Apparatus and system for providing information required for meeting with desired person while travelling
First Claim
1. An information providing apparatus for providing subscribers through a communication network with information required for arranging a meeting with a desired person, said apparatus comprising:
- attribute/schedule storing means for storing therein, for each of the subscribers, first attribute data and schedule data, and for storing second attribute data of the desired person who is to be met, and the schedule data includes for each of the subscribers and the desired person, movement data indicating movement from a first location to a second location including a movement time and movement date, and location data indicating a future location including a location time and a location date;
subscriber selecting means for selecting one of the subscribers having the first attribute data substantially in common with the second attribute data of the desired person by referring to said attribute/schedule storing means;
information accumulating means responsive to said subscriber selecting means for accumulating personal information of the desired person for the one of the subscribers selected by said subscriber selecting means; and
information providing means for providing the one of the subscribers selected, through said communication network, with the personal information accumulated by said information accumulating means together with the location and movement data for arranging the meeting with the desired person.
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Abstract
Disclosed is an apparatus and a system for providing information required for meeting with a desired person while travelling. A subscriber registers his or her attribute data, attribute data of a desired person and his or her travel schedule data through an input/output terminal. Input data is transferred via a communication network to a host computer. Host computer generates information regarding the other party who the subscriber can meet with for each subscriber by processing data transferred from many subscribers. Generated data is stored in an output list file, so that the subscriber is able to know a possibility to meet with a desired person while travelling by making access to the output list file through the input/output terminal.
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13 Claims
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1. An information providing apparatus for providing subscribers through a communication network with information required for arranging a meeting with a desired person, said apparatus comprising:
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attribute/schedule storing means for storing therein, for each of the subscribers, first attribute data and schedule data, and for storing second attribute data of the desired person who is to be met, and the schedule data includes for each of the subscribers and the desired person, movement data indicating movement from a first location to a second location including a movement time and movement date, and location data indicating a future location including a location time and a location date; subscriber selecting means for selecting one of the subscribers having the first attribute data substantially in common with the second attribute data of the desired person by referring to said attribute/schedule storing means; information accumulating means responsive to said subscriber selecting means for accumulating personal information of the desired person for the one of the subscribers selected by said subscriber selecting means; and information providing means for providing the one of the subscribers selected, through said communication network, with the personal information accumulated by said information accumulating means together with the location and movement data for arranging the meeting with the desired person. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An information providing system for providing subscribers through a communication network with communication required for arranging a meeting with a desired person, said system comprising:
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a plurality of input/output terminal units for receiving a request from said subscribers; each said input/output terminal units including a keyboard unit for inputting first attribute data of a corresponding subscriber, second attribute data of a desired person, and schedule data of the corresponding subscriber, and a display unit for displaying information; a host computer connected via said communication network to said plurality of input/output terminal units, for generating, for each of the subscribers, information required for arranging the meeting with the desired person, said host computer including; attribute/schedule storing means for storing therein the first attribute data and the schedule data input from said input/output terminal units for each of the subscribers, and for storing second attribute data of the desired person who is to be met, and the schedule data includes for each of the subscribers and the desired person, movement data indicating movement from a first location to a second location including a movement time and a movement date, and location data indicating a future location including a location time and a location date; subscriber selecting means for selecting one of the subscribers having the first attribute data substantially in common with the second attribute data of the desired person by referring to said attribute/schedule storing means; information accumulating means responsive to said subscriber selecting means for accumulating personal information of the desired person for the one of the subscribers selected by said subscriber selecting means; and information transfer means responsive to the request from a subscriber input to said input/output terminal units, for transferring the personal information of the desired person and the corresponding subscriber, accumulated by said information accumulating means together with the location and movement data for arranging the meeting with the desired person, to a corresponding input/output terminal, said corresponding input/output terminal displaying on a corresponding display unit the personal information of the desired person of said corresponding subscriber, transferred from said information transfer means.
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11. An information providing apparatus for providing subscribers through a communication network with information required for arranging a meeting with a desired person, said apparatus comprising:
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attribute storing means for storing therein first attribute data of a subscriber and second attribute data of the desired person for each of the subscribers; schedule storing means for storing therein schedule data on travel for each of the subscribers, the schedule data includes for each of the subscribers and the desired person movement data indicating movement from a first location to a second location including a movement time and a movement date, and location data indicating a future location including a location time and a location date; subscriber selecting means for selecting one of the subscribers having the first attribute data substantially in common with the second attribute data of the desired person by referring to said attribute storing means and said schedule storing means; information accumulating means responsive to said subscriber selecting means for accumulating personal information of the desired person for the one of the subscribers selected; and information providing means for providing the one of the subscribers through said communication network with the personal information accumulated by said information accumulating means together with the location and movement data for arranging the meeting with the desired person. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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