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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2015
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tomohisa Takaoka, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04M 1/2745 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04M 1/2745 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided an information processing apparatus including a positional relationship information acquirer that acquires information indicating a position relationship between a first user and a second user, a nearness determiner that determines whether or not the first user and the second user are near each other, on the basis of the information indicating the position relationship, and a contact manager that sorts, on the basis of a result of the determination, a contact list which is provided to the first user and which includes contact information for the second user.