Patent ID: 7949349

Claim:
A system comprising: a communication partner equipment; a portable communication terminal communicatively coupled to the communication partner equipment, the portable communication terminal including, data transmitting means for transmitting picture data from the portable communication terminal to a communication partner equipment, using a user channel for transmission of picture data, location requesting means for transmitting request information to request calculation of location information about the portable communication terminal, the request information being transmitted from the portable communication terminal to a location information calculating server for calculating the location information over a control channel for transmission of control data, wherein the communication partner equipment is not part of the location information calculating server, location acquiring means for acquiring, at the portable communication device, the location information over the control channel from the location information calculating server in parallel with the data transmitting means transmitting the picture data to the communication partner over the user channel, the location information having been calculated based on the request information in the location information calculating server, and location transmitting means for transmitting, from the portable communication device over the control channel, the location information acquired by the location acquiring means from the location information calculating server to the communication partner equipment in parallel with the data transmitting means transmitting the picture data to the communication partner over the user channel; and the communication partner equipment stores the picture data in association with the location information received from the location transmitting means of the portable communication device, and the communication partner equipment transmits the picture data together with the location information to a receiver terminal.