Patent ID: 8392850

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: list acquire means for acquiring, via a network, from each of a plurality of mates of communication, a first list to be generated by a mate of communication who provides an image, said first list containing an address in a storage space at which said image to be provided by a mate of communication is stored and an address in a storage space at which a thumbnail image representing said image to be provided by a mate of communication is stored, these addresses being arranged for each group into which said image to be provided by a mate of communication is classified in said mate of communication; thumbnail image acquire means for acquiring, via said network, said thumbnail image from said address in said storage space at which said thumbnail image is stored, said address being arranged in said first list acquired from each of said plurality of mates of communication; display means for displaying said thumbnail image acquired from each of said plurality of mates of communication for each group and each mate of communication, wherein, for each of at least two mates of communication of the mates of communication from which the thumbnail images, respectively, are acquired, a name of the mate of communication and the thumbnail image acquired from the mate of communication are displayed in a display area of a same display screen as a group having a same name as a name of the group into which the image represented by the thumbnail image acquired from the mate of communication is classified at the mate of communication; selection means for selecting said displayed thumbnail image according to the operation of a user of said information processing apparatus; and image acquire means for acquiring, via said network, if said thumbnail image has been selected, said image to be provided by a mate of communication from an address in a storage space at which said image represented by said selected thumbnail image is stored, said address being arranged in said first list.