Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile terminal, resource allocation manager and communication control method for sustaining the standby time to a time equivalent to the standby time of a communication device in which only a single radio interface is activated, without missing an opportunity of radio communication under good communication conditions.

Abstract: There are provided an information transmission terminal, an information transmission method, an article information transmission system and an article information transmission method capable of including personal information under other users' control into items to be transmitted while protecting the user privacy. A user terminal 20 transfers a transmission request and a usage policy of personal information to the respective transfer destination terminals 30 in accordance with the kind of personal information requested from a personal information collecting server 10, and collects personal information transmitted from the respective transfer destination terminals 30 responding thereto to transmit to the personal information collecting server 10. In this process, the respective transfer destination terminals 30 can judge whether or not the transmission of the requested personal information based on the transferred usage policy violates the privacy of the users of the transfer destination terminals 30.

Abstract: An information managing unit (4) has an ID information storage (41) for receiving and storing ID information (11) from an RFID reader (2) for detecting, from an RFID tag (1) holding variable ID information (11), the ID information (11) and for updating and managing the stored ID information (11) in synchronization with the variable ID information (11) held by the RFID tag (1), by a predetermined method; an event detector (42) for detecting an event to be a trigger to notify another information managing unit (5) of the stored ID information (11); and an ID information requester (43) for, when the event is detected, notifying the other information managing unit (5) of the ID information (11), for acquiring the ID information (11) and managing unit information about the other information managing unit (5) from the other information managing unit (5), and for storing the acquired managing unit information in correspondence to the ID information (11) into the ID information storage (41).

Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile terminal, resource allocation manager and communication control method for sustaining the standby time to a time equivalent to the standby time of a communication device in which only a single radio interface is activated, without missing an opportunity of radio communication under good communication conditions.

Abstract: There are provided an information transmission terminal, an information transmission method, an article information transmission system and an article information transmission method capable of including personal information under other users' control into items to be transmitted while protecting the user privacy. A user terminal 20 transfers a transmission request and a usage policy of personal information to the respective transfer destination terminals 30 in accordance with the kind of personal information requested from a personal information collecting server 10, and collects personal information transmitted from the respective transfer destination terminals 30 responding thereto to transmit to the personal information collecting server 10. In this process, the respective transfer destination terminals 30 can judge whether or not the transmission of the requested personal information based on the transferred usage policy violates the privacy of the users of the transfer destination terminals 30.

Abstract: A program control apparatus 10 is provided with an ID class determiner 12 for determining whether a tag ID read by a tag reader 100 is a service ID to specify a service, or an attribute ID to specify an attribute of an article; and a program controller 14 so configured that when the ID class determiner 12 determines that the tag ID read by the tag reader 100 is a service ID, the program controller 14 runs a program associated with the service ID and that when the ID class determiner 12 determines that the tag ID read by the tag reader 100 is an attribute ID, the program controller 14 notifies a running program of attribute information associated with the attribute ID, to change the behavior of the running program according to the attribute information.