Softbank Corporation

Vodafone Group Plc.

Takafumi Okaniwa

Masayuki Doi

Hitoshi Tsuchiya

Younpyo Hong

Yasuhiro Noda

Masayoshi Son

Yusuke Murai

Masayoshi Hosoi

Akiho Shibata

Tatsuhiro Aoyagi

Hironobu Tamba

Akifumi Kamada

Yoshinobu Nakagawa

The terminal according to the present application includes: a communication module for scanning to detect accessible access points and connecting to one of the accessible access points; and a connection controller for targeting an identical accessible access point, which has been consecutively detected by a predetermined number of times of scans at predetermined time intervals among the accessible access points, for connection.

Terminal, control method for same, and control program for same

The terminal according to the present application has a connection unit that connects to an access point for a communication network The terminal also has a connection control unit that scans a network registered in a connection list, subtracts access points registered in a exclusion list from the detected access points to identify access points to which connection is possible, initializes the exclusion list if an access point to which connection is possible is not identified and then again identifies an access point to which connection is possible, and selects an access point to connect to, out of identified access points to which connection in possible. The terminal further has a connection ending unit that, if the start of a connection to an access point registered in a duplicate exclusion list is detected, cuts the connection with the access point, and also deletes the corresponding network from the connection list.

Terminal and connection method for same

A portable telephone unitreceives management information comprising size information for contents data wanting to be downloaded, and adjusts an environment for receiving the object data, based on size information for contents data contained in the management information. To adjust the environment for receiving the object data it is possible, for example, to determine a communication system for receipt, or to secure a storage region for storing object data that has been received. After that, the portable telephone unittransmits a contents data download request, and receives contents data returned in response to the download request. As a result, it is possible for the communication terminal to download the contents data in a state where the receive environment has been optimized according to the size of the contents.

Data communication method, data communication system, and communication terminal

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Tokyo, Japan

Takafumi Okaniwa