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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2006
Masahiko Kuwabara, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuo Aoki, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiro Matsumura, Tokyo, JP;
Vodafone Group PLC, Newbury, Berkshire, GB;
Abstract
A mobile communication terminal having a structure including a host section and an engine section is built compactly. —As a request for using a host-connecting device is received from an engine section, a host sectionmakes a judgment of whether or not a current state of an engine processor of the engine sectionis an engine-mode state of controlling actively an operation of an engine-connecting device connected to the engine processor of the engine section, and the engine-mode state is estimated to be continued. Further, when a result of the judgment is affirmative, the host sectionoperates a host-connecting section, according to an operation mode specified by operation mode parameters. As a result, in a mode in which a request is made by an application executed by the engine processor, a specific host-connecting device which the application has desired to use is operated.