INFORMATION TERMINAL EQUIPMENT WITH COMMUNICATION FUNCTION, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION TERMINAL PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT PROCESSING PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily acquire a data part to be utilized next without requiring user's own judgment in an information terminal equipment provided with a communication function for downloading and utilizing extremely long data such as electronic book data and game data expressed as a database.;SOLUTION: When personal digital assistants(PDA) are synchronized with a personal computer(PC) connected to a book database, the final reading dates of the same book data being read by both the PC and PDA (steps E1, E2) are mutually compared, the latest reading experience history (a current chapter number, a chapter mark, a reading page, and a reading volume/day) is updated (steps E4 to E10), the book data of already read chapters are deleted from a memory on the basis of the updated history (step E11), and the book data of a chapter corresponding to the chapter number/chapter mark of a tomorrow estimated reading range are downloaded from the PC to the PDA and stored in the memory (steps E12, E13).;COPYRIGHT: (C)2001,JPO