US 2004/0005879 A1Published application

Information provision system and apparatus and method therefor

AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

InventorsHitoshi Yashio, Gou Nakano

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Abstract

The information provision system includes a terminal having a current position measurement section and a communications controller, which intermittently transmits information on the current position measured, a terminal position management section for managing the position of the terminal based on the current position information received, an accident/disaster information management section for collecting information on an accident or a disaster and managing the information according to occurrence location and time of the accidents, an warning information generator for generating warning information from the information on the accidents, an warning terminal identification section for identifying a terminal positioned in the neighborhood of the location of the accidents, and an warning transmitter for transmitting warning information to the identified terminal. The system prevents user who carries a terminal from sustaining a possible damage caused by the accidents.

Claims29

Dependent claims

An information provision system comprising a center apparatus for providing information and a terminal for receiving information,

wherein said terminal includes:
current position measurement means for measuring a current position of the terminal;
and
a transmitter for intermittently transmitting information on the current position measured by said current position measurement means to the center apparatus, and
said center apparatus includes:
terminal position management means for managing a position of said terminal based on information on the current position received from the terminal;
accident/disaster information management means for collecting information on an accident or a disaster and managing the collected information according to occurrence location and occurrence time of the accident or the disaster;
warning information generation means for generating warning information to be sent to the terminal based on the collected information on the accident or the disaster;
warning terminal identification means for identifying a terminal positioned in the neighborhood of the location of the accident or the disaster, or a terminal moving toward the neighborhood of said location based on the information managed by said terminal position management means;
and
a warning transmitter for transmitting said warning information to the terminal identified by the warning terminal identification means.

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A center apparatus, which provides a terminal with information, comprising:

terminal position management means for managing a position of said terminal based on information on the current position received from the terminal;
accident/disaster information management means for collecting information on an accident or a disaster and managing the collected information according to occurrence location and occurrence time of the accident or the disaster;
warning information generation means for generating warning information to be sent to the terminal based on the collected information on the accident or the disaster;
warning terminal identification means for identifying a terminal positioned in the neighborhood of the location of the accident or the disaster based on the information managed by the terminal position management means;
a warning transmitter for transmitting the warning information to the terminal identified by the warning terminal identification means;
and
communications control means for controlling communications.

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An information provision method of providing information to a terminal from a center apparatus, comprising steps of:

intermittently receiving information on current position of said terminal from the terminal to manage position information on said terminal;
collecting information on an accident or a disaster to manage the information according to occurrence location and occurrence time of a accident or a disaster;
generating warning information to report to the terminal based on the collected information on a accident or a disaster;
identifying a terminal positioned in the neighborhood of occurrence location of an accident or a disaster based on the information on the position of a terminal managed;
and
transmitting said warning information to said terminal.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.