Information displaying system, information providing apparatus, and information providing method

• US 7,151,548 B1
• Filed: 01/26/1999
• Issued: 12/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Hirono, Chiharu
• Primary Examiner(s): Tung, Kee M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HARRISON, CHANTE E
• Application Number:
  US09/236,886
• Time in Patent Office: 2,884 Days
• Field of Search: 701/201, 701/209, 701/211, 345/352, 345/353, 705/14
• US Class Current: 345/629
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0256 User search
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0272 Period of advertisement exposure
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement

Abstract

An information displaying system for displaying information corresponding to a geographical location includes a display commanding unit pre-assigned with a unique ID, an information displaying unit for displaying information corresponding to a command received from the display commanding unit, a first data storing unit for storing map drawing element data for drawing a map, a second data storing unit for storing a geographical location corresponding to contents which are displayed corresponding to the command received from the display commanding unit and first attribute information in such a manner that the geographical location and the first attribute information are correlated with the ID, a map drawing commanding units, linked from the display commanding unit, for searching the first data storing unit so as to draw the map corresponding to the location searched from the second data storing unit corresponding to the ID, wherein the map corresponding to a command received from the map drawing commanding unit is displayed by the information displaying means.

Claims

1. An information displaying system including a server apparatus and an information displaying apparatus capable of accessing said server apparatus, for displaying information corresponding to a geographical location on said information displaying apparatus, comprising:

information displaying means;

display commanding means pre-assigned with a unique identification code for accepting a user'"'"'s selecting operation and outputting a commanding signal to have said information displaying means display the information when the display commanding means is selected by the user'"'"'s selecting operation;

first data storing means for storing map drawing element data corresponding to a geographic location;

second data storing means for storing said geographic location and for storing first attribute information so that said geographic location and said first attribute information correlate with said identification code, wherein said first attribute information is business related information corresponding to said identification code;

third data storing means for storing advertisement data and second attribute information corresponding to said advertisement data;

map drawing command means for accepting said commanding signal sent from said display commanding means, for searching a geographic location corresponding to said identification code pre-assigned to said information displaying means from said second data storing means, searching said map drawing element data corresponding to said searched geographical location from said first data storing means, and controlling said information displaying means to draw map information using said searched map drawing element data; and

advertisement display commanding means for accepting said commanding signal sent from said display commanding means, searching an advertisement data from said third data storing means, and controlling the information displaying means to display advertisement information using said searched advertisement data, wherein

said advertisement display commanding means comprises;

a correspondence determination section for determining a correspondence relationship between said first attribute information and said second attribute information; and

an advertisement searching section for determining said second attribute information corresponding to said commanding signal sent from said display commanding means using said determined correspondence relationship, and searching said advertisement data using said determined second attribute information, and wherein

said information displaying means displays both said map information and said advertisement information at said same display screen, said map information and said advertisement information being generated by said map drawing commanding means and said advertisement display commanding means, respectively.