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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2013
Ntt Docomo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Shin-ichi Isobe, Tokyo, JP;
Katsutoshi Nishida, Tokyo, JP;
NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided are a radio communication terminal capable of causing a communication application to speedily find out whether D2D communication is possible by using a radio access network such as LTE. A terminalA includes a terminal finding unitconfigured to find a candidate terminal capable of executing direct communication with the terminalA, a phonebook processing unitconfigured to obtain direct-communication phonebook data containing an identifier of the candidate terminal found by the terminal finding unit, based on regular phonebook data containing an identifier of another radio communication terminal and being associated with the terminalA, and a direct communication execution unitconfigured to execute direct communication with a counterpart terminal (e.g., a terminalB) indicated in a communication request from a communication applicationA,C, when the counterpart terminal is contained in the direct-communication phonebook data as the candidate terminal.