Delivery control apparatus, information delivery system, and information delivery method

• US 9,330,403 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2015
• Issued: 05/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Kakii, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, SEUNG H
• Application Number:
  US14/632,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20150254735A1
• Time in Patent Office: 432 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A delivery control apparatus is connected to an electronic apparatus. The delivery control apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires electronic apparatus information concerning the electronic apparatus from the electronic apparatus; a selecting unit that selects delivery information corresponding to the electronic apparatus information out of one or more pieces of delivery information; and a delivery processing unit that executes at least one of processing of delivering the selected delivery information to the electronic apparatus and processing of storing access information to the selected delivery information.

Claims

1. A delivery control apparatus that is connected to an electronic apparatus, the delivery control apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to;

acquire electronic apparatus information corresponding to the electronic apparatus from the electronic apparatus;

select delivery information corresponding to the electronic apparatus information out of one or more pieces of delivery information, the delivery information being selected based on a match between the electronic apparatus information and a delivery condition corresponding to the delivery information for delivering the delivery information; and

execute at least one of processing of delivering the selected delivery information to the electronic apparatus and processing of storing access information corresponding to the selected delivery information.

2. The delivery control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to store corresponding information, in which identification information of the electronic apparatus is associated with the access information, in a memory.

3. The delivery control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the electronic apparatus information includes variable information that varies by use of the electronic apparatus and fixed information that does not vary by the use of the electronic apparatus.

4. The delivery control apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the variable information includes information on a user.

5. An information delivery system comprising:

a delivery control apparatus; and

an electronic apparatus,

the delivery control apparatus comprising;

circuitry configured to;

acquire electronic apparatus information corresponding to the electronic apparatus from the electronic apparatus,

select delivery information corresponding to the electronic apparatus information out of one or more pieces of delivery information, the delivery information being selected based on a match between the electronic apparatus information and a delivery condition corresponding to the delivery information for delivering the delivery information, and

execute at least one of processing of delivering the selected delivery information to the electronic apparatus and processing of storing access information corresponding to the selected delivery information, and the electronic apparatus comprising;

another circuitry configured to;

transmit the electronic apparatus information to the delivery control apparatus,

receive the delivery information from the delivery control apparatus, and

display the received delivery information on a display.

6. An information delivery method executed in an information delivery system that comprises a delivery control apparatus and an electronic apparatus, the information delivery method comprising:

transmitting, by the electronic apparatus, electronic apparatus information to the delivery control apparatus;

acquiring, by the delivery control apparatus, the electronic apparatus information corresponding to the electronic apparatus from the electronic apparatus;

selecting, by the delivery control apparatus, delivery information corresponding to the electronic apparatus information out of one or more pieces of delivery information, the delivery information being selected based on a match between the electronic apparatus information and a delivery condition corresponding to the delivery information for delivering the delivery information;

executing, by the delivery control apparatus, at least one of processing of delivering the selected delivery information to the electronic apparatus and processing of storing access information corresponding to the selected delivery information;

receiving, by the electronic apparatus, the delivery information from the delivery control apparatus; and

displaying, by the electronic apparatus, the received delivery information on a display.