Mobile communication terminal for controlling startup of application based on received message 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Information that is no longer valid due to the passage of time is not provided to a user.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 storage section that stores an application that requests a server for predetermined information and receives the information, a receiving section that receives, via a mobile system, a message including a term of validity that instructs that the application be started up; and a control section that, when the receiving section receives the message that instructs that the application be started up, determines whether or not the term of validity is attached to the message, and, based on the term of validity of the message, starts up the instructed application that is stored in the storage section, wherein a stored time the predetermined information has been stored in the server and an effective period are attached to the received message, and an absolute time that is obtained by adding the effective period to the stored time is determined as the term of validity.