Communication system, communication method, and storage medium storing communication program for mobile device users
First Claim
1. A communication system for mobile device users comprising:
- a portable information terminal;
a center; and
wherein said portable information terminal and said center are communicated with each other through a wireless communication unit; and
wherein said portable information terminal has;
a place information managing unit used to acquire information about a place where said portable information terminal exists and to manage the acquired place information; and
a message managing unit used to manage said acquired place information, an identification to identify a user and an operational behavior of said user in a form of a message and to transmit said message to said center and used to provide a message fed from said center to said user;
wherein said center has;
a message controlling unit used to transmit said message to said portable information terminal and to receive said message from said portable information terminal;
a user TPO element information extracting unit used to extract element information made up of information about a present time (T), a present place (P), and an individual preference according to a present Occasion (O) of said user from a message fed from said portable information terminal;
a spot information database used to store spot information about a restaurant and/or a sight-seeing resort made up of information about spots and explanatory contents of said spots;
an occasion learning unit used to learn a desired individual preference according to an occasion from said user TPO element information and said spot information database and to produce user TPO data made up of static information containing an identification, age, sex of said user, and of dynamic information about when and where said user has visited and about what kind of spot or information said user has an interest in;
a user TPO database used to store said user TPO data produced for each user by said occasion learning unit; and
a TPO matching unit used to select spot information, when said message fed from said user includes a request for spot information, by achieving a match between spot information and said user TPO data of said user having transmitted the request message contained in said user TPO database and to request said message controlling unit to transmit said selected spot information to said portable information terminal of said user having transmitted said message requesting spot information and, when said message fed from said user includes a request for transmission of a message from said user to another user, to select said other user by achieving a match between said user TPO data of said user having transmitted said message requesting for transmission of said message to said other user contained in said user TPO database and user TPO database of said other user and to request said message controlling unit to transmit said message fed from said user to a portable information terminal of said other user.
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Abstract
A communication system and a method of communication for a user of a portable information terminal are provide which are capable of automatically acquiring information of an occasion that the user desires while the portable information terminal is being used by the user and of carrying out communication among users having best matching conditions in terms of time (T), place (P), and individual preference according to occasion (O) (may be referred to as an occasion) of the user.
The communication system is made up of portable information terminals and a center being communicated via a wireless communication unit. The center has a spot information database and a user TPO (Time, Place, and Occasion) database. Element information is extracted by the center from a message received from the user. By learning a desired occasion of the user, a user TPO database is produced. Based on the TPO database, spot information and another user information having best matching conditions in terms of time (T), place (P), and desired occasion (O) are selected and transmitted to the user.
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41 Claims
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1. A communication system for mobile device users comprising:
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a portable information terminal;
a center; and
wherein said portable information terminal and said center are communicated with each other through a wireless communication unit; and
wherein said portable information terminal has;
a place information managing unit used to acquire information about a place where said portable information terminal exists and to manage the acquired place information; and
a message managing unit used to manage said acquired place information, an identification to identify a user and an operational behavior of said user in a form of a message and to transmit said message to said center and used to provide a message fed from said center to said user;
wherein said center has;
a message controlling unit used to transmit said message to said portable information terminal and to receive said message from said portable information terminal;
a user TPO element information extracting unit used to extract element information made up of information about a present time (T), a present place (P), and an individual preference according to a present Occasion (O) of said user from a message fed from said portable information terminal;
a spot information database used to store spot information about a restaurant and/or a sight-seeing resort made up of information about spots and explanatory contents of said spots;
an occasion learning unit used to learn a desired individual preference according to an occasion from said user TPO element information and said spot information database and to produce user TPO data made up of static information containing an identification, age, sex of said user, and of dynamic information about when and where said user has visited and about what kind of spot or information said user has an interest in;
a user TPO database used to store said user TPO data produced for each user by said occasion learning unit; and
a TPO matching unit used to select spot information, when said message fed from said user includes a request for spot information, by achieving a match between spot information and said user TPO data of said user having transmitted the request message contained in said user TPO database and to request said message controlling unit to transmit said selected spot information to said portable information terminal of said user having transmitted said message requesting spot information and, when said message fed from said user includes a request for transmission of a message from said user to another user, to select said other user by achieving a match between said user TPO data of said user having transmitted said message requesting for transmission of said message to said other user contained in said user TPO database and user TPO database of said other user and to request said message controlling unit to transmit said message fed from said user to a portable information terminal of said other user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A communication method for mobile device users comprising:
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a step of acquiring information about a place where a portable information terminal exists and of managing the place information in said portable information terminal;
a step of managing said place information, an identification to identify the user of said portable information terminal and an operational behavior of said user in a form of a message and transmitting said message from said portable information terminal to a center by a wireless communication unit and receiving said message fed from said center through said wireless communication unit and providing said message to said user, in said portable information terminal;
a step of managing a message to be transmitted and received between said portable information terminal and said center and of transmitting and receiving said message to and from said portable information terminal through said wireless communication unit, in said center;
a step of extracting a user TPO element information made up of information about a present time (T), a present place (P), and an individual preference according to a present Occasion (O) of said user from a message fed to said center from said portable information terminal through said wireless communication unit, in said center;
a step of learning a desired individual preference according to an occasion of said user based on said user TPO element information and a spot information database storing spot information about a restaurant and/or a sight-seeing resort made up of information about spots and explanatory contents of said spots and producing user TPO data made up of static information containing said identification, age, sex of a user and of dynamic information about when and where said user has visited and about what kind of spot or information said user has an interest in, in said center;
a step of selecting said spot information, when said message fed from said user contains a request for said spot information, by achieving a match between said spot information and said user TPO data of said user having transmitted said message contained in said user TPO database and requesting to transmit said selected spot information to said portable information terminal of said user having transmitted said message requesting for said spot information and, when said message fed from said user contains a request for transmission of a message from said user to another user, selecting said other user by achieving a match between said user TPO data on said user having transmitted said message requesting for transmission of said message to the selected other user contained in said user TPO database and user TPO database of said selected other user and requesting to transmit said message fed from said user to a portable information terminal of said selected other user, in said center. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A communication business method comprising:
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a step of holding and managing, in a center communicating with a portable information terminal by a wireless communication unit, a spot information database used to store spot information about a restaurant and/or a sight-seeing resort made up of information about spots and explanatory contents of said spots and a user TPO database storing, for each user, user TPO data including information about a time (T), a place (P), and an individual preference according to an occasion (O) of said user;
a step of extracting a user TPO element information made up of information about said time (T), said place (P), and said individual preference according to said occasion (O) of said user from a message transmitted from a portable information terminal of said user and received by said center and obtaining said user TPO data containing a present place, and/or a desired individual preference according to a present occasion of said user and automatically updating said user TPO database; and
a step of retrieving said spot information from said spot information database, when said message received by said center contains a request for said spot information, and obtaining spot information having best matching conditions in terms of time (T), place (P), and individual preference according to occasion (O) of said user and providing said obtained spot information to said portable information terminal of said user. - View Dependent Claims (15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28)
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14. A communication business method comprising:
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a step of holding and managing, in a center communicating with a portable information terminal by a wireless communication unit, a user TPO database storing, for each user, user TPO data including information about a time (T), a place (P), and an individual preference according to an occasion (O) of said user;
a step of extracting a user TPO element information made up of information about said time (T), said place (P), and said individual preference according to said occasion (O) of said user from a message transmitted from a portable information terminal of said user and received by said center and obtaining said user TPO data containing a present place, and/or a desired individual preference according to a present occasion of said user and automatically updating said user TPO database;
a step of setting a presence or an absence of a desire for acquainting an individual preference according to a occasion, as a profile of said user, in said user TPO database; and
a step of retrieving said user TPO database, when said message received by said center contains a request for transmission of a message to another user or a request for acquainting an individual preference according to an occasion matching and selecting said other user having best matching conditions in terms of said time (T), said place (P), and said individual preference according to said occasion (O) of said user and providing said message transmitted from said user to a portable information terminal of said other user. - View Dependent Claims (16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27, 29)
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30. A portable information terminal for communication with a center via a wireless communication unit comprising:
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a place information managing unit used to acquire information about a place where said portable information terminal exists and to manage the acquired place information;
a message managing unit used to manage said place information, an identification to identify a user and an operational behavior of said user in a form of a message and to transmit said message to said center and used to provide a message fed from said center to said user; and
wherein a user TPO information made up of information about a time (T), a place (P), and an individual preference according to an occasion (O) is transmitted by said portable information terminal in a form of a message to said center and said center, based on said message transmitted from said portable information terminal, updates a user database and wherein said portable information terminal receives spot information having best matching conditions in terms of time (T), place (P), and individual preference according to occasion (O) of said user and outputs.
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31. A portable information terminal for communication with a center via a wireless communication unit comprising:
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a place information managing unit used to acquire information about a place where said portable information terminal exists and to manage said place information;
a message managing unit used to manage said place information, an identification to identify a user and an operational behavior of said user in a form of a message and to transmit said message to said center and used to provide a message fed from said center to said user; and
wherein, based on a message transmitted from said portable information terminal of a user to said center, another user having best matching conditions in terms of time (T), place (P), and individual preference according to occasion (O) of said user is selected by said center and a portable information terminal of said other user receives said message transmitted from said portable information terminal of said user to said center.
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32. A communication business center apparatus for mobile device users being communicated with a portable information terminal via a wireless communication unit comprising:
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a spot information database used to store spot information about a restaurant and/or a sight-seeing resort made up of information about spots and explanatory contents of said spots;
a user TPO database used to store said user TPO data produced for each user including information about a time (T), a place (P), and an individual preference according to an occasion (O) of said user;
an extracting unit used to extract an user TPO element information made up of information about a present time (T), a present place (P), and an individual preference according to an present occasion (O) of said user from a message fed from said portable information terminal;
an automatically updating unit used to obtain user TPO data made up of information about a present place, and an individual preference according to a present occasion of said user from said extracted said user TPO element information and automatically updates said user TPO database;
a spot information obtaining unit used to obtain, when said received message contains a request for spot information, by retrieving said spot information database, spot information having best matching conditions in terms of time (T), place (P), and individual preference according to occasion (O) of said user and to supply said spot information to a portable information terminal of said user. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A communication program which causes processing to be performed by computers making up a center being communicated with a portable information terminal through a wireless communication unit,
wherein said portable information terminal includes: -
a place information managing unit used to acquire information about a place where said portable information terminal exists and to manage the acquired place information; and
a message managing unit used to manage said place information, an identification to identify a user and an operational behavior of said user in a form of a message and to transmit said message to said center and used to provide a message fed from said center to said user; and
wherein said center has;
a spot information database used to store spot information about a restaurant and/or a sight-seeing resort made up of information about spots and explanatory contents of said spots;
a user TPO database used to store user TPO data made up of information about time (T), place (P), and individual preference according to occasion (O) produced for each user; and
wherein said processing includes;
(a) a step of managing a message to be transmitted and received between said portable information terminal;
(b) a step of extracting a user TPO element information made up of information about a present time (T), a present place (T), and an individual preference according to an present occasion (O) of a user from a message fed to said center from said portable information terminal;
(c) a step of learning a desired individual preference according to an occasion of said user based on said user TPO element information and said spot information database storing said spot information about said restaurant and/or said sight-seeing resort made up of information about said spots and explanatory contents of said spots and producing said user TPO data made up of static information containing said identification, an age and a gender of said user and of dynamic information about when and where said user has visited and about what kind of spot or information said user has an interest in;
(d) a step of selecting spot information, when said message fed from said user contains a request for spot information, by achieving a match between spot information and said user TPO data of said user having transmitted said message contained in said user TPO database and requesting that said selected spot information is transmitted by said message managing step to a portable information terminal of said user having transmitted said message requesting for said spot information and, when said message fed from said user contains a request for transmission of a message from said user to another user, selecting said other user by achieving a match between said user TPO data on said user having transmitted said message requesting for transmission of said message to said other user contained in said user TPO database and user TPO database of said other user and requesting that said message fed from said user is transmitted by said message managing step to a portable information terminal of said other user.
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41. A storage medium storing a communication program which causes processing to be performed by computers making up a center being communicated with a portable information terminal through a wireless communication unit,
wherein said portable information terminal includes: -
a place information managing unit used to acquire information about a place where said portable information terminal exists and to manage the acquired place information; and
a message managing unit used to manage said place information, an identification to identify a user and an operational behavior of said user in a form of a message and to transmit said message to said center and used to provide a message fed from said center to said user; and
wherein said center has;
a spot information database used to store spot information about a restaurant and/or a sight-seeing resort made up of information about spots and explanatory contents of said spots;
a user TPO database used to store user TPO data made up of information about time (T), place (P), and individual preference according to occasion (O) produced for each user; and
wherein said processing includes;
(a) a step of managing a message to be transmitted and received between said portable information terminal;
(b) a step of extracting a user TPO element information made up of information about a present time (T), a present place (T), and an individual preference according to an present occasion (O) of a user from a message fed to said center from said portable information terminal;
(c) a step of learning a desired individual preference according to an occasion of said user based on said user TPO element information and said spot information database storing said spot information about said restaurant and/or said sight-seeing resort made up of information about said spots and explanatory contents of said spots and producing said user TPO data made up of static information containing said identification, an age and a gender of said user and of dynamic information about when and where said user has visited and about what kind of spot or information said user has an interest in;
(d) a step of selecting spot information, when said message fed from said user contains a request for spot information, by achieving a match between spot information and said user TPO data of said user having transmitted said message contained in said user TPO database and requesting that said selected spot information is transmitted by said message managing step to a portable information terminal of said user having transmitted said message requesting for said spot information and, when said message fed from said user contains a request for transmission of a message from said user to another user, selecting said other user by achieving a match between said user TPO data on said user having transmitted said message requesting for transmission of said message to said other user contained in said user TPO database and user TPO database of said other user and requesting that said message fed from said user is transmitted by said message managing step to a portable information terminal of said other user.
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