Patent ID: 8306867

Claim:
A portable communication apparatus that is permitted to receive a service from a service-providing server for providing the service, in which service-providing server identification information assigned to the portable communication apparatus or an owner of the portable communication apparatus is registered as information for identifying a portable communication apparatus that is permitted to use the service provided from the service-providing server or an owner of the portable communication apparatus who is permitted to use the service provided from the service-providing server, said portable communication apparatus comprising: a display section; an operation section; acquisition section for acquiring service-use information for requesting the service-providing server to provide the service; an identification information storage device in which the identification information is stored; a first clock section for measuring transmission time point that is a point of time at which to transmit the service-use information acquired by the acquisition means, to a service-using apparatus for using the service provided from the service-providing server, by establishing a connection to the service-providing server; transmission data forming section for forming transmission image data to be transmitted to the service-using apparatus, by embedding, into image data, the service-use information acquired by the acquisition means, the identification information stored in the identification information storage device, and transmission time point information indicative of the transmission time point measured by the first clock section; and second transmitting section for transmitting, to the service-using apparatus, the transmission image data thus formed by the transmission data forming means.