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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 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 communication system capable of causing a communication application to speedily find out whether D2D communication is possible or not. The phonebook serverincludes a phonebook data acquisition unitconfigured to acquire first phonebook data containing an identifier of a terminalB, a terminal location acquisition unitconfigured to acquire a location of the terminalB contained in the first phonebook data acquired by the phonebook data acquisition unit, a phonebook data generation unitconfigured to generate second phonebook data containing an identifier of a candidate terminal capable of direct communication, based on the location of the terminalB acquired by the terminal location acquisition unit, and a transmission unitconfigured to send a terminalA the second phonebook data generated by the phonebook data generation unit