Electronic device

• US 20040236589A1
• Filed: 02/10/2004
• Published: 11/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Eiji
• Application Number:
  US10/486,377
• Publication Number:
  US 20040236589A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

To provide an electronic device with an ability to provide services appropriate for situations. For this reason, the electronic device comprises: a situation information acquisition part for acquiring situation information, which is dynamic information; a determining part for determining whether a service can be executed; a service information acquisition part for acquiring information for executing a service; and an execution part for executing an acquired service. A condition information acquisition part is provided so that, when the determining part determines that a service cannot be executed, it acquires service available information for the service to become available. Furthermore, a situation information correctness determining part is provided which determines correctness of the situation information acquired in the situation information acquisition part.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a situation information acquisition part for acquiring situation information, which is dynamic information;

a determining part for determining whether a service can be executed, based on situation information acquired in the situation information acquisition part;

a service information acquisition part for acquiring service information, which is information for executing a service;

an execution part for executing service information; and

a situation information correctness determining part for determining correctness of situation information acquired in the situation information acquisition part.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the situation information acquisition part acquires situation information from plural means information sources, and the situation information correctness determining part determines the correctness of the situation information by determining whether or not the situation information acquired from the plural means information sources matches.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, including situation information reliability rank providing means for ranking reliability of said situation information, based on sources of the situation information acquired in the situation information acquisition part, situation information acquisition routes, or combinations of the sources of situation information and routes of acquiring the situation information, wherein the situation information correctness determining part determines the correctness of the situation information, using a rank provided by the situation information reliability rank providing means.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, including situation information accuracy rank providing means for ranking accuracy of said situation information, based on sources of situation information acquired in the situation information acquisition part, wherein the situation information correctness determining part determines the correctness of the situation information, using a rank provided by the situation information accuracy rank providing means.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1 or 2, including the situation information reliability rank providing means for ranking reliability of said situation information, based on sources of the situation information acquired in the situation information acquisition part, situation information acquisition routes, or combinations of the sources of situation information and routes of acquiring the situation information, and the situation information accuracy rank providing means for ranking accuracy of said situation information, based on the sources of situation information acquired in the situation information acquisition part, wherein the situation information correctness determining part determines the correctness of the situation information, using ranks provided by the situation information reliability rank providing means and the situation information accuracy rank providing means.

6. The electronic device according to claim 3, wherein the situation information reliability rank providing means rank the reliability of situation information, based on encrypted information.

7. The electronic device according to claim 5, wherein the situation information reliability rank providing means rank the reliability of situation information, based on encrypted information.

9. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the service information is information for acquiring electronic information.

11. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the service information is information for providing electronic information.

13. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the service information is information for making electronic information available.

15. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein

the electronic information becomes available when a license describing conditions for using the electronic information is satisfied;

one of said use conditions is compliance situation information, which is information related to situation information; and

the determining part determines whether or not situation information acquired in the situation information acquisition part satisfies said compliance situation information.

17. The electronic device according to claim 11, wherein

the electronic information becomes available when a license describing conditions for using the electronic information is satisfied;

one of said use conditions is compliance situation information, which is information related to situation information; and

the determining part determines whether or not situation information acquired in the situation information acquisition part satisfies said compliance situation information.

19. The electronic device according to claim 13, wherein

the electronic information becomes available when a license describing conditions for using the electronic information is satisfied;

one of the said conditions is compliance situation information, which is information related to situation information; and

the determining part determines whether or not situation information acquired in the situation information acquisition part satisfies said compliance situation information.

21. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein, when, for given service information (service information A), service information (service information B) related to the service information exists, the service information A includes recommendation information for recommending acquisition of the service information B.

23. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the service information is information for acquiring a license.

25. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the service information is information for providing a license.

27. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the service information is information for canceling a license.

29. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the service information is information for updating a license.

8. An electronic device comprising:

a situation information acquisition part for acquiring situation information, which is dynamic information;

a determining part for determining whether a service can be executed, based on situation information acquired in the situation information acquisition part;

a service information acquisition part for acquiring service information, which is information for executing a service;

an execution part for executing acquired service information; and

a condition information acquisition part for, when the determining part determines that a service cannot be executed, acquiring service available information for the service to become available.

10. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the service information is information for acquiring electronic information.

12. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the service information is information for providing electronic information.

14. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the service information is information for making electronic information available.

16. The electronic device according to claim 10, wherein

the electronic information becomes available when a license describing conditions for using the electronic information is satisfied;

one of said use conditions is compliance situation information, which is information related to situation information; and

the determining part determines whether or not situation information acquired in the situation information acquisition part satisfies said compliance situation information.

18. The electronic device according to claim 12, wherein

the electronic information becomes available when a license describing conditions for using the electronic information is satisfied;

one of said use conditions is compliance situation information, which is information related to situation information; and

the determining part determines whether or not situation information acquired in the situation information acquisition part satisfies said compliance situation information.

20. The electronic device according to claim 14, wherein

the electronic information becomes available when a license describing conditions for using the electronic information is satisfied;

one of said use conditions is compliance situation information, which is information related to situation information; and

the determining part determines whether or not situation information acquired in the situation information acquisition part satisfies said compliance situation information.

22. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein, when, for given service information (service information A), service information (service information B) related to the service information exists, the service information A includes recommendation information for recommending acquisition of the service information B.

24. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the service information is information for acquiring a license.

26. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the service information is information for providing a license.

28. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the service information is information for canceling a license.

30. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the service information is information for updating a license.