Information transmission system and traveling server and terminal device for use thereof, and information transmitting method

• US 20030032435A1
• Filed: 03/01/2002
• Published: 02/13/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Asada, Kouji, Sano, Kenji, Tomobe, Osamu, Sugiyama, Yoshikazu
• Application Number:
  US10/086,977
• Publication Number:
  US 20030032435A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3679 Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities G01C21/3611 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/005 including pedestrian guidance indicator
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station

Abstract

An information transmission system, for transmitting data relating to a plan and destination of traveling prepared in advance, depending upon the destination and time on the travel, by using a portable terminal having transmission function of data, comprising a portable terminal, and a travel server memorizing personal data and various kinds of data therein, wherein the travel server produces travel information necessary for the travel to each person, upon the basis of the personal data including destination information of travel, and the various kinds of data, and transmit it from the travel server to the portable terminal, depending upon location information of the portable terminal and time information programmed in advance, thereby enabling the traveler to obtain the necessary information at the destination on traveling, so as to carry out activities, smoothly, on the day.

Claims

1. An information transmission system, comprising:

a portable terminal having transmission function of data; and

a travel server for memorizing personal data and various kinds of data therein, wherein;

said travel server produces travel data necessary for traveling of an each person, from the personal data, including destination information of travel therein, and the various kinds of data, which are memorized in said travel server, and transmits the travel data from said travel server to said portable terminal, depending upon at least one or both of location information of said portable terminal and time information programmed in advance.

2. An information transmission system, as described in the claim 1, wherein said travel data is changed to newest data when changing is made on said various kinds of data.

3. An information transmission system, as described in the claim 1, wherein destination of travel, means for moving, identification means of said portable terminal are registered in said travel serve, as the personal data, and said travel server produces the travel data for the each person and for each the destination from the personal data and the various kinds of data, so as to transmit them to said portable terminal.

4. An information transmission system, as described in the claim 1, wherein destination of travel, means for moving, identification means of said portable terminal are registered in said travel serve, as the personal data, and also information of facilities and sightseeing information corresponding to the destination of travel are registered in said travel serve, as the various kinds of data.

5. An information transmission system, as described in the claim 1, further comprising area servers located in plural numbers of areas, wherein the various kinds of data, including the information of facilities and the sightseeing information, which are accumulated in said local area servers, are taken out from said local area servers, so as to be used for producing of the travel data.

6. An information transmission system, as described in the claim 1, wherein said information transmission system further comprises area servers located in plural numbers of areas, and said travel server accesses to the local area server nearest to a present location of said portable terminal when transmitting the data on said portable terminal.

7. An information transmission system, as described in the claim 1, wherein information of facilities and sightseeing information corresponding to the destination of travel are registered in said travel serve, respectively, as the various kinds of data, and said various kinds of data is supplied to a broadcasting station for broadcasting a travel program.

8. An information transmission system, comprising:

a portable terminal having transmission function of data; and

a travel server for memorizing personal data and various kinds of data therein, wherein;

said travel server produces travel data necessary for traveling, from the personal data, including a destination information of travel therein, and various kinds of data, being memorized in said travel server; and

said portable terminal memorizes a telephone number of said travel server, wherein said portable terminal transmits the telephone number of itself to said travel server, together with location identification information for use in discriminating of a location registration area when conducting location registration, while said travel server conducts search upon the personal data memorized therein by referring to the telephone number received, as to compare the destination data of travel contained in the personal data, being coincident with, and the location identification information received, thereby to transmit it to said travel server when they are coincident with each other.

9. An information transmission system, comprising:

a portable terminal having transmission function of data; and

a travel server for memorizing personal data and various kinds of data therein, wherein;

said travel server transmits a telephone number of itself, periodically, by using the telephone number of said portable terminal memorized in advance in said travel server, so as to require location information of said portable terminal, while said portable terminal transmits the location information thereof to said travel server when the telephone number transmitted from said travel server is in coincidence with the telephone number memorized in advance therein, and thereby said travel server transmits the travel data to said portable terminal, corresponding to the location information transmitted.

10. An information transmission system, comprising:

a portable terminal having transmission function of data; and

a travel server for memorizing personal data and various kinds of data therein, wherein;

said portable terminal comprises a location detector portion for receiving radio wave from a positioning system, thereby transmitting the location information calculated out by said location detector portion thereof, together with a telephone number of said portable terminal itself, to said travel server, while said travel server conducts search upon the personal data memorized therein by referring to the telephone number received, so as to compare the destination data of travel contained in the personal data being coincident with, to the location identification information received, thereby to transmit the travel data to said portable terminal when they are coincident with each other.

11. An information transmitting method, for transmitting travel information necessary for traveling, from a travel server memorizing personal data and various kinds of data therein, to a portable terminal having a function of transmission of data, comprising the following steps:

a step for producing the travel data necessary for travel from the personal data, including destination data of travel, and the various kinds of data, which are memorized in said travel server, in said travel server;

a step for transmitting a telephone number of said portable terminal itself together with a location information calculated out in a location detector portion for receiving radio wave from a positioning system, which is owned by said portable terminal, from said portable terminal; and

a step for conducting search upon the personal data memorized in said travel server, by referring to the telephone number received, so as to compare the destination data of travel contained in the personal data being coincident with, to the location identification information received, thereby transmitting the travel data to said portable terminal when they are coincident with each other.

12. A portable terminal for use in an information transmission system, having a portable terminal having transmission function of data;

and a travel server for memorizing personal data and various kinds of data therein, thereby producing travel data necessary for traveling, from the personal data, including destination information of travel therein, and the various kinds of data, so as to transmit the travel data to said portable terminal depending upon location information of said portable terminal, wherein said portable terminal comprises;

means for memorizing a telephone number of said travel server; and

means for transmitting location identification information to be used in discriminating of a location registration area when said portable terminal conducts a location registration, together with a telephone number of said portable terminal itself, to said travel server.

13. A portable terminal for use in an information transmission system, having a portable terminal having transmission function of data;

and a travel server for memorizing personal data and various kinds of data therein, thereby producing travel data necessary for traveling, from the personal data, including destination information of travel therein, and the various kinds of data, so as to transmit the travel data to said portable terminal depending upon location information of said portable terminal, wherein said portable terminal comprises;

a location detector portion for receiving radio wave from a positioning system; and

means for transmitting location information calculated out by said location detector portion, together with a telephone number of said portable terminal itself, to said travel server.

14. A server for use in an information transmission system, having a portable terminal having transmission function of data;

and a travel server for memorizing personal data including destination information of travel, and various kinds of data therein, comprising;

means for producing travel data necessary for traveling from the personal data and the various kinds of data memorized in said travel server;

means for transmitting a telephone number of itself, periodically, with using a telephone number of said portable terminal memorized in said travel server in advance;

means for requiring location information of said portable terminal; and

means for transmitting the travel data to said portable terminal, depending upon the location information transmitted from said portable terminal.

15. A server for use in an information transmission system, having a portable terminal having transmission function of data;

and a travel server for memorizing personal data including destination information of travel, and various kinds of data therein, comprising;

means for producing travel data necessary for traveling from the personal data and the various kinds of data memorized in said travel server;

means for receiving location information transmitted from said portable terminal having a location detector portion for receiving radio wave from a positioning system, together with a telephone number of said portable terminal; and

means for conducting search upon the personal data memorized therein, by referring to the telephone number received, so as to compare the destination data of travel contained in the personal data being coincident with, to the location identification information received, thereby transmitting the travel data to said portable terminal when they are coincident with each other.

16. An information transmission system, comprising:

a portable terminal having transmission function of data;

a in-house server for transmitting data through a network; and

a travel server for memorizing personal data including destination information of travel, and various kinds of data therein;

wherein,

information of either one of picture and audio, being recorded during travel, is transmitted from said portable terminal to said travel server, together with either one or both of location information and time information recorded, and said travel server compiles the information transmitted from said portable terminal, thereby to transmit it to said in-house server as an album after the travel.

17. An information transmission system, as described in the claim 16, wherein said information of either one of picture and audio recorded during the travel includes information obtained by taking through said portable terminal during the travel and a portion of travel information transmitted from said travel server.

18. An information transmission system, as described in the claim 16, wherein said portable terminal comprises:

a holding mechanism for holding an IC card therein; and

an input/output means for reading and/or writing from and/or into said IC card, wherein the information of either one of picture and audio, being recorded into said IC card during the travel, is transmitted from said portable terminal to said travel server, together with either one or both of location information and time information recorded.

19. An information transmission system, comprising:

a portable terminal having function of taking picture, as well as, of transmission of data;

a in-house server for transmitting data through a network; and

a travel server for memorizing personal data including destination information of travel, and various kinds of data therein;

wherein,

information of either one of picture and audio, being taken during travel, is transmitted from said portable terminal to said travel server, together with either one or both of location information and time information recorded, and said travel server compiles the information transmitted from said portable terminal, thereby to transmit it to said in-house server as an album after the travel.