Patent ID: 7478136

Claim:
A terminal device comprising: a communication unit that obtains one or more applications from an external device; a memory that stores each of one or more applications in association with attribute data indicating whether the application was obtained by the communication unit; an instruction input unit that generates, in response to an input operation made by a user, an execution instruction to execute an application stored in the memory; a notification unit that provides to the user a notification indicating that an application under execution was obtained by the communication unit from an external device; and a processing unit that: (a) executes the application in accordance with the execution instruction generated by the instruction input unit, (b) determines, for the application subject to execution and on the execution of the application, whether the application was obtained by the communication unit on the basis of the attribute data stored in the memory in association with the application, and (c) controls the notification unit to provide to the user the notification at least partly during a time the application is under execution only when it was determined that the application is obtained by the communication unit.