Information management system, mobile communication terminal, data bank device, service information management device, authentication device, data management method, mobile communication terminal control method, database control method, service information management method, and program

• US 10,313,440 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2014
• Issued: 06/04/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GNSS Technologies Inc., Jichi Medical University
• Original Assignee: GNSS Technologies Inc., Jichi Medical University
• Inventors: Aihara, Masakazu, Torimoto, Hideyuki, Asako, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Danh C
• Application Number:
  US15/037,985
• Publication Number:
  US 20160308969A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,658 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561, 4555501, 455418
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

An information management system includes: a mobile communication terminal capable of obtaining location information; and a medical institution provided with a regional medical data bank system and a transmitter. The mobile communication terminal transmits a space-time tag and a terminal ID to the system. The space-time tag is constituted of time information and location information. A space-time ID information processing unit of the system generates a space-time ID in a folder for each user based on a plurality of space-time tags and stores it in space-time ID information DB. A terminal device of the medical institution transmits the location information of the mobile communication terminal and the time information to the system. A verification processing unit verifies information from the mobile communication terminal against information from a utilization terminal and transmits the information to the utilization terminal when a request for transmission of the information is valid.

Claims

1. An information management system comprising:

a plurality of mobile communication terminals each capable of obtaining location information;

a data bank device for managing a database of each user of the plurality of mobile communication terminals; and

a service information management device for transmitting service information to the data bank device, the service information being associated with a service provided to a user of a specific mobile communication terminal of the plurality of mobile communication terminals,

each of the mobile communication terminals including

an obtaining unit configured to obtain identification information including a set of location information for specifying a location of the mobile communication terminal and time information, and

a first transmitting unit configured to transmit a plurality of pieces of the identification information to the data bank device and the service information management device,

the service information management device including

a receiving unit configured to receive the identification information from the specific mobile communication terminal, and

a second transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the data bank device, the service information and identification information received from the specific mobile communication terminal,

the data bank device including

a receiving unit configured to receive the identification information transmitted by each of the plurality of mobile communication terminals and the identification information and service information transmitted by the service information management device, and

a verifying unit configured to verify each piece of the received identification information to specify a user having been provided with a service associated with the service information.

2. The information management system according to claim 1, wherein

in the mobile communication terminal, the obtaining unit includes:

a first positioning unit configured to obtain location information of the mobile communication terminal and time based on respective positioning signals transmitted from a plurality of positioning satellites; and

a second positioning unit configured to receive a signal including location information indicating a location of a location information transmitting device from the location information transmitting device, extract the location information from the received signal, and obtain time associated with the location information, the location information transmitting device being capable of transmitting a signal in a same format as a format of each of the positioning signals transmitted from the plurality of positioning satellites.

3. The information management system according to claim 2, wherein from a device other than the location information transmitting device, the second positioning unit is configured to obtain the time associated with the location information extracted by the second positioning unit.

4. The information management system according to claim 2, wherein

the information management system further includes an authentication device for authenticating the identification information obtained by each of the mobile communication terminals, and

the authentication device includes

a receiving unit configured to receive, from each of the mobile communication terminals, the location information extracted by the second positioning unit,

a determining unit configured to check whether or not the received location information is valid location information, and

a time adding unit configured to, when the received location information is valid location information, add time information to the location information received from each of the mobile communication terminals and return the location information having the time information added thereto to the mobile communication terminal having transmitted the location information.

5. The information management system according to claim 1, wherein the first transmitting unit is configured to transmit the identification information to the service information management device based on approval by the user of the mobile communication terminal.

6. The information management system according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining unit is configured to obtain a plurality of pieces of the location information at a predetermined interval.

7. The information management system according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining unit is configured to obtain the location information when the mobile communication terminal is present in a range registered in advance.

8. A mobile communication terminal comprising:

an obtaining unit configured to obtain identification information including a set of location information for specifying a location of the mobile communication terminal and time information; and

a transmitting unit configured to transmit a plurality of pieces of the identification information to a data bank device for managing a database of a user of the mobile communication terminal and to a service information management device for transmitting, to the data bank device, service information associated with a service provided to the user, wherein

the obtaining unit includes

a first positioning unit configured to obtain location information of the mobile communication terminal and time based on respective positioning signals transmitted from a plurality of positioning satellites, and

a second positioning unit configured to receive a signal including location information indicating a location of a location information transmitting device from the location information transmitting device, extract the location information from the received signal, and obtain time associated with the location information, the location information transmitting device being capable of transmitting a signal in a same format as a format of each of the positioning signals transmitted from the plurality of positioning satellites.

9. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 8, wherein the transmitting unit is configured to transmit the identification information to the service information management device based on approval by the user of the mobile communication terminal.

10. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 8, wherein the obtaining unit is configured to obtain a plurality of pieces of the location information at a predetermined interval.

11. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 8, wherein when the mobile communication terminal is present in a range registered in advance, the obtaining unit is configured to obtain the location information.

12. A method for managing information, comprising:

providing a plurality of mobile communication terminals each capable of obtaining location information;

providing a data bank device for managing a database of each user of the plurality of mobile communication terminals;

providing a service information management device for transmitting service information to the data bank device, the service information being associated with a service provided to a user of a specific mobile communication terminal of the plurality of mobile communication terminals;

obtaining, by each of the plurality of mobile communication terminals, identification information including a set of location information for specifying a location of the mobile communication terminal and time information;

transmitting, by each of the plurality of mobile communication terminals, a plurality of pieces of the identification information to the data bank device and the service information management device;

receiving, by the service information management device, the identification information from the specific mobile communication terminal;

transmitting, by the service information management device, to the data bank device, the service information and identification information received from the specific mobile communication terminal,

receiving, by the data bank device, the identification information transmitted by each of the plurality of mobile communication terminals and the identification information and service information transmitted by the service information management device; and

verifying, by the data bank device, each piece of the received identification information to specify a user having been provided with a service associated with the service information.

13. A method for communication, comprising:

obtaining identification information including a set of location information for specifying a location of a mobile communication terminal and time information; and

transmitting a plurality of pieces of the identification information to a data bank device for managing a database of a user of the mobile communication terminal and to a service information management device for transmitting, to the data bank device, service information associated with a service provided to the user,

wherein the obtaining includes;

obtaining location information of the mobile communication terminal and time based on respective positioning signals transmitted from a plurality of positioning satellites;

receiving a signal including location information indicating a location of a location information transmitting device from the location information transmitting device;

extracting the location information from the received signal; and

obtaining time associated with the location information, the location information transmitting device being capable of transmitting a signal in a same format as a format of each of the positioning signals transmitted from the plurality of positioning satellites.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the transmitting includes transmitting the identification information to the service information management device based on approval by the user of the mobile communication terminal.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein the obtaining identification information includes obtaining a plurality of pieces of the location information at a predetermined interval.

16. The method according to claim 13, wherein when the mobile communication terminal is present in a range registered in advance, the obtaining includes obtaining the location information.