US 5,970,511 AGranted

Information providing system

AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

InventorsHideko Kurita, Koji Hatano

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Abstract

To provide detailed information with large amount of data without changing the information to be provided by considering environment of users on information server side providing information and without increasing data amount of the information sent to an information terminal from the information server, and also to facilitate referring, setting and updating of the information of a portable storage medium when the portable storage medium is used as local information storage means. Information is provided to the users by referring to conversion information, which indicates a conversion object address expressing storage status of a given information, which is to be a conversion object, and a conversion candidate address expressing storage status of an information corresponding to said given information, which is to be a conversion candidate, and conversion relationship between said two addresses.

Claims19

Dependent claims

An information providing system, at least comprising:

conversion information storage means for storing conversion information indicating a conversion object address expressing storage status of given information, which is to be a conversion object, a conversion candidate address expressing storage status of information corresponding to said given information, and a conversion relationship between said two addresses;
input means for accepting designation of an arbitrary address and input of instruction;
display/output means for displaying and/or outputting arbitrary information;
and
control means for controlling said input means, said conversion information storage means and said display/output means;
wherein, in case the conversion object address corresponding to the address specified by said input means is stored in said conversion information storage means, an entity of information indicated by the conversion candidate address corresponding to the conversion object address stored in said conversion information storage means is delivered to said display/output means at the instruction of said control means.

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An information providing system, at least comprising:

conversion information storage means for storing conversion information indicating a conversion object script, which is at least a part of a description of a given script, a conversion candidate script corresponding to said conversion object script, and conversion relationship between said two scripts;
input means for accepting designation of an arbitrary address or input of instruction;
display/output means for displaying and/or outputting an arbitrary information;
and
control means for controlling said input means, said conversion information storage means and said display/output means;
wherein, when at least a part of description of the script indicated by the address specified by said input means is stored as a conversion script in said conversion information storage means;
the conversion object script stored in said conversion information storage means is converted to a conversion candidate script indicated by the address specified by said input means, and an entity of information indicated by the script obtained by said conversion is delivered to said display/output means.

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