Patent ID: 6865385

Claim:
A status notification method comprising: determining status of a user using a first information terminal; directly transmitting the status of the user from the first information terminal, via an ad hoc local area network operating under an ad hoc communication protocol, to a mobile terminal of the user on a mobile communications network operating under a mobile communication protocol different from the ad hoc communication protocol of the ad hoc local area network; determining at the user mobile terminal whether the received status of the mobile terminal user from the first information terminal is one of a plurality of user statuses previously stored in the user mobile terminal; transmitting the received user status in real-time from the user mobile terminal, via the mobile communications network and other network operating under other communication protocol different from the mobile communication protocol of the mobile terminal, to a predetermined second information terminal, which is discommunicative with the first information terminal and provided on the other network, according to the determining; and outputting at the second information terminal, the user status received from the user mobile terminal via the mobile communications network and the other network.