Information terminal
The present invention provides mobile terminals with various types of services such as electronic commerce service, music delivery service, and position information service. User applications required for the electronic commerce service, music delivery service, and position information service are respectively configured as service objects each having a server facility, and further a local gateway is provided, whereby various types of services can be used through a browser.
1. An information processing terminal with a facility for a media player comprising:
a memory unit for storing application programs;
a Central Processing Unit operable to execute the application programs stored in said memory unit, the application programs including:
a plurality of service objects operable to provide information processing for facilities of the media player;
a browser operable to interpret a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) identifying an information processing for a facility of the media player provided by the service object and request, via a local gateway, the information processing identified by the URI and interpret and display information written in a mark-up description language returned as a response to the request; and
said local gateway comprising:
a service object manager operable to hold information regarding a status of an availability of said plurality of service objects;
said local gateway operable to serve as an interface between said browser and said service object, and in case the service object operable to provide information processing for facilities of the media player is available, select the service object operable to provide information processing for facilities of the media player from the plurality of service objects based on the request from the browser, route the browser's request for the information processing to the service object to provide the information processing identified by the URI, and in response to the request from the browser, return information written in a mark-up description language to the browser as a result of the information processing identified by the URI for the facility of the media player provided by the service object.
2. An information processing terminal according to claim 1 , wherein said service object operable to provide facilities of the media player includes an ML creating part operable to create information written in the mark-up description language.