Information delivery apparatus and information delivery method

• US 20040158565A1
• Filed: 01/29/2004
• Published: 08/12/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Fujimoto, Shingo, Ohno, Takashi, Murakami, Masahiko, Iwakawa, Akinori, Kakuta, Jun, Okada, Sumiyo
• Granted Patent: US 8,019,874 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]

Abstract

In an information delivery apparatus and method, when a user who transmits information updates information to be transmitted, based on a profile of each user desiring delivery of the information, the order of delivering the updated information, that is, from which user the updated information should be sequentially delivered, is determined beforehand, and information delivery matching a status of the user at a delivered end.

Claims

1. An apparatus for delivering information to a plurality of user terminals comprising:

a storage unit for storing a first and a second groups of data, the first group of data including a combination of first identification data for identifying a first user terminal, a first index data corresponding to the first identification data, and a set of second index data, the second index data being assigned to a second user terminal to which a first information data provided by the first user terminal is delivered, the second group of data including a combination of the first identification data, the first information data, and a set of second identification data, the second identification data corresponding to the second index data, and a set of profile data, the profile data being related to the second identification data and being provided by the user terminal identified by the second identification data, the second group being assigned with the first index;

means for allowing entry of updated information into said storage unit to update said first information; and

means for determining an order of delivering updated first information to the second user terminals according to the set of the profile data acquired by reference to the second group of data in said storage unit.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, the apparatus further includes means for detecting a restriction data respect to a restriction on delivering the updated first information data, the restriction data included in the updated first information data, and a means for determining whether the updated first information data is delivered according to the restriction data.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, the apparatus further includes means for detecting a restriction data respect to a restriction on delivering the updated first information data, the restriction data included in the first updated information data, and a means for determining the order according to the restriction data.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the restriction data is responsive to a date in which the updated first information data is delivered.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, the apparatus further includes means for adding a datum responsive to the order to the updated first information data.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, the apparatus further includes means for receiving an order information data and an instruction data for changing the updated first information, the order information data being responsive to the order for delivering the updated first information data, and a means for changing the updated first information according to the instruction data.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the profile data includes at least one of a datum responsive to a present status of a user of the user terminal, a datum responsive to a type of the user terminal, a datum of a location datum of the user terminal, a datum responsive to the order in which the first information was delivered to the user terminal, a datum responsive to communication history, a datum responsive to a frequency of updating information transmitted from the user terminal, a datum responsive to a last updating date and time of information transmitted from the user terminal, and a datum responsive to whether a charge for reception of the first information is paid or not paid.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first information data includes a plurality of information data which are different each other, each information data is assigned to the order, and the information data is delivered to the user terminal corresponding to the order.

9. A method of information delivery comprising the steps of:

receiving information from a user terminal;

obtaining identification information for identifying a user terminal to which the information is delivered, and an index assigned to the information;

obtaining profile information from a user terminal that requires to be delivered the information;

storing the profile information according to the identification information at each the index;

receiving the information updated; and

determining an order of delivery of the information updated to the user terminals at each index.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the profile data includes at least one of a datum responsive to a present status of a user of the user terminal, a datum responsive to a type of the user terminal, a datum of a positional datum of the user terminal, a datum responsive to the order in which the information was delivered to the user terminal, a datum responsive to communication history, a datum responsive to a frequency of updating information transmitted from the user terminal, a datum responsive to a last updating date and time of information transmitted from the user terminal, and a datum responsive to whether a charge for reception of the information is paid or not paid.