Patent ID: 9398417
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A user terminal, comprising: a user terminal position determination unit that determines a position of the user terminal in a geographic area among a plurality of other user terminals; a transmitting unit that transmits the position of the user terminal to a server, where the server also receives respective positions of the plurality of other user terminals and, in response, selects one or more of the plurality of other user terminals based on the position of the user terminal and the respective positions of the plurality of other user terminals; a receiving unit that receives information from the server, including indicia related to the selected one or more of the plurality of other user terminals, the indicia including an indication as to a respective privacy setting of each of the selected one or more of the plurality of other user terminals; and a display unit that displays the indicia related to the selected one or more of the plurality of other user terminals, wherein: as to each of the selected one or more of the plurality of other user terminals, when the respective privacy setting thereof indicates a desire for privacy the indicia indicates a presence of the respective selected one of the plurality of other user terminals, but does not indicate the position of the respective selected one of the plurality of other user terminals; and a number of the indicia indicating a presence but not a position is determined by a calculated sum including both a number of the selected one or more of the plurality of other user terminals having a privacy setting indicating a desire for privacy and a number of the selected one or more of the plurality of other user terminals having a privacy setting not indicating a desire for privacy.