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

• US 20150012582A1
• Filed: 05/30/2014
• Published: 01/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: YOKOYAMA, Tadashi, NAKAMURA, Kaoru, MASANO, Toru, TATEMATSU, Seiji, KOBUYA, Naoshi, AKIYAMA, Hiroaki, NAITO, Tomohiro, TAKAHASHI, Takuya, UEDA, Yuichi
• Granted Patent: US 10,171,941 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/202
• 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:

an existing place information acquisition part configured to acquire existing place information which specifies an existing place; and

a my-spot information registration part 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

register spot information specified by a user as my-spot information, out of the acquired spot information.

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

a reminder processing part configured to suggest the spot information of the spot that exists within a predetermined range with respect to a current location, in response to current location information indicating the current location, to the user.

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

a telephone function processing part configured to perform a process related to voice phone;

the existing place information acquisition part being configured to acquire a phone number that has been registered, dialed or received by the telephone function processing part, as the existing place information.

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

a browser function processing part configured to display a web page;

the existing place information acquisition part being configured to acquire the existing place information from a web page that has been registered by the browser function processing part or from a web page recorded in a history of browsing by the browser function processing part.

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

an external service linking function processing part configured to perform a process in coordination with an external service;

the existing place information acquisition part being configured to acquire check-in information which at least includes location information, posted in the external service and is acquired by the external service linking function processing part, as the existing place information.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the existing place information acquisition part is configured to acquire the existing place information periodically at a given timing, and

the my-spot information registration part is configured to notify the user that the spot information is acquired, at the timing when the spot information is acquired based on the existing place information.

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

a display part configured to display the spot information, in which, when the display part displays detailed information of a predetermined spot, the display part integrates the spot information thereof provided from the plurality of information provider devices, and displays by arranging the integrated spot information within one screen.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the display part displays a list that is an integrated list of the spot information provided from the plurality of information provider devices, acquired by the my-spot information registration part.

9. An information processing method comprising:

acquiring existing place information which specifies an existing place; and

acquiring 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 registering spot information specified by a user as my-spot information, out of the acquired spot information.

10. A program for causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

acquiring existing place information which specifies an existing place; and

acquiring 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 registering spot information specified by a user as my-spot information, out of the acquired spot information.

11. An information processing system comprising:

an existing place information acquisition part configured to acquire existing place information which specifies an existing place;

a spot information providing processing part configured to

search for spot information related to a spot provided from a plurality of information provider devices, based on the existing place information and

provide a result of the search; and

a my-spot information registration part configured to register spot information specified by a user as my-spot information, out of the spot information provided by the spot information providing processing part.