Patent ID: 8314830

Claim:
An information-processing apparatus operated by a user to carry out communications through a network, the information-processing apparatus comprising: means for transmitting a user-disclosure information to an other information-processing apparatus; means for receiving an other user-disclosure information from the other information-processing apparatus, the other user-disclosure information including information about content being displayed by the other information-processing apparatus; means for controlling a process to display the other user-disclosure information received by the means for receiving; means for requesting a connection to the other information-processing apparatus in accordance with a received user operation; means for producing a determination result indicating that the connection requested by the means for requesting to the other information-processing apparatus is authorized or not authorized by the other information-processing apparatus based on a response received from the other information-processing apparatus; means for transmitting image and voice data of the user to the other information-processing apparatus and receiving image and voice data of an other user from the other information-processing apparatus when the determination result produced by the means for producing indicates that the requested connection with the other information-processing apparatus is authorized by the other information-processing apparatus; and means for displaying content, including synthesizing content being displayed by the other information-processing apparatus.