Mobile terminal device, and control method for mobile terminal device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8971870-B2
Application number	US-201314347341-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 7, 2013
Priority date	Aug 10, 2012
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

A mobile telephone includes a communication module, and a control module configured to perform background communication with respect to an application via the communication module. The control module restricts background communication, based on an activation history of the application in foreground. The control module includes a determination module configured to determine whether background communication is unnecessary based on the activation history of the application in foreground with respect to each of the applications, and a setting switching module configured to switch communication setting of the application, of which background communication is determined to be unnecessary, from a first setting of permitting the background communication to a second setting of restricting the background communication.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A mobile terminal device, comprising:
a communication module;
a control module configured to perform background communication with respect to an application via the communication module, wherein the control module restricts the background communication, based on an activation history of the application in foreground;
a first determination module configured to determine a frequency of activation of the application in foreground for a predetermined p…

Assignees

• Kyocera Corp

Inventors

• Hirako Kenichi
• Onaru Shinichi
• YAMASAKI Saki
• Kamii Toshihiro
• MASAKI Kana

Classifications

• H04M1/72463

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M1/72522

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W52/0264

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W52/0258 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M1/72597

  Electricity · mapped topic