Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Satoshi Inami

Atsunobu Kato

Masashige Mizuyama

Hidehiko Shin

Takako Hirose

Hiromi Wada

Munehito Matsuda

A terminal-side communications control unit makes a request to a server for retrieving an instruction file that describes an instruction for transmitting transmission data. The server transmits the instruction file in response to the request for retrieving the instruction file. On receiving the instruction file, the terminal-side communications control unit causes an application executing unit to execute an application, and also forwards the instruction file to a transmission data generating unit. On receiving the instruction file, the transmission data generating part refers to the instruction file to generate, from generated data stored in a generated data storage unit, transmission data to be transmitted to the server.

Communications system for retrieving instruction files from a server

In a communications terminala CPUretrieves start-up datafrom a serverusing a Web browserwhich is stored in a storage deviceThe CPUperforms data authentication with respect to authentication type dataincluded in the start-up dataThen, when the authentication is succeeded, the CPUfollows the authentication type dataso as to determine which authentication mode is to be used for authenticating the application data. In this manner, the authentication mode for authenticating the application data can be easily changed.

Communications terminal

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Moriguchi, Japan

Satoshi Inami