Patent ID: 7328002
Filing Date: 2008-02-05
Classification: G06Q,H04M

Abstract:
1. A communications terminal comprising: means for detecting at least one of an incoming call and an incoming email from an external party; paying means for wirelessly and electronically performing a paying process to pay a commercial enterprise that has provided at least one of commodities and services to a user of the communications terminal, in accordance with a request from the commercial enterprise; control means for: (i) causing the communications terminal to execute a communication establishment process between the communications terminal and the external party, responsive to the detecting means detecting one of the incoming call and the incoming email from the external party when the paying means is not performing the paying process, and (ii) inhibiting the communications terminal from executing the communication establishment process, responsive to the detecting means detecting one of the incoming call and the incoming email when the paying means is performing the paying process; a storage device that comprises a first storage area and a second storage area; second control means for: (i) storing, in the first storage area, receipt data corresponding to the paying process, which is received from the commercial enterprise in the paying process performed by the paying means, and (ii) for accumulatively storing, in the second storage area, payment data included in the receipt data when the receipt data is stored in the first storage area; and data deleting means for deleting part of the receipt data stored in the first storage area in accordance with a first delete command and for deleting the payment data accumulatively stored in the second storage area in accordance with a second delete command.