US 11,706,839 B2
Portable communication device cooperation system, master portable communication device, and slave portable communication device
Daisuke Matsuoh, Nishitokyo (JP); and Ryutaro Uemura, Nishitokyo (JP)
Assigned to CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 16/973,964
Filed by CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 16, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/016362
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 10, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/003700, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-123358 (JP), filed on Jun. 28, 2018; and application No. 2019-034346 (JP), filed on Feb. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0259049 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04W 84/20 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 84/20 (2013.01) 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable communication device cooperation system comprising:
a master portable communication device including a master-side communication unit configured communicate with other devices, a master-side storage unit including a plurality of master-side slots configured to respectively store application programs, and a master-side control unit configured to execute the application programs stored in the master-side storage unit; and
a slave portable communication device including a slave-side communication unit configured to communicate with other devices, a slave-side storage unit including a plurality of slave-side slots configured respectively store application programs, and a slave-side control unit configured to execute the application programs stored in the slave-side storage unit, wherein
the master-side slots respectively store master application programs configured to cause the master portable communication device and the slave portable communication device to operate in cooperation with each other, and
the slave-side slots respectively store slave application programs that are each transferred from a corresponding one of the master-side slots via the master-side communication unit and the slave-side communication unit, each include part of information of the master application program, and are each configured to cause the slave portable communication device to operate by being executed by the slave-side control unit,
an operation unit of the slave portable communication device functions as a switching operation unit of a slave application program of the stored slave application programs by the slave portable communication device,
the slave-side control unit selects the slave application program in the slave-side slots in accordance with an operation of the switching operation unit, and transmits a linked command to the master portable communication device, and
when receiving the linked command, the master-side control unit selects the master-side slot while linking with selection of the slave application program in the slave-side slot, and starts the master application program of the corresponding slot.