Patent ID: 8047431

Claim:
A portable terminal mounted with a non-contact IC module that receives at least one message transmitted from a reader/writer through a non-contact communication, the at least one message transmitted from the reader/writer comprising: an event header describing a setting condition for specifying processing to be executed by the portable terminal, the non-contact IC module comprising: an event header analyzing section that analyzes the event header provided in the at least one message received from the reader/writer; and a flag setting section that sets a flag reflecting a status of the setting condition described in the event header analyzed by the event header analyzing section, and the portable terminal comprising: a message acquisition section that transmits, to the non-contact IC module, a message acquisition request including authentication information for verifying reliability of the message acquisition request, and, when the authentication information verifies that the message acquisition request is reliable, acquires, from the non-contact IC module which has received the at least one message, only a specific message from among the at least one messages that has achieved the setting condition described in the event header; a flag analyzing section that searches whether or not there is any of the at least one messages that can be acquired from the non-contact IC module, by analyzing the setting condition status flag set by the flag setting section of the non-contact IC module, to decide whether or not any of the at least one messages have achieved the setting condition described in the event header; and a processing section that executes the processing described in the specific message acquired by the message acquisition section.