| US 7,478,136 B2 | ||
| Terminal and repeater | ||
| Kazuhiro Yamada, Yokohama (Japan); Tatsuaki Wakabayashi, Yokohama (Japan); Dai Kamiya, Ichikawa (Japan); and Yoshiaki Hiramatsu, Yokosuka (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/181,837 PCT Filed Dec. 11, 2001, PCT No. PCT/JP01/10833 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Jul. 19, 2002, PCT Pub. No. WO02/48869, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 20, 2002. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 2000-376629 (JP), filed on Dec. 11, 2000. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2003/0037105 A1, Feb. 20, 2003 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 709—207 [709/217; 715/749; 715/864] | 24 Claims |
| 1. A terminal device comprising:
a communication unit that obtains one or more applications from an external device;
a memory that stores each of one or more applications in association with attribute data indicating whether the application
was obtained by the communication unit;
an instruction input unit that generates, in response to an input operation made by a user, an execution instruction to execute
an application stored in the memory;
a notification unit that provides to the user a notification indicating that an application under execution was obtained by
the communication unit from an external device; and
a processing unit that:
(a) executes the application in accordance with the execution instruction generated by the instruction input unit,
(b) determines, for the application subject to execution and on the execution of the application, whether the application
was obtained by the communication unit on the basis of the attribute data stored in the memory in association with the application,
and
(c) controls the notification unit to provide to the user the notification at least partly during a time the application is
under execution only when it was determined that the application is obtained by the communication unit.
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