Patent ID: 8825647
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A mobile communication terminal comprising: a communication unit that communicates with a plurality of other mobile communication terminals using communication addresses respectively allocated to each of the plurality of other mobile communication terminals; a memory in the mobile communication terminal that stores one or more pairs of the communication addresses allocated to each of the plurality of other mobile communication terminals with identification names for identifying users of each of the plurality of other mobile communication terminals; a computer in the mobile communication terminal, the computer configured to: the computer including a sorting algorithm to categorize the mobile communication terminal into one of a plurality of groups based on the acquired first position and the at least second position of the mobile communication terminal, and to categorize each of the pairs of communication addresses and identification names into the plurality of groups, at least one of the groups being indicative of a relationship between a user of the mobile communication terminal and a user of the at least one of the plurality of other mobile communications terminals, the groups based upon at least one of the positions of the at least one of the plurality of other mobile communication terminals and the distance between the mobile communication terminal and the at least one of the plurality of other mobile communications terminals at the predetermined intervals of time; and a display that displays at least the identification names, out of the communication addresses and identification names stored in the memory, the computer configured to display at least the identification names in association with at least one of the plurality of groups.