Server apparatus, information providing program,recording medium recording information providing program, information providing method, terminal device, terminal program and recording medium recording terminal program

An information providing method in a server apparatus to which a terminal device is accessible via communication network, comprising:

• a step of, at the server apparatus, acquiring user time range information indicating a vacant time range of a user;
• a step of, at the sever apparatus, determining a combination of stores which the user can use within a time range indicated by the user time range information based on store information of each of stores which provide a product or service and the acquired user time range information, the store information including at least any one of position information of a store, use time information of the store and attribute information of the store, and the store information being stored in store information storing unit that stores provision information of the stores per store;
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• a step of, at the server apparatus, transmitting the provision information of the stores in the determined combination, to the terminal device.

A terminal device comprising:

• a store information acquiring unit that acquires store information including at least one of position information of stores which provide a product or service, use time information of the stores and attribute information of the stores, per store from a server apparatus via communication network;
• a time range information acquiring unit that acquires user time range information indicating a vacant time range of a user;
• a store combination determining unit that determines a combination of the stores which the user can use within a time range indicated by the user time range information, based on the acquired user time range information and the acquired store information of each of the stores;
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• a display control unit that displays provision information of the stores in the determined combination.