Patent ID: 6975710

Claim:
A terminal communicating with a server through a communications network, comprising: a temporary line disconnection unit, monitoring a content of received data from the server, and when specified data is received, disconnecting a line being used for data communications without issuing any disconnection notifications to an upper layer application of the terminal when said terminal voice communicates with a third party other than the server through said communication network during the data communications with the server, and automatically connecting the server to the terminal when the voice communications terminate; an automatic data fetch unit automatically fetching data of web sites including information requested by a user from the server to the terminal, and wherein said automatic data fetch unit includes means for fetching, from the server, data which is not being accessed by the upper layer application and which is linked from a website that the user is viewing, and for storing the obtained data during the data communications with the server, and means for passing the stored data to the upper layer application during the voice communications with the third party when the user selects the link to the website corresponding to the stored data; and a storage unit storing the data fetched by said automatic data fetch unit, wherein a data communicating process is performed from a status at a point immediately before starting the voice communications when the server and the terminal resume the data communications.