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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:
Apr. 28, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2011
Applicant:

Kousuke Somekawa, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventor:

Kousuke Somekawa, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 8/02 (2009.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 8/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/02 (2013.01); H04M 1/72583 (2013.01); H04W 8/183 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 8/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

A contract operator information acquisition section () acquires contract network operator identification information and availability/unavailability information from a service operator with which a mobile communication terminal () has a communication contract; an operator search section () searches for network operators; a comparison section () compares network operator identification information about the retrieved network operators with contract network operator identification information based on which the availability/unavailability information shows 'available', from among the acquired contract network operator identification information; and a display section () displays matching network operator identification information as a result of the comparison.


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