Patent ID: 8200218

Claim:
A terminal device comprising: a reception section configured to receive function control information that an external function control information transmitting device of the terminal device transmits, said function control information including an instruction for controlling a function of said terminal device; a monitoring section that monitors a state of the function that could be specified in said function control information; a determination section configured to, based upon a monitoring result by said monitoring section, determine whether or not the function specified in said function control information received by said reception section is controllable, and determining whether a control of the function indicated by said function control information is executable; and a function control section configured to, based upon a determination by said determination section, execute the control of the function specified in said function control information: and wherein the monitoring section stores a control source, being a cause of having changed a state of the function into a current state; and the determination section compares a first priority degree indicative of an execution of a process of a current control source of the function specified in the function control information, said current control source being stored by said monitoring section, with a second priority degree indicative of an execution of a process that is included in said function control information, thereby to determine whether or not the function control by said function control information is executable.