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

• US 9,215,557 B2
• Filed: 05/28/2014
• Issued: 12/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Rekimoto, Junichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Batista, Marcos
• Application Number:
  US14/288,973
• Publication Number:
  US 20140295888A1
• Time in Patent Office: 566 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.3, 370/338
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 comprising:

a signal processing section configured to acquire information related to a current location of the information processing device, and to set a predetermined threshold based on user input; and

a display configured to display the predetermined threshold and information based on a comparison between the predetermined threshold and a distance, wherein the distance is calculated based on the current location and another location,

wherein the signal processing section is implemented via at least one processor.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the display is further configured to display a map and the information related to the current location of the information processing device on the map.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the display is further configured to display the current location of the information processing device on a map.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the display displays the predetermined threshold in relation to a map.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the signal processing section sets the predetermined threshold based on a reference location and a distance from the reference location.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5, wherein:

the signal processing section is further configured to calculate the predetermined threshold based on the user input.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the display is further configured to display the another location on a map.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the display is further configured to display a plurality of other locations on a map.

9. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the display is further configured to display a plurality of related information corresponding to a plurality of other locations, wherein the plurality of related information is sorted by distance.

10. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the signal processing section is further configured to set a location alias based on user input, and

the display is further configured to display the location alias based on user input.

11. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the signal processing section is further configured to determine whether to display a location alias or not based on user input.

12. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the another location is decided based on location information of another information processing device.

13. The information processing device according to claim 12, wherein:

the interface is further configured to receive the another location from a server.

14. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the display is further configured to display information based on time and a comparison between the predetermined threshold and the distance.

15. The information processing device according to claim 14, wherein:

the signal processing section is further configured to obtain the time from user input.

16. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the acquired information comprises information obtained from a GPS system.

17. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the acquired information comprises WiFi information.

18. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the distance is a distance between the current location and the another location, and

the display displays the information to indicate to a user a condition based on whether or not the distance is greater than the predetermined threshold.

19. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

information on the predetermined threshold is sent to a server.

20. An information processing method comprising:

acquiring information related to a current location of a device;

setting a predetermined threshold based on user input; and

displaying the predetermined threshold and information based on a comparison between the predetermined threshold and a distance, wherein the distance is calculated based on the current location and another location.

21. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied there a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to perform an information processing method, the method comprising:

acquiring information related to a current location of a device;

setting a predetermined threshold based on user input; and

displaying the predetermined threshold and information based on a comparison between the predetermined threshold and a distance, wherein the distance is calculated based on the current location and another location.

22. An information processing method comprising:

comparing, using a processor, a predetermined threshold and a distance between a current location of a device and another location; and

providing a result of the comparison to the device by displaying, using a processor, the predetermined threshold and information based on the comparison between the predetermined threshold and the distance.

23. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied there a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to perform an information processing method, the method comprising:

comparing a predetermined threshold and a distance between a current location of a device and another location; and

providing a result of the comparison to the device by displaying the predetermined threshold and information based on the comparison between the predetermined threshold and the distance.