INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT

• US 20130037612A1
• Filed: 10/15/2012
• Published: 02/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Matsuo, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 8,657,204 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

An information providing system includes the following elements. An IC card stores card ID. An information providing terminal reads out the card ID of the IC card, provides information to the IC card, and transmits the card ID and the information provided to the IC card or the ID of the provided information to a management server. The management server receives the card ID and the information provided to the IC card or the provided information ID from the information providing terminal, has a database to manage the card ID and the provided information such that the card ID is associated with the provided information, acquires the information provided to the IC card from the database in response to an information request from a client terminal, and supplies the provided information to the client terminal. The client terminal displays the provided information supplied from the management server.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an acquire unit configured to acquire an identification (ID) of a portable terminal; and

a control unit configured to transmit to a management server the ID acquired by the acquire unit; and

in response to transmitting the ID to a management server, the information processing apparatus receives a reply from the management server indicating at least one of information provided to the portable terminal.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the acquire unit performs near field communication to acquire the ID of the portable terminal.

3. An information processing method comprising:

acquiring an identification (ID) of a portable terminal; and

transmitting to a management server the ID acquired by the acquiring; and

in response to transmitting the ID to a management server, receiving a reply from the management server indicating at least one of information provided to the portable terminal.

4. The method according to claim 3 wherein the acquiring includes performing near field communication to acquire the ID of the portable terminal.