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AssigneeTap Around Inc.
InventorsYuta Ando, Lawrence Yuhwan Lein
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To support information sharing between terminals existing within a short distance from each other while a burden on a server administrator is prevented from increasing or decreased. An information sharing support server includes a server data transmission and reception control unit which recognizes identifiers of sending terminals associated with identifiers of originating terminals (STEP 446, STEP 466), recognizes identifiers of terminals associated with the relevant identifiers of the sending terminals (STEP 448, STEP 450, STEP 468), and transmits data to the relevant terminals (STEP 452, STEP 470).
An information sharing support server comprising:
A system comprising:
A method carried out by an information sharing support server which includes a server storage configured to store information and a server communication unit configured to perform communication with a plurality of terminals, which include one or more sending terminals and one or more originating terminals, each terminal of the plurality of terminals having an identifier and configured to wirelessly receive the identifier of a sending terminal and store a sending terminal list containing each of received sending terminal identifiers in association with reception time points thereof,
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The present invention relates to a server, a system and a method which support information sharing between plural terminals over a short distance.
In the past, a system has been known which promotes information sharing between plural terminals existing within a short distance from each other.
For example, a server has been known which includes a receiving part receiving moving image data taken by a camera function of a first mobile terminal and positional information on the first mobile terminal, an area determining part determining an area including a position which is indicated by the positional information on the basis of the received positional information on the first mobile terminal, an e-mail notifying part transmitting an e-mail including a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the moving image data to one or more second mobile terminals which exist in the determined area, and a moving image distributing part distributing, when receiving a request to distribute the moving image which includes the relevant URL from the second mobile terminal, the moving image data to the second mobile terminal (e.g., see Patent Literature 1).
FIG. 1 is a general configuration diagram of an information sharing support system according to the present invention.
FIG. 2A, FIG. 2B, and FIG. 2C are flowcharts in which FIG. 2A illustrates an identifier storing control process and FIG. 2B illustrates an unrestricted terminal data transmission and reception control process and FIG. 2C Illustrates a restricted terminal data transmission and reception control process.
FIG. 3A and FIG. 3B are structure diagrams in which FIG. 3A illustrates a table stored in a server storage and FIG. 3B illustrates a table stored in the server storage, showing a structure of a table in a case where a radio wave intensity is corrected and an access point field for a restricted terminal is set.
A description is given of a embodiment of the present invention with reference to FIG. 1 to FIG. 4E.
An information sharing support system according to the embodiment of the invention comprises unrestricted terminals (a first unrestricted terminal 10a to a fourth unrestricted terminal 10d in FIG. 1), restricted terminals (a first restricted terminal 20a to a second restricted terminal 20b in FIG. 1), and an information sharing support server 40 which are connected via a wide area network such as the Internet, as shown in FIG. 1.
There are access points (a first access point 30a to a fourth access point 30d in FIG. 1) around the unrestricted terminals and the restricted terminals.