Patent ID: 8265713

Claim:
A mobile telephone including a plurality of application programs, the mobile telephone comprising: a control unit configured to: execute one of the application programs and add a program stop permission flag to each of said application program, wherein the program stop permission flag being a control information that upon checked, causes the control unit to determine whether to stop or continue the execution of the program; a checking unit coupled to said control unit, configured to: detecting an initiation of a power saving mode for the mobile telephone, and in response, for each application program, checks which checks the program stop permission flag of the application program being executed; and updating unit configured to rewrite the program stop permission flag of the application program being executed to a value permitting stop of program execution, wherein said control unit is further configured to: receiving a checking result from said checking unit regarding the program stop permission flag, determine whether to continue or temporarily stop the execution of the application program being executed, in accordance with said checking result sent by said checking unit.