Patent ID: 7263715

Claim:
A communications terminal having an Internet address for connection to the Internet through a first communications line, the communications terminal comprising: a communications unit for connecting the Internet using the Internet address through the first communications line; determination means for determining whether a communications request specifying the Internet address is received from a server through the first communications line when the communications terminal is connected to the Internet; disconnecting means for disconnecting the first communications line when determined by the determination means that the communications request has been received; waiting means for waiting to receive an incoming call from the server through a second communications line for responding to the communications request after the first communications line is disconnected by the disconnecting means; and communicating means for communicating by way of the communications unit on the second communications line using a communications protocol having a higher degree of security compared with an Internet communications protocol after the incoming call is received from the server by the waiting means; wherein the second communications line is different than the first communications line.