Patent ID: 8874036

Claim:
A mobile terminal comprising: a contactless communication unit to transmit an IC identifier that uniquely specifies an IC chip installed inside the mobile terminal to a reader-writer that carries out contactless communication and to receive link information including the IC identifier and time information from the reader-writer, in which the time information indicates a time at which contactless communication was carried out with the reader-writer; and a wireless communication unit to access a server apparatus based on the link information, to transmit the link information to the server apparatus, to transmit the IC identifier to the server apparatus separately to the link information, and operable, when the server apparatus has judged (i) based on the IC identifier that contactless communication with the reader-writer and access to the server apparatus were both carried out using a same mobile terminal owned by a user and (ii) based on the time information that a timing of the contactless communication with the reader-writer satisfies a predetermined timing condition, to receive information relating to at least one privilege available to the user on a service used by the user from the server apparatus.