Information distributing device, system and method

• US 20030018713A1
• Filed: 06/18/2002
• Published: 01/23/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Increment P Corporation (Pioneer Corporation), Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Increment P Corporation (Pioneer Corporation)
• Inventors: Igarashi, Kaoru
• Granted Patent: US 7,779,066 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

An information distributing machine distributes only information comparatively related to a user. The information distributing machine has a memory for storing a moving path of every user. The information distributing machine also has a distribution information entry unit for accepting distribution information including position information. A controller determines whether there is particular relationship between the moving path stored in the memory and the position information included in the distribution information. The information distribution machine transmits the distribution information to a user when there is the relationship between the moving path of that user and the position information.

Claims

1. An information distributing device comprising:

a memory for storing a moving path of a user;

a distribution information entry unit for accepting distribution information including position information;

a determination unit for determining whether there is predetermined relationship between the moving path stored in said memory and the position information included in said distribution information; and

a transmitting unit for transmitting said distribution information to the user when the determination unit determines that there is the predetermined relationship between the moving path and the position information.

2. The information distributing device according to claim 1, wherein said position information specifies an area related to said distribution information.

3. The information distributing device according to claim 1, wherein said transmitting unit transmits said distribution information by e-mail.

4. The information distributing device according to claim 1, wherein said distribution information entry unit receives said distribution information from an information transmitting server.

5. The information distributing device according to claim 1 further including a moving path setting unit for calculating and setting the moving path on the basis of a departing spot and destination spot designated by the user, and map data.

6. The information distributing device according to claim 5, wherein said map data are obtained from a map information server.

7. The information distributing device according to claim 1, wherein the distribution information transmitted by said transmitting unit is received by a terminal unit.

8. The information distributing device according to claim 1 further including:

an information type memory for storing a type of information which the user wants to receive; and

a match detection unit for determining whether the type of the information stored in said information type memory matches a type of said distribution information, and

wherein said transmitting unit transmits said distribution information to the user when the determination unit determines that there is the predetermined relationship between the position information and the moving path and the match detection unit determines that the type of the information stored in the information type memory matches the type of the distribution information.

9. An information distributing method comprising the steps of:

A) storing a moving path of a user;

B) accepting distribution information including position information;

C) determining whether there is predetermined relationship between the moving path stored in Step A and the position information included in the distribution information accepted in Step B; and

D) transmitting said distribution information to the user when Step C determines that there is the predetermined relationship between the moving path and the position information included in the distribution information.

10. The information distributing method according to claim 9, wherein said position information specifies an area related to said distribution information.

11. The information distributing method according to claim 9, wherein Step D transmits said distribution information by e-mail.

12. The information distributing method according to claim 9 further including the step of calculating and setting the moving path on the basis of a departing spot and destination spot designated by the user, and map data, before Step A.

13. The information distributing method according to claim 9 further including the steps:

E) storing a type of information which the user wants to receive, before Step D; and

F) determining whether the type of the information stored in Step E matches a type of said distribution information, before Step D, and

wherein Step D transmits said distribution information to the user when Step C determines that there is the predetermined relationship between the position information and the moving path and Step F determines that the type of the information stored in Step E memory matches the type of the distribution information.

15. The information distributing system according to claim 14, wherein said position information specifies an area related to said distribution information.

16. The information distributing system according to claim 14, wherein said transmitting unit transmits said distribution information by e-mail.

17. The information distributing system according to claim 14 further including a moving path setting unit for calculating and setting the moving path on the basis of a departing spot and destination spot designated by the user, and map data.

18. The information distributing system according to claim 17 further including a map information server for supplying said map data.

19. The information distributing system according to claim 14, wherein the distribution information transmitted by said transmitting unit is received by a terminal unit.

20. The information distributing system according to claim 14 further including:

an information type memory for storing a type of information which the user wants to receive; and

a match detection unit for determining whether the type of the information stored in said information type memory matches a type of said distribution information, and

wherein said transmitting unit transmits said distribution information to the user when the determination unit determines that there is the predetermined relationship between the position information and the moving path and the match detection unit determines that the type of the information stored in the information type memory matches the type of the distribution information.

14. An information distributing system comprising:

a memory for storing a moving path of a user who uses a terminal unit;

a distribution information generating unit for generating distribution information including position information;

a determination unit for determining whether there is predetermined relationship between the moving path stored in said memory and the position information included in said distribution information; and

a transmitting unit for transmitting said distribution information to the terminal unit of the user when the determination unit determines that there is the predetermined relationship between the moving path and the position information.