Patent ID: 7231202
Filing Date: 2007-06-12
Classification: G06K,G06Q,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication network which communicates with a mobile terminal that has communication functionality and financial functionality of effecting financial services provided by at least one financial institution, the communication network comprising: a communication control that communicates data with the mobile terminal and the at least one financial institution to have the financial services implemented; a memory in which an identification of the mobile terminal is recordable along with information concerning the mobile terminal as to whether to disable the financial functionality accorded to the mobile terminal; a memory control that, in response to a report notifying a possibility of fraud which may be committed with the financial functionality of the mobile terminal, stores in the memory, in connection with the mobile terminal, information indicating that the financial functionality has to be disabled; a terminal control that, if the memory indicates that the financial functionality has to be disabled, sends a disabling signal, independently of the at least one financial institution, to the mobile terminal to which the financial functionality is accorded, wherein the disabling signal causes the mobile terminal to at least partially disable either or both of the communication functionality and the financial functionality of effecting financial services.