DATABASE MAKING SYSTEM AND DATABASE MAKING METHOD

• US 20090282072A1
• Filed: 02/27/2009
• Published: 11/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: KOBAYASHI, Taiho, NAGASE, Kenji
• Application Number:
  US12/394,232
• Publication Number:
  US 20090282072A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3617 using user history, behaviour, conditions or preferences, e.g. predicted or inferred from previous use or current movement
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/387 Organisation of map data, e.g. version management or database structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2477 Temporal data queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/14 Travel agencies

Abstract

A database creation system and method includes: a departed facility information obtaining unit configured to receive departed facility information; a travel history information obtaining unit configured to receive travel history information pertaining to a travel history of a user; an arrival facility information obtaining unit configured to receive arrival facility information pertaining to a facility a user has arrived at after departing the departed facility; a related facility database that includes the departed facility information, the travel history information, and the arrival facility information; and a database creating unit configured to receive the information from the departed facility information obtaining unit, the travel history information obtaining unit, and the arrival facility information obtaining unit and create the related facility database.

Claims

1. A database creation system comprising:

a departed facility information obtaining unit configured to receive departed facility information pertaining to a departed facility a user has departed;

a travel history information obtaining unit configured to receive travel history information pertaining to a travel history of the user up to the departed facility;

an arrival facility information obtaining unit configured to receive arrival facility information pertaining to an arrival facility the user has arrived at after departing the departed facility; and

a database creating unit configured to create a related facility database that associates the departed facility information with the travel history information and the arrival facility information.

2. The database creation system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a date/time information obtaining unit configured to obtain date/time information pertaining to a date and time at which the user departed the departed facility;

wherein the database creating unit configured to classify a plurality of time slots based on the date/time information and to perform statistical processing for each of the plurality of time slots.

3. A database creation method for executing on a computer, the method comprising:

obtaining information from at least one mobile navigation device, the information including;

departed facility information pertaining to a departed facility a user has departed;

travel history information pertaining to a travel history of the user up to the departed facility;

arrival facility information pertaining to an arrival facility the user has arrived at after departing the departed facility; and

creating a related facility database that associates the departed facility information with the travel history information and the arrival facility information.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the information obtained further includes day/time information pertaining to a date and time at which the user departed the departed facility, and creating the related facility database includes:

classifying a plurality of time slots based on the day/time information and;

statistical processing of each of the plurality of time slots.

5. A computer-readable medium comprising instructions, which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations comprising:

obtaining departed facility information pertaining to a departed facility a user has departed;

obtaining travel history information pertaining to a travel history of the user up to the departed facility;

obtaining arrival facility information pertaining to an arrival facility the user has arrived at after departing the departed facility; and

creating a related facility database that associates the departed facility information with the travel history information and the arrival facility information.