Patent ID: 9622020
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A communication device comprising: a receiving section receiving, from a given external device among one or more external devices, a signal indicating a state change in the given external device, the state change being caused by a predetermined action of a user, the predetermined action being that the communications device and the given external device bumping into one another, and the signal indicating a state change including sensor information as to an acceleration profile resulting in the given external device from the bumping with the communication device; and an identifying section identifying the given external device as a partner device in predetermined communication processing from among the one or more external devices on a basis of the signal indicating the state change, wherein the identifying section identifies the given external device as a partner device: (i) when the signal indicating a state change includes the sensor information as to an acceleration profile resulting in the given external device from the bumping with the communication device, and (ii) based on a comparison of the sensor information from the signal indicating a state change and further sensor information as to a corresponding acceleration profile resulting within the communication device from the bumping with the external device.