Access Company, Ltd.

Fumio Kawabata

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Tomihisa Kamada

Kunihiro Ishiguro

A contact position detecting unitdetects the position on the touch panel touched by a controlling object. A rendering unitdetermines the layout of a document file including a link and display the document in the layout thus determined. A link position specifying unitspecifies the position of the link in the screen. A detection area setting unitsets an object detection area for determination that the link is selected by the user as a result of contact with the controlling object associated one-to-one with the link, such that the object detection area occupies a range different from that of the link and is spaced apart from an adjacent object detection area by a predefined minimum distance, that the display mode of the link is maintained, and that the object detection area is superposed on the link. A matching unitmatches the position on the touch panel touched by the controlling object against the range occupied by the object detection area so as to determine which object detection area is selected.

Portable information terminal

In a portable communication terminal that functions as a communication instrument by installing an identification recording medium having subscriber information recorded therein, an application acquiring unitis operative to transmit a contract number recorded in the identification recording medium to the server when the identification recording medium is installed for the first time, and downloads an application program linked to the contract number from the server. A checking unitis operative to check identification information embedded in the application program against identification information embedded in the identification recording medium. A function restricting unitis operative to restrict the use of at least a part of the functions of the application program when the identification information of the application program does not match the identification information of the identification recording medium.

Portable communication terminal, program executed by portable communication terminal

A home gateway apparatus is connected to a storage apparatus. A cell phone terminal is connected to the home gateway apparatus via an IP network. Upon acknowledging a telephone number from the cell phone terminal, the home gateway apparatus communicates an IP address of the home gateway apparatus to the cell phone terminal. Subsequently, upon acknowledging a connection request to the IP address thus communicated, the home gateway apparatus performs a process of authenticating the connection request, based on the telephone number of the cell phone terminal and the telephone number already acknowledged. Further, the home gateway apparatus makes the storage apparatus available for use by the cell phone terminal thus authenticated via the IP network.

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Saitama, Japan

Fumio Kawabata