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Portable terminal, message notification method, and message notification program

  • US 8,935,325 B2
  • Filed: 09/25/2008
  • Issued: 01/13/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A portable terminal comprising:

  • a current positional information obtaining portion to obtain current positional information indicating a current position;

    an accepting portion to accept an input by a user;

    an address data portion toreceive first positional information, indicating a position of the portable terminal at a first time, from the current positional information obtaining portion,generate address data in which a name of a different user, at least one address, and the first positional information are associated with each other, wherein the at least one address indicates a transmission destination, andstore the generated address data in an address book;

    an extraction portion to perform extraction steps comprisingreceiving second positional information, indicating a position of the portable terminal at a second, subsequent time, from the current positional information obtaining portion,determining that the first positional information of the address data is within a prescribed range from the second positional information, and,based on the determination that the first positional information is within the prescribed range from the second positional information, extracting the name stored in association with the first positional information from the address data; and

    a transmission portion to, after the name has been extracted from the address data by the extraction portion, transmit a prescribed message to the transmission destination indicated by the at least one address associated with the address data.

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