COMPUTER PRODUCT AND DESTINATION DETERMINING METHOD

• US 20120254247A1
• Filed: 12/22/2011
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: SAKAMOTO, Takuya
• Application Number:
  US13/335,411
• Publication Number:
  US 20120254247A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

A computer-readable medium stores therein a program that causes a computer having access to a database that stores therein identification information that is for each user among multiple users and is associated with a destination of each user, to execute a process. The process includes receiving from a first portable terminal of a given user, the identification information of the given user and receiving from each second portable terminal within a communication range of the first portable terminal, the identification information of each user of the second portable terminals; identifying, by referring to the database, the destination of each user of the second portable terminals, stored associated with the identification information received for each user of the second portable terminals; determining the destination of the given user, based on the identified destinations; and outputting associated with the received identification information of the given user, results obtained at the determining.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium storing therein a destination determining program that causes a computer having access to a database that stores therein identification information that is for each user among a plurality of users and is associated with a destination of each user, to execute a process, the process comprising:

receiving from a first portable terminal of a given user among the plurality of users, the identification information of the given user and receiving from each second portable terminal within a communication range of the first portable terminal, the identification information of each user of the second portable terminals;

identifying, by referring to the database, the destination of each user of the second portable terminals, stored in association with the identification information received for each user of the second portable terminals;

determining the destination of the given user, based on the identified destinations; and

outputting in association with the received identification information of the given user, results obtained at the determining.

2. The computer-readable medium according to claim 1, wherein

the identifying includes referring to the database, and further identifying the destination of the given user, stored in association with the identification information of the given user, and

the determining includes determining the destination of the given user, based on the destination of each user of the second portable terminals and the destination of the given user.

3. The computer-readable medium according to claim 2, wherein

the determining includes determining, as the destination of the given user, the destination of the highest count among the destinations of each user of the second portable terminals and the destination of the given user.

4. The computer-readable medium according to claim 2, wherein

the database stores in association with one another, the identification information of each user, the destination of each user, and updating date and time at which the destination of each user was updated,

the identifying includes referring to the database and further identifying the destination of the most recent updating date and time among the destinations of each user and the destination of the given user, and

the determining includes determining, as the destination of the given user, the destination of the most recent updating date and time identified at the identifying.

5. The computer-readable medium according to claim 2, wherein

the database stores, in association with one another, the identification information of each user, the destination of each user, and the number of updates of the destination of each user,

the identifying includes referring to the database and further identifying the destination of the user of the largest number of updates, among the users of the second portable terminals and the given user, and

the determining includes determining, as the destination of the given user, the destination of the user of the largest number of updates identified at the identifying.

6. The computer-readable medium according to claim 1, wherein

the receiving includes receiving from the first portable terminal, received signal strength of a signal between the first portable terminal and the second portable terminals,

the identifying includes referring to the database and identifying the destination of the user for which the received signal strength is greatest, among the users of the second portable terminals, and

the determining includes determining, as the destination of the given user, the destination of the user for which the received signal strength is greatest.

7. The computer-readable medium according to claim 1, wherein

the outputting includes updating to the destination of the given user determined at the determining, the destination of the given user, stored in the database.

8. The computer-readable medium according to claim 1, the process further comprising:

receiving the identification information of the given user and the destination of the given user through an input operation by the given user; and

updating to the destination of the given user received at the receiving, the destination of the given user, stored in the database in association with the identification information received at the receiving.

9. The computer-readable medium according to claim 1, the process further comprising:

judging whether the destination of the given user identified at the identifying and the destination of the given user determined at the determining coincide, wherein

the outputting includes outputting information indicating non-coincide in association with the identification information of the given user, when the destination of the given user identified at the identifying and the destination of the given user determined at the determining are judged at the judging to not coincide.

10. A destination determining method executed by a computer having access to a database that stores therein identification information that is for each user among a plurality of users and is associated with a destination of each user, the destination determining method comprising:

receiving from a first portable terminal of a given user among the plurality of users, the identification information of the given user and receiving from each second portable terminal within a communication range of the first portable terminal, the identification information of each user of the second portable terminals;

identifying, by referring to the database, the destination of each user of the second portable terminals, stored in association with the identification information received for each user of the second portable terminals;

determining the destination of the given user, based on the identified destinations; and

outputting in association with the received identification information of the given user, results obtained at the determining.