Mobile communication terminal and information providing system

摘要

Information that is no longer valid due to the passage of time is not provided to a user. When a stock price information server acquires updated stock price information from a securities market network, a message that instructs that a predetermined application be started up and to which a term of validity has been attached is sent to a user terminal over a paging channel via an SMS server. When the user terminal receives the message, it determines whether or not the message is within the term of validity, and if it determines that the message is within the term of validity, starts up the instructed application from among a plurality of applications that are stored. The stock price information server then sends to the user terminal the stock price information that is requested by the started up application.

主权项

1. A mobile communication terminal comprising:
a display section that displays a notification of an arrival of an incoming signal or a notification that is generated as a result of the arrival of the incoming signal; and processor that monitors whether or not unset characters are being displayed on the display section during a character input operation by a user of the mobile communication terminal, wherein the processor does not display the notification of the arrival of the incoming signal on the display section when the unset characters are being displayed on the display section, and displays the notification of the arrival of the incoming signal on the display section when the unset characters are not being displayed on the display section, wherein the unset characters are input characters corresponding to a plurality of candidate character strings, the unset characters being input by the user of the mobile communication terminal prior to being displayed on the display section, wherein the unset characters subsequently become set characters upon selecting one of the plurality of candidate character strings as the set characters by the user of the mobile communication terminal, and wherein the notification that is generated as a result of the arrival of the incoming signal is a notification instructing that an application be started up.