Patent ID: 8643791

Claim:
An information communication system comprising: a communication line which connects a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus to each other; a transmission unit which is included in the first information processing apparatus and transmits identity information of the first information processing apparatus without passing through the communication line; a reception unit which is included in the second information processing apparatus and receives the identity information of the first information processing apparatus transmitted from the transmission unit without passing through the communication line; and an information transmission unit which is included in the second information processing apparatus and transmits second information to the first information processing apparatus via the communication line by using the identity information received by the reception unit, in which the identity information of the first information processing apparatus is transmitted by the transmission unit included in the first information processing apparatus by way of a communication medium which is different from that associated with the communication line so that transmission of the identity information by the transmission unit included in the first information processing apparatus is not by way of the communication line, in which the second information transmitted by the information transmission unit included in the second information processing apparatus to the first information processing apparatus is transmitted via the communication line such that transmission of the second information is not by way of the communication medium, in which the second information processing apparatus includes a screen control section which controls display of a display screen in response to receipt by the reception unit of the identity information of each of a number of first information processing apparatus such that when the reception unit receives a plurality of identity information from a plurality of first information processing apparatus the screen control section causes a plurality of interface screens to be displayed in an overlapping manner in a predetermined order on the display screen, said predetermined order being a chronological order based on when the reception unit receives the identity information of each of the plurality first information processing apparatus or a reception strength order based on a respective reception strength of the identity information of each of the plurality first information processing apparatus when received by the reception unit.