Facility management support apparatus, method, and medium for supporting management of visitors in facility area
First Claim
1. A facility management support apparatus which manages visitors in a facility area, the apparatus comprising:
- a place information storage unit storing the degree of crowdedness in each of places in the facility area;
a receiving unit receiving, from a terminal, information which enables identification of the location of the terminal;
an extraction unit extracting one of the places to which one of the visitors should move on the basis of the degree of crowdedness and the location of the terminal; and
a transmission unit transmitting, to the terminal, information which enables identification of the place to which the visitor should move;
further including a story storage unit storing information on the places and a story by relating the places and the story to each other,wherein the extraction unit extracts one of the places to which the visitor should move on the basis of the location of the terminal and the story.
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Abstract
There is provided a facility management support apparatus which manages visitors in a facility area, the apparatus includes: a place information storage unit for storing the degree of crowdedness in each of the places in the facility area; a receiving unit for receiving, from a terminal, information which enables identification of the location of the terminal; an extraction unit for extracting one of the places to which one of the visitors should move on the basis of the degree of crowdedness and the location of the terminal; and a transmission unit for transmitting, to the terminal, information which enables identification of the place to which the visitor should move.
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6 Claims
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1. A facility management support apparatus which manages visitors in a facility area, the apparatus comprising:
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a place information storage unit storing the degree of crowdedness in each of places in the facility area; a receiving unit receiving, from a terminal, information which enables identification of the location of the terminal; an extraction unit extracting one of the places to which one of the visitors should move on the basis of the degree of crowdedness and the location of the terminal; and a transmission unit transmitting, to the terminal, information which enables identification of the place to which the visitor should move; further including a story storage unit storing information on the places and a story by relating the places and the story to each other, wherein the extraction unit extracts one of the places to which the visitor should move on the basis of the location of the terminal and the story. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A computer readable recording medium upon which a program, for use by a computer, is recorded for performing the following steps for managing visitors in a facility area:
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storing the degree of crowdedness in each of places in the facility area in a place information storage unit; receiving, from a terminal to a receiving unit, information which enables identification of the location of the terminal; extracting, via an extraction unit, one of the places to which one of the visitors should move on the basis of the degree of crowdedness and the location of the terminal; transmitting to the terminal, via a transmission unit, information which enables identification of the place to which the visitor should move; and storing information in a story storage unit on the places and a story by relating the places and the story to each other, wherein during the extracting step, the extraction unit extracts one of the places to which the visitor should move on the basis of the location of the terminal and the story. - View Dependent Claims (4)
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5. A method for managing visitors in a facility area, the method comprising:
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storing the degree of crowdedness in each of places in the facility area in a place information storage unit; receiving, from a terminal to a receiving unit, information which enables identification of the location of the terminal; extracting, via an extraction unit, one of the places to which one of the visitors should move on the basis of the degree of crowdedness and the location of the terminal; transmitting to the terminal, via a transmission unit, information which enables identification of the place to which the visitor should move; and storing information in a story storage unit on the places and a story by relating the places and the story to each other, wherein during the extracting step, the extraction unit extracts one of the places to which the visitor should move on the basis of the location of the terminal and the story. - View Dependent Claims (6)
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