Patent ID: 8005508

Claim:
A portable terminal device with a non-contact IC, comprising: the non-contact IC including, a card application storage unit configured to store one or more card applications each of which being executable, and a card manager configured to execute a specified card application stored in the card application storage unit when the non-contact IC performs non-contact communication with an external reader/writer, the specified card application being a card application specified by the external reader/writer; and a terminal application storage unit configured to store applications inclusive of the card application(s); wherein the card manager is further configured, when the specified card application is not stored in the card application storage unit, and (i) when the card application storage unit does not have a storage space for the specified card application, to create a storage space by selectively moving one or more card application(s) already stored in the card application storage unit to the terminal application storage unit, and to store the specified card application in the created storage space in the card application storage unit, and (ii) when the card application storage unit has a storage space for the specified card application, to store the specified card application in the card application storage unit without moving the one or snore card application(s) already stored in the card application storage unit.