Patent ID: 9600326
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G01C,G06F

Claim:
1. An information processing terminal comprising: a computer; a display screen; a manipulation portion configured to receive manual manipulation from a user; an application execution portion of the information processing terminal that executes an application; a sub-application execution portion of the information processing terminal that executes a sub-application in response to an execution request from the application execution portion, the sub-application being configured to provide a specified function for the application executed by the application execution portion; and a hidden screen display portion of the information processing terminal that, instead of displaying an execution screen on the display screen indicating execution of the sub-application, displays a hidden screen on the display screen hiding the execution of the sub-application while the sub-application execution portion is executing the sub-application, wherein the application execution portion executes, as the application, a destination selection application that selects a destination, the sub-application execution portion executes, as the sub-application, a position information provision application that supplies an external navigation system with position information about the destination selected by the destination selection application, in response to the user's manipulation on the manipulation input portion to specify the execution of the position information provision application while the destination selection application is in execution, the application execution portion stops executing the destination selection application and the sub-application execution portion starts executing the position information provision application and the hidden screen display portion displays on the display screen the hidden screen hiding the execution of the position information provision application; and in response to completion of supply of the position information to the external navigation system, the sub-execution processing portion stops executing the position information provision application and the hidden screen display portion stop displaying the hidden screen on the display screen and the application execution portion restarts executing the destination selection application.