Patent ID: 8938222
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. An event notification device comprising: a wireless communication unit which wirelessly transmits and receives predetermined information on an online service using a communication network over a period of maintaining communications with a plurality of external devices which can use the online service via the communication network; an event occurrence information acquiring unit which acquires an event occurrence notice via the wireless communication unit from each of the external devices maintaining the communications, the event occurrence notice indicating the occurrence of a predetermined event of the online service being used by the external devices; an enabled-notice information acquiring unit which acquires an enabled-notice information item on the event occurrence notice via the wireless communication unit, the event occurrence notice being transmittable from each of the external devices maintaining the communications; a notice setting unit which requests one of the external devices to transmit the event occurrence notice and requests the other external devices not to transmit the event occurrence notice if the enabled-notice information items indicate that the external devices are capable of individually transmitting the same event occurrence notice; and an event occurrence notification unit which notifies a user of the occurrence of the predetermined event by a predetermined operation on the basis of the event occurrence notice acquired by the event occurrence information acquiring unit from the external device requested by the notice setting unit to transmit the event occurrence notice.