Social information providing system, social information distribution apparatus, and user terminal apparatus

• US 9,935,725 B2
• Filed: 01/28/2016
• Issued: 04/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kurihara, Shinichi, Saito, Yuichiro, Imura, Kazuhisa, Yamasaki, Satoshi, Mikoshi, Toshihiro, Kobori, Osamu
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Zhen Y
• Application Number:
  US15/009,716
• Publication Number:
  US 20160149657A1
• Time in Patent Office: 796 Days
• Field of Search: 34053818
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3617 using user history, behaviour, conditions or preferences, e.g. predicted or inferred from previous use or current movement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/26 Government or public services business processes related to the transportation industry G06Q50/40
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/006 with transmission via telephone network
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/008 with transmission via TV or radio broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/59 for emergency or urgency
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25841 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; arrangements for identifying locations of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/51; location of the user terminal in data switching networks H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25883 being end-user demographical data, e.g. age, family status or address arrangements for identifying locations of users in broadcast systems H04H60/52
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/262 Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists scheduling strategies for dispatcher in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/4881; arrangements for scheduling broadcast services or broadcast-related services H04H60/06; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10; establishing a time schedule or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26283 for associating distribution time parameters to content, e.g. to generate electronic program guide data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/814 comprising emergency warnings arrangements specially adapted for emergency or urgency in broadcast systems H04H20/59; arrangements for providing alarms, notifications, alerts to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a social information distribution apparatus apportions and accumulates, for items classified, basic information including a position of each of a plurality of information sources and social information transmitted in time series from each of the plurality of information sources, analyzes the accumulated social information, modifies and processes the social information, updates the social information as some of the items, selects social information to be broadcast, determines a broadcast format including at least classification of broadcast ranges, a broadcasting time, and a repetition count within the broadcasting time when broadcasting the selected social information, and transmits the selected social information to a designated broadcast range by a broadcast wave.

Claims

1. A social information distribution apparatus configured to collect and analyze social information transmitted from each of one or more of mobile power supply vehicles, and distribute the social information over a broadcast wave comprising:

a basic information collection module for collecting basic information including at least one of a home position, a provider name, a vehicle registration number, a charging type, a chargeable time, a number of vehicles simultaneously charged, a unit price, and a reservation access destination of each of the one or more of mobile power supply vehicles,

a social information collection module for collecting social information transmitted in time series associated with each of the one or more of mobile power supply vehicles including at least one of a current vehicle position, a waiting time, a number of vehicles and a current road condition from an external social infrastructure information device, and at least one of another social information from an external facility system reserved and managed in the vehicle reservation access destination,

an accumulation module for apportioning, classifying and accumulating the basic information of each of the one or more of mobile power supply vehicles collected by the basic information collection module and the social information collected by the social information collection module,

an analysis module for acquiring the basic information and social information accumulated in the accumulation module to analyze prediction of a time at which a number of vehicles is reach based on a reservation trend, a latest number of reserved vehicles, an expectation of a vehicle sold-out time based on the current vehicle position and the current road condition, and determination of a specification of a geographic area which is expected to be able to arrive before the expected vehicle sold-out time, and updated the social information in the accumulation module with the result of the analysis module,

an information transmission management module for determining the social information to be broadcasted, a broadcast order of the social information, a broadcast time of the social information, a number of times to rebroadcast the social information within the determined broadcast time from the social information accumulated in the accumulation module, and determining a selected broadcast range and region based on the result of analysis module of the geographic area which is expected to be able to arrive before the expected vehicle sold-out time, and

a social information transmission module for transmitting the social information determined by the information transmission management module to the selected broadcast range and region over the broadcast wave in accordance with a broadcast format.

2. A social information distribution apparatus configured to collect and analyze social information transmitted from each of one or more of vehicle charging stations, and distribute the social information over a broadcast wave comprising:

a basic information collection module for collecting basic information including at least one of a position, a provider name, business hours, a charging type, a chargeable time, a number of vehicles simultaneously charged, a unit price, and a reservation access destination of each of the one or more of vehicle charging stations,

a social information collection module for collecting social information including a waiting time transmitted in time series from each of the one or more of vehicle charging stations, a number of vehicles, a current vehicle position and a current road condition from an external social infrastructure information device, and at least one of another social information from an external facility system reserved and managed in the vehicle reservation access destination,

an accumulation module for apportioning, classifying and accumulating the basic information of each of the one or more of vehicle charging stations collected by the basic information collection module and the social information collected by the social information collection module,

an analysis module for acquiring the basic information and social information accumulated in the accumulation module to analyze an expectation of a vehicle sold-out time based on the current vehicle position, the current road condition and the waiting time, and determination of a specification of a geographic area of at least one of the one or more vehicle charging stations which is expected to be able to arrive before the expected vehicle sold-out time, and updated the social information in the accumulation module with the result of the analysis module,

an information transmission management module for determining the social information to be broadcasted, a broadcast order of the social information, a broadcast time of the social information, a number of times to rebroadcast the social information within the determined broadcast time from the social information accumulated in the accumulation module, and determining a selected broadcast range and region based on the analysis module'"'"'s result of the geographic area which is expected to be able to arrive before the expected vehicle sold-out time, and

a social information transmission module for transmitting the social information determined by the information transmission management module to the selected broadcast range and region over the broadcast wave in accordance with a broadcast format.