Patent ID: 8498394
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. An anonymous communication system enabling a communication by anonymity, said anonymous communication system detecting anonymities of communication parties and notifying them to a third party device other than communication devices of the communication parties, the system comprising: an anonymity managing means for retaining anonymity management information including a real address, an anonymous address and an anonymity of the communication device; an anonymous communication establishing means for acquiring the anonymity management information of a caller device and the anonymity management information of a callee device from said anonymity managing means when having received a communication connection request designating the callee device from the caller device, establishing a communication session between the caller device and the callee device, and deciding which address, out of the real address and the anonymous address, should be used as an address of the caller device to be notified to the callee device responding to the anonymity of the caller device to be included in said acquired anonymity management information; and an anonymity notifying means for acquiring the anonymity of at least one of the communication parties of the caller device and the callee device that make the communication through the communication session to be established by said anonymous communication establishing means from said anonymity management information, and notifying it to the third party device other than the caller device and the callee device.