Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program and information processing system

• US 10,171,941 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2014
• Issued: 01/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Masano, Toru, Tatematsu, Seiji, Kobuya, Naoshi, Akiyama, Hiroaki, Yokoyama, Tadashi, Naito, Tomohiro, Nakamura, Kaoru, Takahashi, Takuya, Ueda, Yuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Uzma
• Application Number:
  US14/291,261
• Publication Number:
  US 20150012582A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,677 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an existing place information acquisition part and a my-spot information registration part. The existing place information acquisition part is configured to acquire existing place information which specifies an existing place. The my-spot information registration part is configured to acquire spot information related to a spot, which spot information is provided from a plurality of information provider devices, based on the existing place information; and to register spot information specified by a user as my-spot information, out of the acquired spot information.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

hardware circuitry configured to;

acquire existing place information which specifies a location of an existing place,

acquire spot information related to a plurality of spots, which spot information is provided for each spot from a plurality of information provider devices connected to a user through a social networking service, based on the location of the existing place information,

display an integrated list of the spot information acquired for the plurality of spots from the plurality of information provider devices, and

register my-spot information specified by the user, out of the displayed integrated list of the plurality of spots of the acquired spot information, wherein the my-spot information indicates a status of the registered spot information selected from a group consisting of each spot of the plurality of spots to which the user has been and each spot of the plurality of spots to which the user wants to go,

wherein, when the status of the registered spot information indicates particular spots of the plurality of spots to which the user wants to go, the circuitry is further configured to display at least one of a number of and a list of the particular spots in response to current location information of the user indicating that the particular spots exist within a predetermined range with respect to a current location of the user.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to

perform a process related to voice phone, and

acquire a phone number that has been registered, dialed, or received by the user, as the existing place information.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to

display a web page, and

acquire the existing place information from the displayed web page that has been registered or recorded in a history of browsing.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to

perform a process in coordination with the social networking service, and

acquire check-in information which at least includes location information, posted in the social networking service, and is acquired by the social networking service, as the existing place information.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry

acquires the existing place information periodically at a given timing, and

displays the integrated list of the spot information which is acquired from the plurality of information provider devices, at the timing when the spot information is acquired based on the existing place information.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry displays the integrated list of the spot information by arranging the integrated list of the spot information within one screen.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the circuitry displays the list of the particular spots as an integrated list of the spot information provided from the plurality of information provider devices.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry displays the integrated list of the spot information with based on integration of different contents obtained from the plurality of information provider devices.

9. An information processing method, implemented via at least one processor, the method comprising:

acquiring existing place information which specifies a location of an existing place;

acquiring spot information related to a plurality of spots, which spot information is provided for each spot from a plurality of information provider devices connected to a user through a social networking service, based on the location of the existing place information;

displaying an integrated list of the spot information acquired for the plurality of spots from the plurality of information provider devices; and

registering my-spot information specified by the user, out of the displayed integrated list of the plurality of spots of the acquired spot information, wherein the my-spot information indicates a status of the registered spot information selected from a group consisting of each spot of the plurality of spots to which the user has been and each spot of the plurality of spots to which the user wants to go,

wherein, when the status of the registered spot information indicates particular spots of the plurality of spots to which the user wants to go, the at least one processor displays at least one of a number of and a list of the particular spots in response to current location information of the user indicating that the particular spots exist within a predetermined range with respect to a current location of the user.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

acquiring existing place information which specifies an existing place;

acquiring spot information related to a spot, which spot information is provided from a plurality of information provider devices connected to a user through a social networking service, based on the existing place information;

displaying an integrated list of the spot information acquired for the plurality of spots from the plurality of information provider devices; and

registering my-spot information specified by the user, out of the displayed integrated list of the acquired spot information, wherein the my-spot information indicates a status of the registered spot information selected from a group consisting of each spot of the plurality of spots to which the user has been and each spot of the plurality of spots to which the user wants to go,

wherein, when the status of the registered spot information indicates particular spots of the plurality of spots to which the user wants to go, the computer is further configured to display at least one of a number of and a list of the particular spots in response to current location information of the user indicating that the particular spots exist within a predetermined range with respect to a current location of the user.

11. An information processing system comprising:

a memory configured to store a program; and

at least one processor connected to the memory and configured to execute the stored program,

wherein an existing place information acquisition part is configured to acquire existing place information which specifies a location of an existing place,

wherein a spot information providing processing part is configured to

search for spot information related to a plurality of spots provided from a plurality of information provider devices connected to a user through a social networking service, based on the location of the existing place information, and

provide a result of the search as an integrated list of the spot information acquired for the plurality of spots from the plurality of information provider devices,

wherein a my-spot information registration part is configured to register my-spot information specified by the user, out of the provided integrated list of the plurality of spots of the spot information provided by the spot information providing processing part, wherein the my-spot information indicates a status of the registered spot information selected from a group consisting of each spot of the plurality of spots to which the user has been and each spot of the plurality of spots to which the user wants to go,

wherein, when the status of the registered spot information indicates particular spots of the plurality of spots to which the user wants to go, the spot information providing processing part is further configured to provide at least one of a number of and a list of the particular spots in response to current location information of the user indicating that the particular spots exist within a predetermined range with respect to a current location of the user, and

wherein the existing place information acquisition part, the spot information providing processing part, and the my-spot information registration part are each implemented via the at least one processor.