摘要 |
<p>PURPOSE: A portable device is provided to control the usage of additional functions by monitoring the usage time of various applications installed in the portable device. CONSTITUTION: An application execution record DB(DataBase)(120) records the execution of an application module(110) and execution time. An application monitoring module(130) stores the execution of application in a record DB and outputs the execution time by monitoring the execution time of the application module. The portable device is a PMP(Portable Multimedia Player), an electronic dictionary, or a game machine, and the application execution record DB is constructed in a nonvolatile memory. The application monitoring module stores content executed by a video lecture application in the application execution record DB. [Reference numerals] (110) Application module; (120) Application execution record DB; (130) Application monitoring module</p> |