Patent ID: 8761794
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An information processing device that can communicate with a plurality of communication devices, comprising: a transmission portion that transmits information; an information acquisition portion that acquires from each of the communication devices information from which it is possible to estimate a location of the respective communication device, and also further acquires a uniquely associated publication range for each of the communication devices; a computation portion that computes a distance between a first one of the communication devices and a second one of the communication devices based on the information acquired from each of the communication devices; and a transmission control portion that controls transmission from the transmission portion of information that corresponds to the location of the first communication device, based on a comparison between the distance between the first communication device and the second communication device that was computed by the computation portion and a user-selected threshold distance corresponding to a maximum distance of the publication range uniquely associated with the first communication device, wherein the information that corresponds to the location of the first communication device comprises at least one of a geographic location and a location alias.