Information providing apparatus, information providing method, and user device

An information providing method executed by an information providing apparatus, comprising:

• receiving wish information relevant to a wish item or a wish service that a user wishes to have and position information of the user from a user device that the user uses;
• transmitting the wish information received by the wish information receiving unit to a provider device used by a provider who provides items or services;
• receiving provision information relevant to provision of the wish item or the wish service from the provider device;
• determining whether a moving cost, which is required for moving from a position indicated by the position information to a providing place at which the provider provides the wish item or the wish service, satisfies a predetermined condition;
• and
• notifying the user device of the provision information corresponding to a provider in which the determining unit determines that the moving cost satisfies the predetermined condition.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an executable information providing program causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

• receiving wish information relevant to a wish item or a wish service that a user wishes to have and position information of the user from a user device that the user uses;
• transmitting the wish information received by the wish information receiving process to a provider device used by a provider who provides items or services;
• receiving provision information relevant to provision of the wish item or the wish service from the provider device;
• determining whether a moving cost, which is required for moving from a position indicated by the position information to a providing place at which the provider provides the wish item or the wish service, satisfies a predetermined condition;
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• notifying the user device of the provision information corresponding to a provider in which the determining process determines that the moving cost satisfies the predetermined condition.

A user device comprising:

• a requesting unit that transmits wish information relevant to a wish item or a wish service that a user wishes to have and position information of the user to an information providing apparatus to request the information providing apparatus to transmit provision information relevant to provision of the wish item or the wish service;
• a receiving unit that transmits the wish information to a provider device used by a provider who provides items or services to receive provision information corresponding to a provider, in which a moving cost required for moving from a position indicated by the position information to a providing place at which the wish item or the wish service is provided by the provider satisfies a predetermined condition, from the information providing apparatus that received the provision information from the provider device;
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• a display control unit that controls a predetermined display unit to display the provision information received by the receiving unit.