COMMUNICATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, SOFTWARE ACQUIRING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20110105029A1
• Filed: 11/03/2010
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: KURANARI, Shinichi, ITOU, Hideto, HAMAUE, Osamu, TOKUNAGA, Akira, IMUKAI, Takafumi, TOMOHARA, Fumiyoshi, TOYODA, Manabu, TAKAYASHIKI, Yukio
• Application Number:
  US12/938,420
• Publication Number:
  US 20110105029A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

A communication terminal apparatus including a second apparatus having a communication function and a first apparatus connectable to the second apparatus. The communication terminal apparatus includes an external communication function unit that is disposed in the second apparatus and acquires software, which is executable in the first apparatus, from an outside, a second memory that is disposed in the second apparatus and stores the software which is acquired, a first memory that is disposed in the first apparatus, and storage unit that is disposed in the first apparatus and stores the software read out from the second memory to the first memory according to a connection between the first apparatus and the second apparatus.

Claims

1. A communication terminal apparatus including a second apparatus having a communication function and a first apparatus connectable to the second apparatus, the communication terminal apparatus comprising

an external communication function unit that is disposed in the second apparatus and acquires software, which is executable in the first apparatus, from an outside;

a second memory that is disposed in the second apparatus and stores the software which is acquired;

a first memory that is disposed in the first apparatus; and

a storage unit that is disposed in the first apparatus and stores the software read out from the second memory to the first memory according to a connection between the first apparatus and the second apparatus.

2. The communication terminal apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first apparatus includes a software updating unit that updates existing software by using the software which is stored, the existing software having been retained by the first apparatus.

3. The communication terminal apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the second apparatus includes a version number checking unit that compares a version number of existing software which corresponds to the software and has been retained by the first apparatus with a version number of existing software which corresponds to the software and has been retained by the second apparatus, and

the first apparatus includes a software updating unit that updates existing software according to a comparison result by the version number checking unit, the existing software having been retained by the first apparatus.

4. A software acquiring method performed by a communication terminal apparatus including a second apparatus having a communication function and a first apparatus connectable to the second apparatus, comprising:

acquiring, by the second apparatus, software, which is executable in the first apparatus, from an outside;

storing, by the second apparatus, the software which is acquired to a second memory; and

storing, by the first apparatus, the software read out from the second memory to the first memory included in the first apparatus according to a connection between the first apparatus and the second apparatus.

5. The software acquiring method of claim 4, further comprising:

updating, by the first apparatus, existing software by using the software which is stored, the existing software having been retained by the first apparatus.

6. The software acquiring method of claim 4 further comprising:

comparing, by the second apparatus, a version number of existing software which corresponds to the software and has been retained by the first apparatus with a version number of existing software which corresponds to the software and has been retained by the second apparatus, and

updating existing software according to a comparison result, the existing software having been retained by the first apparatus.

7. A computer-readable recording medium storing a software acquiring program to be executed by a communication terminal apparatus including a second apparatus having a communication function and a first apparatus connectable to the second apparatus, the program causing the communication terminal apparatus to perform a method, the method comprising:

acquiring, by the second apparatus, software, which is executable in the first apparatus, from an outside;

storing, by the second apparatus, the software which is acquired to a second memory; and

storing, by the first apparatus, the software read out from the second memory to the first memory included in the first apparatus according to a connection between the first apparatus and the second apparatus.

8. The recording medium of claim 7, the method further comprising:

updating, by the first apparatus, existing software by using the software which is stored, the existing software having been retained by the first apparatus.

9. The recording medium of claim 7, the method further comprising:

comparing, by the second apparatus, a version number of existing software which corresponds to the software and has been retained by the first apparatus with a version number of existing software which corresponds to the software and has been retained by the second apparatus, and

updating existing software according to a comparison result, the existing software having been retained by the first apparatus.