Information providing system, information providing method, and display control method
First Claim
1. A system for providing communication terminals with information on a shop through communication, said system comprising:
- a first storage portion for storing data of a plurality of shops, said data of the shops including delivery area information on delivery areas of the shops;
an acquisition portion for acquiring first location information on a location of a first communication terminal;
a processing portion for searching for a shop a delivery area of which includes the location of the first communication terminal based on the stored delivery area information and the received first location information; and
a transmission portion for transmitting a result of the search by the processing portion to the first communication terminal.
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Abstract
An object of the present invention is to easily search for shops having delivery areas including user terminals. When two users access a shop search site of a server by use of user terminals (step S1), the same contents are displayed on both of the user terminals in the following processing: One of the users is set as the merchandise purchaser (step S2), the position information of the other user, the merchandise receiver, is transmitted to the server (step S3), and the desired shop kind is set by one of the users (step S4). Then, shops of the shop kind the delivery areas of which include the receiver are retrieved and displayed.
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19 Claims
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1. A system for providing communication terminals with information on a shop through communication, said system comprising:
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a first storage portion for storing data of a plurality of shops, said data of the shops including delivery area information on delivery areas of the shops;
an acquisition portion for acquiring first location information on a location of a first communication terminal;
a processing portion for searching for a shop a delivery area of which includes the location of the first communication terminal based on the stored delivery area information and the received first location information; and
a transmission portion for transmitting a result of the search by the processing portion to the first communication terminal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for providing a communication terminal with information on a shop through communication by use of a system in which data of a plurality of shops including delivery area information on delivery areas of the shops is previously stored, said information providing method comprising the steps of:
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acquiring location information on a location of the communication terminal;
based on the delivery area information of the shops and the received location information, searching for a shop a delivery area of which includes the location; and
transmitting a result of the search by a processing portion to a first communication terminal. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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18. A display control method in which a server to which a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal are connected so that communication can be performed between the server and the terminals controls at least a display portion of the first communication terminal, said display control method comprising the steps of:
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receiving an instruction from the second communication terminal;
receiving first information from the first communication terminal in response to reception of the instruction;
processing data stored in the server based on the received first information; and
transmitting the processed data at least to the first communication terminal, wherein the first communication terminal displays the received information on the display portion thereof in response to reception of the processed data. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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