Setting up of condition based on location for a mobile terminal

• US 9,955,287 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2012
• Issued: 04/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Murayama, Atsuhiko, Aoki, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Poon, King
• Assistant Examiner(s): PEREN, VINCENT ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US14/346,897
• Publication Number:
  US 20140213292A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,139 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

Information processing device (100) communicates with mobile terminals (200-1) to (200-2). Mobile terminals (200-1) to (200-2) perform near field communication with each other. Information processing device (100) decides a condition based on a distance from a first location associated with user information about users who use mobile terminals (200-1) to (200-2) to their current location and notifies mobile terminals (200-1) to (200-2) whether or not other user identification information that satisfies the decided condition has been stored.

Claims

1. A communication method, comprising the processes of:

correlatively storing, in advance, user identification information, user information, and first location information, respectively, for each of a plurality of mobile terminals,

wherein, for each respective mobile terminal, the user identification information identifies that mobile terminal, and

wherein, for each respective mobile terminal, the user information is information about a user of the respective mobile terminal from which the correlatively stored first location for the respective mobile terminal can be identified;

communicating with a first mobile terminal of the plurality of mobile terminals and acquiring, from the first mobile terminal, current location information of the first mobile terminal and the user identification information of the first mobile terminal,

wherein the acquired current location information represents a current location of the first mobile terminal;

deciding a condition based on a distance from the current location of the first mobile terminal to the first location stored in a storage section for the first mobile terminal,

wherein the condition relates to the user information stored in the storage section for the first mobile terminal; and

searching the storage section for other user identification information associated with a satisfied user information and, as a result of the search, transmits condition information and presence information to the first mobile terminal,

wherein the satisfied user information is user information for another mobile terminal which satisfies the condition decided by a condition decision section,

wherein the condition information represents the condition, and

wherein the presence information denotes whether or not the user identification information associated with the satisfied user information is stored in the storage section.

2. An information processing device, comprising:

a storage section that correlatively stores, in advance, user identification information, user information, and first location information, respectively, for each of a plurality of mobile terminals,

wherein, for each respective mobile terminal, the user identification information identifies that mobile terminal, and

wherein, for each respective mobile terminal, the user information is information about a user of the respective mobile terminal from which the correlatively stored first location for the respective mobile terminal can be identified;

a communication section that communicates with a first mobile terminal of the plurality of mobile terminals and acquires, from the first mobile terminal, current location information of the first mobile terminal and the user identification information of the first mobile terminal,

wherein the acquired current location information represents a current location of the first mobile terminal;

a condition decision section that decides a condition based on a distance from the current location of the first mobile terminal to the first location stored in the storage section for the first mobile terminal,

wherein the condition relates to the user information stored in the storage section for the first mobile terminal; and

a control section that searches the storage section for other user identification information associated with a satisfied user information and, as a result of the search, transmits condition information and presence information to the first mobile terminal,

wherein the satisfied user information is user information for another mobile terminal which satisfies the condition decided by the condition decision section,

wherein the condition information represents the condition, and

wherein the presence information denotes whether or not the user identification information associated with the satisfied user information is stored in the storage section.

3. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a communication section that;

communicates with an information processing device;

transmits, to the information processing device, current location information of the mobile terminal and user identification information of the mobile terminal, and

receives, from the information processing device, condition information and presence information,

wherein the transmitted current location information represents a current location of the mobile terminal;

wherein the condition information and the presence information are received as a result of a search, which is performed at the information processing device, for other user identification information associated with a satisfied user information,

wherein the satisfied user information is user information for another mobile terminal which satisfies a condition decided by the information processing device based on a distance from the current location of the mobile terminal to a first location stored in the information processing device for the mobile terminal,

wherein the first location for the mobile terminal is correlatively stored in the information processing device, in advance, in association with the user identification information of the mobile terminal and user information about a user of the mobile terminal,

wherein the first location is identified, by the information processing device, from the user information about the user of the mobile terminal,

wherein the condition relates to the stored user information about the user of the mobile terminal;

wherein the condition information represents the condition, and

wherein the presence information denotes whether or not the other user identification information associated with the satisfied user information is stored in the information processing device.