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Information providing system, information providing apparatus, information providing method, portable terminal, information outputting method, and computer program

  • US 7,946,495 B2
  • Filed: 03/03/2010
  • Issued: 05/24/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An information providing system, comprising:

  • a portable terminal including an IC chip configured to communicate with an information providing apparatus wirelessly in accordance with Near Field Communication standard and to send chip identification information identifying the IC chip; and

    the information providing apparatus includinga browser configured to read content transmitted via a network from an external apparatus and to output the content on a screen based on screen-output control information embedded in data of the content, the screen-output control information defining at least a format for outputting the content on the screen or a data structure of the content, anda wireless communication unit configured to carry out the wireless communications in accordance with Near Field Communication with the IC chip included in the portable terminal, to receive the identification information from the IC chip, and to identify the IC chip in the portable terminal based on the received identification information,wherein transmission target information that is to be transmitted to the portable terminal, and transmission control information instructing transmission of the transmission target information to the portable terminal, are also embedded in the data of the content,wherein the browser instructs the wireless communication unit to transmit the transmission target information to the portable terminal based on the transmission control information embedded in the content that has been read, andwherein the wireless communication unit, by wireless communications in accordance with Near Field Communication, transmits the transmission target information to the IC chip, identified by the received identification information, included in the portable terminal based on the instruction from the browser.

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