Portable communication device
AssigneesHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD.
InventorsSi-Quan CHEN, Xiu-Ping LV
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Abstract
A portable communication device includes a processor, a communication unit to communicate with a server, and a locating unit to determine a location of the communication device. The processor is operable to: determine whether one application belongs to a restricted category when a input unit receives a user input to start the application; obtain a list associated with the location from the storage unit, if the application belongs to a restricted category; and start the application if a name of the application is included in the list, or otherwise ignore the user input.
Claims4
A portable communication device comprising:
- a processor;
- an input unit configured to receive a user input;
- a storage unit configured to store a plurality of applications executable by the processor;
- a communication unit configured to communicate with a server;
- a locating unit configured to determine a geographic location of the portable communication device;
- wherein the processor is operable to:
- determine whether one of the plurality of applications belongs to a restricted category when the input unit receives a user input to start the one of the plurality of applications;
- obtain a list associated with the geographic location from the storage unit, if the one of the plurality of applications belongs to a restricted category;
- start the one of the plurality of applications if a name of the one of the plurality of applications is included in the list, otherwise ignore the user input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.