Information displaying system, information providing apparatus, and information providing method

• US 20020063723A1
• Filed: 01/16/2002
• Published: 05/30/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Hirono, Chiharu
• Granted Patent: US 6,882,348 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0256 User search
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0272 Period of advertisement exposure
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement

Abstract

An information displaying system for displaying information corresponding to a geographical location is disclosed, that comprises a display commanding means pre-assigned a unique ID, an information displaying means for displaying information corresponding to a command received from the display commanding means, a first data storing means for storing map drawing element data for drawing a map, a second data storing means for storing a geographical location corresponding to contents displayed corresponding to the command received from the display commanding means and first attribute information in such a manner that the geographical location and the first attribute information are correlated with the ID, a map drawing commanding means, linked from the display commanding means, for searching the first data storing means so as to draw the map corresponding to the location searched from the second data storing means corresponding to the ID, wherein the map corresponding to a command received from the map drawing commanding means is displayed by the information displaying means.

Claims

1. An information displaying system for displaying information corresponding to a geographical location, comprising:

display commanding means pre-assigned a unique ID;

information displaying means for displaying information corresponding to a command received from said display commanding means;

first data storing means for storing map drawing element data for drawing a map;

second data storing means for storing a geographical location corresponding to contents displayed corresponding to the command received from said display commanding means and first attribute information in such a manner that the geographical location and the first attribute information are correlated with the ID;

map drawing commanding means, linked from said display commanding means, for searching said first data storing means so as to draw the map corresponding to the location searched from said second data storing means corresponding to the ID,

wherein the map corresponding to a command received from said map drawing commanding means is displayed by said information displaying means.

2. The information displaying system as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

third data storing means for storing advertisement data displayed by said information displaying means and second attribute information that represents an attribute of the advertisement; and

advertisement display commanding means, linked from said display commanding means, for causing said information displaying means to display the advertisement with the advertisement data searched from said third data storing means with a correlation of the first attribute information searched from said second data storing means corresponding to the ID and the second attribute information,

wherein the advertisement corresponding to the command received from said advertisement display commanding means and the map corresponding to the command received from said map drawing commanding means are displayed by said information displaying means.

3. The information displaying system as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the first attribute information is a business category corresponding to the ID.

4. The information displaying system as set forth in claim 2,

wherein the second attribute information is a business category of the advertisement.

5. The information displaying system as set forth in claim 2,

wherein the second attribute information is location information of the advertisement.

6. The information displaying system as set forth in claim 2,

wherein the second attribute information is time information of the advertisement.

7. The information displaying system as set forth in claim 2,

wherein the second attribute information stored in said third data storing means is composed of the contents of the advertisement, the geographical location information of the advertisement, the business category of the advertisement, and the effective period of the advertisement.

8. The information displaying system as set forth in claim 2,

wherein said display commanding means has linking means for linking said map drawing commanding means and said advertisement display commanding means.

9. An information providing apparatus for providing information corresponding to a geographical location, comprising:

first data storing means for storing map drawing element data for drawing a map;

second data storing means for storing a geographical location corresponding to a particular ID and first attribute information in such a manner that the geographical location and the first attribute information are correlated with the ID;

map drawing commanding means for searching said first data storing means so as to draw the map corresponding to the location searched from said second data storing means corresponding to the ID,

wherein when display commanding means assigned the ID is linked to said map drawing commanding means, said map drawing commanding means causes information displaying means to draw and display the map.

10. The information providing apparatus as set forth in claim 9, further comprising:

third data storing means for storing advertisement data displayed by said information displaying means and second attribute information that represents an attribute of the advertisement; and

advertisement display commanding means for causing said information displaying means to display the advertisement with the advertisement data searched from said third data storing means with a correlation of the first attribute information searched from said second data storing means corresponding to the ID and the second attribute information,

wherein when said advertisement display commanding means and said map drawing command means are linked from said display commanding means, said advertisement display commanding means causes said information displaying means to display the advertisement and said map drawing commanding means causes information displaying means to draw and display the map.

11. The information providing apparatus as set forth in claim 9,

wherein the first attribute information is a business category corresponding to the ID.

12. The information providing apparatus as set forth in claim 10,

wherein the second attribute information is a business category of the advertisement.

13. The information providing apparatus as set forth in claim 10,

wherein the second attribute information is location information of the advertisement.

14. The information providing apparatus as set forth in claim 10,

wherein the second attribute information is time information of the advertisement.

15. The information providing apparatus as set forth in claim 10,

wherein the second attribute information stored in said third data storing means is composed of the contents of the advertisement, the geographical location information of the advertisement, the business category of the advertisement, and the effective period of the advertisement.

17. The information providing method as set forth in claim 16, further comprising the steps of:

(d) storing advertisement data displayed by the information displaying means and second attribute information that represents an attribute of the advertisement to third data storing means; and

(e) causing the information displaying means to display the advertisement with the advertisement data searched from said third data storing means with a correlation of the first attribute information searched from the second data storing means corresponding to the ID and the second attribute information,

wherein when the display commanding means is linked, the step (e) and the step (c) are performed for the information displaying means to display the advertisement and draw and display the map.

18. The information providing method as set forth in claim 16,

wherein the first attribute information is a business category corresponding to the ID.

19. The information providing method as set forth in claim 17,

wherein the second attribute information is a business category of the advertisement.

20. The information providing method as set forth in claim 17,

wherein the second attribute information is location information of the advertisement.

21. The information providing method as set forth in claim 17,

wherein the second attribute information is time information of the advertisement.

22. The information providing method as set forth in claim 17,

wherein the second attribute information stored in said third data storing means is composed of the contents of the advertisement, the geographical location information of the advertisement, the business category of the advertisement, and the effective period of the advertisement.

16. An information providing method for providing information corresponding to a geographical location, comprising the steps of:

(a) storing map drawing element data for drawing a map to first data storing means;

(b) storing a geographical location corresponding to a particular ID and first attribute information to second data storing means in such a manner that the geographical location and the first attribute information are correlated with the ID;

(c) searching the first data storing means so as to draw the map corresponding to the location searched from the second data storing means corresponding to the ID,

wherein when display commanding means assigned the ID is linked, the step (c) is performed for information displaying means to draw and display the map.