Patent ID: 7574191

Claim:
A terminal comprising: a wireless communication unit to perform wireless communication; a battery containing unit to contain a battery, which is charged by power supplied from an external power supply; a detection unit to detect whether power is supplied from the external power supply; a setting unit to set, in accordance with a setting made by a user, one of a plurality of operation modes that include: (i) a first mode of enabling a signal waiting operation to be executed by the wireless communication unit when power is supplied from the external power supply and disabling the signal waiting operation when power is supplied from the battery, and (ii) a second mode of executing, by the wireless communication unit, an operation selected from among a plurality of operations in response to a change of status detected by the detection unit; and a control unit to: (i) while the first mode is set, control the wireless communication unit to one of enable and disable the signal waiting operation in accordance with a detection result of the detection unit, and (ii) every time the change of status is detected by the detection unit while the second mode is set, perform control to prompt a selection of one of the plurality of operations and to control the wireless communication unit to execute the selected one of the plurality of operations.