INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20080133260A1
• Filed: 12/03/2007
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: KOHDA, Youji, SASAKI, Kazuo, FUKUI, Masayuki, YANO, Ai, MATSUMOTO, Tatsuro, TAKAHASHI, Eiichi, IWAYAMA, Yutaka, HARA, Masahiro
• Application Number:
  US11/949,448
• Publication Number:
  US 20080133260A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

An information communication system having a location information acquisition part and storage part which acquires and stores respectively, mobile terminal location information indicating a location of a mobile terminal; a location information updating part which updates mobile terminal location information stored in the location information storage part; a facility information storage part storing facility information identifying a facility and facility location information; a facility information extraction part which extracts facility information indicating the facility in the facility information storage part; a facility stay determination part which determines whether a user of the mobile terminal is staying at the facility indicated by the facility information extracted by the facility information extraction part and an inquiry part which outputs query information for inquiring about an evaluation of the facility to the user of the mobile terminal when it is determined that the user of the mobile terminal is staying at the facility.

Claims

1. An information communication system comprising:

a location information acquisition part which acquires mobile terminal location information indicating a present location of a mobile terminal;

a location information storage part which stores the mobile terminal location information;

a location information updating part which updates mobile terminal location information stored in the location information storage part with mobile terminal location information acquired by the location information acquisition part;

a facility information storage part which stores facility information identifying a facility and facility location information indicating a location range of the facility;

a facility information extraction part which, in the event that the present location of the mobile terminal indicated by the mobile terminal location information indicates a location within the location range of a facility indicated by the facility location information, extracts facility information indicating the facility in the facility information storage part;

a facility stay determination part which determines whether a user of the mobile terminal is staying at the facility indicated by the facility information extracted by the facility information extraction part based on information on the mobile terminal or information on a mobile unit on which the mobile terminal is mounted; and

an inquiry part which outputs query information for inquiring for an evaluation of the facility to the user of the mobile terminal when the facility stay determination part determines that the user of the mobile terminal is staying at the facility.

2. The information communication system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a stay determination time storage part which stores a stay determination time indicating a threshold of whether a user of the mobile terminal is staying at the facility indicated by the facility information extracted by the facility information extraction part, wherein

the facility stay determination part determines that the user of the mobile terminal is staying at the facility indicated by the facility information extracted by the facility information extraction part when the present location of the mobile terminal indicated by the mobile terminal location information indicates a location within a location range of the facility indicated by the facility location information over a period of time equal to or exceeding the stay determination time.

3. The information communication system according to claim 2, wherein

the stay determination time storage part stores stay determination times respectively, corresponding to each facility or each facility type.

4. The information communication system according to claim 1, wherein

the inquiry part outputs query information with different contents corresponding to each facility or each facility type to the user of the mobile terminal.

5. The information communication system according to claim 1, wherein

the mobile terminal is mountable on a mobile unit that travels while consuming power from a power source,

the facility is a power source providing location that provides the power source to the mobile unit,

the facility stay determination part determines that the user of the mobile terminal is staying at the facility indicated by facility information extracted by the facility information extraction part when the power source of the mobile unit increases, and

the inquiry part outputs query information for inquiring about the price of the power source provided by the facility to the user of the mobile terminal when the facility stay determination part determines that a user of the mobile terminal is staying at the facility.

6. The information communication system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an evaluation information storage part which stores facility information identifying a facility and evaluation information indicating an evaluation of the facility which is obtained as a response to the inquiry;

a request reception part which receives, from the mobile terminal, request information indicating a request for acquiring the evaluation information;

an evaluation information extraction part which extracts evaluation information stored in the evaluation information storage part based on facility information extracted by the facility information extraction part from the facility information storage part and which indicates a facility located within a predetermined range from the present location of the mobile terminal that transmitted the request information; and

an evaluation information distribution part which distributes evaluation information extracted by the evaluation information extraction part to the mobile terminal that transmitted the request information.

7. The information communication system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an evaluation information storage part which stores facility information identifying a facility and evaluation information indicating an evaluation of the facility which is obtained as a response to the inquiry;

an evaluation information extraction part which extracts evaluation information stored in the evaluation information storage part based on facility information extracted by the facility information extraction part from the facility information storage part and which indicates a facility located within a predetermined range from the present location of the mobile terminal indicated by mobile terminal location information stored in the location information storage part; and

an evaluation information distribution part which distributes evaluation information extracted by the evaluation information extraction part to the mobile terminal indicated by mobile terminal location information stored in the location information storage part.

8. The information communication system according to claim 5, further comprising:

an evaluation information storage part which stores facility information identifying a facility and evaluation information indicating an evaluation of the facility which is obtained as a response to the inquiry;

an evaluation information extraction part which extracts evaluation information stored in the evaluation information storage part based on facility information extracted by the facility information extraction part from the facility information storage part and which indicates a facility located within a predetermined range from the present location of a mobile terminal mounted on the mobile unit when the power source of the mobile unit drops to or below a predetermined value; and

an evaluation information distribution part which distributes evaluation information extracted by the evaluation information extraction part to the mobile terminal mounted on the mobile unit.

9. The information communication system according to claim 6, further comprising:

a notification part which notifies a facility computer installed at a facility that is an object of evaluation information distributed by the evaluation information distribution part to the mobile terminal of information on a user that provided the evaluation information in the event that the facility stay determination part, which further determines whether the user of the mobile terminal is staying at the facility and determines that the user of the mobile terminal is staying at the facility.

12. A mobile unit including a mobile terminal provided with the information communication system according to any one of the claims 1 to 5.

10. An information communication method executed by a computer comprising:

a location information storage part which stores mobile terminal location information indicating a present location of a mobile terminal; and

a facility information storage part which stores facility information identifying a facility and facility location information indicating a location range of the facility, the information communication method comprising;

a location information acquisition step for acquiring mobile terminal location information indicating a present location of a mobile terminal;

a location information updating step for updating mobile terminal location information stored in the location information storage part to mobile terminal location information acquired in the location information acquisition step;

a facility information extraction step for extracting facility information indicating a facility from the facility information storage part in the event that the present location of the mobile terminal indicated by the mobile terminal location information indicates a location within a location range of the facility indicated by the facility location information;

a facility stay determination step for determining whether a user of the mobile terminal is staying at the facility indicated by the facility information extracted in the facility information extraction step based on information on the mobile terminal or information on a mobile unit on which the mobile terminal is mounted; and

an inquiry step for outputting query information to inquire for an evaluation of the facility to the user of the mobile terminal when it is determined in the facility stay determination step that the user of the mobile terminal is staying at the facility.

11. A storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute processing of receiving or transmitting information, the computer comprising:

a location information storage part which stores mobile terminal location information indicating a present location of a mobile terminal; and

a facility information storage part which stores facility information identifying a facility and facility location information indicating a location range of the facility, the program causing the computer to execute;

location information acquisition processing for acquiring mobile terminal location information indicating a present location of a mobile terminal;

location information updating processing for updating mobile terminal location information stored in the location information storage part to mobile terminal location information acquired through the location information acquisition processing;

facility information extraction processing for extracting facility information indicating a facility from the facility information storage part in the event that the present location of the mobile terminal indicated by the mobile terminal location information indicates a location within a location range of the facility indicated by the facility location information;

facility stay determination processing for determining whether a user of the mobile terminal is staying at the facility indicated by the facility information extracted through the facility information extraction processing based on information on the mobile terminal or information on a mobile unit on which the mobile terminal is mounted; and

inquiry processing for outputting query information for inquiring for an evaluation of the facility to the user of the mobile terminal when it is determined through the facility stay determination processing that the user of the mobile terminal is staying at the facility.