Patent ID: 8849912

Claim:
An information processing device controlled by a user, comprising: a communication unit; an acquisition unit configured to acquire via the communication unit two or more pieces of presence information including information identifying an application being run in two or more other information processing devices which use a same user account and; a status image generation unit configured to generate a status image indicating a status of a separate user identified by the user account, by referring to the acquired presence information, wherein the status image generation unit uses information identifying an application in which the latest status change occurs in the two or more other information processing devices, to generate the status image indicating the status of the separate user, wherein the presence information includes information indicating one of permission and prohibition of participation in a session of an application being run in at least one of the other information processing devices, wherein the status image generation unit comprises a second image generation unit configured to generate a status image indicating a status of a single separate user, and wherein, when the acquisition unit acquires two or more pieces of presence information including the same user account from two or more other information processing devices, the second image generation unit generates an area showing a name of an application by referring to the latest presence information and an area showing a name of an application which allows participation.