management method according to claim 9, wherein said determining whether a communication connection with said server unit is possible or impossible comprises:

determining whether or not a communication connection confirmation response to a communication connection confirmation request transmitted periodically can be received from said server unit, or determining whether the communication connection with said server unit is possible or impossible, based on whether a radio wave reception level of said mobile phone terminal is in an inside-of-area state or an outside-of-area state.

11. The executed function management method according to claim 8, further comprising:

storing an execution prohibition indication data; and

referring to said terminal storing operation management table when an instruction of execution of said one function is received, and neglecting the instruction when said one function is a function assigned with said execution prohibition indication data.

12. The executed function management method according to claim 8, further comprising:

receiving an input from a user of said mobile phone terminal;

measuring current time; and

acquiring current location data;

wherein said execution history comprises at least one of said current time, said current position data, and letters inputted through said user interface section from said user when said execution history target function or said immediate notice object function is executed.

13. The executed function management method of the mobile terminal according to claim 8, further comprising:

storing data for said terminal storing operation management table in a server storing operation management table in relation to said mobile phone terminal; and

acquiring said server storing operation management table from said server unit and setting said terminal storing operation management table based on the data of said server storing operation management table.

14. The executed function management method of the mobile terminal according to claim 8, further comprising:

receiving said execution history by an administrative mobile phone terminal.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing executed function management program code executed by a computer, to realize an executed function management method in an executed function management system comprising a mobile phone terminal and a server unit, said executed function management method comprising:

storing an execution history of an execution history target function, which is one of functions of said mobile phone terminal and whose execution history should be stored; and

acquiring said execution history from a mobile phone terminal to store for every said mobile phone terminal,

notifying said execution history to said server unit at preset timing or when the notification of said execution history is requested from said server unit,

storing said execution history of an immediate notice target function whose execution history should be notified to said server unit immediately upon an execution time as well as said execution history of said execution history target function in a terminal storing operation management table; and

determining whether said one function of the functions is said execution history target function or said immediate notice target function, based on said terminal storing operation management table, when said one function is executed,

wherein said storing an execution history comprises;

storing said execution history of said one function in said execution history management table when said one function is said execution history target function, and notifying said execution history of said one function to said server unit when said one function is said immediate notice target function.

16. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 15, further comprising:

determining whether a communication connection with said server unit is possible or impossible;

storing said execution history of said immediate notice target function in said terminal execution history management table, when said immediate notice target function is executed and when the communication connection with said server unit is impossible;

extracting said execution history of said immediate notice target function from said terminal execution history management table after the communication connection with said server unit becomes possible; and

notifying the extracted execution history to said server unit.

17. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 16, wherein said determining whether a communication connection with said server unit is possible or impossible comprises:

determining whether or not a communication connection confirmation response to a communication connection confirmation request transmitted periodically can be received from said server unit, or whether the communication connection with said server unit is possible or impossible, based on whether radio wave reception level of said mobile phone terminal is in an inside-of-area state or an outside-of-area state.

18. The recording medium of the executed function management method of the mobile terminal according to claim 15, further comprising:

storing an execution prohibition indication data; and

referring to said terminal storing operation management table when an instruction of execution of said one function is received, and neglecting the instruction when said one function is a function assigned with said execution prohibition indication data.

19. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 15, further comprising:

receiving an input from a user of said mobile phone terminal;

measuring current time; and

acquiring current location data;

wherein said execution history comprises at least one of said current time, said current position data, and letters inputted through said user interface section from said user when said execution history target function or said immediate notice object function is executed.

20. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 15, further comprising:

acquiring said server record operation management table from said server unit; and

settings said terminal record operation management table based on data of said server record operation management table.

21. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 15, further comprising:

receiving said execution record by said administrative mobile phone terminal.