Patent ID: 9687731
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: A63F

Claim:
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a communicating unit configured to perform a communication with another information processing apparatus; a searching unit configured to repeatedly search one or more other information processing apparatuses existing within a predetermined area by using the communicating unit; and a display controlling unit configured to display on a display device information of a user of a first other information processing apparatus that is stored in advance in a storage in response to a non-automatic registration performed by at least one of a user of the information processing apparatus and the user of the first other information processing apparatus so that the information of the user of the first other information processing apparatus is stored in advance in the storage non-automatically and so that the user of the first other information processsing apparatus is a registered user and information of a user of a second other information processing apparatus that is searched by the searching unit, wherein the user of the second other information processing apparatus is a non-registered user; the display controlling unit is further configured to renew in a real-time at least information of the user of the second other information processing apparatus in accordance with a search result by the searching unit, and wherein the display controlling unit is configured to simultaneously display the information of the registered user of the first other information processing apparatus and the information of the non-registered user of the second other information processing apparatus in a discriminable manner by locating the information of the registered user of the first other information processing apparatus and the information of the non-registered user of the second other information processing apparatus in different display regions.