BUSINESS SUPPORT SYSTEM AND BUSINESS SUPPORT APPARATUS

• US 20100235752A1
• Filed: 02/22/2010
• Published: 09/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: SHIIMORI, Yoshiko
• Application Number:
  US12/709,723
• Publication Number:
  US 20100235752A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/738
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A business support system includes: a portable terminal used by a user; and a business support apparatus connected with the portable terminal, the portable terminal including: an input device; a device for accepting an input into the input device; a device for transmitting a signal indicating that the input is accepted to the business support apparatus; a device for receiving a page transmitted from the business support apparatus; a display device; and a device for causing the display device to display the received page, and the business support apparatus including: a device for receiving a transmitted signal; a database for storing information about the user or information about a customer of the user; a device for generating a page suitable for the user based on the information in the database when receiving the signal; and a device for transmitting the generated page to the portable terminal.

Claims

1. A business support system comprising:

a portable terminal used by a user; and

a business support apparatus connected with the portable terminal, wherein the portable terminal comprises;

an input device;

an acceptance device for accepting an input into the input device;

a first transmission device for transmitting a signal indicating that the input is accepted, to the business support apparatus when the acceptance device accepts the input;

a first reception device for receiving a page transmitted from the business support apparatus;

a display device; and

a display control device for causing the display device to display the page received by the first reception device, and wherein

the business support apparatus comprises;

a second reception device for receiving a signal transmitted by the first transmission device;

a database for storing information about the user or information about a customer of the user;

a page generation device for generating a page suitable for the user based on the information stored in the database, upon reception of the signal from the reception device; and

a second transmission device for transmitting the page generated by the page generation device to the portable terminal.

2. The business support system according to claim 1, wherein:

the portable terminal includes a position information acquisition device for acquiring position information of the portable terminal,

the database stores position information of the customer as information about the customer of the user,

the first transmission device transmits the position information acquired by the position information acquisition device to the business support apparatus,

the second reception device acquires the position information transmitted from the first transmission device, and

the page generation device identifies a customer of a visiting destination of the user based on the position information acquired by the second reception device and the position information of the customer stored in the database, and generates a page about the identified customer.

3. The business support system according to claim 1, wherein:

the business support apparatus includes a time information acquisition device for acquiring a current time,

the database stores a schedule of the user as the information about the user, and

the page generation device generates a page in accordance with a current schedule of the user based on the current time acquired by the time information acquisition device and the schedule stored in the database.

4. The business support system according to claim 3, wherein:

the database stores a visiting time, a customer of a visiting destination, and a visiting purpose in association with each other as the schedule of the user, and

the page generation device generates a page in accordance with the customer of the visiting destination and the visiting purpose of the user.

5. The business support system according to claim 1, wherein:

the database stores a history of pages transmitted to the portable terminal, and

the page generation device generates a page based on the history stored in the database.

6. The business support system according to claim 5, wherein:

the business support apparatus includes a time information acquisition device for acquiring a current time,

the database stores a transmitted page and a transmission time in association with each other, and

the page generation device generates a page included in a category of pages which is most often transmitted in a predetermined time period including the current time based on the current time acquired by the time information acquisition device.

7. The business support system according to claim 5, wherein:

the portable terminal includes a position information acquisition device for acquiring position information of the portable terminal,

the database stores a transmitted page and a position at which the transmitted page is received by the portable terminal in association with each other,

the first transmission device transmits the position information acquired by the position information acquisition device to the business support apparatus,

the second reception device acquires the position information transmitted from the first transmission device, and

the page generation device generates a page included in a category of pages which is most often received within a predetermined range including the acquired position of the portable terminal, based on the position information of the portable terminal acquired by the second reception device.

8. The business support system according to claim 1, wherein:

the portable terminal includes a plurality of input buttons,

the acceptance device judges to which input button of the plurality of buttons an input is accepted,

the first transmission device transmits a judgment result by the acceptance device,

the database stores an assignment of service for each input button of the plurality of input buttons, and

the page generation device generates a page in accordance with the service assigned to the input button which has accepted the input based on the judgment result by the reception device and the assignment of service for each input button stored in the database.

9. A business support apparatus included in the business support system according to claim 1.