US 2013/0157698 A1 · COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM

Abstract

Provided is a communication system for allowing a user to feel the presence of other users existing in the same daily living area without using short-distance wireless communication. The system includes a position coordinate receiving section (80) for obtaining positions from a plurality of user terminals, and a nearby user distributing section (94) for selecting, under the condition that the nearby user distributing section (94) obtains a position of a specified user terminal, one or more of the plurality of user terminals corresponding to the position obtained from the specified user terminal and the positions obtained from the plurality of user terminals and providing the specified user terminal with information on the selected one or more of the plurality of user terminals.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A communication system, comprising:

a position obtaining unit that obtains positions from a plurality of user terminals,
a user terminal selecting unit that selects, under a condition that the user terminal selecting unit obtains a position of a specified user terminal, one or more of the plurality of user terminals corresponding to the position obtained from the specified user terminal and the positions obtained from the plurality of user terminals, and
an information providing unit that provides the specified user terminal with information on the selected one or more of the plurality of user terminals.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/807,800Filed 29 Jun 2011

Priority

JP 2010-1525312 Jul 2010

Published

20 Jun 2013

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H04W 4/023
Services making use of location information: using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets…
H04N 21/4524
Management of client data or end-user data: involving the geographical location of the client
H04N 21/4788
Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application: communicating with other users, e.g. chatting
H04N 21/632
Control signaling related to video distribution between client, server and network components; Network processes for video distribution between…:…

Communication system, communication method, program and information storage medium

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Communication system, communication method, program and information storage medium

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Abstract

Claims10