Wireless communication device, wireless communication method, information processing device, information processing method, and program

• US 8,676,225 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2008
• Issued: 03/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Rekimoto, Junichi
• Primary Examiner(s): MATHARU, MANPREET S
• Application Number:
  US12/057,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20080242278A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,182 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.2, 455/456.3, 455/456.4, 455/414.1, 4554561-567, 709/206, 709/207, 709/219, 370/312, 370/338
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0407 wherein the identity of one or more communicating identities is hidden cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for anonymous credentials or for identity based cryptographic systems H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/63 Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A wireless communication device includes a transmission portion, an information acquisition portion, a storage portion, a selection portion, and a transmission control portion. The transmission portion transmits information. The information acquisition portion acquires location information for the wireless communication device that includes a received signal strength of a signal that is transmitted from a base station in the vicinity. The storage portion stores, in association with specific location information, regulating information that regulates the transmission from the transmission portion of the information that corresponds to the location of the wireless communication device. The selection portion selects from the storage portion the regulating information associated with the location information acquired by the information acquisition portion. The transmission control portion controls, based on the regulating information that was selected by the selection portion, the transmission from the transmission portion of the information that corresponds to the location of the wireless communication device.

Claims

1. An information processing device that can communicate with a plurality of wireless communication devices, comprising:

a transmission portion that transmits information;

an information acquisition portion that acquires, from each of the wireless communication devices, a location information of the wireless communication device, the location information comprising at least one of information that indicates a location of the wireless communication device or a received signal strength of a signal that is transmitted from a base station in the vicinity of the wireless communication device;

a storage portion that stores, in association with arbitrary location information, selective location publish setting information of each wireless communication device according to privacy settings based on two or more of location, time and date;

a selection portion that selects from the storage portion the selective location publish setting information that is associated with the location information that was acquired by the information acquisition portion, the selection according to privacy settings based on two or more of location, time and date; and

a control portion that controls, in accordance with the selective location publish setting information that was selected by the selection portion, a selective publishing of the location of each wireless communication device,

wherein the selective location publish setting information comprises information that expresses a location alias according to privacy settings based on two or more of location, time and date.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the selective location publish setting information includes effective period information that indicates an effective period for the selective location publish setting information, and the selection portion selects the selective location publish setting information that corresponds to the location information acquired by the information acquisition portion and that is within the effective period.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the storage portion stores the received base station signal strength in association with the selective location publish setting information, and the selection portion selects the selective location publish setting information that is associated with one of the received base station signal strength that matches the received base station signal strength that was acquired by the information acquisition portion and the received base station signal strength that resembles the received base station signal strength that was acquired by the information acquisition portion.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the location alias includes “

Home”

or “

Company”

.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the location alias information includes information that indicates a status for a user.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5, wherein the location alias information includes “

Going home,”

“

In a meeting,” and

“

Free time”

.

7. The information processing device according to claim 6, wherein if the location alias information that corresponds to the location information for one of the wireless communication devices is not stored in the storage portion, the control portion publishes the location information of that wireless communication device.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the control portion publishes the location information of each wireless communication device only to other devices that are registered in advance in a group.

9. A wireless communication device comprising:

an information acquisition portion that acquires location information of the wireless communication device, the location information including at least one of information that indicates a location of the wireless communication device or a received signal strength of a signal that is transmitted from a base station in the vicinity of the wireless communication device;

a storage portion that stores, in association with arbitrary location information, selective location publish setting information of the wireless communication device according to a privacy setting based on two or more of location, time and date;

a selection portion that selects from the storage portion the selective location publish setting information that is associated with the location information that was acquired by the information acquisition portion, the selection based on two or more of location, time and date; and

a control portion that controls, in accordance with the selective location publish setting information that was selected by the selection portion, a selective publishing of the location of the wireless communication device;

wherein the selective location publish setting information includes information that expresses a location alias according to the privacy setting based on the two or more of location, time and date.

10. A wireless communication device comprising:

an information acquisition portion that acquires location information of the wireless communication device, the location information including at least one of information that indicates a location of the wireless communication device or a received signal strength of a signal that is transmitted from a base station in the vicinity of the wireless communication device; and

a transmission portion that transmits, according to a privacy setting based on two or more of location, time and date, a selective location publish setting information that is associated with location information of the wireless communication device acquired by the information acquisition portion and receives a location alias which is based on selective location publish setting information based on two or more of location, time and date that is associated with each location information of other wireless communication devices,

wherein the selective location publish setting information that is associated with the location information of the wireless communication device is one of a location of the wireless communication device or a location alias associated with the location of the wireless communication device.

11. The wireless communication device according to claim 10, wherein the location alias includes “

Home”

or “

Company”

.

12. The wireless communication device according to claim 10, wherein the location alias information includes information that indicates a status for a user.

13. The wireless communication device according to claim 12, wherein the location alias information includes “

Going home”

, “

In a meeting” and

“

Free time”

.

14. The wireless communication device according to claim 10, further comprising a registration portion that registers the selective location publish setting information in the storage portion in association with the location information.

15. The wireless communication device according to claim 10, wherein the storage portion stores the received base station signal strength in association with the selective location publish setting information, and the selection portion selects the selective location publish setting information that is associated with one of the received base station signal strength that matches the received base station signal strength that was acquired by the information acquisition portion and the received base station signal strength that resembles the received base station signal strength that was acquired by the information acquisition portion.

16. The wireless communication device according to claim 10, further comprising a display portion that displays the location alias of other wireless communication devices.