Patent ID: 6983304

Claim:
A system for receiving an application, said system comprising at least one communication terminal with an application function and an apparatus for receiving an application that receives a predetermined application from the communication terminal, wherein said communication terminal with an application function comprises: communication unit for connecting to a desired communication destination over a public communication line network; imaged information reading unit for reading imaged information representing information on an input guidance prompting a user to do an input operation to receive the application and on a telephone number of said apparatus for receiving an application; imaged information analyzing unit for analyzing the imaged information to produce the input guidance information; input guidance outputting unit for outputting the input guidance information to the user according to the analyzed input guidance information; operation input receiving unit for receiving a selected input concerning the application presented by the user according to the input guidance information; application data sending unit for connecting to said apparatus for receiving an application via said communication means based on the telephone number to send the selected input data of the application received by said operation input receiving unit; response message receiving unit for receiving, via said communication unit, a response message for the application from said apparatus for receiving an application which has received the data; and response message outputting unit for outputting the received response message to the user, and wherein said apparatus for receiving an application comprises: user information storing unit for storing information such as a name of a user who wants to make the application and a telephone number thereof; communication unit for receiving a message from the communication terminal with an application function; caller number obtaining unit for obtaining an incoming caller number sent from said communication terminal with an application function; caller number checking unit for checking if the obtained caller number is registered with said user information storing unit; application receiving unit for executing predetermined reception processing based on the data on the application sent from said communication terminal with an application function if the obtained caller number is registered with said user information storing unit; and response message generating and sending unit for generating a response message and sending the generated response message to said communication terminal with an application function over the public communication line network based on an execution result of the reception processing.