Patent ID: 9608956
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for an electronic device equipped with a display unit and a wireless communication unit to display, on the display unit, information including user information related to a sender, positional information of the sender and message information desired by the sender to be transmitted to a communication party connected via the wireless communication unit, the method comprising the electronic device performing the steps of: calculating relative position information of the sender relative to an own device based on positional information of the sender; and displaying, on the display unit, information including user information related to the sender and message information desired by the sender to be transmitted to the communication party which are sent and received via the wireless communication unit, and relative position information of the sender relative to the own device, wherein the step of displaying includes a first display mode control step of displaying the user information and the message information in a majority region including a central portion of the display unit, and displaying a relative position based on a relative distance from the own device to the sender without displaying a current position of the sender, on a map, of devices of members which make communication connection with the own device, wherein the first display mode control step further includes providing a third display region that is separate from the majority region in the display unit, and displaying the relative position information of the sender relative to the own device in the third display region, wherein the relative position information of the sender relative to the own device is displayed based on a relative distance between an own device position and a current position of the sender, wherein the wireless communication unit performs direct wireless communication and is implemented via a programmable processor.