Information distribution system, information distribution method, and information distribution program

• US 8,898,281 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2009
• Issued: 11/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Fukui, Masayuki, Matsumoto, Tatsuro, Yano, Ai, Sasaki, Kazuo, Takahashi, Eiichi, Hara, Masahiro, Iwayama, Yutaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Choudhury, Azizul
• Assistant Examiner(s): NAJEE-ULLAH, TARIQ S
• Application Number:
  US12/568,744
• Publication Number:
  US 20100088407A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,883 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224, 701/201
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

An information distribution system includes a visit determination unit (42), a distribution range evaluation unit (43), and a distribution range change unit (44). The visit determination unit (42) determines whether a user of a mobile terminal (2) to which evaluation information has been distributed has visited a facility in the evaluation information, and upon determining affirmatively, calculates a visit distance indicating the distance between the location of the mobile terminal indicated by distribution time terminal location information and the location of the facility in the evaluation information. The distribution range evaluation unit (43) determines whether the distribution range is effective based on the visit distance. The distribution range change unit (44) updates distribution range information so that the distribution range is enlarged if the distribution range is effective, and updates the distribution range information so that the distribution range is reduced if the distribution range is not effective.

Claims

1. An information distribution method comprising:

acquiring, by a computer, terminal location information of a plurality of mobile terminals, the terminal location information representing each location at which each of the plurality of mobile terminals receives distributed evaluation information of a facility;

determining whether a user of one of the plurality of mobile terminals which have received the evaluation information has visited the facility in the evaluation information and calculating a visit distance between the facility which the user has visited and a location at which a mobile terminal of the user receives the evaluation information of the facility which the user has visited, using the terminal location information; and

defining a distribution range of the evaluation information using a relationship between the visit distance calculated and a threshold number of visits to the facility by recipients of the distributed evaluation information.

2. The information distribution method according to claim 1, wherein the threshold number of visits is obtained by multiplying a number of the mobile terminals that received the evaluation information and an expectation value.

3. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein a program to cause a computer to execute an operation, comprising:

acquiring terminal location information of a plurality of terminals, the terminal location information representing each location at which each of the plurality of mobile terminals receives distributed evaluation information of a facility;

determining whether a user of one of the plurality of mobile terminals which have received the evaluation information has visited the facility in the evaluation information and calculating a visit distance between the facility which the user has visited and a location at which a mobile terminal of the user receives the evaluation information of the facility which the user has visited, using the terminal location information;

defining a distribution range of the evaluation information using a relationship between the visit distance calculated and a threshold number of visits to the facility by recipients of the distributed evaluation information.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 3, wherein the defining indicates whether the distribution range is effective based on a sum of users of the plurality of terminals within the visit distance who have visited the facility.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 4, wherein the distribution range is reduced when the distribution range is determined to be not effective.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 3, wherein the threshold number of visits is obtained by multiplying a number of the mobile terminals that received the evaluation information and an expectation value.