JP5068843B2 - Program, information storage medium, portable terminal device, and server device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a program or the like for causing a computer built in a portable terminal device that performs wireless communication with another terminal device located within a predetermined distance to execute a predetermined process.

  At present, the development and popularization of highly portable information devices such as mobile phones and PDAs are remarkable, and the penetration rate of mobile phones, in particular, has exceeded 50%. Many of these information devices can communicate with other information devices by incorporating a communication function in the main body or by attaching a communication unit externally.

JP 2000-167233 A

On the other hand, as a wireless communication standard for exchanging data between information devices, for example, an infrared communication standard represented by IrDA, IEEE 802.11 called a so-called wireless LAN, or Bluetooth (R ) And other standards have been announced.
Isn't it possible to propose a new way of playing by using such information devices and taking advantage of the portability and the characteristics of individual communication standards?
The present invention has been made based on such a background.

  A first invention for solving the above problem is a mobile terminal device capable of acquiring or providing information by performing wireless communication with another terminal device located within a predetermined distance (for example, the mobile phone 100 of FIG. 7). ) Is stored in the storage means (for example, the storage device 60 in FIG. 7) and the other terminal device for storing the person information related to the person (for example, the owner information 63 or the friend information 64 in FIG. 7) Acquisition means (for example, the Bluetooth communication device 41 in FIG. 7), personal information acquired by the acquisition means based on a given criterion, and personal information stored in the storage means And a determination unit (for example, the CPU 10 in FIG. 7) for determining the match, and a notification unit (for example, the display unit 30 in FIG. 7) for notifying when the determination unit determines a match. Communication information That.

  The twentieth aspect of the invention is a mobile terminal device (for example, the mobile phone 100 in FIG. 7) capable of acquiring or providing information by performing wireless communication with other terminal devices located within a predetermined distance. Storage means (for example, storage device 40 in FIG. 7) for storing personal information (for example, owner information 63 or friend information 64 in FIG. 7) relating to a person, and personal information stored in the other terminal device are stored. Based on given acquisition criteria (for example, the Bluetooth communication device 41 in FIG. 7) and personal information acquired by the acquisition unit and personal information stored in the storage unit, It is a portable terminal device that includes a determination unit (for example, the CPU 10 in FIG. 7) for determination and a notification unit (for example, the display device 30 in FIG. 7) that notifies when the determination is made by the determination unit.

According to the first or twentieth invention, it can be notified that the terminal device storing the personal information that matches the personal information stored in the mobile terminal device is within a predetermined distance.
That is, for example, when the match determination is a determination as to whether or not the persons related to the individual information are the same person, it can be notified that there is another terminal device in which the same person is registered. Here, “person is registered” means that person information relating to the person is stored, and the same applies to the following.
Further, when the stored personal information is personal information related to a person who has some kind of connection (relationship) with the owner, there is a person who has some kind of connection (relationship) with the owner of the mobile terminal device within a predetermined distance. This can be notified. Here, the owner of the mobile terminal device and the terminal device is assumed to be in the vicinity thereof, and the presence of the mobile terminal device and the terminal device is expressed by the presence of the owner. The same applies to the following.
Furthermore, if the acquisition target by the acquisition means is person information related to the owner of another terminal device, it can be notified that a person registered in the mobile terminal device exists within a predetermined distance.

  According to a second invention, in the communication information of the first invention, in the wireless communication, the mobile terminal device automatically recognizes one or more other terminal devices located within the predetermined distance. The communication information is a communication method that establishes a wireless communication line with the one or more other terminal devices and enables acquisition or provision of information.

  According to the second aspect of the invention, the wireless communication system by the mobile terminal device is, for example, Bluetooth (R), and the acquisition or provision of information with one or more terminal devices existing within a predetermined distance is automatically performed. It can be executable.

  According to a third invention, in the communication information of the first or second invention, the person information includes at least identification information for identifying a person (for example, the item “phone number” of the friend information 64), Information for determining based on whether or not the identification information included in the person information acquired by the acquisition means matches the identification information included in the person information stored in the storage means; Including communication information.

  Here, the identification information is for identifying a person related to each person information, and may be a telephone number or a name, for example. This identification information is desirably unique to each person. However, the persons may be grouped according to the situation and purpose, and the group to which each belongs may be identified. For example, the group includes gender, age, place of residence, belongings, and the like.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, it is possible to determine whether the personal information matches based on the identification information included in the personal information.
In addition, if the identification information conforms to the grouping described above, it can be notified that another terminal device in which person information relating to a person having the same attribute is stored is within a predetermined distance.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the communication information according to any one of the first to third aspects, the storage means indicates relationship information indicating a personal relationship between an owner of the mobile terminal device and a person related to the personal information. (For example, the item “directly related person” of the friend information 64) and the acquisition means together with the person information stored in the other terminal device, the person related to the person information and the other Relationship information indicating the relationship with the owner of the terminal device, information for acquiring from the other terminal device, and relationship information stored in the storage means when a match determination is made by the determination means, Deriving means (for example, the CPU 10 in FIG. 7) for deriving the relationship between the owner of the mobile terminal device and the owner of the other terminal device based on the relationship information acquired by the acquiring device, Works on mobile terminals And because information, the notification means is a communication information including the information for displaying the derived relationship by said deriving means.

  According to a twenty-first aspect, in the mobile terminal device according to the twentieth aspect, the storage means includes relationship information (for example, a personal relationship between an owner of the mobile terminal device and a person related to the personal information (for example, The personal information 64 item “directly related person”), the acquisition means, together with the personal information stored in the other terminal device, the person related to the personal information is the owner of the other terminal device. Related information (for example, the item “directly related person” of the friend information 64) is acquired from the other terminal device, and when the determination is made by the determination unit, the relationship information stored in the storage unit And derivation means (for example, the CPU 10 in FIG. 7) for deriving the relationship between the owner of the portable terminal device and the owner of the other terminal device based on the relationship information acquired by the acquisition unit. With the front Informing means displays the relationships derived by the derivation means is a portable terminal device.

  According to the fourth or twenty-first aspect, when the match of the personal information is determined by the determination unit, the relationship between the owner of the portable terminal device and the owner of another terminal device is derived. At the same time, the relationship can be notified.

  5th invention is the communication information of 4th invention, The information for the said alerting | reporting means to display the personal relationship from the owner of the said portable terminal device to the owner of the said other terminal device in order, Communication information including

  According to the fifth invention, the relationship between the relationship between the terminal of the portable terminal device and another terminal device such as what kind of person is in between or how many persons are in between. It is possible to report including the order up to the owner.

  According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the communication information of the fourth or fifth aspect, a relationship sign storage means (for example, the storage device 60 of FIG. 7) for storing an identification mark for identifying the relationship information is provided. Communication information including information for causing the apparatus to function and information for the notification means to display the relationship using an identification mark stored in the relation mark storage means.

  Here, the identification mark is formed by a shape (including size), color, pattern (including characters and symbols), or a combination thereof, and makes it possible to visually grasp the relationship. Means things.

  According to the sixth aspect of the invention, the above relationship can be notified so as to be easily visible.

  According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, a mobile terminal device (for example, the mobile phone 100 in FIG. 7) capable of acquiring or providing information by performing wireless communication with another terminal device located within a predetermined distance The person information (for example, the owner information 63 or the friend information 64 in FIG. 7) is used as the relationship information (for example, the item “directly related person” of the friend information 64) indicating the personal relationship between the person and the owner of the mobile terminal device. )) And storing means (for example, the storage device 60 in FIG. 7) and acquisition means for acquiring personal information and relationship information stored in the other terminal device (for example, the Bluetooth communication device in FIG. 7). 41) and determination means (for example, CPU 10 in FIG. 7) for determining a match between the person information acquired by the acquisition means and the person information stored in the storage means based on a given determination criterion. The judgment hand When the match determination is made based on the match determination result, the personal relationship between the person related to the personal information acquired by the acquisition unit and the owner of the mobile terminal device is determined, and the determined personal relationship is determined. This is communication information for functioning additional recording means (for example, the CPU 10 in FIG. 7) that additionally stores the personal information acquired by the acquisition means in the storage means in association with the relationship information shown.

  According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, in the communication information according to any one of the first to sixth aspects, the person acquired by the acquisition unit based on a match determination result when the determination unit performs a match determination. The personal relationship between the person related to the information and the owner of the portable terminal device is determined, and the personal information acquired by the acquisition unit is additionally stored in the storage unit in association with the relationship information indicating the determined personal relationship. This is communication information including information for causing the portable terminal device to function additional recording means (for example, the CPU 10 in FIG. 7).

  The twenty-second invention is a mobile terminal device (for example, the mobile phone 100 in FIG. 7) capable of acquiring or providing information by performing wireless communication with another terminal device located within a predetermined distance. A storage unit (for example, the person information (for example, the owner information 63 or the friend information 64 in FIG. 7) associated with the person is stored in association with the relationship information indicating the person relationship between the person and the owner of the mobile terminal device. 7), acquisition means (for example, the Bluetooth communication device 41 of FIG. 7) for acquiring personal information and related information stored in the other terminal device, and a given criterion, When a match is determined by a determination unit (for example, the CPU 10 in FIG. 7) that determines a match between the person information acquired by the acquisition unit and the person information stored in the storage unit, and the determination unit. Mate Based on the determination result, a personal relationship between the person related to the personal information acquired by the acquisition unit and the owner of the mobile terminal device is determined, and the acquisition unit is associated with the relationship information indicating the determined personal relationship. It is a portable terminal device provided with the additional recording means (for example, CPU10 of FIG. 7) which additionally memorize | stores the personal information acquired by (2) in the said memory | storage means.

  According to a twenty-third invention, in the communication information of the twentieth or twenty-first invention, when a match determination is made by the determination means, the personal information acquired by the acquisition means is based on a match determination result. Additional recording means for determining a personal relationship between a person and the owner of the portable terminal device, and additionally storing the personal information acquired by the acquisition unit in the storage unit in association with the relationship information indicating the determined personal relationship. For example, the communication information includes the CPU 10) of FIG.

According to any of the seventh, eighth, twenty-second, and twenty-third inventions, when the match is determined by the determination means, the acquired personal information is connected to the owner of the portable terminal device ( The relationship information indicating the relationship) can be additionally stored. That is, a person registered in another terminal device can be additionally registered together with a connection (relationship) with the owner of the mobile terminal device.
Furthermore, it is possible to prevent the same person from being registered twice by excluding the person who has been determined to match the person to be additionally registered.

  According to a ninth invention, in the communication information of any one of the first to eighth inventions, the storage means stores information for storing personal information in a hierarchical structure based on the owner of the mobile terminal device. The acquisition means is communication information including information for acquiring person information located in a given hierarchy.

According to the ninth aspect, since the person information has a hierarchical structure, the depth of the relationship between the owner of the mobile terminal device and the registered person can be expressed.
Moreover, it can be notified that the registered person exists within a predetermined distance by setting the acquisition target by the acquisition means to only the person information related to the owner of the other terminal device.

  A tenth aspect of the present invention is the communication means of any one of the first to ninth aspects, wherein when the personal information stored in the storage means satisfies a given condition, the producing means for giving a given effect, Is communication information including information for causing the mobile terminal device to function.

Here, the given condition refers to personal information such as the total number of stored personal information reaching a predetermined number, storing personal information relating to a specific person, or storing personal information including specific information. It is the meaning of the condition.
Also, the given effect means display of images (including still images and moving images), sound output such as melody, lighting (flashing) of lights, vibration of the mobile terminal device body, and the like.

According to the tenth aspect of the present invention, for example, when the number of registered persons reaches a certain number, it is impossible to register any more, and other terminal devices in which a specific person is registered exist within a predetermined distance. It can be notified by a display screen or a melody.
Furthermore, when the person information acquired by the acquisition unit satisfies the given condition, the given effect may be performed.

  An eleventh aspect of the present invention is a game execution means for performing a given game on a mobile terminal device capable of acquiring or providing information by performing wireless communication with another terminal device located within a predetermined distance. Information for causing the acquisition means for acquiring the progress status of the given game in the other terminal device and the means for progressing the given game based on the progress status acquired by the acquisition means Communication information including

  According to the eleventh aspect of the invention, for example, when a predetermined item (including a character and a keyword) is acquired from another terminal device, the game is advanced, or when the game is stuck, the other terminal It is possible to acquire capture information from the device and to advance the game.

  According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a storage unit that stores information to be searched for a portable terminal device capable of acquiring or providing information by performing wireless communication with another terminal device located within a predetermined distance. Acquisition means for acquiring search target information stored in the terminal device, search target information acquired by the acquisition means based on a given criterion, search target information stored in the storage means, Communication information for functioning the determination means for determining the match and the notification means for informing when the determination is made by the determination means.

According to the twelfth aspect, it is possible to report a match between the search target information stored in the mobile terminal device and the search target information stored in another terminal device existing within a predetermined distance.
For example, if the searched information is a person related to a person, the same effect as the effect of the first or twentieth invention can be obtained.

  According to a thirteenth aspect of the present invention, there is provided storage means for storing trade information for a portable terminal device capable of acquiring or providing information by performing wireless communication with another terminal device located within a predetermined distance; An acquisition means for acquiring trade information stored in the terminal device, a determination means for determining success or failure of a trade based on the trade information acquired by the acquisition means and the trade information stored in the storage means, and the determination It is communication information for functioning the notifying means for notifying when it is determined that the trade is established by the means.

  Here, the trade information means information regarding what can be traded (exchanged) between both terminal devices or their owners. Moreover, what can be traded (exchanged) includes, for example, programs and data exchanged between both terminal devices in addition to specific items such as electrical appliances, books, and trading cards.

According to the thirteenth aspect, it is possible to determine that the trade between the mobile terminal device and the other terminal device is established, and to notify that the other terminal device in which the trade is established is within a predetermined distance.
For example, there is a predetermined terminal device in which the “desired” item registered in the portable terminal device is registered as the “desirable” item or the “desired” item is registered as the “desired” item. Can be informed that it is within distance. In addition, the owner can quickly know the establishment of a trade by registering an item that he wants or wants to give.

  A fourteenth aspect of the invention relates to a server device (for example, the server device 400 of FIG. 17) capable of transmitting / receiving information to / from a plurality of terminal devices (for example, the mobile phone 300 of FIG. 16). Storage means (for example, storage device 90 in FIG. 17) for storing personal information (for example, personal information DB 93 in FIG. 17), a position where one terminal device among the plurality of terminal devices exists, and a given Specific means (for example, CPU 12 in FIG. 17) for identifying the other terminal device located at the position of the person, personal information corresponding to the one terminal device based on a given determination criterion, and the other terminal device When a match is determined by a determination unit (for example, the CPU 12 in FIG. 17) for determining a match with corresponding person information and the determination unit, it matches the one terminal device and / or the other terminal device. Detection information Shin transmitting means (e.g., the communication device 42 of FIG. 17) which is communication information to function as a.

  The twenty-fourth invention is a server device (for example, the server device 400 in FIG. 17) capable of transmitting and receiving information to and from a plurality of terminal devices (for example, the mobile phone 300 in FIG. 16). Storage means (for example, storage device 90 in FIG. 17) for storing person information related to the person (for example, person information DB 93 in FIG. 17), a position where one terminal device among the plurality of terminal devices exists, Specific means (for example, CPU 12 in FIG. 17) for identifying another terminal device located at a given position, personal information corresponding to the one terminal device based on a given determination criterion, and the other terminal A determination unit (for example, CPU 12 in FIG. 17) for determining a match with the person information corresponding to the device, and when the determination is made by the determination unit, the one terminal device and / or the other terminal device Mate detection Transmission means (e.g., the communication device 42 of FIG. 17) for transmitting the broadcast is a server apparatus comprising a.

According to the fourteenth or twenty-fourth invention, it is possible to notify the matching of personal information corresponding to each terminal device and / or terminal device located at a given position.
That is, for example, when the match determination is a determination as to whether or not the persons related to the individual information are the same person, it can be notified that the same person is registered.
Further, when the person information is person information related to a person having some kind of connection (relationship) with the owner, it can be notified that a person having some kind of connection (relationship) exists within a predetermined distance.
Furthermore, if the match determination target by the matching means is, for example, person information related to the owner of another terminal device, the registered person exists within a predetermined distance with respect to one terminal device. Can be notified.

  According to a fifteenth aspect, in the communication information according to the fourteenth aspect, the storage unit uses the personal information to indicate the personal relationship between the owner of the corresponding terminal device and the person related to the personal information ( For example, based on the information to be stored in association with the CPU 11) in FIG. 16 and the relationship information stored in the storage means when the determination is made by the determination means, the owner of the one terminal device Information for causing the server device to function derivation means (for example, the CPU 11 in FIG. 16) for deriving the relationship with the owner of the other terminal device and the transmission means are derived by the derivation means. Communication information including information for displaying information for displaying the relationship.

  According to the fifteenth aspect, when the determination means determines that the personal information matches, the relationship between the owner of one terminal device and the owner of another terminal device at a given position The relationship can be derived and the relationship can be notified.

  According to a sixteenth aspect of the communication information of the fourteenth or fifteenth aspect, information for causing the server device to function as a receiving means for receiving desired position information from the one terminal device, and the specifying means, Communication information including information for specifying the other terminal device based on the desired position information received by the receiving means.

  The twenty-fifth invention is the server device of the twenty-fourth invention, further comprising receiving means for receiving desired position information from the one terminal device, wherein the specifying means is the desired position information received by the receiving means. It is a server apparatus which specifies the said other terminal device based on.

According to the sixteenth or twenty-fifth invention, it is possible to notify the coincidence with the personal information corresponding to the other terminal device existing in the position (range) desired by the one terminal device.
Further, if the match determination target by the matching means is person information related to the owner of the specified other terminal device, it can be notified that the registered person exists at a desired position.

  According to a seventeenth aspect of the present invention, personal information (for example, a person in FIG. 17) relating to a person is provided for each terminal with respect to a server apparatus (for example, the server apparatus 400 in FIG. 15) capable of transmitting / receiving information to / from a plurality of terminal apparatuses. Information DB 93) is stored in association with relationship information indicating the relationship between the person and the owner of the terminal device (for example, storage device 90 in FIG. 17), and one of the plurality of terminal devices. Based on a given determination criterion (for example, the CPU 12 in FIG. 17) for identifying a position where the terminal device exists and another terminal device located at the given position, and corresponding to the one terminal device. Based on the match determination result when the match determination is performed by the determination unit (for example, the CPU 12 in FIG. 17) that determines the match between the person information and the person information corresponding to the other terminal device, and the determination unit. And said A personal relationship between the owner of the terminal device and the person related to the personal information corresponding to the other terminal device is determined, and the personal information is associated with the relationship information indicating the determined personal relationship and corresponds to the other terminal device. This is communication information for functioning additional recording means (for example, the CPU 12 in FIG. 17) for additionally storing person information in the storage means.

  An eighteenth aspect of the invention is the communication information of any one of the fourteenth to sixteenth aspects, wherein when the match is determined by the determination means, the owner of the one terminal device is based on the match determination result. And personal information corresponding to the other terminal device in association with relationship information indicating the determined personal relationship, and the storage means Communication information including information for causing additional recording means (for example, the CPU 12 in FIG. 17) to be additionally stored.

  A twenty-sixth aspect of the invention is a server device (for example, the server device 400 of FIG. 15) capable of transmitting / receiving information to / from a plurality of terminal devices (for example, the mobile phone 300 of FIG. 15). Storage means (for example, the storage device of FIG. 17) that stores the personal information related to the person (for example, the personal information DB 93 of FIG. 17) in association with the relationship information indicating the personal relationship between the person and the owner of the terminal device. 90), a specifying means (for example, the CPU 12 in FIG. 17) for specifying a position where one terminal apparatus exists among the plurality of terminal apparatuses and another terminal apparatus existing at a given position, Based on a determination criterion, a determination unit (for example, CPU 12 in FIG. 17) that determines a match between the person information corresponding to the one terminal device and the person information corresponding to the other terminal device, and the determination unit Match judgment If it is made, based on the match determination result, the personal relationship between the owner of the one terminal device and the person related to the personal information corresponding to the other terminal device is determined, and the determined personal relationship is indicated. The server device includes an additional recording unit (for example, the CPU 12 in FIG. 17) that additionally stores personal information corresponding to the other terminal device in the storage unit in association with the relationship information.

  According to a twenty-seventh aspect of the present invention, in the server device of the twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth aspect, when a match determination is made by the determination means, based on a match determination result, the owner of the one terminal device, A person relationship with a person related to the person information corresponding to the other terminal device is determined, and the person information corresponding to the other terminal device is additionally stored in the storage unit in association with the relationship information indicating the determined person relationship. The server device includes additional recording means (for example, the CPU 12 in FIG. 17).

  According to a twenty-eighth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a server device capable of transmitting / receiving information to / from a plurality of terminal devices, and for each of the terminal devices, personal information relating to a person, Based on a given criterion, storage means for storing in association with relation information indicating the relation, identification means for identifying one terminal apparatus and other terminal apparatuses among the plurality of terminal apparatuses, and When the match information is determined by the determination unit that determines the match between the person information corresponding to the terminal device and the person information corresponding to the other terminal device, and based on the match determination result, A personal relationship between the owner of the one terminal device and a person related to the personal information corresponding to the other terminal device is determined, and associated with the relationship information indicating the determined personal relationship to the other terminal device. Corresponding person information is stored in the memory , Postscript means for additionally stored in a server device comprising a.

According to any of the seventeenth, eighteenth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, or twenty-eighth inventions, when a determination is made by the determining means, the personal information corresponding to the other terminal device is transferred to one terminal. Both relation information indicating the connection (relationship) with the owner of the device can be additionally stored. That is, the person registered in the other terminal device can be additionally registered together with the connection (relationship) with the owner of the one terminal device.
Furthermore, it is possible to prevent the same person from being registered twice by excluding the person who has been determined to match the person to be additionally registered.

  Furthermore, as a nineteenth invention, an information storage medium for storing communication information according to any one of the first to eighteenth inventions may be configured.

  According to the nineteenth aspect, an information storage medium having effects similar to the effects of any of the first to eighteenth aspects can be realized.

It is a figure which shows an example of the person relationship registered into a mobile telephone. It is a figure which shows an example of a relationship and pictographic correspondence. It is a figure which shows an example of the person relationship registered into a mobile telephone. It is a figure which shows an example of the person relationship registered into a mobile telephone. It is a figure which shows an example of the person relationship registered into a mobile telephone. It is a figure which shows an example of the connection discovery screen displayed on a mobile telephone. It is a block diagram which shows an example of an internal structure of a mobile telephone. It is a figure which shows an example of owner information. It is a figure which shows an example of friend information. It is a figure which shows an example of friend information. It is a figure which shows an example of friend information. It is a figure which shows an example of friend information. It is a flowchart explaining a connection registration process. It is a flowchart explaining a connection discovery process. It is a figure which shows schematic structure of a connection registration / discovery system. It is a block diagram which shows the internal structural example of a mobile telephone. It is a block diagram which shows the example of an internal structure of a server apparatus. It is a flowchart explaining a connection registration process. It is a flowchart explaining a connection discovery process. It is a figure which shows an example of the trade relationship registered into a mobile telephone.

  Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the following, the case where the present invention is applied to a mobile phone will be described, but the present invention is not limited to this.

  A cellular phone according to the present invention includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a RAM (Random Access Memory), a ROM (Read Only Memory), an auxiliary storage device, an input device such as numeric keys and operation keys, and a small liquid crystal display. This is a well-known mobile phone in which a display device such as a display and a wireless device that performs wireless communication are connected via a system bus. Furthermore, the mobile phone is used as a so-called well-known radio telephone and has a radio telephone communication function.

In addition, the personal relationship of the owner is registered in this mobile phone. More specifically, a person who has some kind of connection (relationship) with the owner is registered together with the connection (relationship).
In addition, “connection (relationship)” described here is not only a direct relationship such as “brother”, “best friend”, “lover”, but also indirectly such as “brother” of “lover” of “best friend”. It also includes such a relationship. That is, even a person who is completely unfamiliar with the owner can be registered as a person having some kind of connection (relationship).
And this mobile telephone implement | achieves functions, such as a connection registration function and a connection discovery function, by performing data communication with another mobile telephone (or arbitrary data processing apparatus).

  With the connection registration function, when a mobile phone owned by one user approaches a mobile phone owned by a person registered in the mobile phone (hereinafter referred to as a registered person), it is registered in the mobile phone of the registered person. This is a function that the personal relationship that has been made is directly copied to the mobile phone of one user.

  In addition, the connection discovery function means that when a registered person of one user's mobile phone and a registered person of another user's mobile phone partially match, the mobile phone of one user and the mobile phone of another user This is a function that one user's mobile phone shows some kind of reaction.

Hereinafter, the details of these functions will be described in order.
In principle, one mobile phone has one owner.

[Connection registration]
First, the connection registration function will be described.
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a person relationship registered in a mobile phone.
As shown in the figure, the personal relationship registered in the mobile phone is expressed by a hierarchical structure with the owner as the root. This hierarchical structure follows the connection (relationship) between the owner and the registered person. That is, it means that the person located in the higher hierarchy is a person having a deeper relationship with the owner, while the person located in the lower hierarchy is a person having a shallower relationship with the owner.

  In FIG. 1, pictograms displayed accompanying each registered person represent the relationship between the owner and the registered person. The correspondence between this pictogram and the relationship between persons is determined in the relationship / pictogram correspondence table shown in FIG.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a relationship / pictogram correspondence table.
As shown in the figure, the relationship / pictogram correspondence table associates different pictograms for each relationship between persons such as “best friends”, “band friends”, and “lovers”.
In addition, the relationship between the persons prepared here and the corresponding pictograph are not restricted to this, It can change arbitrarily.

FIG. 1A is registered in a mobile phone A owned by “Takahashi (male)” (hereinafter simply referred to as “Takahashi” mobile phone A. The same applies to other persons described later). It is a figure which shows the person relationship.
According to the figure (a), a total of five persons including “Ken (male)” and “Mayu (female)” are directly related to “Takahashi” under the owner “Takahashi”. Is registered as a person. For example, “Ken” is registered as “Band companion” of “Takahashi”, and “Mayu” is registered as “lover” of “Takahashi”.

FIG. 1B is a diagram showing a person relationship registered in the cellular phone B of “Ken (male)”.
According to FIG. 5B, under “Ken”, a total of four persons including “Kota (male)” and “Takahashi (male)” are directly related to “Ken”. It is registered. For example, “Kota” is registered as “Ken” “brother”, and “Takahashi” is registered as “Ken” “band companion”. Here, “Takahashi” is the same person as “Takahashi” in FIG. 1A, that is, “Takahashi” who is the owner of the mobile phone A.

  When “Takahashi” and “Ken” approach, the personal relationships registered in the mobile phones A and B are changed as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, respectively.

  Here, “person A” and “person B” are close to each other. More precisely, “mobile phone A owned by person A” and “phone B owned by person B” are within a predetermined distance. Means approaching. However, assuming that each person is always “carrying” their own mobile phone, when the owners approach each other, the mobile phones owned by each person also approach each other. Therefore, in the following, the approach of two mobile phones within a predetermined distance will be expressed in place of the approach of their owners.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the personal relationship after the change of the mobile phone A of “Takahashi”.
According to the figure, under “Ken”, a total of three persons including “Kouta” are newly registered as persons related to “Takahashi”. For example, “Kouta” is registered as “Ki” “brother” of “Ken” who is “Band companion” of “Takahashi”.

  The three persons additionally registered here are registered persons (excluding “Takahashi”) of the cellular phone B of “KEN”. That is, the person related to “Ken” who is approaching is additionally registered in the mobile phone A as the person related to “Takahashi” via “Ken”. In other words, the additionally registered person is a person indirectly related to “Takahashi” via “Ken”.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 3, in the mobile phone B of “Ken”, “Kota” is registered as “Brother” of “Ken”. And as “Takahashi” and “Ken” approach, “Kouta” is a person who has a direct relationship with “Ken”. A will be additionally registered in A.

  By the way, as shown in FIG. 1B, a total of four persons including “Takahashi” are registered in the mobile phone B of “KEN” as persons related to “KEN”. However, since this “Takahashi” is the owner of “Takahashi” who is the owner of the mobile phone A, a total of three registered persons excluding “Takahashi” are added to the mobile phone A. Be eligible for registration.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating the personal relationship after the change of the cellular phone B of “KEN”.
According to the figure, under “Takahashi”, a total of four persons including “Mayu” are newly registered as persons related to “Ken”. For example, “Mayyu” is registered as “Kan” “Band”, “Takahashi” “lover”.

  The four persons additionally registered here are registered persons (excluding “ken”) of the mobile phone A of “Takahashi”. In other words, as in the case of the mobile phone A of “Takahashi” described above, a person related to “Takahashi” becomes a person related to “Ken” via “Takahashi” and is directly below “Takahashi”. It is additionally registered in the mobile phone B so as to be located at.

  In this way, when a mobile phone owned by one user and a mobile phone of a registered person of the mobile phone of the one user approach each other, the registered persons of the mobile phones of each other maintain the personal relationship with each other And will be additionally registered to each other's mobile phone.

[Discover connection]
Next, the connection finding function will be described.
Here, the mobile phone A of “Takahashi” has the personal relationship shown in FIG. 5A, and the mobile phone C of “Naomi (female)” has the personal relationship shown in FIG. Assume that each is registered.

FIG. 5A is a diagram illustrating an example of a person relationship registered in the mobile phone A of “Takahashi”.
According to the figure, under the owner “Takahashi”, a total of eight persons including “Ken”, “Mayu” and “Kouta” are registered as persons related to “Takahashi”. ing.
For example, “Kouta” is registered as “Ki” 's “Brother”, who is “Takahashi”' s “Band companion”.

FIG. 5B is a diagram illustrating an example of a person relationship registered in the mobile phone C of “Naomi”.
According to the figure, under the owner “Naomi”, a total of nine persons including “Hiroshi (male)” and “Kouta” are registered as persons related to “Naomi”. Yes. For example, “Hiroshi (male)” is registered as a “band friend” of “Naomi”, and “Kouta” is registered as a “best friend” of “Hiroshi” who is a “band friend” of “Naomi”. ing. Here, “Kouta” is the same person as “Kouta” in FIG.

  When “Takahashi” and “Naomi” approach, the connection discovery screens shown in FIGS. 6A and 6B are displayed on the display screens of the mobile phones A and C, respectively.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a connection finding screen displayed on the display screen of the mobile phone.
As shown in the figure, on the connection discovery screen, a message informing that a person who has some relationship with the owner exists nearby and a connection (relationship) with the person are displayed. Further, the relationship between the persons displayed here is displayed as a pictograph corresponding to the relationship between the persons as shown in the relationship / pictogram correspondence table of FIG.

FIG. 6A is a diagram showing a connection finding screen on the mobile phone A of “Takahashi”.
According to the figure (a), for the owner “Takahashi (male)”, the “band friend” “ken (male)” “brother (male)” “best friend (male)” “band” It is shown that a person (that is, “Naomi”) having a connection (relationship) such as “companion (female)” exists nearby.

Also, on this connection discovery screen, only the names that are directly related to the owner are displayed.
That is, according to FIG. 5, “Kouta” is commonly registered in the mobile phones A and C of “Takahashi” and “Naomi”. In other words, “Naomi” is related to “Takahashi” through “Ken”, “Kouta”, and “Hiroshi”.
As shown in FIG. 6A, on the connection discovery screen of the mobile phone A, only the person directly related to the owner “Takahashi”, that is, “Ken”, the relationship with the owner, the sex Along with that name is displayed. For other persons, that is, "Kouta", "Hiroshi", and "Naomi", only the relationship and gender are displayed. Specifically, “Kota” is “Ken” 's “brother (male)”, “Hiroshi” is its “best friend (male)”, and “Naomi” is its “band companion (female)”. Will be displayed.

FIG. 6B is a diagram showing a connection finding screen on the mobile phone C of “Naomi”.
According to the figure, for “Naomi (female)” “Hiroshi (male)” “best friend (male)” “brother (male)” “brother (male)” “band companion (male)”, etc. It is shown that a person of connection (relationship) (that is, “Takahashi”) exists nearby.

According to FIG. 5, as in the case of “Takahashi” described above, “Takahashi” is a person related to “Naomi” via “Hiroshi”, “Kouta”, and “Ken”.
As shown in FIG. 6B, on the connection discovery screen of the mobile phone B, only the person who is directly related to the owner “Naomi”, ie, “Hiroshi”, the relationship with the owner, the sex Along with that name is displayed. For other persons, that is, “Kota”, “Ken”, and “Takahashi”, only the relationship and gender are displayed. In other words, “Kota” is “Hiroshi” 's “best friend (male)”, “Ken” is its “brother (male)”, and “Takahashi” is its “band companion (male)”. It will be.

  In this way, when the owners of each mobile phone in which the same person (common person) is registered in each mobile phone, the connection discovery screen shown in FIG. 6, for example, is displayed on both mobile phones. By performing such an effect, the owner is notified that there is a person who has some relationship nearby.

  Next, two embodiments for realizing the mobile phone according to the present invention will be described.

[First embodiment]
First, the first embodiment will be described.
In the first embodiment, the mobile phone according to the present invention is equipped with a wireless communication function based on a wireless communication standard called Bluetooth (registered trademark). Then, the above-described connection registration and connection discovery functions are realized by exchanging data by wireless communication with another mobile phone (of course, equipped with a wireless communication function based on Bluetooth (registered trademark)).

Here, Bluetooth (registered trademark) will be briefly described.
Bluetooth (registered trademark) is a name of a short-range wireless data communication standard mainly for portable information devices, and is a wireless transmission method using a 2.4 GHz ISM (Industrial Scientific Medical) band that does not require a radio wave license. . In addition, a symbol rate of 1 Mbps is realized by using spread spectrum using frequency hopping.

  Data communication between communication devices equipped with Bluetooth (registered trademark) is a network composed of a maximum of eight communication devices, including one master (Master) and one or more slaves (Slave). This is done as a minimum unit. This network is called a piconet and is a star-shaped network centered on the master. All communication in the piconet is controlled by the master.

  In addition, generation of a piconet, that is, establishment of a link between communication devices is realized by polling by an arbitrary communication device. Then, the polled communication device becomes the master in the piconet.

Specifically, the communication device functioning as the master first scans for peripheral communication devices (Inquiry mode). When a communication device in the standby mode is recognized, a 3-bit address called “Active Member Address” is assigned to the recognized communication device. A communication device that is recognized by the master and assigned an address establishes a communication link with the master and functions as a slave.
Note that the scan range here is a range in which data communication can be performed with each other, specifically, a range of about 10 m centering on a communication device as a master.

  In one piconet, the master has a function of recognizing all slaves to be controlled by the “Active Member Address” assigned to each slave. The master can simultaneously transmit / receive data to / from up to seven slaves at the same time.

  Further, the communication devices constituting the piconet can participate in a plurality of different piconets by switching communication in a time division manner. That is, a master in one piconet can simultaneously be a slave in a different piconet. In this way, a network configuration in which a plurality of piconets overlap and can communicate with each other is called a scatternet.

  By the way, typical standards for wireless data communication include standards such as IrDA and IrBus that use infrared rays. Compared with these standards, Bluetooth (registered trademark) allows data communication even if an obstacle exists if the distance between the communication devices is within 10 m (depending on the output power of the communication device, it can be up to about 100 m). There is a feature (advantage) that it is possible.

  Therefore, for a mobile phone equipped with the Bluetooth (registered trademark) standard, for example, even when the mobile phone is placed in a back or pocket, if the mobile phones are close to a predetermined distance, the mobile phone Data communication between them is performed without any problem. Based on this, as described above, the approach of the mobile phones to a distance where data communication is possible is described as the approach of the owners.

  In addition, the mobile phone according to the present invention, that is, the mobile phone conforming to the Bluetooth (registered trademark) standard, can perform either one-to-one communication or one-to-many communication. However, in the following, for the sake of simplicity of explanation, the mobile phone performs one-to-one communication with one other mobile phone, but the same can be applied to the case of one-to-many communication. Hereinafter, another mobile phone that performs data communication with the mobile phone is referred to as a partner terminal.

Next, the internal configuration of the mobile phone will be described.
Further, although this mobile phone will be described below as being a mobile phone A of “Takahashi”, the above-described mobile phones B and C have the same configuration as a matter of course.

  FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the mobile phone 100 to which the present invention is applied. As shown in the figure, the mobile phone 100 includes a CPU 10, an input device 20, a display device 30, a Bluetooth communication device 41, a mobile communication device 42, a RAM 50, and a storage device 60. These units are connected by a system bus so that data can be exchanged between them.

  The CPU 10 stores programs and data specified from various programs corresponding to the mobile phone 100 stored in the storage device 60, various instructions input from the input device 20, and various types acquired from the communication device 40. Data and the like are expanded in the RAM 50. Then, various processes according to the program are executed in accordance with the input instruction and data, and the processing results are stored in a predetermined area in the storage device 60 and displayed on the display device 30.

  In addition, the CPU 10 controls the operations of the respective units constituting the mobile phone 100 in a unified manner, and also executes and controls a connection registration process (see FIG. 13), a connection finding process (see FIG. 14), and the like described later.

That is, the CPU 10 executes a connection registration process (see FIG. 13) described later by following the connection registration program 61 read from the storage device 60.
That is, it is determined whether or not the owner of the partner terminal is a registered person of the mobile phone 100 by determining a match between the owner information acquired from the partner terminal and the friend information 64 of the storage device 60. . If the owner of the partner terminal is a registered person of the mobile phone 100, the friend information acquired from the partner terminal is additionally stored in the friend information 64 of the storage device 60.

Further, the CPU 10 executes a connection discovery process (see FIG. 14) described later by following the connection discovery program 62 read from the storage device 60.
That is, by determining whether the owner information or friend information acquired from the partner terminal matches the friend information 64 of the storage device 60, the same person (common person) is registered in the partner terminal and the mobile phone 100. It is determined whether or not. When the same person is registered, the display device 30 displays a connection (relationship) between the owner of the mobile phone 100 and the owner of the other terminal via the same person together with a message to that effect. .

  The input device 20 includes numeric keys, operation keys, various function keys, and the like. When it is detected that each key has been pressed, a press signal corresponding to the pressed key is output to the CPU 10.

  The display device 30 is configured by an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) or the like. And according to the display instruction input from CPU10, the connection discovery screen shown, for example in FIG. 6 is displayed.

  The Bluetooth communication device 41 is a communication unit conforming to the Bluetooth (registered trademark) standard, and mainly includes an RF / modulation / demodulation circuit, a baseband signal processing unit, and an antenna. Then, a communication line with another mobile phone 100 is established, and data such as owner information 63 and friend information 64 is exchanged.

  The mobile communication unit 42 is a communication device for realizing a radio telephone function of another mobile phone, and has a function of connecting to a mobile communication network via a mobile radio base station (not shown).

  The RAM 50 is used as a work area for temporarily storing programs and data acquired from the storage device 60, the input device 20, or the communication device 40, or processing data in various processes executed by the CPU 10. .

  The storage device 60 is composed of a magnetic or optical recording medium, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, or the like, and can read and write various data. The storage device 60 stores in advance a system program (such as initialization information of the mobile phone 100) of the mobile phone 100, a processing program, and various data necessary for executing the program.

The processing program includes a connection registration program 61 and a connection discovery program 62. Each of these processing programs is stored in the form of a readable program code, and the CPU 10 sequentially executes operations according to the program code.
Further, as various data necessary for the execution of these processing programs, the storage device 60 stores owner information 63, friend information 64, and a relationship / pictogram correspondence table 65 shown in FIG.

FIG. 8A is a diagram illustrating an example of the owner information 63.
As shown in FIG. 5A, the owner information 63 stores information related to the owner of the mobile phone 100, and stores the name, gender, and telephone number of the owner.
According to FIG. 5A, the “sex” of “Takahashi” who is the owner of the mobile phone 100 is “male”, and the “phone number” is “090-1111-1111”.

  Note that the telephone number stored here is the telephone number of the mobile phone 100. In addition, this telephone number is a number unique to each mobile phone, and in principle there are no two identical telephone numbers. For this reason, in the present embodiment, the matching of persons is determined based on whether or not the telephone numbers match.

FIG. 8B shows the owner information 63 in the cellular phone B of “KEN”. That is, when the mobile phone 100 is “KEN” mobile phone B, the storage device 60 stores the owner information 63 shown in FIG.
According to FIG. 6B, the “sex” of “Ken” who is the owner of the mobile phone B is “male”, and the “phone number” is “090-2222-2222”.

FIG. 8C shows owner information 63 in the mobile phone C of “Naomi”. That is, when the mobile phone 100 is the “Naomi” mobile phone C, the storage device 60 stores the owner information 63 shown in FIG.
According to FIG. 5C, the “sex” of “Naomi” who is the owner of the mobile phone C is “female” and the “phone number” is “090-3333-3333”.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of the friend information 64.
As shown in the figure, the friend information 64 stores information related to the registered person of the mobile phone 100. For each registered person, the name, sex, telephone number, and the relationship between the owner and the like. Information is stored in association with each other. The telephone number stored here is the telephone number of the mobile phone owned by the registered person.

  FIG. 9 corresponds to the case where the personal relationship shown in FIG. 1A is registered in the mobile phone 100. That is, the friend information 64 stores friend information (Nos. 1 to 5) relating to each of the five registered persons registered in the mobile phone 100.

In FIG. 9, “directly related person” indicates a person directly related to the registered person. Specifically, 'No. of friend information relating to a registered person that is located directly above the registered person and that is directly related. 'Is stored. When the person directly related to the registered person is the owner of the mobile phone 100, “0” is stored in the “directly related person”.
“Relationship” indicates a relationship with the registered person indicated by the “directly related person”.

  That is, as shown in FIG. 1A, all the five registered persons are persons directly related to “Takahashi” who is the owner of the mobile phone 100. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 9, each “directly related person” is “0”. 'Relationship' indicates the relationship between each registered person and “Takahashi”.

For example, in FIG. 9, according to the friend information (No. 1) regarding “Ken”, the “sex” of “Ken” is “male” and the “phone number” is “090-2222-2222”. And “Relationship” with “Takahashi” is “Band Friends”.
Further, according to the friend information (No. 3) regarding “Mayyu”, the “sex” of “Mayyu” is “female” and the “phone number” is “090-1234-5678”. And “Relationship” with “Takahashi” is “lover”.

  FIG. 10 shows friend information 64 in the cellular phone B of “KEN”. That is, when the mobile phone 100 is the “Ken” mobile phone B, the storage device 60 stores the friend information 64 shown in FIG.

FIG. 10 corresponds to the case where the personal relationship shown in FIG. That is, the friend information 64 stores friend information (Nos. 1 to 4) relating to each of the four registered persons registered in the mobile phone B.
As shown in FIG. 1B, the four registered persons are all directly related to “Ken” who is the owner of the mobile phone B. Therefore, in FIG. 10, each “directly related person” is “0”. “Relationship” indicates the relationship between each registered person and “ken”.

For example, in FIG. 10, according to the friend information (No. 1) regarding “Kouta”, the “sex” of “Kouta” is “male” and the “phone number” is “090-3456-7890”. And the 'relationship' with “Ken” is “Brother”.
Further, according to the friend information (No. 4) regarding “Takahashi”, the “sex” of “Takahashi” is “male” and the “phone number” is “090-1111-1111”. And the “relationship” with “Ken” is “band companion”.

  Then, when “Takahashi” who is the owner of the mobile phone 100 (mobile phone A) approaches “Ken” who is the owner of the mobile phone B, the friend information 64 shown in FIG. Is changed, for example, as shown in FIG.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of the friend information 64 after the change.
3 corresponds to the case where the personal relationship shown in FIG. 3 is registered in the mobile phone 100. That is, the friend information 64 stores friend information (No. 1 to 8) related to each of the eight registered persons registered in the mobile phone 100.

  According to FIG. 11, the friend information 64 after the change is compared with the friend information 64 before the change shown in FIG. 9, and the friend information (Nos. 6 to 8) corresponding to a total of three registered persons is newly added. Have been added.

  The newly added friend information (No. 6 to 8) is friend information acquired from the cellular phone B of “Ken”, and corresponds to the friend information (No. 1 to 3) in FIG. . That is, the newly added friend information (No. 6 to 8) is a person who is additionally registered in the mobile phone 100 as a person related to “Takahashi” via “Ken” (in FIG. 3, “ This is information on three persons additionally registered in the hierarchy immediately below “Ken”.)

  Further, as shown in FIG. 11, the “directly related person” of the added friend information (Nos. 6 to 8) is “1”. That is, the person is directly related to “Ken”. “Relationship” indicates not a relationship with “Takahashi” who is the owner of the mobile phone 100 but a relationship with “Ken” which has a direct relationship.

In FIG. 11, for example, the relationship between “Takahashi” who is the owner of the mobile phone 100 and “Kouta” who is a registered person is as follows.
That is, according to the friend information (No. 6) regarding “Kouta”, the “directly related person” is “1”. In other words, “Kouta” is directly related to “Ken”, and its “relation” is “brother”. Further, according to the friend information (No. 1) regarding “Ken”, the “directly related person” is “0”. In other words, “Ken” has a direct relationship with “Takahashi”, and its “relationship” is “band companion”.
From this, the relationship between “Takahashi” and “Kouta” becomes “Ki” 's “brother” of “Ken”, who is “Takahashi”' s “band friend”.

  As shown in FIG. 10, the friend information 64 stored in the mobile phone B of “KEN” includes friend information (No. 4) regarding “Takahashi”. However, since “Takahashi” is the owner of the mobile phone 100, the friend information (No. 1 to 3) excluding this friend information (No. 4) is the friend information (No. 1) as shown in FIG. .6 to 8) are newly added to the friend information 64.

FIG. 12 shows friend information 64 in the mobile phone C of “Naomi”. That is, when the mobile phone 100 is “Naomi” mobile phone C, the storage device 60 stores the friend information 64 shown in FIG.
This figure corresponds to the case where the personal relationship shown in FIG. 5B is registered in the mobile phone 100. That is, the friend information 64 stores friend information (Nos. 1 to 9) regarding each of nine registered persons registered in the mobile phone C.

According to FIG. 12, for example, the “directly related person” of the friend information (No. 1 to 4) is “0”. That is, the friend information (Nos. 1 to 4) is information relating to a registered person that is directly related to “Naomi” who is the owner of the mobile phone C. And 'Relationship' indicates the relationship between the registered person and 'Naomi'.
Further, the “directly related person” of the friend information (No. 5 to 7) is “1”. That is, the friend information (No. 5 to 7) is personal information related to a registered person corresponding to the friend information (No. 1), that is, a registered person directly related to “Hiroshi”. “Relationship” indicates the relationship between the registered person and “Hiroshi”.

In FIG. 12, for example, the relationship between “Naomi” who is the owner of the mobile phone C and “Kouta” who is a registered person is as follows.
That is, according to the friend information (No. 5) regarding “Kouta”, the “directly related person” is “1”. In other words, “Kouta” is directly related to “Hiroshi”, and its “relationship” is “best friend”. Further, according to the friend information (No. 1) regarding “Hiroshi”, “directly related person” is “0”. In other words, “Hiroshi” is directly related to “Naomi”, and its “relationship” is “band companion”.
As a result, the relationship between “Naomi” and “Kouta” becomes the “best friend” of “Hiroshi” who is the “band friend” of “Naomi”.

  As described above, the personal relationship registered in the mobile phone 100 is expressed by the owner information 63 and the friend information 64.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart for explaining connection registration processing executed by the CPU 10 in accordance with the connection registration program 61.
This connection registration process is a process executed with one mobile phone existing within a range in which data communication is possible, specifically within about 10 m, as a partner terminal. In addition, the counterpart terminal that performs data communication has, of course, the same function as the mobile phone 100.

The connection registration processing operation in the case where the partner terminal is “KEN” mobile phone B will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
Note that the mobile phone 100 also has owner information 63 (hereinafter referred to as owner information a) shown in FIG. 8A and friend information 64 (hereinafter referred to as friend information a) shown in FIG. The partner terminal (that is, the cellular phone B of “KEN”) includes owner information 63 (hereinafter referred to as owner information b) shown in FIG. 8B and friend information 64 (hereinafter referred to as “owner information b”). , Referred to as friend information b).

  In FIG. 13, first, the CPU 10 requests the counterpart terminal to transmit the “phone number” of the owner information b (step S11).

  Then, when acquiring the “telephone number” transmitted from the counterpart terminal in response to the transmission request (step S12), the CPU 10 then acquires the acquired “telephone number” and the “telephone number” of the friend information a. Are sequentially determined. That is, the CPU 10 determines whether or not the owner of the partner terminal is a registered person of the mobile phone 100 by determining whether the two “phone numbers” match (step S13).

  That is, as shown in FIG. 8B, since the “phone number” of the owner information b is “090-2222-2222”, the CPU 10 sets “090-” as the “phone number” transmitted from the partner terminal. 2222-2222 ”will be acquired. In addition, as shown in FIG. The “phone number” of 1 is “090-2222-2222”. Thus, the CPU 10 determines whether the acquired “phone number” matches the “phone number” of the friend information a (No. 1) (step S13: YES). This corresponds to the case where the owner of the counterpart terminal is a registered person of the mobile phone 100.

  As a result of the determination, if the acquired “phone number” does not match any of the “phone numbers” of the friend information a (step S13: NO), the CPU 10 ends the process. This corresponds to a case where the owner of the counterpart terminal is not a registered person of the mobile phone 100.

  If it is determined in step S13 that the acquired “phone number” matches any of the “phone number” of friend information a (step S13: YES), CPU 10 then sends the friend information to the partner terminal. Request transmission of b (step S14).

  When the friend information b transmitted from the counterpart terminal is acquired in response to the transmission request (step S15), the CPU 10 obtains the “phone number” of the acquired friend information b and the “phone number” of the owner information a. Are sequentially determined. Then, the friend information b obtained by removing the information determined to match here from the friend information b is added to the friend information a and stored in the storage device 60. That is, the CPU 10 determines whether or not the owner of the mobile phone 100 is a registered person of the counterpart terminal, and among the registered persons of the counterpart terminal, the registered person excluding the owner of the mobile phone is assigned to the mobile phone 100. Is additionally registered (step S16).

That is, as shown in FIG. 8A, since the “phone number” of the owner information a is “090-1111-1111”, the CPU 10 sets “090-” as the “phone number” transmitted from the partner terminal. 1111-1111 ”will be acquired. In addition, as shown in FIG. The “telephone number” of 4 is “090-1111-1111”. As a result, the CPU 10 determines a match between the “phone number” of the owner information a and the “phone number” of the friend information b (No. 4).
Then, the remaining friend information b (Nos. 1 to 3) obtained by removing the friend information b (No. 4) determined to match from the friend information b is added to the friend information a.
This corresponds to the case where the owner of the mobile phone 100 is a registered person of the counterpart terminal.

In addition, when adding the acquired friend information b to the friend information a in the storage device 60 in step S16, the CPU 10 has already stored the friend information b to be newly added in the storage device 60. 'No. '
That is, as shown in FIG. 9, friend information a (No. 1 to 5) relating to a total of five registered persons is already stored in friend information a. Therefore, the acquired friend information b (No. 1 to 3) is added to the friend information a as shown in FIG. 11 as friend information a (No. 6 to 8).

Furthermore, when adding the acquired friend information b to the friend information a of the storage device 60 in step S16, the CPU 10 determines the “directly related person” of the friend information b to be newly added in step S13. The 'No. Change to '.
That is, the CPU 10 changes the friend information b so that the person who is additionally registered in the mobile phone 100 is directly related to the registered person among the registered persons already registered in the mobile phone 100. It is added to the information a.

  That is, the friend information a determined to match in step S13 is the friend information a (No. 1) regarding “Ken” who is the owner of the counterpart terminal. That is, the CPU 10 changes the “directly related person” of the friend information b (No. 1 to 3) to be newly added from “0” to “1”, respectively. And as friend information a (No. 6-8), as shown in FIG. 11, it will add to friend information a.

  When the above processing is performed, the CPU 10 ends this processing.

  Thus, by adding the friend information b (excluding information regarding the owner of the mobile phone 100) acquired from the counterpart terminal to the friend information a of the storage device 60, the mobile phone 100 can display the information shown in FIG. The registered personal relationship as shown in a) is changed as shown in FIG.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart for explaining a connection finding process executed by the CPU 10 in accordance with the connection finding program 62.
Note that this connection registration process is executed by using one mobile phone within a range in which data communication can be performed with each other, specifically within about 10 m, as the counterpart terminal, similarly to the above-described connection registration process (see FIG. 13). Process. In addition, the counterpart terminal that performs data communication has, of course, the same function as the mobile phone 100.

Then, the connection finding process operation when the partner terminal is “Naomi” mobile phone C will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
Note that the mobile phone 100 also has owner information 63 (hereinafter referred to as owner information a) shown in FIG. 8A and friend information 64 (hereinafter referred to as friend information a) shown in FIG. The partner terminal (that is, the mobile phone C of “Naomi”) includes owner information 63 (hereinafter referred to as owner information c) shown in FIG. 8C and friend information 64 (hereinafter referred to as “owner information c”). , And friend information c)).

  In FIG. 14, first, the CPU 10 requests the counterpart terminal to transmit the “phone number” of the owner information c (step S21).

  Then, when acquiring the “telephone number” transmitted from the counterpart terminal in response to this transmission request (step S22), the CPU 10 subsequently acquires the acquired “telephone number” and the “telephone number” of the friend information a. Are sequentially determined. That is, the CPU 10 determines whether or not the owner of the counterpart terminal is a registered person of the mobile phone 100 (step S23).

That is, as shown in FIG. 8C, since the “phone number” of the owner information c is “090-3333-3333”, the CPU 10 sets “090-” as the “phone number” transmitted from the partner terminal. Get 3333-3333 ”. However, as shown in FIG. 11, the acquired “phone number” does not match any of the “phone numbers” of the friend information a.
This corresponds to a case where the owner of the counterpart terminal is not a registered person of the mobile phone 100.

  As described above, when the obtained “phone number” does not match any of the “phone numbers” of the friend information a (step S23: NO), the CPU 10 then sends a friend to the partner terminal. The transmission of the “telephone number” of the information b is requested (step S24).

  Then, upon acquiring the “telephone number” transmitted from the counterpart terminal in response to this transmission request (step S25), the CPU 10 determines each of the acquired “telephone number” and each of the “telephone number” of the friend information a. Matches are determined in order. That is, the CPU 10 determines whether or not the same person is registered in the partner terminal and the mobile phone 100 (step S26).

That is, according to FIG. 12, the CPU 10 acquires a total of nine “telephone numbers” from the counterpart terminal in the order of “090-4444-4444”,. Further, according to FIG. 11, the “phone number” of the friend information a (No. 6) is “090-3456-7890”. This is the same as “090-3456-7890” acquired fifth in the previously acquired “phone number”.
As a result, the CPU 10 determines a match between the “phone number” of the friend information a (No. 6) and the fifth acquired “phone number” (step S26: YES).
That is, the friend information a (No. 6) determined to match here is friend information relating to “Kouta”, and the CPU 10 determines that the owner of the mobile phone 100 and the owner of the other terminal share “Kouta” as a common person. It is detected (discovered) that there is some connection (relationship).

  If it is determined that the acquired “phone number” matches either of the “phone numbers” of the friend information a (step S26: YES), the CPU 10 then determines the match with the determined “phone number” to the partner terminal. Then, transmission of a connection (relationship) between the registered person (common person) corresponding to the “phone number” and the owner of the partner terminal is requested (step S27).

  On the other hand, along with this connection transmission request, the CPU 10 derives a connection (relationship) between “Takahashi” who is the owner of the mobile phone 100 and “Kouta” who is a common person based on the friend information a determined to match. .

That is, the friend information a determined to match in step S26 is friend information (No. 5) regarding “Kouta”. As shown in FIG. 11, according to this friend information a (No. 6), “Kota (male)” is directly related to “Ken (male)”, and the “relation” is “brother”. is there. Also, according to friend information a (No. 1) regarding “Ken”, “Ken” is directly related to “Takahashi” who is the owner of the mobile phone 100, and the “relationship” is “band companion”. is there.
In other words, the relationship between “Takahashi” and “Kouta” is “Ken (male)” “brother (male)” who is “Takahashi” “band companion”.

On the other hand, the friend information b corresponding to the “phone number” determined to match in step S26 is the person information b (No. 5) regarding “Kouta”. Then, as shown in FIG. 12, according to this person information b (No. 5), “Kota (male)” is directly related to “Hiroshi (male)”, and the “relation” is “best friend”. is there. Further, according to the personal information b (No. 1) relating to “Hiroshi”, “Hiroshi” is directly related to “Naomi (female)” who is the owner of the partner terminal, and the relationship is “band companion”. is there.
In other words, the relationship between “Kouta” and “Naomi” is “band friend (male)” of “best friend (male)” of “kota (male)”.

  Then, from the partner terminal, as a connection (relation) between the common person “Kouta” and the owner of the partner terminal, the “band friend (male)” of “best friend (male)” of “kota (male)” A connection (relation) such as “” is acquired (step S28).

  From these things, as for the connection (relationship) between the owner of the mobile phone 100 and the owner of the partner terminal, the CPU 10 is the “brother (male)” of “Ken” who is a “band friend” of “Takahashi” The connection (relationship) of “best friend (male)” and “band friend (female)” is obtained.

  As described above, when the connection (relationship) between the owner of the mobile phone 100 and the owner of the counterpart terminal is obtained, the CPU 10 has a person who has some connection (relationship) nearby as shown in FIG. 6, for example. The obtained connection (relationship) is displayed on the display device 30 together with the message indicating the presence (step S29).

In step S23, as a result of the determination, if the acquired “phone number” matches any of the “phone numbers” of the friend information a (step S23: YES), the CPU 10 shifts the processing to step S29. Similarly, based on the friend information a determined to match, the connection (relationship) between the owner of the mobile phone 100 and the owner of the partner terminal is derived, and the derived connection (relationship) is displayed on the display device 30. The processing to be displayed is performed (step S29).
This case corresponds to a case where the owner of the counterpart terminal is a registered person of the mobile phone 100.

  When the above processing is performed, the CPU 10 ends this processing.

[Second Embodiment]
Next, a second embodiment will be described.
FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a connection discovery / registration system 200 in the second embodiment.
As shown in the figure, the connection discovery / registration system 200 includes a plurality of mobile phones 300 and a server device 400 that can transmit and receive data to and from the plurality of mobile phones 300 via a network N.

In FIG. 15, three mobile phones A, B, and C and one server device 400 are shown as the mobile phone 300, but of course any number may be used.
In FIG. 15, mobile phone A is mobile phone 300 owned by “Takahashi”, mobile phone B is mobile phone 300 owned by “Ken”, and mobile phone C is owned by “Naomi”. It is assumed that the mobile phone 300 is a mobile phone.

  The network N is configured by a wired / wireless telecommunication line such as a public line network or the Internet. One or more wireless base stations (not shown) are connected to the network N, and the mobile phone 300 establishes wireless communication with the wireless base station, thereby allowing a server to be connected via the network N. Data transmission / reception with the apparatus 400 is performed.

  In addition, the mobile phone 300 in the connection discovery / registration system 200 has a connection registration function and a connection discovery function as described above.

That is, for example, it is assumed that the personal relationship shown in FIG. 1A is registered in the mobile phone A and the personal relationship shown in FIG. 1B is registered in the mobile phone B, respectively.
Then, when “Takahashi” and “Ken” approach each other, the personal relationship registered in the mobile phone B of “Ken” is copied to the personal relationship registered in the mobile phone A of “Takahashi”. Thus, for example, it is changed as shown in FIG. On the other hand, the personal relationship registered in the mobile phone B of “Ken” is changed as shown in FIG. 4, for example, by copying the personal relationship registered in the mobile phone B of “Takahashi”. (Connection registration function).

Further, it is assumed that the personal relationship shown in FIG. 5A is registered in the mobile phone A, and the personal relationship shown in FIG. 5B is registered in the mobile phone C.
Then, when “Takahashi” and “Naomi” approach, the mobile phone A of “Takahashi” and the mobile phone B of “Naomi” are displayed on the respective display screens, for example, in FIGS. 6 (a) and 6 (b). A connection discovery screen is displayed to notify that there is a person with some relationship nearby (connection discovery function).

In FIG. 15, as described above, the mobile phone 300 performs wireless communication with a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, a storage device, an input device such as numeric keys and operation keys, and a display device such as a small liquid crystal display. A well-known mobile phone is connected to a wireless device to be connected via a system bus.
In addition, the mobile phone 300 has a function as a GPS receiver. That is, by receiving a GPS signal transmitted from the GPS satellite S and performing a predetermined positioning operation, position information (latitude, longitude, etc.) indicating the current position of the mobile phone 300 is obtained. At the same time, the obtained position information is constantly transmitted to the server apparatus 400 via the network N.

The server device 400 includes a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, a storage device, an external storage medium reading device that can read an external storage medium such as a CD or an MO, and a communication device for connecting to the network N. It is a known server device connected via
The server device 400 performs data communication with the mobile phone 300 via the network N, thereby realizing the connection registration function and the connection discovery function of the mobile phone 300.

  Next, the internal configuration of the mobile phone 300 and the server device 400 will be described.

FIG. 16 is a block diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the mobile phone 300.
As shown in the figure, the mobile phone 300 includes a CPU 11, an input device 21, a display device 31, a communication device 41, a RAM 51, a storage device 70, and a GPS receiver 80 including a GPS antenna 81. These units are connected by a system bus so that data can be exchanged.

  The CPU 11 comprehensively controls the operation of each part constituting the mobile phone 300.

  The input device 21 has the same configuration as that of the input device 20 of FIG. 7, and includes numeric keys, operation keys, various function keys, and the like. When it is detected that each key has been pressed, a press signal corresponding to the pressed key is output to the CPU 11.

  The display device 31 has the same configuration as the display device 30 of FIG. 7 and is configured by an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) or the like. And according to the display instruction input from CPU11, the connection discovery screen shown, for example in FIG. 6 is displayed.

The communication device 41 establishes a wireless communication line with a wireless base station (not shown), thereby exchanging data mainly with the server device 400 via the network N as a communication line.
Specifically, for example, the position information of the mobile phone 300 obtained by the GPS receiving device 80 is transmitted to the server device 400. Alternatively, processing result data, image data, and the like transmitted from the server device 400 are received.

  The RAM 51 has the same configuration as the RAM 50 of FIG. 7 and temporarily stores programs, data, processing data, and the like acquired from the storage device 70, the input device 21, or the communication device 41 in various processes executed by the CPU 11. It is used as a work area.

  The storage device 70 is composed of a magnetic or optical recording medium, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, or the like, and can read and write various data. The storage device 70 stores a system program for the mobile phone 300 in advance.

  The GPS receiver 80 includes a GPS antenna 81 that receives a GPS signal transmitted from the GPS satellite S. Then, the GPS receiver 80 obtains the current position of the mobile phone 300 by executing a predetermined positioning operation based on the GPS satellite signal received via the GPS antenna 81. The obtained position information is transmitted to the server device 400 via the communication device 41 in accordance with an instruction from the CPU 11.

FIG. 17 is a block diagram illustrating an example of the internal configuration of the server device 400.
As shown in the figure, the server device 400 includes a CPU 12, a communication device 42, a RAM 52, and a storage device 90. These units are connected by a system bus so that data can be exchanged.

  The CPU 12 expands, in the RAM 52, programs and data designated from various programs corresponding to the server device 400 and various data acquired from the communication device 42, which are stored in the storage device 90. Then, according to the input instruction and data, various processes according to the program are executed, and the processing results are stored in a predetermined area in the storage device 90 and transmitted to the mobile phone 300 via the communication device 42. To do.

In addition, the CPU 12 sets any one mobile phone 300 among the plurality of mobile phones 300 as a target terminal. Then, based on the position information of each mobile phone 300 acquired via the communication device 42, another mobile phone 300 existing within a predetermined range centering on the target terminal is specified as the counterpart terminal.
In the following, it is assumed that the counterpart terminal is one mobile phone 300 for the sake of simplicity.

Further, the CPU 12 executes a connection registration process (see FIG. 18) described later by following the connection registration program 91 read from the storage device 90.
That is, it is determined whether or not the owner of the partner terminal is a registered person of the target terminal by determining a match between the owner information of the partner terminal and the friend information of the target terminal. If the owner of the partner terminal is a registered person of the target terminal, the friend information of the partner terminal is added to the friend information of the target terminal.

Furthermore, the CPU 12 executes a connection discovery process (see FIG. 19) described later by following the connection discovery program 92 read from the storage device 90.
That is, it is determined whether the same person (common person) is registered in the target terminal and the partner terminal by determining whether the friend information of the target terminal matches the owner information or friend information of the partner terminal. To do. When the same person is registered, the connection (relationship) between the owner of the target terminal and the owner of the partner terminal via the same person is displayed on both display devices 31.

The communication device 42 exchanges data with the mobile phone 300 via the network N as a communication line.
Specifically, for example, position information transmitted from the mobile phone 300 is received. Alternatively, processing result data, image data, and the like by the CPU 12 are transmitted to the mobile phone 300.

  The RAM 52 is used as a work area for temporarily storing programs, data, processing data, and the like acquired from the storage device 90 in various processes executed by the CPU 12.

  The storage device 90 is composed of a magnetic or optical recording medium, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, or the like, and can read and write various data. The storage device stores in advance a system program, a processing program, various data necessary for executing the program, and the like of the server device 400.

The processing program includes a connection registration program 91 and a connection discovery program 92. Each of these processing programs is stored in the form of a readable program code, and the CPU 12 sequentially executes operations according to the program code.
Further, as various data necessary for executing these processing programs, the storage device 90 stores a person information DB 93 and a relationship / pictogram correspondence table 65 shown in FIG.

In the person information DB 93, person information corresponding to each of the plurality of mobile phones 300 is stored. Each person information includes owner information 94 regarding the owner of the corresponding mobile phone 300 and friend information 95 regarding the registered person of the mobile phone 300.
The owner information 94 and friend information 95 have the same configuration as the owner information 63 and friend information 64 described in the first embodiment, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

  For example, owner information 63 shown in FIG. 8A and friend information 64 shown in FIG. 9 or FIG. 11 are stored as person information corresponding to the mobile phone A of “Takahashi”. Further, owner information 63 shown in FIG. 8B and friend information 64 shown in FIG. 10 are stored as personal information corresponding to the cellular phone B of “KEN”. Further, owner information 63 shown in FIG. 9C and friend information 64 shown in FIG. 12 are stored as personal information corresponding to the mobile phone C of “Naomi”.

FIG. 18 is a flowchart for explaining connection registration processing executed by the CPU 12 in accordance with the connection registration program 91.
A connection finding process operation when the target terminal is the mobile phone A of “Takahashi” and the counterpart terminal is the mobile phone B of “Ken” will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

  Further, in the personal information DB 93 of the storage device 90, as personal information corresponding to the mobile phone A, owner information 63 shown in FIG. 8A (hereinafter referred to as owner information a) and friends shown in FIG. Person information including information 64 (hereinafter referred to as friend information a) is also used as owner information 63 (hereinafter referred to as owner information b) shown in FIG. , And personal information including friend information 64 (hereinafter referred to as friend information b) shown in FIG. 10 is stored.

  In FIG. 18, first, the CPU 12 refers to the person DB 93 and sequentially determines the match between the “phone number” of the owner information b and the “phone number” of the friend information a. That is, the CPU 12 determines whether or not the owner of the counterpart terminal is a registered person of the target terminal. (Step S31).

  That is, as shown in FIG. 8B, the “phone number” of the owner information b is “090-2222-2222”. Further, as shown in FIG. 9, the “phone number” of the friend information a (No. 1) is “090-2222-2222”. Thus, the CPU 12 determines whether the “phone number” of the owner information b matches the “phone number” of the friend information a (No. 1) (step S31: YES). This corresponds to a case where the owner of the counterpart terminal is a registered person of the target terminal.

  As a result of the determination, if the “phone number” of the owner information b does not match any of the “phone numbers” of the friend information a (step S31: NO), the CPU 12 ends this process. This corresponds to the case where the owner of the counterpart terminal is not a registered person of the target terminal.

  If it is determined in step S31 that the “phone number” of the owner information b matches any of the “phone number” of the friend information a (step S31: YES), then the CPU 12 refers to the person information DB 93. Then, the match between each “phone number” of the friend information b and the “phone number” of the owner information a is sequentially determined. Then, the friend information b obtained by excluding the information determined to match from the friend information b is added to the friend information a and stored in the storage device 90. That is, the CPU 12 determines whether or not the owner of the target terminal is a registered person of the partner terminal, and registers registered persons other than the owner of the target terminal among registered persons of the partner terminal. It is additionally registered as a person (step S32).

That is, as shown in FIG. 8A, the “telephone number” of the owner information a is “090-1111-1111”. As shown in FIG. 10, the “phone number” of the friend information b (No. 4) is “090-1111-1111”. As a result, the CPU 12 determines a match between the “phone number” of the owner information a and the “phone number” of the friend information b (No. 4).
Then, the remaining friend information b (No. 1 to 3) excluding the friend information b (No. 4) determined to match here from the friend information b is added to the friend information a.
In this case, this corresponds to the case where the owner of the target terminal is a registered person of the counterpart terminal.

In addition, when adding the friend information b to the friend information a in step S32, the CPU 12 adds the friend information a already stored in the storage device 90 to the friend information b to be newly added. Continued 'No. '
That is, as shown in FIG. 9, friend information a (No. 1 to 5) relating to a total of five registered persons is already stored in friend information a. Therefore, friend information b (No. 1 to 3) to be added is added to friend information a as shown in FIG. 11 as friend information a (No. 6 to 8).

Furthermore, when adding the friend information b to the friend information a in step S32, the CPU 12 determines that the “directly related person” of the friend information b to be newly added matches the friend information a that has been determined to match in step S31. 'No. Change to '.
That is, the CPU 12 changes the friend information b to indicate which registered person among the registered persons already registered in the target terminal is directly related to the person who is additionally registered in the target terminal. It is added to.

  That is, the friend information a determined to match in step S31 is friend information (No. 1) regarding “Ken” who is the owner of the counterpart terminal. That is, the CPU 12 changes the “directly related person” of the friend information b (No. 1 to 3) to be newly added from “0” to “1”, respectively. And as friend information a (No. 6-8), as shown in FIG. 11, it will add to friend information a.

  When the above processing is performed, the CPU 12 ends this processing.

  In this way, by adding the friend information b corresponding to the partner terminal (excluding information relating to the owner of the target terminal) to the friend information a corresponding to the target terminal, the target terminal can be configured as shown in FIG. The person relationship registered as shown in FIG. 3 is changed as shown in FIG.

FIG. 19 is a flowchart for explaining the connection finding process executed by the CPU 12 in accordance with the connection finding program 92.
The connection finding processing operation when the target terminal is “Takahashi” mobile phone A and the partner terminal is “Naomi” mobile phone C will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

  Further, in the personal information DB 93 of the storage device 90, as personal information corresponding to the mobile phone A, owner information 63 shown in FIG. 8A (hereinafter referred to as owner information a) and friends shown in FIG. Person information including information 64 (hereinafter referred to as friend information a) is also used as owner information 63 (hereinafter referred to as owner information a) shown in FIG. , And personal information including friend information 64 (hereinafter referred to as friend information b) shown in FIG. 12 is stored.

  In FIG. 19, first, the CPU 12 refers to the person information DB 93 and sequentially determines the match between the “phone number” of the owner information c and the “phone number” of the friend information a. That is, the CPU 12 determines whether or not the owner of the counterpart terminal is a registered person of the target terminal (step S41).

That is, as shown in FIG. 8C, the “phone number” of the owner information b is “090-3333-3333”. However, as shown in FIG. 11, this “phone number” does not match any of the “phone numbers” of the friend information a.
In this case, this corresponds to a case where the owner of the partner terminal is not a registered person of the target terminal.

  In this way, as a result of the determination, when the “phone number” of the owner information b does not match any of the “phone numbers” of the friend information a (step S41: NO), the CPU 12 subsequently stores the person information DB 93. With reference, the “phone number” of the friend information a and the “phone number” of the friend information b are determined in order. That is, the CPU 12 determines whether or not the same person is registered in the target terminal and the counterpart terminal (step S42).

That is, according to FIG. 11, the “phone number” of the friend information a (No. 6) is “090-3456-7890”. Further, according to FIG. 12, the “phone number” of the friend information b (No. 5) is “090-3456-7890”. As a result, the CPU 21 determines a match between the “phone number” of the friend information a (No. 6) and the “phone number” of the friend information b (No. 5) (step S42: YES).
That is, the friend information a (No. 6) and the friend information b (No. 5) determined to match here are both friend information regarding “Kouta”, and the CPU 12 has the owner of the target terminal and the owner of the partner terminal. Means detecting (discovering) that there is some connection (relationship) with “kota” as a common person.

  If it is determined that any one of the “phone number” of the friend information a matches one of the “phone number” of the friend information b (step S42: YES), the CPU 12 then determines that the friend information a and the friend information are determined to match. Based on b, a connection (relationship) between the owner of the target terminal and the owner of the counterpart terminal is obtained (step S43).

That is, as shown in FIG. 11, according to the friend information (No. 6) determined to match in step S42, “Kota (male)” is directly related to “Ken (male)”, and the “relation” is “Brother”. Further, according to the friend information (No. 1) regarding “Ken”, “Ken” is directly related to “Takahashi” who is the owner of the target terminal, and the “relationship” is “band companion”.
In other words, the relationship between “Takahashi” and “Kouta” is “Ken (male)” “brother (male)” who is “Takahashi” “band companion”.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 12, according to the friend information (No. 5) determined to match in step S42, “Kota (male)” is directly related to “Hiroshi (male)”, and the “relationship” is “Best friend”. Moreover, according to the friend information (No. 1) regarding “Hiroshi”, “Hiroshi” is directly related to “Naomi (female)” who is the owner of the partner terminal, and the “relationship” is “band companion”. It is.
In other words, the relationship between “Naomi” and “Kouta” is “best friend (male)” of “Hiroshi (male)” who is “band friend” of “Naomi”.

As a result, the CPU 12 determines, as a connection (relationship) between the owner of the target terminal and the owner of the partner terminal, “brother (male)” of “Ken (male)” who is a “band companion” of “Takahashi”. The relationship (relationship) of “best friends (male)” and “band friends (female)” is obtained.
On the other hand, as the connection (relationship) between the owner of the partner terminal and the owner of the target terminal, “brother (male) of“ best friend (male) ”of“ Hiroshi (male) ”who is“ band friend ”of“ Naomi ” ) ”“ Band friends (male) ”.

  As described above, when the connection (relationship) between the owner of the target terminal and the owner of the counterpart terminal is obtained, the CPU 12 causes the target terminal to display, for example, the connection discovery screen illustrated in FIG. Further, for example, screen data for displaying the connection finding screen shown in FIG. 6B on the other terminal is generated. Then, the generated image data is transmitted to the target terminal and the counterpart terminal, and is displayed on each display device 31 (step S44).

  In step S41, if the result of determination is that the “phone number” of the owner information b matches any of the “phone numbers” of the friend information a (step S41: YES), the CPU 12 proceeds to step S43. Transition. And similarly, while deriving the connection (relationship) between the owner of the target terminal and the owner of the partner terminal based on the friend information a determined to match (step S43), the derived connection (relationship) Processing to be displayed on each display device 31 is performed (step S44).

  When the above processing is performed, the CPU 12 ends this processing.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to the said 1st or 2nd Example, In the range which does not deviate from the meaning of this invention, it can change suitably.

For example, in the first embodiment, data communication between the mobile phones 100 may be performed by infrared communication.
In that case, instead of the Bluetooth communication device 41 in the mobile phone 100, for example, a transmission unit that emits infrared rays conforming to the IrDA standard, and a reception unit that mainly receives infrared rays transmitted from other mobile phones 100; , IrDA communication device. At this time, when executing data communication, due to infrared characteristics, the two mobile phones 100 that transmit and receive information need to have their transmitting and receiving units facing each other.

  On the other hand, in the second embodiment, the owner information 94 and the friend information 95 stored in the storage device 90 of the server device 400 may be further stored in the storage device 70 of the mobile phone 300.

In the connection discovery function, the other terminal may be another mobile phone 300 that exists at a location specified by the target terminal.
Specifically, the target terminal (mobile phone 300) transmits the location designated by the owner via the input device 21 to the server device 400. Further, the server device 400 is configured to execute the connection discovery process (see FIG. 19) using the mobile phone 300 existing at the designated location by the target terminal as a counterpart terminal based on the position information of each mobile phone 300.
That is, in this case, a person who exists at a location specified by the owner of the target terminal and has some connection (relationship) with the owner is found (detected).

In addition, the server device 400 may acquire position information of each mobile phone 300 from a mobile phone base station (not shown).
In this case, when the mobile phone is a PHS (Personal Handy Phone), the partner terminal can be specified in a narrower range than in the case of the mobile phone.

Furthermore, in the first or second embodiment, the personal relationship registered in the mobile phone may be displayed on the display device of the mobile phone.
In that case, from the viewpoint of privacy protection, detailed information such as name and phone number can be displayed only for registered persons located directly below the owner, that is, persons directly related to the owner. For a person who is additionally registered by the registration function, it is desirable to display only the relationship and gender.

The personal relationship registered in the mobile phone may be changeable by the owner.
Specifically, the input device of the mobile phone is configured to include an owner / friend information change key. When the owner / friend information change key is pressed, the mobile phone (or server device) changes the owner information or friend information of the storage device based on the input data input from the input device. ·Remember. The change here includes addition of new friend information and deletion of unnecessary friend information.
Furthermore, it is desirable that the friend information that can be changed by the owner here is, for example, only for a registered person that is directly related to the owner.

Moreover, it is good also as performing a connection registration function or a connection discovery function by an instruction | indication of an owner.
Specifically, the input device of the mobile phone is configured to include a connection registration key or a connection discovery key. Only when the connection registration key or the connection discovery key is pressed, the mobile phone 100 (or the server device 400) performs the above-described connection registration process (see FIG. 13 or FIG. 18) or the connection discovery process ( (See FIG. 14 or FIG. 19).

In addition, in the connection registration function, only when a person who is directly related to the owner of the registered person of the mobile phone approaches, the personal relationship registered in the mobile phone of the approaching person is stored in the mobile phone. It may be copied.
Further, instead of copying all the person relationships, for example, only registered persons directly related to the approaching person may be additionally registered in the mobile phone.

  Further, it may be configured to prevent duplicate registration of the same person by determining whether or not the person additionally registered in the mobile phone is a person already registered in the mobile phone.

  In the connection discovery function, the connection discovery screen (see FIG. 6) is displayed, the mobile phone itself is vibrated, the sound output from the audio output device such as a speaker is output, or the light emitting device such as a light is turned on (flashing). Or it is good also as producing the combination of these.

  In addition, for example, when a predetermined number of registered persons in the mobile phone reaches a predetermined number, or when a specific person is found or registered, some effect may be performed. Examples of the effects here include display of a specific screen and output of specific sound in addition to the effects described above. Furthermore, in the second embodiment, the effect data may be transmitted from the server device 400 to the mobile phone 300 that satisfies the predetermined condition.

In addition, when a given game is executed on a mobile phone, information regarding the given game progress in another mobile phone may be acquired, and the game may be advanced based on the acquired information.
For example, when a game progresses by finding another mobile phone having a predetermined keyword or character, or capture information is acquired from the other mobile phone when the game is stuck.

  Further, the items included in the owner information 63 and the friend information 64 are not limited to the above-described embodiment, and any item may be used, and any item as a reference for matching determination may be used.

Furthermore, the personal information stored in the mobile phone may be information related to things other than a person.
For example, information (trade information) related to an item “desired” or “desired” is stored, and the establishment of a trade (exchange) is determined and output based on the trade information. Note that this trade (exchange) includes exchange of information such as programs and data in addition to specific items such as trading cards and electrical appliances.

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 20, the item “desired” or “desired” is registered in the mobile phone.
Then, a match between the registered “desired” item and the “desired” item registered in another mobile phone is determined, and if they match, a message or the like informing the fact is displayed. Similarly, the registered “desired” item is determined to match the “desired” item registered in another mobile phone.

  In the above-described embodiment, the case where the present invention is applied to a mobile phone has been described. For example, any terminal device that can be carried by the owner, such as a PHS, a portable information terminal, and a portable game device, and an automobile. The present invention can also be applied to information terminals installed in the.

100 mobile phone 10 CPU
20 Input Device 30 Display Device 41 Bluetooth Communication Device 42 Mobile Communication Device 50 RAM
60 Storage Device 61 Connection Registration Program 62 Connection Discovery Program 63 Owner Information 64 Friend Information 65 Relationship / Pictograph Table 200 Connection Registration / Discovery System 300 Mobile Phone 11 CPU
21 Input Device 31 Display Device 41 Communication Device 51 RAM
70 Storage Device 80 GPS Receiver 81 GPS Antenna 400 Server Device 12 CPU
42 Communication device 52 RAM
90 Storage Device 91 Connection Registration Program 92 Connection Discovery Program 93 Person Information DB
94 Owner information 95 Friend information

Claims (5)

A computer built in a portable terminal device capable of acquiring or providing information by performing wireless communication with other terminal devices located within a predetermined distance,
Storage means for storing trade information related to goods, programs or data (hereinafter collectively referred to as “desired goods, etc.”) desired to be traded based on user operations;
Obtaining means for obtaining trade information from the other terminal device;
And trade information acquired by the acquisition means, based on the stored trade information in the storage means, determining means for determining matching trade information,
Notification control means for performing a predetermined notification when the determination means determines a match ;
Program to function as. The trade information includes information such as desired articles related to transfer and information such as desired articles related to transfer.
The determination means is: 1) a match between information on a desired article or the like related to transfer in the trade information acquired by the acquisition means and information on a desired article or the like related to transfer in the trade information stored in the storage means 2) Determining whether the information on the desired article relating to the transfer in the trade information acquired by the acquisition means matches the information on the desired article relating to the transfer in the trade information stored in the storage means. ,
The program according to claim 1. A computer-readable information storage medium storing the program according to claim 1 . A mobile terminal device capable of acquiring or providing information by performing wireless communication with another terminal device located within a predetermined distance,
Storage means for storing trade information related to a desired article or the like desired to be traded based on a user operation;
Obtaining means for obtaining trade information from the other terminal device;
Determination means for determining a match of the trade information based on the trade information acquired by the acquisition means and the trade information stored in the storage means;
A notification control means for performing a predetermined notification when the determination means determines a match;
A mobile terminal device. A server device that receives position information from a plurality of terminal devices,
Storage means for storing, for each terminal device, trade information relating to a desired article or the like that the user of the terminal device wishes to trade transmitted from the terminal device;
Based on the position information, a specifying means for specifying a position where one terminal apparatus located within a predetermined distance among the plurality of terminal apparatuses exists and another terminal apparatus;
Based on the trade information related to the one terminal device and the trade information related to the other terminal device, determination means for determining a match of the trade information,
Transmission means for transmitting information for causing the one terminal device and / or the other terminal device to perform notification when it is determined to be a match by the determination means;
A server device comprising:

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