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Server apparatus and client apparatus in presence display system

  • US 8,965,948 B2
  • Filed: 10/14/2004
  • Issued: 02/24/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A server apparatus in a presence display system comprising the server apparatus and a client apparatus for each user, constituted to allow the client apparatus to display the states of other users, comprising:

  • means for holding information indicating the states of each user and location information that are transmitted by each of the client apparatuses;

    means for storing a buddy list that registers first other users, being buddies of the user, whose states a user wishes to watch;

    means for transmitting, to the user, information indicating the states of the first other users registered in the buddy list of the user and information relating to the distance between the user and the first other users registered in the buddy list of the user; and

    means for creating a watcher list of second other users, being watchers of the user, that are watching the state of the user, wherein the watcher list is created independently of the buddy list of the user but is created from the watchers of the user that have each registered the user as a buddy on respective buddy lists of each corresponding watcher; and

    means for transmitting the watcher list to the user in accordance with a request from the user, wherein, based on the watcher list received by the user, the user is able to perform an operation to change presence disclosure settings for the watchers of the user, and wherein, based on the buddy list of the user, the user is able to acquire presence information of the buddies of the user.

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