Service providing system, portable terminal and control computer program product
AssigneeNtt Docomo, Inc.
InventorsToshihiro Azami, Hiroshi Inamura, Takehiro Nakayama, Hideki Yukitomo, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Atsushi Takeshita, Minoru Etoh
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Abstract
A service providing system provides a portable terminal having a wireless communication function with a service effective only in a specific area. The service providing system includes an entrance gate installed at an entrance of the specific area. The entrance gate includes specific area service notifying unit configured to notify the portable terminal of a type of service necessary in the specific area by means of wireless communication.
Claims21
A service providing system for providing a portable terminal having a wireless communication function with a service effective only in a specific area, comprising:
- an entrance gate, installed at an entrance of the specific area, includes specific area service notifying unit configured to notify the portable terminal of a type of service necessary in the specific area by means of wireless communication.
A service providing system for providing a portable terminal having a wireless communication function with a service effective only in a specific area, comprising:
- an entrance gate, installed at an entrance of the specific area, includes enable notifying unit configured to notify the portable terminal of an enable signal by means of wireless communication, the enable signal making a service pre-stored in the portable terminal and necessary in the specific area available.
A portable terminal including connecting unit to a communication network and application executing unit, comprising:
- a gate signal detecting unit configured to detect a signal transmitted from an entrance gate installed at an entrance of a specific area by means of wireless communication;
- specific area service determining unit configured to determine from the transmitted signal that a specific service is now necessary;
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- specific area service downloading unit configured to download the service by wire or wirelessly based upon a result of determination made by the specific area service determining unit.
A portable terminal including connecting unit with a communication network and application executing unit, comprising:
- enable signal detecting unit configured to detect an enable signal transmitted by means of wireless communication from an entrance gate installed at an entrance of a specific area;
- specific area service determining unit configured to determine from the enable signal that a specific service is now necessary;
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- specific area service enabling unit configured to make the service available based upon a result of determination made by the specific area service determining unit.
A control computer program product to be executed by a portable terminal, comprising:
- instructions configured to detect a signal transmitted by means of wireless communication from an entrance gate installed at an entrance of a specific area to a portable terminal having connecting unit to a communication network and application executing unit;
- instructions configured to determine from the transmitted signal that a specific service is now necessary;
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- instructions configured to download the service by wire or wirelessly based upon a result of determination made at the step of determining that the specific service is now necessary.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.