Patent ID: 7539482
Filing Date: 2009-05-26
Classification: G01C,G08G,H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for sending and receiving information with wireless communications, the apparatus being capable of sending and receiving various information to and from a plurality of other apparatuses for sending and receiving information with wireless communications, the apparatus comprising: information storage means which stores various information, the various information including contents information of a plurality of different categories to which predetermined priorities are assigned, respectively; summary creating means for creating a summary of each of the contents information of the different categories stored in the information storage means, the summary being a brief explanation for contents corresponding to each of the contents information of the different categories, wherein the summary creating means creates the summary of each of the contents information of the different categories based on the predetermined priorities; summary information delivering means for delivering summary information to the plurality of other apparatuses, the summary information to be delivered including at least a part of the summaries created by the summary information creating means and identification data of the apparatus; request information receiving means for receiving request information from any one of the plurality of other apparatuses which received the delivered summary information, the request information including the identification data of the apparatus contained in the delivered summary information, and the request information also including identification data of the other apparatus and a request to send entire information of one or more summaries in the received summaries that the other apparatus hopes to have entire information thereof; and entire information sending means for sending the requested entire information of the summaries to the other apparatus in response to the request using the identification data of the other apparatus.