Communication device, and method and computer program for information processing thereof

• US 7,801,485 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2007
• Issued: 09/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Watanabe, Hideaki, Inoue, Naoyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAM, TUAN
• Application Number:
  US11/687,687
• Publication Number:
  US 20070167137A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,282 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 455/566, 455/564, 455/550, 455/556.1, 370/328, 370/338
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4535 using an address exchange platform which sets up a session between two nodes, e.g. rendezvous servers, session initiation protocols [SIP] registrars or H.323 gatekeepers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A communication device relates a plurality of identification information to specifying information included in the identification information and manages them, and thereby enhances easiness of identifying and specifying of a device of the other party and usability of a connection with the device of the other party. The communication device has an identification information reception part (a radio transmission/reception part, a baseband part and a control part), a storage part (a data base part) and an information processing part (a control part). The identification information reception part receives the pieces of identification information concerning the device of the other party to be connected, and in the storage part the pieces of identification information which are received are stored. The information processing part stores the pieces of identification information, which are received, in the storage part, and retrieves the identification information from the storage part by receiving input of the specifying information out of the pieces of identification information, and relates a result of that retrieval to the specifying information and outputs them, or makes that output possible. By this, it is possible to use the pieces of identification information related to the specifying information for specifying of the device of the other party and connection with it.

Claims

1. A communication device having a Bluetooth system, comprising:

a transmission/reception part that performs transmission and reception of information through the Bluetooth system;

an address book data base that includes a person'"'"'s name, a “

Bluetooth device address”

that is identification information related to the person'"'"'s name, and information representative of a device of another party that corresponds to the “

Bluetooth device address”

;

an information presenting part that displays the person'"'"'s name, or both the person'"'"'s name and a name of the device of the other party, and the “

Bluetooth device address”

that is identification information related to the person'"'"'s name, the person'"'"'s name and the “

Bluetooth device address”

being included in the address book data base;

an input operation part that designates an optional person'"'"'s name from the names displayed on the information presenting part; and

a control part that retrieves the address book data base by using the person'"'"'s name designated by the input operation part as a key, specifies the device of the other party corresponding to the “

Bluetooth device address”

that is related to the person'"'"'s name, and makes said transmission/reception part perform communication with the device of the other party through the Bluetooth system by using the “

Bluetooth device address”

;

wherein the information presenting part displays profiles that represent a procedure of a connection so as to be designated, the profiles being related to the person'"'"'s name and the “

Bluetooth device address”

, and the profiles being included in the address book data base, the input operation part designates the profile displayed on the information presenting part, and the control part makes the transmission/reception part perform communication with the device of the other party by the procedure of a connection according to the profile designated by the input operation part.

2. The communication device of claim 1, wherein profiles which represent a procedure of a connection are related to the person'"'"'s name and the “

Bluetooth device address”

, and included in the address book data base, and,

in a case where Bluetooth communication is started by the “

Bluetooth device address”

which is the identification information retrieved by using the person'"'"'s name as a key, the control part determines a profile to be used for a connection by profile designation.

3. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the information presenting part displays a selection display which enables permission and/or designation of a connection as a client or a server,

the input operation part designates or permits the connection as the client or the server from the selection display presented on the information presenting part, and

the communication device communicates with the device of the other party as the client or the server based on the permission or the designation.

4. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the profile includes a server channel number.

5. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the control part determines whether the device of the other party can be specified in the address book data base from the person'"'"'s name designated by the input operation part, and outputs information representative of a result of the determination to the information presenting part.

6. The communication device of claim 1, wherein

the address book data base includes a phone number and an e-mail address which are related to the person'"'"'s name, and

the information presenting part displays the telephone number and the e-mail address along with the person'"'"'s name, the name of the device of the other party and the “

Bluetooth device address”

.

7. The communication device of claim 1, wherein the information presenting part presents a result of retrieval of the address book data base along with a display in which the person'"'"'s name, the “

Bluetooth device address”

retrieved, and the device of the other party corresponding to the “

Bluetooth device address”

are related.

8. The communication device of claim 2, wherein the information presenting part presents a result of retrieval of the address book data base along with a display in which the person'"'"'s name, the “

Bluetooth device address”

retrieved, the device of the other party corresponding to the “

Bluetooth device address”

, and the profile are related.