Device and method for transmitting information for each region

• US 20040199398A1
• Filed: 11/25/2003
• Published: 10/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushikikaisha Equos Research
• Original Assignee: Kabushikikaisha Equos Research
• Inventors: Kubota, Tomoki
• Application Number:
  US10/478,747
• Publication Number:
  US 20040199398A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0205 Location or geographical consideration
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0962 having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/13 the indicator being in the form of a map
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/207 with respect to certain areas, e.g. forbidden or allowed areas with possible alerting when inside or outside boundaries

Abstract

On a vehicle, a device for estimating a present position such as a GPS device and a communication device such as a cell phone are installed. The vehicle transmits a detected present position to an information center at specified intervals. On the other hand, the information center sets a plurality of areas in a region to which information is transmitted, and sets information for transmission for each area. When receiving data indicating the present position of the vehicle from the vehicle, the information center specifies, by using the data, an area where the vehicle is located, and transmits the information set for the area to the vehicle.

Claims

1. A device for transmitting information for each region comprising:

a region specifying information obtaining means for each region to obtain region specifying information for specifying a region from a region purchaser who wants to purchase the region to which he/she transmits information;

an information-for-transmission obtaining means to obtain information for transmission from said region purchaser who has obtained said region specifying information;

a storing means to store in a storage medium said obtained region specifying information and said obtained information for transmission by relating one to the other;

a present position obtaining means to obtain a present position information to specify a present position of a mobile terminal device;

a region determination means to determine in which of each region stored in said storage medium said obtained present position of said mobile terminal device is located; and

a transmission means to transmit to an applicable mobile terminal device, when the mobile terminal device is determined to be located in any of the regions, said information for transmission related to the region which is stored in the storage medium.

2. An information transmitting device for each region according to claim 1, comprising:

a region fee amount calculating means to calculate a fee amount of a region specified by said obtained region specifying information; and

a region fee outputting means to output said calculated region fee amount.

3. An information transmitting device for each region according to claim 2, wherein said region fee amount calculating means calculates a fee amount of a region based on at least one of an area size of the region, the number of signals present in the region, an availability of parking spaces in the region, a length of roads in the region, a density of mobile terminal device in the region, and a moved distance of a mobile terminal device passing through the region.

4. An information transmitting device for each region according to claim 1, wherein a map transmission means is provided to transmit a map information to display a map which indicates regions available for sale according to a request by a region purchaser, to the region purchaser who made the request, and wherein said region specifying information obtaining means obtains the area specifying information specified by said region purchaser based on said transmitted map information.

5. An information transmitting device for each region according to claim 1, wherein said region specifying information obtaining means sells a non-overlapping region to the region purchaser by obtaining the region specifying information on a region which does not overlap the region specified in the region specifying information already stored in said storage medium.

6. An information transmitting device for each region according to claim 1, wherein said region specifying information obtaining means obtains, together with the region specifying information, an additional condition information to specify an additional condition consisting at least one of a season, a time frame, and a term so that a region in which both the region and the additional condition thereof do not overlap is sold to the region purchaser,

wherein said storing means stores in the storage medium the obtained region specifying information, the obtained information for transmission, and the obtained additional condition information while relating these three information to each other, and

wherein said region determination means determines where the obtained present position of the mobile terminal device is located within any region stored in the storage medium which satisfies the additional condition related to each region.

7. An information transmitting method for each region comprising:

a region specifying information obtaining step in which the region specifying information obtaining means obtains the region specifying information to specify a region from the region purchaser who wants to purchase the region to which he/she transmits information;

an information-for-transmission obtaining step in which the information-for-transmission obtaining means obtains the information for transmission from the region purchaser who has obtained the region specifying information;

a storing step in which the storing means stores in the storage media the obtained region specifying information and the obtained information for transmission while relating one to the other;

a present position information obtaining step in which a present position information obtaining means obtains the present position information to specify the present position of the mobile terminal device;

a region determining step in which the region determination means determines where the obtained present position of the mobile terminal device is located within any of each region stored in the storage medium; and

a transmitting step in which the transmission means transmits to an applicable mobile terminal device, when the mobile terminal device is determined to be located within any of the regions, the information for transmission stored in the storage media which is related to the region.