Information processing apparatus, information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium that stores a program, and information processing method

• US 8,989,714 B2
• Filed: 09/25/2012
• Issued: 03/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Yoshiharu
• Primary Examiner(s): Vy, Hung T
• Application Number:
  US13/626,436
• Publication Number:
  US 20130254496A1
• Time in Patent Office: 910 Days
• Field of Search: 707/758, 340/995.1, 340/988, 340/990, 701/516, 4554141- 2, 455/54.2, 455/561.1
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including a reception unit that receives place specifying information for specifying a place transmitted from a mobile terminal in the place where provision of management target information stored in a memory is requested, a controller that performs a control so that the place specifying information received by the reception unit is stored in the memory to be matched with the management target information, and a provision unit that provides, in a case where place specifying information corresponding to the place specifying information received by the reception unit is stored in the memory, the management target information matched with the corresponding place specifying information to the mobile terminal.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to act as;

a reception unit that receives from a mobile terminal;

(1) a first request to provide management target information stored in a memory of the information processing apparatus, and (2) first location information indicating a location of the mobile terminal from where the first request is transmitted;

a controller that associates the first location information received by the reception unit with the management target information in the memory of the information processing apparatus; and

a provision unit that provides the management target information associated with the first location information corresponding to second location information, after the reception unit receives (1) a second request to provide management target information, and (2) the second location information indicating a second location of a second mobile terminal from where the second request is transmitted.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the provision unit (1) identifies a provision target candidate that is management target information that has been provided to mobile terminals a predetermined number of times, and (2) provides, when the first location information corresponding to the first request is stored in the memory, the provision target candidate matched with the corresponding first location information.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the provision unit provides, when the first location information corresponding to the first request is stored in the memory, the management target information that has been provided to mobile terminals a largest number of times among the management target information stored in the memory of the information processing apparatus, the management target information being matched with the corresponding first location information.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the provision unit further provides, when vicinity information is contained in the second request indicating a vicinity around a specified location, the management target information matched with the first location that is within the vicinity of the specified location.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the provision unit further provides, when vicinity information is contained in the second request indicating a vicinity around a specified location, the management target information matched with the first location that is within the vicinity of the specified location.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the provision unit (1) identifies a provision target candidate that is management target information that has been provided to mobile terminals a predetermined number of times in a predetermined period, and (2) provides, when the first location information corresponding to the first request is stored in the memory, the provision target candidate matched with the corresponding first location information.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the provision unit provides, when the first location information corresponding to the first request is stored in the memory, the management target information that has been provided to mobile terminals a largest number of times among the management target information stored in the memory of the information processing apparatus, the management target information being matched with the corresponding first location information.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the provision unit further provides, when vicinity information is contained in the second request indicating a vicinity around a specified location, the management target information matched with the first location that is within the vicinity of the specified location.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the provision unit further provides, when vicinity information is contained in the second request indicating a vicinity around a specified location, the management target information matched with the first location that is within the vicinity of the specified location.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the provision unit provides, when the first location information corresponding to the first request is stored in the memory, the management target information that has been provided to mobile terminals a largest number of times among the management target information stored in the memory of the information processing apparatus, the management target information being matched with the corresponding first location information.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein the provision unit further provides, when vicinity information is contained in the second request indicating a vicinity around a specified location, the management target information matched with the first location that is within the vicinity of the specified location.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the provision unit further provides, when vicinity information is contained in the second request indicating a vicinity around a specified location, the management target information matched with the first location that is within the vicinity of the specified location.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the controller associates time information indicating a time at which the first request is transmitted with the management target information,

the reception unit receives time range information when the second request and the second location information is received, and

the provision unit provides the management target information if the time indicated in the time information is included in a period of time indicated in the time range information.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 13,

wherein the provision unit provides, when the first location information corresponding to the first request is stored in the memory, the management target information that has been provided to mobile terminals a largest number of times among the management target information stored in the memory of the information processing apparatus, the management target information being matched with the corresponding first location information.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 14,

wherein the provision unit further provides, when vicinity information is contained in the second request indicating a vicinity around a specified location, the management target information matched with the first location that is within the vicinity of the specified location.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 13,

wherein the provision unit further provides, when vicinity information is contained in the second request indicating a vicinity around a specified location, the management target information matched with the first location that is within the vicinity of the specified location.

17. An information processing system comprising:

a mobile terminal that transmits, in a first location where provision of management target information stored in a memory is requested, first location information for specifying the first location; and

an information processing apparatus including;

a reception unit that receives the from a mobile terminal;

(1) a first request to provide management target information stored in a memory of the information processing apparatus, and (2) first location information indicating a location of the mobile terminal from where the first request is transmitted;

a controller that associates the first location information received by the reception unit with the management target information in the memory of the information processing apparatus; and

a provision unit that provides the management target information associated with the first location information corresponding to second location information, after the reception unit receives (1) a second request to provide management target information, and (2) the second location information indicating a second location of a second mobile terminal from where the second request is transmitted.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores a program that causes a computer that controls an information processing apparatus comprising:

a reception unit that receives from a mobile terminal;

(1) a first request to provide management target information stored in a memory of the information processing apparatus, and (2) first location information indicating a location of the mobile terminal from where the first request is transmitted; and

a controller that associates the first location information received by the reception unit with the management target information in the memory of the information processing apparatus; and

a provision unit that provides the management target information associated with the first location information corresponding to second location information, after the reception unit receives (1) a second request to provide management target information, and (2) the second location information indicating a second location of a second mobile terminal from where the second request is transmitted.

19. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to act as;

a reception unit that receives from a mobile terminal;

(1) a first request to provide management target information stored in a memory of the information processing apparatus, and (2) first information indicating a location of the mobile terminal from where the first request is transmitted;

a controller that associates the first location received by the reception unit with the management target information in the memory of the information processing apparatus; and

a provision unit that provides the management target information associated with the first information corresponding to second location information, after the reception unit receives (1) a second request to provide management target information, and (2) the second location information which indicates a location identified by the user.