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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012

Filed:

Feb. 07, 2008
Applicants:

Yasushi Onda, Tokyo, JP;

Izua Kano, Tokyo, JP;

Dai Kamiya, Tokyo, JP;

Yusuke Kushida, Tokyo, JP;

Keiichi Murakami, Tokyo, JP;

Eiju Yamada, Tokyo, JP;

Kazuhiro Yamada, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yasushi Onda, Tokyo, JP;

Izua Kano, Tokyo, JP;

Dai Kamiya, Tokyo, JP;

Yusuke Kushida, Tokyo, JP;

Keiichi Murakami, Tokyo, JP;

Eiju Yamada, Tokyo, JP;

Kazuhiro Yamada, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01); H04J 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A communication terminal providing optimal communication services between content providers comprising a property management table with an appraised value registered for each of a predetermined set of communication media properties for various types of communication media, a first user specified priority ranking list and a second priority ranking list specified by an application program provider with rankings for the set of communication media properties, whereby the desired communication medium is selected by adding weightings for priority from the first and second priority ranking lists and adding the appraised value for each item from the property management table and using the highest total to specify the optimum communication medium for use when commencement of communication is specified by a predetermined application program, and establishing communication connections between opposing devices using the selected optimum communication medium. Also disclosed are a communication system, control device and program including the communication terminal's elements.


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