COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING THEREOF

• US 20070167137A1
• Filed: 03/19/2007
• Published: 07/19/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Watanabe, Hideaki, Inoue, Naoyuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,801,485 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.200
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4535 using an address exchange platform which sets up a session between two nodes, e.g. rendezvous servers, session initiation protocols [SIP] registrars or H.323 gatekeepers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A communication device relates a plurality of identification information to specifying information included in the identification information and manages them, and thereby enhances easiness of identifying and specifying of a device of the other party and usability of a connection with the device of the other party. The communication device has an identification information reception part (a radio transmission/reception part, a baseband part and a control part), a storage part (a data base part) and an information processing part (a control part). The identification information reception part receives the pieces of identification information concerning the device of the other party to be connected, and in the storage part the pieces of identification information which are received are stored. The information processing part stores the pieces of identification information, which are received, in the storage part, and retrieves the identification information from the storage part by receiving input of the specifying information out of the pieces of identification information, and relates a result of that retrieval to the specifying information and outputs them, or makes that output possible. By this, it is possible to use the pieces of identification information related to the specifying information for specifying of the device of the other party and connection with it.

Claims

1. A communication device having a Bluetooth system, comprising:

an address book data base that stores owner information and identification information “

Bluetooth device address”

representative of a device of the other party; and

an information processing part that, in a case where the owner information is received from the device of the other party, records the identification information “

Bluetooth device address”

representative of the device of the other party in said address book data base by using a name included in the owner information as a key.

2. A communication device having a Bluetooth system, comprising:

a transmission/reception part that performs transmission and reception of information through Bluetooth;

an information presenting part that displays a person'"'"'s name list stored in an address book data base;

an input operation part that designates an optional person'"'"'s name from the person'"'"'s name list; and

a control part that retrieves the address book data base by using a selected person'"'"'s name as a key, and makes said transmission/reception part perform communication through the Bluetooth system by using a “

Bluetooth device address”

which is identification information related to the person'"'"'s name.

3. The communication device of claim 2, wherein said control part has profiles which are used for a connection, and, in a case where Bluetooth communication is started by the “

Bluetooth device address”

which is the identification information retrieved by using the person'"'"'s name as a key, determines a profile to be used for a connection by profile designation.

4. A computer readable recording medium storing a computer program for information processing of a communication device which performs communication with a device of the other party, the program comprising:

a function that classifies person'"'"'s name data in groups and registers them in an address book;

a function that permits an access of every group through designation; and

a function that sets whether or not to permit a connection by a specific profile from a terminal having Bluetooth which is related to a person'"'"'s name belonging to the designated group.

5. A method, comprising:

retrieving and storing device identification information from radio communication devices within range; and

inputting specifying information specifying an identity associated with the device identification information and correlating the specifying information with the device identification information to reduce an ambiguity about the radio communication devices.