Service providing system

• US 20030154329A1
• Filed: 02/06/2003
• Published: 08/14/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ooi, Koji, Ikoma, Ken
• Application Number:
  US10/359,956
• Publication Number:
  US 20030154329A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS

Abstract

The present invention provides a service providing system for providing a user with services in accordance with travel history information of the user indicating the location the user was present and the date/time the user was present, and the system includes a terminal having a travel history information transmitter for transmitting the travel history information and a service information output section for outputting information on the services, and a service information management server having a travel history information storage for storing the travel history information transmitted from the personal authentication terminal, a service information storage for storing information on the services, and a service information transmitter for transmitting information on the services to the personal authentication terminal.

Claims

1. A service providing system comprising:

a terminal comprising a travel history information transmission unit for transmitting travel history information and a service information output unit for outputting information on services in accordance with the travel history information; and

a server comprising a travel history information storage unit for storing the travel history information transmitted from the terminal, a service information storage unit for storing information on the services, and a service information transmission unit for transmitting information on the services to the terminal.

2. The service providing system according to claim 1, wherein the information on the service includes a presence proof service to prove location the user was present and the date/time the user was present.

3. The service providing system according to claim 1, wherein the service information transmission unit transmits information on the services to the terminal when the travel history information has satisfied the conditions specified by the provider of information on the services.

4. The service providing system according to claim 2, wherein the information on the service includes a presence proof service to prove location the user was present and the date/time the user was present.

5. The service providing system according to claim 1, wherein the travel history information of the user includes the location information the user has been present and the date/time the user has been present at the location.