INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS

• US 20130332530A1
• Filed: 05/30/2013
• Published: 12/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TANGE, Akira, YOKOYAMA, Masahito, KADOBAYASHI, Masako, TAKANO, Kyohei
• Application Number:
  US13/905,543
• Publication Number:
  US 20130332530A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/043 using or handling presence information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• 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 a condition determining unit that changes, when information of a first user and information of a second user satisfy a predetermined condition, a state from a first state in which information sharing on a communication network is disabled between a first terminal apparatus used by the first user and a second terminal apparatus used by the second user to a second state in which the information sharing is enabled, and a restricting unit that restricts the change of the state from the first state to the second state, on the basis of restriction information that is acquired from the first terminal apparatus and is used to restrict the change of the state from the first state to the second state.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a condition determining unit that changes, when information of a first user and information of a second user satisfy a predetermined condition, a state from a first state in which information sharing on a communication network is disabled between a first terminal apparatus used by the first user and a second terminal apparatus used by the second user to a second state in which the information sharing is enabled; and

a restricting unit that restricts the change of the state from the first state to the second state, on the basis of restriction information that is acquired from the first terminal apparatus and is used to restrict the change of the state from the first state to the second state.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the restricting unit determines whether or not to change the state to the first state, using the information of the second user acquired from the second terminal apparatus and the restriction information acquired from the first terminal apparatus.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the restricting unit acquires evaluation information with respect to information of each of the first user and the second user.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the restricting unit changes weighting applied to the information of the second user, according to the evaluation information, when the restricting determines whether or not to change the state to the first state.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the restricting unit changes the weighting according to information regarding a user who has input the evaluation information.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the restricting unit changes the weighting, according to an evaluation made by another user with respect to the user who has input the evaluation information as the information regarding the user who has input the evaluation information.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein, when the second user and a user who has input the evaluation information satisfy the predetermined condition, the restricting unit evaluates the information of the second user by using the evaluation information.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein, when the information of the second user is changed, the restricting unit requests a user who has input the evaluation information to evaluate the information of the second user again.

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

an updating unit that automatically updates the information of each of the first user and the second user, on the basis of an action history of each of the first user and the second user.

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

a release setting unit that sets whether an item of the information of each of the first user and the second user is able to be released.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the restriction information that is acquired by the restricting unit includes biological information.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the restriction information that is acquired by the restricting unit includes information of a specific user and information showing whether or not to change the state to the first state.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the restriction information that is acquired by the restricting unit is automatically generated from an operation history in each of the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the restricting unit changes the state to a plurality of states of different degrees to which information sharing is enabled between the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus, according to at least one of the restriction information and the information of each of the first user and the second user.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 14,

wherein the restricting unit changes the state to a state in which more information is able to be shared between the first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus with decrease in a restriction degree based on the restriction information.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 14,

wherein the restricting unit changes a disclosure degree of the information of each of the first user and the second user, according to into which state of the plurality of states the state is changed.

17. A computer program for causing a computer to execute:

changing, when information of a first user and information of a second user satisfy a predetermined condition, a state from a first state in which information sharing on a communication network is disabled between a first terminal apparatus used by the first user and a second terminal apparatus used by the second user to a second state in which the information sharing is enabled; and

restricting the change of the state from the first state to the second state, on the basis of restriction information that is acquired from the first terminal apparatus and is used to restrict the change of the state from the first state to the second state.

18. A terminal apparatus comprising:

an input unit that, when information of a first user and information of a second user satisfy a predetermined condition and a state changes from a first state in which information sharing on a communication network is disabled between a first terminal apparatus used by the first user and a second terminal apparatus used by the second user to a second state in which the information sharing is enabled, inputs the information of the first user and restriction information to restrict the change of the first state.

19. The terminal apparatus according to claim 18,

wherein the input unit inputs an evaluation with respect to information of another user.

20. The terminal apparatus according to claim 19,

wherein the input unit inputs an evaluation with respect to the information of the other user who satisfies the predetermined condition.