Patent ID: 8239484

Claim:
An information processing method at a mobile terminal, the method comprising: using a communication unit of the mobile terminal to connect to an internet for accessing an external server; using a browser of the mobile terminal to request, via the communication unit, retrieval of data from the external server, and receive the data from the external server, and interpret and display the received data; using the browser to interpret a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) which identifies an information processing of a service object from a plurality of service objects, each service object including an internal server having a facility for providing information processing, and requests, via a local gateway in the mobile terminal, the information processing of the service object identified by the URI; using a local gateway manager of the local gateway to control the local gateway; using a service object manager of the local gateway to hold information regarding a status of availability of said plurality of service objects; using the local gateway to route the browser's request for the information processing to the service object to provide the information processing identified by the URI; providing the requested information processing of the service object identified by the URI; using a local gateway manager of the local gateway, in response to the request from the browser, to return information written in a mark-up description language to the browser as a result of the information processing of the service object identified by the URI; and using the browser to interpret and display the information written in the mark-up description language returned from the local gateway.