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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2013
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Masato Shimakawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a controller. The communication unit communicates with a service on a network in which a plurality of users are capable of participating and devices of the plurality of the users. The storage unit stores user information on the plurality of users and device information on the devices of the plurality of users in relation to each other. A controller controls the communication unit so that the communication obtains, from the service, social graph information, generates group information on a group consisting of a plurality of users, generates a partial network including devices of users in the group based on the generated group information, the stored user information, and the stored device information, and controls communication between the devices in the generated partial network.