Patent ID: 7636564

Claim:
An information link service system comprising: a server; a mobile terminal which can receive an e-mail from the server, where the mobile terminal is configured to be carried by a user; and electronic equipment which is communicable with the mobile terminal over a predetermined local network; a table in the server configured to include information relating to the mobile terminal, and which is associated with information relating to the electronic equipment, wherein: the server transmits to the mobile terminal an information link mail as a type of e-mail in a PUSH-type service format, where the information link mail includes information identifying the e-mail as an information link mail and a description for executing a predetermined application in the electronic equipment, the server referring to the table to facilitate transmission of the e-mail; the mobile terminal has a mail discriminating portion for discriminating whether a received e-mail is an information link mail or not by referring to the identifying information and a mail transferring portion for, if the e-mail is an information link mail, transferring the information link mail to the electronic equipment; the electronic equipment has an application executing portion for executing a predetermined application based on the described information in the information link mail transferred from the mobile terminal; the application executing portion is configured to facilitate automatic updating of the predetermined application if the described information in the information link mail indicates an update version; and the server updates the information in the table after the predetermined application is executed.