TERMINAL CONTROL METHOD, TERMINAL APPARATUS AND PROGRAM

• US 20070061448A1
• Filed: 07/20/2006
• Published: 03/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Imai, Atsushi, TAKAHASHI, Hidehiko
• Granted Patent: US 7,574,270 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device

Abstract

A terminal control method includes device processing executed by using a device that a terminal includes, an application program installed on the terminal, a service definition file for storing user setting required when the application program is executed and a broker for judging the device processing, judging whether or not an item corresponding to user setting condition defined by the service definition file is executed by the device processing and executing processing defined to the application program if the corresponding item is executed by the device processing.

Claims

1. A terminal control method comprising:

device processing being executed by using a device that a terminal includes;

an application program installed on a terminal;

a service definition file for storing user setting required when said application program is executed; and

a broker for judging said device processing;

judging whether or not an item corresponding to user setting condition defined by said service definition file is executed by said device processing; and

executing processing defined to said application program if the corresponding item is executed.

2. A terminal control method according to claim 1, wherein said service definition file transmits serialized data to said application program so that said broker can judge said service definition file.

3. A terminal control method according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of devices and a plurality of device processing executed by using said devices and wherein data from respective device processing programs is serialized so that said broker can judge respective device processing.

4. A terminal apparatus comprising:

a device function unit for executing processing;

an application program storage unit for storing an application program;

a service definition file storage unit for storing user setting required when an application program stored in said application program storage unit is executed; and

a control unit for judging processing executed state in said device function unit, judging whether or not an item corresponding to user setting condition defined by a file stored in said service definition file is executed by said device function unit and executing defined processing on an application program stored in said application program storage unit if said corresponding item is executed by said device function unit.

5. A program installed in a terminal comprising:

a device processing program executed by using a device that a terminal includes;

an application program installed on a terminal

a service definition file creation program for storing user setting required when said application program is executed; and

a control program for judging a situation in which said device processing program is executed;

judging whether or not an item corresponding to a user setting condition defined by the service definition file created by said service definition file creation program is executed by said device processing program; and

executing processing defined to said application program if the corresponding item is executed by said device processing program.