Information link service system, electronic equipment, mobile terminal, authentication apparatus and communication method
AssigneeAlpine Electronics, Inc.
InventorYuji Funato
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Abstract
An internet service server transmits an information link mail to a cellular phone through a cellular phone mail server. If the received e-mail is an information link mail, the cellular phone transfers it, for example, to a navigation apparatus. Upon receipt of the information link mail, the navigation apparatus starts a predetermined application and provides a service to a user. The cellular phone may start a predetermined application and store predetermined information in the cellular phone. The cellular phone can communicate with an authentication apparatus through a wireless tag reader. The authentication apparatus checks predetermined information and performs authentication as a result of the check.
Claims34
An information link service system comprising:
- a server;
- a mobile terminal which can receive an e-mail from the server;
- and
- electronic equipment which is communicable with the mobile terminal over a predetermined network,
- wherein:
- the server transmits an information link mail including a description for executing a predetermined application to the mobile terminal;
- the mobile terminal has a mail discriminating portion for discriminating whether a received e-mail is an information link mail or not and a mail transferring portion for, if the e-mail is an information link mail, transferring the information link mail to the electronic equipment;
- and
- the electronic equipment has an application executing portion for executing a predetermined application based on the described information in the information link mail transferred from the mobile terminal.
Electronic equipment communicable with a mobile terminal, which can receive an e-mail, over a predetermined network, the equipment comprising:
- a receiving portion for receiving an information link mail including a description for executing a predetermined application transferred from the mobile terminal;
- and
- an application executing portion for executing a predetermined application based on described information in an information link mail received by the receiving portion.
A mobile terminal communicable with electronic equipment over a predetermined network, the mobile terminal comprising:
- a receiving portion for receiving an e-mail;
- a mail discriminating portion for discriminating whether the e-mail received by the receiving portion is an information link mail including a description for executing a predetermined application;
- a transferring portion for, if the e-mail is an information link mail, transferring the information link mail to the electronic equipment.
An authentication apparatus communicable with a mobile terminal, which can receive an e-mail, over a predetermined network, the authentication apparatus comprising:
- a comparing portion for comparing predetermined information based on an information link mail received from the mobile terminal and including a description for executing a predetermined application with information that a memory included in the authentication apparatus has;
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- an authenticating portion for performing authentication based on the result of the comparison.
An authentication apparatus communicable with a server and a mobile terminal, which can receive an e-mail, over a predetermined network, the authentication apparatus comprising:
- a comparing portion for comparing predetermined information based on an information link mail received from the mobile terminal and including a description for executing a predetermined application with information that the server has;
- and
- an authenticating portion for performing authentication based on the result of the comparison.
A communication method comprising the steps of:
- discriminating whether an e-mail transmitted from a server is an information link mail including a description for executing a predetermined application;
- transferring, if the e-mail is an information link mail, the information link mail to electronic equipment;
- and
- executing, in the electronic equipment, a predetermined application based on described information in an information link mail transferred from a mobile terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.