Information provision brokerage system, information provision brokerage method and computer program

• US 20060190562A1
• Filed: 04/09/2003
• Published: 08/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: OHNO, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US10/552,150
• Publication Number:
  US 20060190562A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/218
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A brokerage system (1) is provided with a data management portion (104), a transmission permission determining portion (106) and an information transmission portion (107). The data management portion (104) stores provider area information indicating an area designated by an information provider and provision information 70 that is provided by the information provider. In addition, it stores user area information indicating an area designated by a user. The transmission permission determining portion (106) determines whether or not an area designated by an information provider overlaps an area designated by a user. The information transmission portion (107) transmits provision information (70) of an information provider to a terminal device of a user if it is determined that an area designated by the information provider overlaps an area designated by the user.

Claims

1. An information provision brokerage system comprising:

a provider information storage portion for storing provider area information and provision information for each information provider, the provider area information indicating an area designated by the information provider, and the provision information being to be provided by the information provider;

a user information storage portion for storing user area information for each user who has a terminal device, the user area information indicating an area designated by the user;

a determining portion for determining whether or not an area indicated by the provider area information overlaps an area indicated by the user area information; and

an information transmission portion for transmitting the provision information of the information provider according to the provider area information to a terminal device of the user according to the user area information if it is determined that the area indicated by the provider area information overlaps the area indicated by the user area information.

2. The information provision brokerage system according to claim 1, wherein:

an area in which the provision information can be provided is divided into plural segment areas,

the provider information storage portion stores the provider area information that indicates the segment area,

the user information storage portion stores the user area information that indicates the segment area, and

the determining portion performs the determination by determining whether or not the same segment area is included both in the segment area indicated by the provider area information and in the segment area indicated by the user area information.

3. The information provision brokerage system according to claim 1, comprising a movement information obtaining portion for obtaining movement information that indicates a speed and a direction of movement of the user, and an area information changing portion for changing the user area information of the user in accordance with the movement information of the user, wherein the determining portion performs the determination in accordance with the user area information changed by the area information changing portion.

4. The information provision brokerage system according to claim 1, wherein the provision information storage portion stores category information that indicates a category of contents of the provision information in association with the provision information, the user information storage portion stores category information that indicates a category of information desired by the user in association with the user, and the information transmission portion transmits the provision information if a category of contents of the provision information to be transmitted is included in a category of information desired by the user who is a destination of the transmission.

5. The information provision brokerage system according to claim 1, wherein the provision information storage portion stores provider location information that indicates a location of the information provider in association with the information provider, the user information storage portion stores user location information that indicates a location of the user and a distance designated by the user in association with the user, and the information transmission portion transmits the provision information if a distance between a location of the information provider who provides the provision information to be transmitted and a location of the user who is a destination of the transmission is smaller than the distance designated by the user.

6. The information provision brokerage system according to claim 1, wherein the provision information includes information for advising an application for receiving information delivery from the information provider who transmits the provision information.

7. The information provision brokerage system according to claim 6, comprising a delivery status management portion for managing a delivery status of information that is delivered directly from the information provider to the user who made the application, and an accounting information generation portion for counting delivery statuses of the information providers at a predetermined timing so as to generate accounting information to the information provider.

8. An information provision brokerage system comprising:

a provider information storage portion for storing provider area information and provision information for each information provider, the provider area information indicating an area designated by the information provider, and the provision information being to be provided by the information provider;

a user information storage portion for storing user area information for each user who has a terminal device, the user area information indicating an area designated by the user;

a determining portion for determining whether or not an area indicated by the provider area information overlaps an area indicated by the user area information;

a notification portion for sending a notification to a terminal device of the user according to the user area information so that the user receives the provision information of the information provider according to the provider area information if it is determined that the area indicated by the provider area information overlaps the area indicated by the user area information; and

an information transmission portion for transmitting the provision information of the information provider to the terminal device of the user responding to a request from the user who received the notification.

9. A server that is connected to an information providing server for providing information of plural information providers in accordance with location information of users via a network, the server comprising:

a user registration portion for receiving an application from the user for information delivery so as to register the user as an information delivery destination user;

an information delivery portion for performing delivery of information to the user who is registered as the information delivery destination user;

a delivery status management portion for managing a delivery status of information; and

a delivery status notification portion for notifying the information providing server of the delivery status.

10. An information provision brokerage method, comprising the steps of:

making a provider information storage portion store provider area information and provision information for each information provider in advance, the provider area information indicating an area designated by the information provider, and the provision information being to be provided by the information provider;

making a user information storage portion store user area information in advance for each user who has a terminal device, the user area information indicating an area designated by the user;

determining whether or not an area indicated by the provider area information overlaps an area indicated by the user area information; and

transmitting the provision information of the information provider according to the provider area information to a terminal device of the user according to the user area information if it is determined that the area indicated by the provider area information overlaps the area indicated by the user area information.

11. A computer program for use in a computer that performs brokerage for information transmission from an information provider to a user, the computer program makes the computer perform the process comprising the steps of:

reading provider area information corresponding to provision information to be transmitted from a provider information storage portion that stores the provider area information and the provision information in an interrelated manner for each information provider, the provider area information indicating an area designated by the information provider and the provision information being to be provided by the information provider;

reading user area information of a user who is a destination of the transmission from a user information storage portion that stores the user area information for each user, the user area information indicating an area designated by the user;

determining whether or not an area indicated by the read provider area information overlaps an area indicated by the read user area information; and

transmitting the provision information corresponding to the provider area information to a terminal device of the user according to the user area information if it is determined that the area indicated by the provider area information overlaps the area indicated by the user area information.