Patent ID: 7092741

Claim:
A mobile communication terminal, comprising: displaying means that include a display screen and that serve to display information on this display screen; receiving means for receiving application software, and attribute data that indicates an assumed display area that is to be used as a display area during execution of the application software; and controlling means for controlling the display area of the application software in the display screen of the displaying means on the basis of the attribute data received by the receiving means and displayable area data that indicates the displayable area of the display screen; and the controlling means comprises: judging means for judging whether or not the assumed display area fits into the displayable area on the basis of the attribute data and the displayable area data; size setting means which, in cases where the result of the judgment by the judging means is that the assumed display area fits into the displayable area, set the size of the assumed display area as the size of the display area, and which, in case where the assumed display area exceeds the displayable area, set a size which is produced as a result of reducing the size of the assumed display area so that the assumed display area fits into the displayable area as the size of the display area; and position setting means for setting the position of the display area to a predetermined position in the displayable area so that the display area whose size has been set by the size setting means fits into the displayable area.