Patent ID: 7853495

Claim:
A method of managing downloading applications in a networking system including a terminal device and a managing server, comprising: providing a menu for listing applications to the terminal device, the applications are managed by the managing server and downloadable with the terminal device; receiving a request from the terminal device for downloading an application which was selected among the applications on the menu by a user of the terminal device; in response to the request, transmitting a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) file including an embedded command, the terminal device returning the embedded command to the managing server in response to receiving the HTML file; in response to receiving the embedded command from the terminal device, transmitting an application descriptor file to the terminal device, the application descriptor file including usage period data indicative of a period during which the application can be used in the terminal device; and creating a record of the selected application on the managing server when at least a part of the selected application data is downloaded and stored in the terminal device, the record is used on the managing server to update usage license of the selected application without re-downloading the selected application data to the terminal device if it has been stored in the terminal device.