Patent ID: 8606069

Claim:
A playback device comprising: a timer; a detector that detects a user input, a measurer that causes the timer to start measuring a time period based on the user input detected; a resetter that resets the timer when the detector further detects a user input before the time period measured by the timer reaches a predetermined time period and causes the timer to restart measuring a time period based on the user input further detected; a class loader that acquires an application management table from a memory when the time period measured by the timer reaches the predetermined time period and activates an application shown in the acquired application management table, the application management table to be acquired being associated with the user input that caused the measurement resulting in the measured time period reaching the predetermined time period; and an application manager that terminates, when the application shown in the acquired application management table is activated, any currently executed application that is not shown in the acquired application management table, wherein the received user input is an input of selecting a title associated with the application management table showing the application to be activated.