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Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 14, 2020
Applicant:

Rakuten Group, Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yoshihiro Hirata, Tokyo, JP;

Yasuaki Shirogane, Tokyo, JP;

Takashi Shirota, Tokyo, JP;

Yutaka Tachi, Tokyo, JP;

Kenji Fukuda, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Raukten Group, Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/21 (2018.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/21 (2018.02); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02);
Abstract

A posting right giving device acquires region information indicating a region designated by an establisher requesting creation of a community. The posting right giving device stores the acquired region information and community identification information for identifying the community in association with each other in a storage. The posting right giving device acquires positional information indicating a position of a terminal device used by a user different from the establisher. The posting right giving device executes, when the position indicated by the acquired positional information is included in the region indicated by the stored region information, processing for giving the user a right to post information to the community identified with the community identification information stored in association with the region information. The right to post information allows the user to post the information regardless of whether the terminal device is located within the region.


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