Spot-specifying code providing method using communication between server and client terminal

• US 20030177180A1
• Filed: 01/08/2003
• Published: 09/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Higuchi, Masahiro, Hosoe, Katsuharu
• Application Number:
  US10/337,894
• Publication Number:
  US 20030177180A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/10 Map spot or coordinate position indicators; Map reading aids optical projection apparatus per se G03B

Abstract

A client terminal can obtain a spot-specifying code by accessing a server via the Internet. At first, when a user wants to obtain a spot-specifying code pertinent to a spot, the user appoints the spot on a map shown in a display of the client terminal. When the user appoints the several spots on the map, marks and numerals that indicate the appointed spots are displayed. Upon finishing appointment of all the spots, the user clicks a button of ‘ISUUE SPOT-SPECIFYING CODE.’ The server then converts coordinates of the appointed spots into the spot-specifying codes using a conversion table to make a file. The file is thereby downloaded to the terminal.

Claims

1. A spot-specifying code providing method in which a server provides a spot-specifying code to a client terminal through communicating with the client terminal, wherein the spot-specifying code corresponds to a spot that is segmented in a meshed pattern on a map to be used for specifying the spot, the method comprising steps of:

receiving necessary information from the client terminal for specifying a map including a spot whose spot-specifying code is required;

generating map data based on the necessary information;

sending the map data to the client terminal;

obtaining a coordinate of at least one appointed spot on a map that is displayed on a display of the client terminal based on the map data;

converting the coordinate into a spot-specifying code; and

providing the spot-specifying code to the client terminal.

2. A spot-specifying code providing method according to claim 1,

wherein the necessary information is an address, and the generated map data is pertinent to a map that includes the address around the center of the map.

3. A spot-specifying code providing method according to claim 1, further comprising steps of:

receiving a request for confirming a given spot pertinent to a given spot-specifying code;

generating given map data pertinent to a given map including the given spot; and

making the client terminal display the given map and the given spot.

4. A spot-specifying code providing method according to claim 3, further comprising steps of:

obtaining a certain coordinate of a certain spot on the given map, wherein the certain spot is substituted for the given spot as a result of modifying appointment;

converting the certain coordinate into a certain spot-specifying code; and

providing the certain spot-specifying code to the client terminal.