Patent ID: 11930149
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a communication interface to communicate with a terminal device;
one or more controllers to control the communication interface; and
a display,
wherein the one or more controllers transmit an acquisition request for address book information to the terminal device via the communication interface,
the one or more controllers control the communication interface to retransmit the acquisition request when the address book information is not obtainable in response to the acquisition request and a given time period does not elapse since the transmission of the acquisition request is initiated,
the one or more controllers display, on the display, information prompting a user to perform, on the terminal device, an operation that permits to share the address book information during a period of time after the transmission of the acquisition request is initiated and until the given time period elapses, and
the one or more controllers display, on the display, information indicating that a number of addresses held in the terminal device is zero when the address book information containing one or more addresses is not obtainable even after the given time period elapses.