INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS
First Claim
1. An information obtaining method comprising:
- receiving information regarding a consumer good which has been determined as a consumer good actually used by a user with a household electric appliance;
storing, in a first memory section, a consumption status of the consumer good which has been determined as a consumer good actually used by the user, based on the received information regarding the consumer good;
receiving, from the household electric appliance, an identifier for identifying the household electric appliance and an operation status of the household electric appliance;
estimating the consumption status of the consumer good using the received operation status;
updating the consumption status of the consumer good stored in the first memory section based on the estimated consumption status of the consumer good;
deciding whether or not to transmit a confirmation message for confirming the consumer good being used with the household electric appliance, based on the updated consumption status of the consumer good; and
transmitting the confirmation message when it is decided that the confirmation message is to be transmitted.
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Abstract
Provided is a server device (101) including: a transmitting/receiving section (201) for receiving, from a household electric appliance (102), an identifier for identifying the household electric appliance (102) and an operation status of the household electric appliance (102); an updating section (207) for estimating a consumption status of a consumer good using the received operation status so as to update the consumption status of the consumer good stored in a utilization information accumulating section (205) based on the estimated consumption status of the consumer good; and a determination section (206) for deciding whether or not to transmit a confirmation message for confirming the consumer good being used with the household electric appliance, based on the updated consumption status of the consumer good.
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16 Claims
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1. An information obtaining method comprising:
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receiving information regarding a consumer good which has been determined as a consumer good actually used by a user with a household electric appliance; storing, in a first memory section, a consumption status of the consumer good which has been determined as a consumer good actually used by the user, based on the received information regarding the consumer good; receiving, from the household electric appliance, an identifier for identifying the household electric appliance and an operation status of the household electric appliance; estimating the consumption status of the consumer good using the received operation status; updating the consumption status of the consumer good stored in the first memory section based on the estimated consumption status of the consumer good; deciding whether or not to transmit a confirmation message for confirming the consumer good being used with the household electric appliance, based on the updated consumption status of the consumer good; and transmitting the confirmation message when it is decided that the confirmation message is to be transmitted. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An information obtaining system comprising a server device and a household electric appliance communicatively connected to the server device,
the server device including: -
a first receiving section for receiving information regarding a consumer good which has been determined as a consumer good actually used by a user; a first memory section for storing a consumption status of a consumer good; a memory control section for storing, in the first memory section, a consumption status of the consumer good which has been determined as a consumer good actually used by the user, based on the received information regarding the consumer good; a second receiving section for receiving, from the household electric appliance, an identifier for identifying the household electric appliance and an operation status of the household electric appliance; an estimating section for estimating the consumption status of the consumer good using the received operation status; an updating section for updating the consumption status of the consumer good stored in the first memory section based on the estimated consumption status of the consumer good; a decision section for deciding whether or not to transmit a confirmation message for confirming the consumer good being used, based on the updated consumption status of the consumer good; and a transmitting section for transmitting the confirmation message when it is decided that the confirmation message is to be transmitted, and the household electric appliance including; a first transmitting section for transmitting, to the server device, a request for the information regarding a consumer good and an identifier for identifying the household electric appliance; a first receiving section for receiving the information regarding a consumer good transmitted by the server device; a second transmitting section for transmitting, to the server device, the information regarding a consumer good which has been determined as a consumer good actually used by the user; and a third transmitting section for transmitting, to the server device, the identifier for identifying the household electric appliance and the operation status of the household electric appliance.
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16. An information appliance communicatively connected to a server device, the information appliance comprising:
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a receiving section for receiving a confirmation message for confirming a consumer good being used, the confirmation message having been decided by the server device to be transmitted based on a consumption status of a consumer good to be used with a household electric appliance, the consumption status having been estimated by using an operation status of the household electric appliance; a display section for displaying the received confirmation message; an accepting section for accepting, from a user, an input of response information for the confirmation message; and a transmitting section for transmitting, to the server device, the response information accepted by the accepting section.
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Specification