Patent ID: 7784052
Filing Date: 2010-08-24
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A terminal comprising; resources; means for downloading an application program; means for storing said application program in said terminal; means for detecting if said application program activates at least one function endangering at least one resource of said terminal; means for determining if a number of activation-deactivation cycles of the at least one function during a predetermined time period is greater than a predetermined value stored in the means for determining; and means for deleting said application program from said terminal when the number of activations is greater than the predetermined value in order to prevent damage to the at least one resource due to recurrent activations of the at least one function; wherein the means for detecting and the means for determining are integrated into a device layer; wherein the device layer constitutes an interface between resource managers of said terminal and said application program; and wherein the predetermined value is a fraction of a maximum possible number of cycles of the at least one function being activated by the application program.