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Facility administration apparatus and method

  • US 20020116233A1
  • Filed: 05/02/2001
  • Published: 08/22/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A facility administration apparatus arranged in an area having a plurality of facilities collected therein, capable of communicating with a mobile device lent to a facility user via a plurality of relay stations each having a transceiver, and organizing a reservation of each facility as reservation information in response to a request transmitted from said mobile device for a reservation of each facility, comprising:

  • a reservation information master file storing said reservation information for each facility an identifier of said mobile device carried by said facility user having made a reservation, information of a facility reserved by said facility user, and a time at which said facility user desires to use said facility;

    means for referring to said time in said reservation information master file to transmit via said relay station to said mobile device of said facility user a predetermined temporal period before said time a notification indicating that said time is approaching;

    means for receiving an identifier of said relay station having transmitted said notification to said mobile device, and determining from said identifier of said relay station a position of said facility user carrying said mobile device with said user;

    a shortest-route master file previously storing a shortest route from each subarea of said area to each facility;

    means for determining a shortest route based on said position determined of said facility user, said information stored in said facility reservation master file indicating said facility reserved by said facility user, and said shortest-route master file; and

    means for transmitting information of said shortest route.

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