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Server, navigation device, and distribution exclusion area setting method in advertising information distribution system

  • US 10,417,665 B2
  • Filed: 11/11/2015
  • Issued: 09/17/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A server which distributes advertisement information to a navigation device in a vehicle, comprising:

  • a database which stores the advertisement information; and

    a distribution unit which selects the advertisement information from the database and distributes the advertisement information to the navigation device;

    wherein the advertisement information which the distribution unit selects from the database relates to facilities existing within a distribution area of a predetermined range from a current location of the navigation device and the distribution unit modifies the selected advertisement information which is distributed to the navigation device by setting a distribution exclusion area within the distribution area, and excluding any of the advertising information in the distribution exclusion area,wherein the distribution exclusion area includes at least a portion of a travel area through which the vehicle has traveled during a predetermined time period prior to a current time of the navigation device, or at least a portion of a travel area through which the vehicle has traveled over a predetermined distance prior to arriving at the current location of the navigation device, andwherein eitherthe distribution unit sets the at least a portion of the travel area through which the vehicle has traveled during the predetermined time period that was set to the distribution exclusion area by setting in the travel area as a starting point, a first point in which travel of the vehicle during a first predetermined time period prior to the current time is traced back, and as an ending point, a second point in which prior travel of the vehicle during a second predetermined time period is traced back from the first point;

    orthe distribution unit sets the at least a portion of the travel area through which the vehicle has traveled over the predetermined distance to the distribution exclusion area by setting in the travel area as a starting point, a third point in which a first predetermined distance in prior travel of the vehicle is traced back from the current location, and as an ending point, a fourth point in which a second predetermined distance in prior travel of the vehicle is traced back from the third point.

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