Mobile communication terminal, apparatus and system for delivering application software, method for controlling execution state display, program, and recording medium

• US 7,440,752 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2002
• Issued: 10/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Asai, Mao, Kondo, Takashi, Watanabe, Nobuyuki, Kamiya, Dai, Naganuma, Takefumi, Nagasawa, Hideyuki, Maeda, Fukiko, Oseki, Eriko, Yamada, Kazuhiro, Tsuda, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Anderson; Matthew
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rego; Dominic E
• Application Number:
  US10/497,656
• Publication Number:
  US 20040242281A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,147 Days
• Field of Search: 455418-420, 455/423, 455/414.1, 455/566, 455/550.1, 455/90.1
• US Class Current: 455/420
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/28 by checking the correct order of processing G06F11/08 - G06F11/26 take precedence; monitoring patterns of pulse trains H03K5/19

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to enable smooth performance testing of an application software on a mobile communication terminal and to make execution state information about the application software available solely to authorized persons. The cellular phone 1 according to the present invention comprises a display 5, wireless unit 7, and control unit 2. As used herein, the display 5 is a display apparatus for displaying information. From a delivery server, the wireless unit 7 receives application software together with attribute information that indicates whether execution state information stored in a specific storage area by the application software should be displayed. The control unit 2 performs a control routine such that the execution state information is displayed by the display 5 when the attribute information indicates that the execution state information should be displayed, and the execution state information is not displayed by the display 5 when the attribute information indicates that the execution state information should not be displayed.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

display means for displaying information;

reception means for receiving application software that outputs execution state information to a specific storage area during execution, and for receiving, from an application software delivery apparatus, attribute information that indicates whether the execution state information outputted by the application software to the specific storage area should be displayed when the execution state information is generated during execution of the application software; and

control means for controlling the display output of the execution state information to the display means on the basis of the attribute information received by the reception means.

2. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the control means controls the display output of the execution state information by switching the display output to the display means between a screen on which the execution state information is displayed and a screen on which the execution state information is not displayed.

3. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the execution state information comprises at least one type of information selected from among log information for the execution, parametric information related to the execution, and error information at the time of execution.

4. A mobile communication terminal for communicating with an application software delivery apparatus for delivering application software that stores execution state information in a specific storage area during execution, said mobile communication terminal comprising:

display means for displaying information;

reception means for receiving application software together with attribute information that indicates whether the execution state information stored in the specific storage area by the application software should be displayed when the execution state information is generated during execution of the application software from the application software delivery apparatus; and

control means for controlling the display output of the execution state information to the display means on the basis of the attribute information received by the reception means.

5. An application software delivery apparatus for communicating with a mobile communication terminal which comprises display means for displaying information;

reception means for receiving application software that outputs execution state information to a specific storage area during execution, and for receiving attribute information that indicates whether the execution state information outputted by the application software to the specific storage area should be displayed when the execution state information is generated during execution of the application software; and

control means for controlling the display output of the execution state information to the display means based on the attribute information received by the reception means;

said application software delivery apparatus comprising;

attribute setting means for setting attribute information that indicates whether execution state information stored in a specific storage area by application software should be displayed when the execution state information is generated during execution of the application software, to the application software which is to be delivered; and

transmitting means for transmitting the application software to be delivered and the attribute information that has been set by the attribute setting means, to the mobile communication terminal.

6. An application software delivery system, comprising:

a mobile communication terminal which comprises display means for displaying information;

reception means for receiving application software that outputs execution state information to a specific storage area during execution, and for receiving attribute information that indicates whether the execution state information outputted by the application software to the specific storage area should be displayed when the execution state information is generated during execution of the application software; and

control means for controlling the display output of the execution state information to the display means based on the attribute information received by the reception means; and

an application software delivery apparatus which comprises attribute setting means for setting attribute information that indicates whether the execution state information outputted to a specific storage area by application software should be displayed, to the application software which is to be delivered; and

transmitting means for transmitting the application software to be delivered and the attribute information that has been set by the attribute setting means,

and being used for communication between the mobile communication terminal and the application software delivery apparatus.

7. An execution state display control method for a mobile communication terminal that comprises display means for displaying information, said execution state display control method comprising:

a reception step for receiving application software that outputs execution state information to a specific storage area during execution, and also receiving, from an application software delivery apparatus, attribute information that indicates whether the execution state information outputted to the specific storage area by the application software should be displayed when the execution state information is generated during execution of the application software; and

a control step for controlling the display output of the execution state information to the display means on the basis of the received attribute information.

8. The execution state display control method according to claim 7, wherein the display output of the execution state information is controlled in the control step by switching the display output to the display means between a screen on which the execution state information is displayed and a screen on which the execution state information is not displayed.

9. The execution state display control method according to claim 7, wherein the execution state information comprises at least one type of information selected from among log information for the execution, parametric information related to the execution, and error information at the time of execution.

10. An execution state display control method for a mobile communication terminal that comprises display means for displaying information and that communicates with an application software delivery apparatus for delivering application software that stores execution state information in a specific storage area during execution, said execution state display control method comprising:

a reception step for receiving application software together with attribute information that indicates whether the execution state information stored in the specific storage area by the application software should be displayed when the execution state information is generated during execution of the application software, from the application software delivery apparatus; and

a control step for controlling the display output of the execution state information to the display means on the basis of the received attribute information.

11. An execution state display control program for causing a computer provided to a mobile communication terminal comprising display means for displaying information to function as:

reception means for receiving application software that outputs execution state information to a specific storage area during execution, and for receiving, from an application software delivery apparatus, attribute information that indicates whether the execution state information outputted to the specific storage area by the application software should be displayed when the execution state information is generated during execution of the application software; and

control means for controlling the display output of the execution state information to the display means on the basis of the attribute information received by the reception means.

12. A computer-readable recording medium, wherein the execution state display control program according to claim 11 is recorded thereon.