Information delivery apparatus, information receiving apparatus, information delivery method, information receiving method and information delivery system

• US 20090070029A1
• Filed: 09/09/2008
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sugino, Akinobu, Sano, Akane, Sako, Yoichiro, Ito, Taiji, Kamatani, Yoshiteru, Takehara, Mitsuru, Asukai, Masamichi, Kon, Takayasu, Kamada, Yasunori, Hayashi, Kazunori
• Application Number:
  US12/283,033
• Publication Number:
  US 20090070029A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/026 using orientation information, e.g. compass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

There is provided an information delivery apparatus including an event information storage portion to store event information including a place, date and time of an event held in a predetermined place on predetermined date and time, a location information receiving portion to receive location information indicating a current location of a mobile communication terminal, a travel time calculating portion to calculate a necessary travel time from the current location of the terminal to the event place based on the location information, a delivery time determining portion to determine a delivery time of the event information to the terminal based on the necessary travel time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the terminal at the delivery time. The delivery time determining portion determines the delivery time so that the interval between the delivery time and the event time is longer than the necessary travel time.

Claims

1. An information delivery apparatus comprising:

an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, an event date and an event time of an event held in a predetermined place on predetermined date and time;

a location information receiving portion to receive location information indicating a current location of a mobile communication terminal;

a travel time calculating portion to calculate a necessary travel time from the current location of the mobile communication terminal to the event place based on the location information received by the location information receiving portion;

a delivery time determining portion to determine a delivery time of the event information to the mobile communication terminal based on the necessary travel time calculated by the travel time calculating portion; and

an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the mobile communication terminal at the delivery time determined by the delivery time determining portion,

wherein the delivery time determining portion determines the delivery time so that an interval between the delivery time and the event time is longer than the necessary travel time.

2. The information delivery apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case where the event is held for a predetermined period, if there exists location information corresponding to the event place among the location information of the mobile communication terminal received during the predetermined period, the event information delivery portion refrains from delivering the event information at the delivery time.

3. The information delivery apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, if the necessary travel time calculated by the travel time calculating portion exceeds a predetermined time, the event information delivery portion refrains from delivering the event information at the delivery time.

4. The information delivery apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the travel time calculating portion refrains from calculating the necessary travel time related to the event information for the mobile communication terminal to which the event information has been delivered by the event information delivery portion.

5. An information receiving apparatus comprising:

an event information receiving portion to receive event information including an event place, an event date and an event time of an event held in a predetermined place on predetermined date and time;

an event information storage portion to store the event information received by the event information receiving portion;

a location information acquiring portion to acquire location information indicating a current location;

a travel time calculating portion to calculate a necessary travel time from the current location to the event place included in the event information stored in the event information storage portion based on the location information acquired by the location information acquiring portion;

an output time determining portion to determine an output time to output the event information based on the necessary travel time calculated by the travel time calculating portion; and

an event information output portion to output the event information to a user at the output time determined by the output time determining portion,

wherein the output time determining portion determines the output time so that an interval between the output time and the event time is longer than the necessary travel time.

6. The information receiving apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, in a case where the event is held for a predetermined period, if there exists location information corresponding to the event place among the location information received during the predetermined period, the event information output portion refrains from outputting the event information at the output time.

7. The information receiving apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, if the necessary travel time calculated by the travel time calculating portion exceeds a predetermined time, the event information output portion refrains from outputting the event information at the output time.

8. The information receiving apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the travel time calculating portion refrains from calculating the necessary travel time for the event information having been output from the event information output portion.

9. An information delivery method comprising steps of:

receiving location information indicating a current location of a mobile communication terminal;

calculating a necessary travel time from the current location of the mobile communication terminal to an event place of an event held in a predetermined place on predetermined date and time based on the location information received in the receiving step;

determining a delivery time of event information about the event to the mobile communication terminal based on the necessary travel time calculated in the calculating step; and

delivering the event information to the mobile communication terminal at the delivery time determined in the determining step,

wherein the delivery time is determined in the determining step so that an interval between the delivery time and the event time is longer than the necessary travel time.

10. An information receiving method comprising steps of:

receiving event information including an event place, an event date and an event time of an event held in a predetermined place on predetermined date and time;

storing the event information received in the receiving step into a storage medium;

acquiring location information indicating a current location;

calculating a necessary travel time from the current location to the event place included in the event information stored in The storage medium based on the location information acquired in the acquiring step;

determining an output time to output the event information based on the necessary travel time calculated in the calculating step; and

outputting the event information to a user at the output time determined in the determining step,

wherein the output time is determined in the determining step so that an interval between the output time and the event time is longer than the necessary travel time.

11. An information delivery system including an information receiving apparatus that acquires and supplies location information and an information delivery apparatus that delivers event information based on the location information supplied by the information receiving apparatus, the information delivery apparatus comprising:

an event information storage portion to store the event information including an event place, an event date and an event time of an event held in a predetermined place on predetermined date and time;

a location information receiving portion to receive location information indicating a current location of the information receiving apparatus;

a travel time calculating portion to calculate a necessary travel time from the current location of the information receiving apparatus to the event place based on the location information received by the location information receiving portion;

a delivery time determining portion to determine a delivery time of the event information to the information receiving apparatus based on the necessary travel time calculated by the travel time calculating portion; and

an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the information receiving apparatus at the delivery time determined by the delivery time determining portion,

wherein the delivery time determining portion determines the delivery time so that an interval between the delivery time and the event time is longer than the necessary travel time.

12. An information delivery system including an information receiving apparatus that receives and outputs event information and an information delivery apparatus that delivers the event information about an event held in a predetermined place on predetermined date and time to the information receiving apparatus, the information receiving apparatus comprising:

an event information receiving portion to receive the event information including an event place, an event date and an event time of an event held in a predetermined place on predetermined date and time from the information delivery apparatus;

an event information storage portion to store the event information received by the event information receiving portion;

a location information acquiring portion to acquire location information indicating a current location;

a travel time calculating portion to calculate a necessary travel time from the current location to the event place included in the event information stored in the event information storage portion based on the location information acquired by the location information acquiring portion;

an output time determining portion to determine an output time to output the event information based on the necessary travel time calculated by the travel time calculating portion; and

an event information output portion to output the event information to a user at the output time determined by the output time determining portion,

wherein the output time determining portion determines the output time so that an interval between the output time and the event time is longer than the necessary travel time.