INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20120110075A1
• Filed: 06/09/2011
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: FORREST, Matthew Dickinson Jr., Golyszny, Lukas
• Application Number:
  US13/157,187
• Publication Number:
  US 20120110075A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a judgment unit that, upon receiving the message indicating that the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus have mutually communicated, judges whether there is any common application between the one or the plurality of applications associated with the first terminal apparatus and the one or the plurality of applications associated with the second terminal apparatus, and a first transmitting unit that, when the common application is present, transmits the message indicating that the first user and the second user make friend registration with the common application to one or a plurality of corresponding application server apparatuses.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a receiving unit that receives information about one or a plurality of applications from each of a first terminal apparatus associated with a first user and a second terminal apparatus associated with a second user and receives a message indicating that mutual communication has been performed from the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus after the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus mutually communicate;

a judgment unit that, upon receiving the message indicating that the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus have mutually communicated, judges whether there is any common application between the one or the plurality of applications associated with the first terminal apparatus and the one or the plurality of applications associated with the second terminal apparatus; and

a first transmitting unit that, when the common application is present, transmits the message indicating that the first user and the second user make friend registration with the common application to one or a plurality of corresponding application server apparatuses.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein when the judgment unit judges that the application that is not common is present, the first transmitting unit transmits information about the application that is not common to the first terminal apparatus or the second terminal apparatus that is not associated with the application that is not common.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the information about the one or the plurality of applications received from the first terminal apparatus is associated with first virtual subject information associated with the first terminal apparatus and the information about the one or the plurality of applications received from the second terminal apparatus is associated with second virtual subject information associated with the second terminal apparatus, and

the judgment unit judges whether there is any common application between the one or the plurality of applications associated with the first virtual subject information and the one or the plurality of applications associated with the second virtual subject information.

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

a second transmitting unit that, upon receiving the message indicating that the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus have mutually communicated, transmits data registered by the first user in advance to the second terminal apparatus.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the application is a social networking service.

6. An information processing method, comprising:

receiving information about one or a plurality of applications from each of a first terminal apparatus associated with a first user and a second terminal apparatus associated with a second user and receiving a message indicating that mutual communication has been performed from the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus after the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus mutually communicate;

upon receiving the message indicating that the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus have mutually communicated, judging whether there is any common application between the one or the plurality of applications associated with the first terminal apparatus and the one or the plurality of applications associated with the second terminal apparatus; and

when the common application is present, transmitting the message indicating that the first user and the second user make friend registration with the common application to one or a plurality of corresponding application server apparatuses.

7. A program causing a computer to execute:

receiving information about one or a plurality of applications from each of a first terminal apparatus associated with a first user and a second terminal apparatus associated with a second user and receiving a message indicating that mutual communication has been performed from the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus after the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus mutually communicate;

upon receiving the message indicating that the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus have mutually communicated, judging whether there is any common application between the one or the plurality of applications associated with the first terminal apparatus and the one or the plurality of applications associated with the second terminal apparatus; and

when the common application is present, transmitting the message indicating that the first user and the second user make friend registration with the common application to one or a plurality of corresponding application server apparatuses.