INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, SERVER APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM

• US 20110230203A1
• Filed: 02/24/2011
• Published: 09/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamanaka, Shintaro, Mineo, Yoshiyuki, IHARA, Koji, Hishinuma, Tomohiko
• Application Number:
  US13/034,412
• Publication Number:
  US 20110230203A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6254 by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6263 during internet communication, e.g. revealing personal data from cookies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1483 service impersonation, e.g. phishing, pharming or web spoofing detection of rogue wireless access points H04W12/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a first obtaining unit, a setting unit, and a judgment unit. The first obtaining unit is capable of obtaining current position information. The setting unit is configured to set a first judgment condition to judge whether the current position information obtained by the first obtaining unit is transmitted to a site on a network that requests the current position information. The judgment unit is configured to judge whether the current position information is transmitted to the site on the basis of the first judgment condition set by the setting unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a first obtaining unit capable of obtaining current position information;

a setting unit for setting a first judgment condition to judge whether the current position information obtained by the first obtaining unit is transmitted to a site on a network that requests the current position information; and

a judgment unit for judging whether the current position information is transmitted to the site on the basis of the first judgment condition set by the setting unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second obtaining unit capable of obtaining address information of the site, current time information, and date information, wherein

the setting unit sets the first judgment condition on the basis of the current position information obtained by the first obtaining unit and the address information, the current time information, and the date information obtained by the second obtaining unit.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a generation unit for generating temporary position information on the basis of the current position information obtained by the first obtaining unit, the temporary position information being position information different from the current position information, wherein

the setting unit sets the first judgment condition and a second judgment condition to judge whether the temporary position information generated by the generation unit is transmitted to the site instead of the current position information, and

the judgment unit judges whether the current position information is transmitted to the site and judges whether the temporary position information is transmitted to the site instead of the current position information on the basis of the first judgment condition and the second judgment condition.

4. An information processing method executed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

obtaining current position information;

setting a judgment condition to judge whether the obtained current position information is transmitted to a site on a network that requests the current position information; and

judging whether the current position information is transmitted to the site on the basis of the set judgment condition.

5. A program that causes an information processing apparatus to execute

obtaining current position information,

setting a judgment condition to judge whether the obtained current position information is transmitted to a site on a network that requests the current position information, and

judging whether the current position information is transmitted to the site on the basis of the set judgment condition.

6. A server apparatus, comprising:

a reception unit for receiving current position information of an information processing apparatus, the current position information being transmitted via a network by the information processing apparatus;

a setting unit for setting a judgment condition to judge whether the current position information received by the reception unit is transmitted to a site on the network that requests the current position information; and

a transmission unit for judging whether the current position information is transmitted to the site on the basis of the judgment condition set by the setting unit, and transmitting a judgment result to the information processing apparatus.

7. An information processing system, comprising:

an information processing apparatus including an obtaining unit capable of obtaining current position information, and a transmission unit for transmitting the current position information obtained by the obtaining unit to a network; and

a server apparatus including a reception unit for receiving the current position information transmitted by the information processing apparatus, a setting unit for setting a judgment condition to judge whether the current position information received by the reception unit is transmitted to a site on the network that requests the current position information, and a transmission unit for judging whether the current position information is transmitted to the site on the basis of the judgment condition set by the setting unit, and transmitting a judgment result to the information processing apparatus.