OPEN INFORMATION TRANSMITTING METHOD, OPEN INFORMATION TRANSMITTING SYSTEM, CENTRAL DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20100293255A1
• Filed: 07/28/2010
• Published: 11/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: HARA, Masahiro, Fukui, Masayuki, Matsumoto, Tatsuro, Mohri, Takao
• Application Number:
  US12/845,285
• Publication Number:
  US 20100293255A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes

Abstract

In an open information transmitting method transmitting open information, transmitted from a mobile information terminal to a central device so as to be released to a third party, from the central device to an information processing terminal, the central device including a processor receives positional information transmitted from the mobile information terminal; the processor converts a word indicating a location included in the open information transmitted from the mobile information terminal into a word indicating a location belonging to a higher class, with reference to a location database in which words indicating locations are classified in accordance with a plurality of classes; and the processor transmits the converted open information from the central device to the information processing terminal.

Claims

1. An open information transmitting method transmitting open information, transmitted from a mobile information terminal to a central device so as to be released to a third party, from said central device to an information processing terminal, comprising:

receiving, by said central device including a processor, positional information transmitted from said mobile information terminal;

converting, by said processor, a word indicating a location included in the open information transmitted from said mobile information terminal into a word indicating a location belonging to a higher class, with reference to a location database in which words indicating locations are classified in accordance with a plurality of classes; and

transmitting, by said processor, the converted open information from said central device to said information processing terminal when a distance between positions based on the received positional information of said mobile information terminal and positional information of said mobile information terminal obtained when said open information is transmitted is equal to or more than a threshold distance stored in a storage unit.

2. An open information transmitting system including a mobile information terminal, an information processing terminal and a central device connected with one another via a communication network, wherein

said mobile information terminal includes a terminal transmission unit transmitting to said central device open information to be released to a third party, and

said central device includes

an open information receiving unit receiving the open information transmitted from said terminal transmission unit,

a reception unit receiving positional information transmitted from said mobile information terminal,

conversion unit converting a word indicating a location included in the open information transmitted from said mobile information terminal into a word indicating a location belonging to a higher class, with reference to a location database in which words indicating locations are classified in accordance with a plurality of classes, and

a transmission unit transmitting open information obtained as a result of conversion by said conversion unit to said information processing terminal when a distance between positions based on positional information of said mobile information terminal received by said reception unit and positional information of said mobile information terminal at a time point where said open information is transmitted is equal to or more than a threshold distance stored in a storage unit.

3. A central device transmitting to the outside open information transmitted from a mobile information terminal so as to be released to a third party, comprising:

a reception unit receiving positional information transmitted from said mobile information terminal;

a conversion unit converting a word indicating a location included in the open information transmitted from said mobile information terminal into a word indicating a location belonging to a higher class with reference to a location database in which words indicating locations are classified in accordance with a plurality of classes; and

a transmission unit transmitting open information obtained as a result of conversion by said conversion unit to the outside, when a distance between positions based on positional information of said mobile information terminal received by said reception unit and positional information of said mobile information terminal at a time point where said open information is transmitted is equal to or more than a threshold distance stored in a storage unit.

4. The central device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a date-and-time storing unit storing a transmission date and time at which said open information is transmitted form said mobile information terminal; and

a time conversion unit converting a word indicating time included in the open information transmitted from said mobile information terminal into a word indicating time belonging to a higher class with reference to a time database in which words indicating time are classified in accordance with a plurality of classes, wherein

said transmission unit transmits to the outside open information obtained as a result of conversion by said conversion unit and said time conversion unit, when a distance between positions based on positional information of said mobile information terminal received by said reception unit and positional information of said mobile information terminal at a time point where said open information is transmitted is equal to or more than a threshold distance stored in a storage unit, and when a difference between time output by a clock unit and transmission time stored in said date-and-time storing unit is equal to or more than threshold time stored in said storage unit.

5. The central device according to claim 4, further comprising a threshold distance increasing unit increasing the threshold distance stored in said storage unit when there is a word indicating a location included in the open information transmitted from said mobile information terminal.

6. The central device according to claim 4, further comprising a threshold time increasing unit increasing the threshold time stored in said storage unit when there is a word indicating time included in the open information transmitted from said mobile information terminal.

7. The central device according to claim 5, wherein

said word indicating a location includes a demonstrative pronoun, and

said threshold distance increasing unit increases the threshold distance stored in said storage unit when a demonstrative pronoun is included in the open information transmitted from said mobile information terminal.

8. The central device according to claim 6, wherein

said word indicating time includes a word indicating past, present or future, and

said threshold time increasing unit increases the threshold time stored in said storage unit when a word indicating past, present or future is included in the open information transmitted form said mobile information terminal.

9. The central device according to claim 3, comprising an identification information storing unit storing identification information of a user, wherein

said transmission unit transmits to the outside, when identification information is transmitted from said mobile information terminal, open information obtained as a result of conversion by said conversion unit if the transmitted identification information is not found in said identification information storing unit and if a distance between positions based on positional information of said mobile information terminal received by said reception unit and positional information of said mobile information terminal at a time point where said open information is transmitted is equal to or more than the threshold distance stored in the storage unit.

10. The central device according to claim 4, further comprising:

a calculating unit calculating transmission frequency based on transmission time of a plurality of pieces of open information stored in said date-and-time storing unit;

a homebase storing unit storing homebase positional information on a user of said mobile information terminal in a storage unit; and

a shortening unit shortening the threshold distance or the threshold time stored in said storage unit when the transmission frequency calculated by said calculating unit is equal to or more than the threshold frequency stored in the storage unit and when a distance between positions based on the positional information received by said reception unit and the homebase positional information stored in said homebase storing unit is equal to or more than the threshold value stored in the storage unit.

11. The central device according to claim 4, further comprising an increasing unit increasing the threshold time stored in said storage unit when it is judged that a given period of time has elapsed since positional information transmitted from said mobile information terminal is last received by said reception unit.

12. The central device according to claim 4, further comprising:

a positional history storing unit storing positional information received by said reception unit in a positional history database;

a speed calculating unit calculating moving speed based on the positional information stored in said positional history database; and

a shortening unit shortening the threshold distance or threshold time stored in said storage unit when the moving speed calculated by the moving speed calculating unit is equal to or more than threshold moving speed stored in said storage unit.

13. The central device according to claim 3, wherein said conversion unit includes

an extraction unit extracting a plurality of words indicating locations included in the open information transmitted from said mobile information terminal, with reference to the location database in which words indicating locations are classified in accordance with a plurality of classes,

a classification unit classifying the words extracted by the extraction unit into classes, and

a word conversion unit converting a word other than a word belonging to a highest class of the classes classified by the classification unit into said word belonging to the highest class with reference to said location database.

14. The central device according to claim 4, wherein said time conversion unit includes

an extraction unit extracting a plurality of words indicating time included in the open information transmitted from said mobile information terminal, with reference to the time database in which words indicating time are classified in accordance with a plurality of classes,

a classification unit classifying the words extracted by the extraction unit into classes, and

a word conversion unit converting a word other than a word belonging to a highest class of the classes classified by the classification unit into said word belonging to the highest class with reference to said time database.

15. The central device according to claim 3, further comprising:

an auxiliary conversion unit converting a word indicating a location included in the open information transmitted from said mobile information terminal into a word indicating a location belonging to a class higher than a class of the word to be converted by said conversion unit, with reference to a location database in which words indicating locations are classified in accordance with a plurality of classes; and

an auxiliary transmission unit transmitting open information obtained after conversion by said auxiliary conversion unit to the outside, when a distance between positions based on positional information of said mobile information terminal received by said reception unit and positional information of said mobile information terminal at a time point where said open information is transmitted is less than a threshold distance stored in a storage unit.

16. The central device according to claim 4, further comprising:

an auxiliary time conversion unit converting a word indicating time included in the open information transmitted from said mobile information terminal into a word indicating time belonging to a class higher than a class of the word to be converted by said time conversion unit with reference to a time database in which words indicating time are classified in accordance with a plurality of classes; and

an auxiliary transmission unit transmitting to the outside open information obtained after conversion by said auxiliary time conversion unit, when a difference between time output by a clock unit and transmission time stored in said date-and-time storing unit is smaller than the threshold time stored in said storage unit.

17. A central device transmitting to the outside open information transmitted from a mobile information terminal to be released to a third party, comprising:

a date-and-time storing unit storing transmission date and time at which said open information is transmitted by said mobile information terminal;

a time conversion unit converting a word indicating time included in the open information transmitted from said mobile information terminal into a word indicating time belonging to a higher class with reference to a time database in which words indicating time are classified in accordance with a plurality of classes; and

a transmission unit transmitting to the outside open information obtained after conversion by said conversion unit, when a difference between time output by a clock unit and transmission time stored in said date-and-time storing unit is more than threshold time stored in a storage unit.

18. A recording medium in which a program for transmitting from a computer to the outside open information transmitted from a mobile information terminal to the computer so as to be released to a third party, wherein said program including

receiving positional information transmitted from said mobile information terminal,

converting a word indicating a location included in the open information transmitted from said mobile information terminal into a word indicating a location belonging to a higher class, with reference to a location database in which words indicating locations are classified in accordance with a plurality of classes, and

transmitting to the outside open information obtained after conversion when a distance between positions based on the received positional information of said mobile information terminal and positional information of said mobile information terminal at a time point where said open information is transmitted is equal to or more than a threshold distance stored in a storage unit.