Patent ID: 7697653

Claim:
A mobile communication device having an output for outputting data received over a wireless network from a content provider site, the mobile communication device comprising: a reader configured to read information from an external recording medium; an output control information acquirer configured to acquire carrier information from the information read by the reader, the carrier information used as output control information, the carrier information being information identifying a provider of bi-directional communication services to the mobile communication device; a harmful level acquirer configured to read harmful level information included in the data received over the wireless network from the content provider site; an output control rule storage configured to store and make available a predetermined rule to determine whether to output the data based on application of the harmful level information and the output control information to the predetermined rule; and an output controller configured to determine whether to output the received data based on the identified provider of bi-directional communication services and the harmful level information acquired by the harmful level acquirer, as applied to the predetermined rule stored by the output control rule storage; the output controller further configured to control output of the received data as a result of the determination.