	US 7,519,687 B2
	Communications module execution control system, communications module execution control method, application execution control system, and application execution control method
Masayuki Tsuda, Tokyo (Japan); Takefumi Naganuma, Kyoto (Japan); Hideyuki Nagasawa, Yokohama (Japan); Eriko Oseki, Yokohama (Japan); Fukiko Maeda, Yokohama (Japan); Nobuyuki Watanabe, Yokohama (Japan); Mao Asai, Yokosuka (Japan); Takashi Kondo, Tokyo (Japan); Kazuhiro Yamada, Yokohama (Japan); and Dai Kamiya, Yokohama (Japan)
Assigned to NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/496,790 PCT Filed Dec. 05, 2002, PCT No. PCT/JP02/12775 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Jun. 04, 2004, PCT Pub. No. WO03/049415, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 06, 2003.
Claims priority of application No. 2001-374626 (JP), filed on Dec. 07, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2005/0075101 A1, Apr. 07, 2005
Int. Cl. G06F 13/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 709—219 [709/225; 709/227]

8 Claims

1. A communications module execution control system for controlling the execution of a communications module of a mobile phone by an application, comprising:

an interface, at the mobile phone, configured to download an application attribute information file corresponding to said application, said application attribute information file including information identifying whether said application is to execute said communication module of the mobile phone and information identifying whether said application is downloadable;

a first module configured to judge whether said application is downloadable by referring to said application attribute information file;

the interface at the mobile phone configured to download said application only if it determined by said first module that the application is downloadable;

a second module configured to control the execution of said communications module by said application, in accordance with the judgment result from said first module;

a measuring unit configured to measure a radio field state when said communications module is executed by said application; and

a third module configured to halt the execution of said communications module by said application when the measured radio field state is at or below a prescribed level.