Information providing system and information providing method

• US 20070073665A1
• Filed: 09/28/2006
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Naganuma, Takefumi, Kurakake, Shoji, Fujii, Kunihiro, Fukazawa, Yusuke
• Granted Patent: US 7,970,383 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096811 where the route is computed offboard
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096822 where the segments of the route are transmitted to the vehicle at different locations and times
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096838 where the user preferences are taken into account or the user selects one route out of a plurality
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096855 where the output is provided in a suitable form to the driver details on I/O arrangements for onboard navigation computers G01C21/36

Abstract

Providing an information providing system and an information providing method capable of providing detail information required for a user to execute his/her scheduled activity smoothly.

An information providing system 1 comprises an inhibition storing section 101 for preliminary storing inhibition information relating to inhibition factors corresponding to scheduled information relating to the scheduled activity; a candidate storing section 102 for preliminary storing candidate information relating to candidates of a coping method corresponding to the inhibition information; a schedule receiving section 103 for receiving the scheduled information from a communication terminal; an inhibition selecting section 104 for selecting from the inhibition storing section the inhibition information corresponding to the scheduled information; a candidate selecting section 105 for selecting from the candidate storing section the candidate information corresponding to the inhibition information; a candidate transmitting section 106 for transmitting the candidate information to the communication terminal 2; a selection receiving section 107 for receiving from the communication terminal 2, a selection information selected by the communication terminal 2; and a detail transmitting section 108 for transmitting detail information on the basis of the selection information to the communication terminal 2.

Claims

1. An information providing system for searching information required for a user to execute a scheduled activity planned by the user to provide it to the user, comprising;

an inhibition storing means for preliminary storing inhibition information relating to inhibition factors corresponding to scheduled information relating to the scheduled activity;

a candidate storing means for preliminary storing candidate information relating to candidates of a coping method corresponding to the inhibition information stored in the inhibition storing means;

a schedule receiving means for receiving the scheduled information from a communication terminal of the user;

an inhibition selecting means for selecting from the inhibition storing means the inhibition information corresponding to the schedule information received by the schedule receiving means;

a candidate selecting means for selecting from the candidate storing means the candidate information corresponding to the inhibition information selected by the inhibition selecting means;

a candidate transmitting means for transmitting the candidate information selected by the candidate selecting means to the communication terminal;

a selection receiving means for receiving from the communication terminal selection information selected from among the candidate information by the communication terminal which received the candidate information from the candidate transmitting means; and

a detail transmitting means for transmitting to the communication terminal detail information based on the selection information received by the selection receiving means.

2. The information providing system according to claim 1 wherein:

the schedule receiving means receives from the communication terminal phase information indicating whether the scheduled activity is at a planning phase or at an execution phase; and

the inhibition selecting means selects the inhibition information from the inhibition storing means on the basis of the phase information received by the schedule receiving means.

3. The information providing system according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising,

a location obtaining means for obtaining location information of the communication terminal, wherein

the inhibition selecting means selects the inhibition information from the inhibition storing means on the basis of the location information obtained by the location obtaining means.

4. The information providing system according to any of claims 1 to 3 further comprising,

a history obtaining means for obtaining history information relating to a communication of the communication terminal, wherein

the inhibition selecting means selects the inhibition information from the inhibition storing means on the basis of the history information obtained by the history obtaining means.

5. The information providing system according to claim 4, further comprising,

a schedule predicting means for predicting the scheduled activity as a predicted activity on the basis of the history information obtained by the history obtaining means, wherein

the inhibition selecting means selects the inhibition information from the inhibition storing means on the basis of the predicted activity predicted by the schedule predicting means.

6. An information providing method of searching information required for a user to execute a scheduled activity planned by the user to provide it to the user, comprising;

a schedule receiving step of receiving schedule information relating to the scheduled activity from a communication terminal of the user;

an inhibition selecting step of selecting from an inhibition storing means preliminary storing inhibition information, the inhibition information relating to inhibition factors corresponding to the schedule information received in the schedule receiving step;

a candidate selecting step of selecting from a candidate storing means preliminary storing candidate information, the candidate information relating to candidates of a coping method corresponding to the inhibition information selected in the inhibition selecting step;

a candidate transmitting step of transmitting the candidate information selected in the candidate selecting step to the communication terminal;

a selection receiving step of receiving from the communication terminal, the selection information selected from among the candidate information by the communication terminal which received the candidate information in the candidate transmitting step; and

a detail transmitting step of transmitting detail information based on the selection information received in the selection receiving step to the communication terminal.