US 6,473,790 B1Granted

Network system for serving information to mobile terminal apparatus

AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.

InventorMinoru Tagi

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Abstract

An information serving system includes a mobile apparatus and a terminal apparatus. The mobile apparatus includes a memory which stores ticket information including departure time data, and a display. The terminal apparatus is installed in a building, and includes a communication device, a database, and a controller. The controller controls the communication device to read the ticket information stored in the memory of the mobile apparatus, calculates a time interval between a current time and a departure time represented by the departure time data, retrieves usable facility information from the database in accordance with a length of the time interval, and causes the communication device to transmit to the mobile apparatus the retrieved usable facility information together with map information. The mobile apparatus then controls its display to display the transmitted usable facility information on a map based on the transmitted map information.

Claims14

Dependent claims

An information serving system comprising a mobile apparatus and a terminal apparatus, wherein:

(i) said mobile apparatus includes:
a memory which stores ticket information including departure time data;
and
a display which displays various information,
(ii) said terminal apparatus is installed in a building, and includes:
a communication device which communicates data with said mobile apparatus;
a database which stores map information representing a location of a facility, and usable facility information regarding a usable facility;
and
a controller which:
(a) controls said communication device to read the ticket information stored in said memory of said mobile apparatus, (b) calculates a time interval between a current time and a departure time represented by the departure time data, (c) retrieves the usable facility information from said database in accordance with a length of the time interval, and (d) causes said communication device to transmit to said mobile apparatus the retrieved usable facility information together with the map information representing the location of the facility indicated by the retrieved usable facility information;
and
(iii) said mobile apparatus controls said display thereof to display the transmitted usable facility information on a map based on the transmitted map information.

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An information serving apparatus comprising:

a communication device adapted to communicate data with a mobile apparatus that includes a memory for storing ticket information including time data;
a database which stores map information representing a location of a facility, and usable facility information regarding a usable facility;
and
a controller which:
(a) controls said communication device to read the ticket information stored in said memory of said mobile apparatus, (b) retrieves the usable facility information from said database in accordance with a time duration obtained based on a current time and a time represented by the time data included in the ticket information, and (c) causes said communication device to transmit to said mobile apparatus the retrieved usable facility information together with the map information representing the location of the facility indicated by the retrieved usable facility information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.