Patent ID: 7716475
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A mobile station comprising: means for activating an application of a plurality of applications to communicate with an external device, the mobile station including the plurality of different applications each with respective different high or low security level settings; means for acquiring a security level set in the application activated by the activating means; means for determining whether connection is possible between the mobile station and the external device prior to connection when the acquired security level indicates the activated application is set to the high security level by comparing a received identifier of the external device to entries stored in a memory of the mobile station identifying a plurality of external devices for which authentication is permitted; and means for making a connection with the external device only when the received identifier of the external device matches one of the entries stored in said memory of the mobile station when the acquired security level indicates the activated application is set to the high security level.