INORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR SENDING REMINDER TIMES BASED ON EVENT AND TRAVEL TIMES

• US 20130130720A1
• Filed: 01/14/2013
• Published: 05/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takehara, Mitsuru, Sako, Yoichiro, Asukai, Masamichi, Ito, Taiji, Sugino, Akinobu, Sano, Akane, Kamatani, Yoshiteru, Hayashi, Kazunori, Kon, Takayasu, Kamada, Yasunori
• Granted Patent: US 8,942,731 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

There is provided an information delivery apparatus including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information and on the event place, date and time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the selected mobile communication terminal. The delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by location information is within a predetermined range and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.

Claims

1. An information delivery apparatus comprising:

a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time point and acquired date and time of the location information from the mobile communication terminal;

an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, an event date and an event time of an event held in a predetermined place on predetermined date and time;

a delivery terminal selecting portion to select a mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information received by the receiving portion and on the event place, the event date and the event time; and

an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information stored in the event information storage portion to the mobile communication terminal selected by the delivery terminal selecting portion,

wherein the delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by the location information is within a predetermined range defined depending on the event place and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.

2. The information delivery apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an attribute information storage portion to store attribute information of a user of the mobile communication terminal,

wherein the delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal having the attribute information related to the event information from the selected mobile communication terminal.

3. The information delivery apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the delivery terminal selecting portion selects at most a predetermined number of mobile communication terminals.

4. The information delivery apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminals in increasing order of time length from the acquired date and time of the location information within the predetermined range defined depending on the event place to the event date and time.

5. The information delivery apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the delivery terminal selecting portion refrains from selecting the mobile communication terminal if the distance between a current location of the mobile communication terminal and the event place exceeds a predetermined value.

6. The information delivery apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the delivery terminal selecting portion calculates a travel time from the current location of the mobile communication terminal to the event place and refrains from selecting the mobile communication terminal if the calculated travel time is longer than the interval between current time and the event time.

7. An information receiving apparatus comprising:

a location information acquiring portion to acquire location information indicating a current location;

a location information storage portion to accumulate and store location information acquired by the location information acquiring portion and acquired date and time of the location information;

an event information receiving portion to receive event information including an event place, an event date and an event time of an event held in a predetermined place on predetermined date and time; and

an event information selecting portion to select the event information to be notified to a user based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information stored in the location information storage portion and on the event place, the event date and the event time included in the event information,

wherein the event information selecting portion selects the event information if the location information stored in the location information storage portion is within a predetermined range defined depending on the event place and the acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.

8. The information receiving apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising:

an attribute information storage portion to store attribute information of a user,

wherein the event information selecting portion selects the event information related to the attribute information.

9. The information receiving apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the event information selecting portion refrains from selecting the event information if the distance between the current location and the event place exceeds a predetermined value.

10. The information receiving apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the event information selecting portion calculates a travel time from the current location to the event place and refrains from selecting the event information if the calculated travel time is longer than the interval between current time and the event time.

11. An information delivery method comprising the steps of:

receiving location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time point and acquired date and time of the location information from the mobile communication terminal;

selecting the mobile communication terminal to which event information about an event is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information received in the receiving step and on an event place, an event date and an event time of the event held in a predetermined place on predetermined date and time; and

delivering the event information to the mobile communication terminal selected in the selecting step,

wherein the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by the location information is within a predetermined range defined depending on the event place and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time is selected in the selecting step.