Information delivery system for sending reminder times based on event and travel times

• US 10,219,101 B2
• Filed: 06/09/2016
• Issued: 02/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takehara, Mitsuru, Sako, Yoichiro, Asukai, Masamichi, Ito, Taiji, Sugino, Akinobu, Sano, Akane, Kamatani, Yoshiteru, Hayashi, Kazunori, Kon, Takayasu, Kamada, Yasunori
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Michael T
• Application Number:
  US15/177,961
• Publication Number:
  US 20160366549A1
• Time in Patent Office: 992 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

There is provided an information delivery apparatus including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information and on the event place, date and time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the selected mobile communication terminal. The delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by location information is within a predetermined range and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.

Claims

1. An advertisement delivery server comprising:

at least one circuitry configured to

receive past location information and date and time information of at least one mobile communication terminal, the past location information indicating at least one past location of the at least one mobile communication terminal, the at least one past location being different from a current location of the at least one mobile communication terminal, the date and time information indicating a past date and time at which the at least one mobile communication terminal was present at the at least one past location;

store advertisement data and delivery condition data, wherein

the advertisement data includes text and/or image data, and

the delivery condition data includes

a keyword to determine a target user of the advertisement data,

an advertisement serving period of the advertisement data,

an advertisement delivery range from an advertisement delivery point, and

user attribute information, the user attribute information including an age of a user, a gender of a user and/or an interest of a user;

select a mobile communication terminal to which the advertisement data is to be delivered based on the delivery condition data; and

deliver the advertisement data to the selected mobile communication terminal.

2. The advertisement delivery server of claim 1, wherein the advertisement data is for display by at least one display of the selected mobile communication terminal.

3. The advertisement delivery server of claim 1, wherein the at least one mobile communication terminal is configured to send information identifying the location of the at least one mobile communication terminal to the advertisement delivery server.

4. The advertisement delivery server of claim 1, wherein the at least one circuitry is further configured to generate data for event notification at an updated time, the updated time being based upon an updated travel time to an event, the updated travel time being based upon an updated location of the at least one mobile communication terminal.

5. The advertisement delivery server of claim 4, wherein the event notification includes a time of the event.

6. The advertisement delivery server of claim 5, wherein the event notification includes a location of the event.

7. The advertisement delivery server of claim 6, wherein the event notification includes information about a detail of the event.

8. The advertisement delivery server of claim 7, wherein the event notification includes information about delivery of information regarding the event.

9. The advertisement delivery server of claim 1, wherein the at least one mobile communication terminal is configured to determine a location of the at least one mobile communications terminal based on a signal from a satellite.

10. The advertisement delivery server of claim 1, wherein the at least one mobile communications terminal is a mobile phone.

11. The advertisement delivery server of claim 1, wherein the text and/or image data comprises both text and image data.

12. An advertisement delivery method, comprising:

receiving past location information and date and time information of at least one mobile communication terminal, the past location information indicating at least one past location of the at least one mobile communication terminal, the at least one past location being different from a current location of the at least one mobile communication terminal, the date and time information indicating a past date and time at which the at least one mobile communication terminal was present at the at least one past location;

storing advertisement data and delivery condition data, wherein

the advertisement data includes text and/or image data, and

the delivery condition data includes

a keyword to determine a target user of the advertisement data,

an advertisement serving period of the advertisement data,

an advertisement delivery range from an advertisement delivery point, and

user attribute information, the user attribute information including an age of a user, a gender of a user and/or an interest of a user;

selecting a mobile communication terminal to which the advertisement data is to be delivered based on the delivery condition data; and

delivering the advertisement data to the selected mobile communication terminal.

13. The advertisement delivery method of claim 12, wherein the advertisement data is for display by at least one display of the selected mobile communication terminal.

14. The advertisement delivery method of claim 12, wherein the text and/or image data comprises both text and image data.

15. At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions, which, when executed by a processor, perform an advertisement delivery method, the advertisement delivery method comprising:

receiving past location information and date and time information of at least one mobile communication terminal, the past location information indicating at least one past location of the at least one mobile communication terminal, the at least one past location being different from a current location of the at least one mobile communication terminal, the date and time information indicating a past date and time at which the at least one mobile communication terminal was present at the at least one past location;

storing advertisement data and delivery condition data, wherein

the advertisement data includes text and/or image data, and

the delivery condition data includes

a keyword to determine a target user of the advertisement data,

an advertisement serving period of the advertisement data,

an advertisement delivery range from an advertisement delivery point, and

user attribute information, the user attribute information including an age of a user, a gender of a user and/or an interest of a user;

selecting a mobile communication terminal to which the advertisement data is to be delivered based on the delivery condition data; and

delivering the advertisement data to the selected mobile communication terminal.

16. The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the advertisement data is for display by at least one display of the selected mobile communication terminal.

17. The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the text and/or image data comprises both text and image data.