Method for locking function and mobile communication terminal
AssigneeVodafone K.K.
InventorsMasato Fukaya, Ryota Tamura, Aiko Matsuda
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Abstract
A user of a mobile communication terminal registers a title or test body that a lock request electronic mail should have for locking function of a contactless type communication device is a lock control information area 23R of the mobile communication terminal. After that, if a lock request electronic mail having the registered title is received, and the lock request electronic mail is detected by the lock request detection section 51, then when the contactless type communication device is in a usable state, in the mobile communication terminal the function lock section 52 within the control section locks the function of the contactless type communication device via the wired communication path.
Claims13
A method for locking function for a contactless type communication device of a mobile communication terminal fitted with the contactless type communication device that is capable of function lock control via a wired communication path, comprising:
- a lock request electronic mail content registration step in which a user of the mobile communication terminal registers, inside the mobile communication terminal, content that at least one of a title field and a text body should have as a lock request electronic mail for locking function of the contactless type communication device;
- a function lock decision step for deciding, in the mobile communication terminal that has received the lock request electronic mail via a mobile communication network, whether or not the contactless type communication device is in a function lock state;
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- a function lock state for, when the decision result in the function lock decision step is negative, locking the function of the contactless type communication device in the mobile communication terminal via the wired communication path.
A mobile communication terminal, fitted with a contactless type communication device capable of function lock control via a wired communication path, comprising:
- lock request electronic mail content registration means for registering, in a function lock control information area within a storage section, content that at least one of a title field and a text body should have as a lock request electronic mail for locking function of the contactless type communication device, in response to an instruction from a user of the mobile communication terminal;
- function lock decision means for deciding, when the lock request electronic mail has been received via a mobile communication network, whether or not the contactless type communication device is in a function lock state;
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- function lock means for, when the decision result by the function lock decision means is negative, locking the function of the contactless type communication device via the wired communication path.
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