Mobile station and output control method

• US 20050215240A1
• Filed: 03/22/2005
• Published: 09/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Fujita, Masanori, Urakawa, Yasutaka
• Granted Patent: US 7,697,653 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location

Abstract

A mobile station with an output function of data comprises: output control information acquiring means for acquiring at least one of country information and carrier information as output control information; harmful level acquiring means for acquiring harmful level information included in the data; output control rule holding means for holding a predetermined rule for determining whether output of the data is to be permitted, based on the harmful level information and the output control information; and output controlling means for making a determination on whether the output of the data is to be permitted, based on the output control information acquired by the output control information acquiring means and the harmful level information acquired by the harmful level acquiring means, in the light of the rule held by the output control holding means, and for performing a control of the output of the data on the basis of a result of the determination.

Claims

1. A mobile station with an output function of data comprising:

output control information acquiring means for acquiring at least one of country information and carrier information as output control information;

harmful level acquiring means for acquiring harmful level information included in the data;

output control rule holding means for holding a predetermined rule for determining whether output of the data is to be permitted, based on the harmful level information and the output control information; and

output controlling means for making a determination on whether the output of the data is to be permitted, based on the output control information acquired by the output control information acquiring means and the harmful level information acquired by the harmful level acquiring means, in the light of the rule held by the output control holding means, and for performing a control of the output of the data on the basis of a result of the determination.

2. The mobile station according to claim 1, said mobile station further comprising reading means for reading information from an external recording medium, wherein the output control information acquiring means acquires at least one of the country information and the carrier information from the information read by the reading means.

3. The mobile station according to claim 1, wherein the output control information acquiring means acquires country information, based on information acquired by a communication function of the mobile station, or based on location information of the mobile station measured by use of GPS.

4. The mobile station according to claim 1, wherein the output control information acquiring means acquires the carrier information, based on information acquired by a communication function of the mobile station.

5. The mobile station according to claim 1, wherein in a case where the output control information acquiring means acquires a plurality of output control information items, when the output controlling means determines in the light of the predetermined rule that the output of the data according to the harmful level information is permitted about all the output control information items, the output controlling means determines that the output of the data is to be permitted.

6. An output control method in a mobile station provided with an output function of data and holding a predetermined rule for determining whether output of the data is to be permitted, based on harmful level information included in the data and output control information, the method comprising:

an output control information acquiring step of acquiring at least one of country information and carrier information as the output control information;

a harmful level acquiring step of acquiring harmful level information included in the data; and

an output controlling step of making a determination on whether the output of the data is to be permitted, based on the output control information acquired in the output control information acquiring step and the harmful level information acquired in the harmful level acquiring step, in the light of the rule held in the mobile station, and performing a control of the output of the data on the basis of a result of the determination.