Communication system, communication method, and storage medium storing communication program for mobile device users

A communication method for mobile device users comprising:

• a step of acquiring information about a place where a portable information terminal exists and of managing the place information in said portable information terminal;
• a step of managing said place information, an identification to identify the user of said portable information terminal and an operational behavior of said user in a form of a message and transmitting said message from said portable information terminal to a center by a wireless communication unit and receiving said message fed from said center through said wireless communication unit and providing said message to said user, in said portable information terminal;
• a step of managing a message to be transmitted and received between said portable information terminal and said center and of transmitting and receiving said message to and from said portable information terminal through said wireless communication unit, in said center;
• a step of extracting a user TPO element information made up of information about a present time (T), a present place (P), and an individual preference according to a present Occasion (O) of said user from a message fed to said center from said portable information terminal through said wireless communication unit, in said center;
• a step of learning a desired individual preference according to an occasion of said user based on said user TPO element information and a spot information database storing spot information about a restaurant and/or a sight-seeing resort made up of information about spots and explanatory contents of said spots and producing user TPO data made up of static information containing said identification, age, sex of a user and of dynamic information about when and where said user has visited and about what kind of spot or information said user has an interest in, in said center;
• a step of selecting said spot information, when said message fed from said user contains a request for said spot information, by achieving a match between said spot information and said user TPO data of said user having transmitted said message contained in said user TPO database and requesting to transmit said selected spot information to said portable information terminal of said user having transmitted said message requesting for said spot information and, when said message fed from said user contains a request for transmission of a message from said user to another user, selecting said other user by achieving a match between said user TPO data on said user having transmitted said message requesting for transmission of said message to the selected other user contained in said user TPO database and user TPO database of said selected other user and requesting to transmit said message fed from said user to a portable information terminal of said selected other user, in said center.

A communication business method comprising:

• a step of holding and managing, in a center communicating with a portable information terminal by a wireless communication unit, a spot information database used to store spot information about a restaurant and/or a sight-seeing resort made up of information about spots and explanatory contents of said spots and a user TPO database storing, for each user, user TPO data including information about a time (T), a place (P), and an individual preference according to an occasion (O) of said user:
• a step of extracting a user TPO element information made up of information about said time (T), said place (P), and said individual preference according to said occasion (O) of said user from a message transmitted from a portable information terminal of said user and received by said center and obtaining said user TPO data containing a present place, and/or a desired individual preference according to a present occasion of said user and automatically updating said user TPO database;
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• a step of retrieving said spot information from said spot information database, when said message received by said center contains a request for said spot information, and obtaining spot information having best matching conditions in terms of time (T), place (P), and individual preference according to occasion (O) of said user and providing said obtained spot information to said portable information terminal of said user,
• wherein said user TPO database holds, for each said user, said identification of said user, profile information made up of information about personal information of said user, place information of said user, operational information of said user, and information about movement of said user, said profile information of said user comprising personal information about a name, an address, a gender and an age, information about key words indicating information in which said user has an interest and information about a presence or absence of a desire for acquainting an individual preference according to an occasion, said operational information of users comprising a spot identification of spot information requested by said user, a time when a request for said spot information was made and a place where a request for said spot information was made, and said movement information of users comprising a spot identification of spot information related to spots where said user has visited and a time of said visit.

A communication business method comprising:

• a step of holding and managing, in a center communicating with a portable information terminal by a wireless communication unit, a user TPO database storing, for each user, user TPO data including information about a time (T), a place (P), and an individual preference according to an occasion (O) of said user;
• a step of extracting a user TPO element information made up of information about said time (T), said place (P), and said individual preference according to said occasion (O) of said user from a message transmitted from a portable information terminal of said user and received by said center and obtaining said user TPO data containing a present place, and/or a desired individual preference according to a present occasion of said user and automatically updating said user TPO database;
• a step of setting a presence or an absence of a desire for acquainting an individual preference according to an occasion, as a profile of said user, in said user TPO database;
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• a step of retrieving said user TPO database, when said message received by said center contains a request for transmission of a message to another user or a request for acquainting an individual preference according to an occasion matching and selecting said other user having best matching conditions in terms of said time (T), and place (P), and said individual preference according to said occasion (O) of said user and providing said message transmitted from said user to a portable information terminal of said other user,
• wherein said user TPO database hold, for each said user, said identification of said user, profile information made up of information about personal information of said user, place information of said user, operational information of said user, and information about movement of said user, said profile information of said user comprising personal information about a name, an address, a gender and an age, information about key words indicating information in which said user has an interest and information about said presence or absence of said desire for acquainting an individual preference according to an occasion, said operational information of users comprising a spot identification of spot information requested by said user, a time when a request for said spot information was made and a place where a request for said spot information was made, and said movement information of users comprising a spot identification of spot information related to spots where said user has visited and a time of said visit.

A communication business method comprising:

• a step of holding and managing, in a center communicating with a portable information terminal by a wireless communication unit, a spot information database used to store spot information about a restaurant and/or a sight-seeing resort made up of information about spots and explanatory contents of said spots and a user TPO database storing, for each user, user TPO data including information about a time (T), a place (P), and an individual preference according to an occasion (O) of said user;
• a step of extracting a user TPO element information made up of information about said time (T), said place (P), and said individual preference according to said occasion (O) of said user from a message transmitted from a portable information terminal of said user and received by said center and obtaining said user TPO data containing a present place, and/or a desired individual preference according to a present occasion of said user and automatically updating said user TPO database;
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• a step of retrieving said spot information from said spot information database, when said message received by said center contains a request for said spot information, and obtaining spot information having best matching conditions in terms of time (T), place (P), and individual preference according to occasion (O) of said user and providing said obtained spot information to said portable information terminal of said user,
• wherein said user TPO database holds, for each said user, said identification of said user, profile information made up of information about personal information of said user, place information of said user, operational information of said user, and information about movement of said user, and wherein, when place information is transmitted from said portable information terminal of said user and when said user stays for a predetermined period of time or more within a spot area, it is judged that said user has visited said spot and spot information for said user is retrieved from said spot information database and, based on information about said spot in which said user is judged to have visited, said movement information of said user TPO database is updated.

A communication business method comprising:

• a step of holding and managing, in a center communicating with a portable information terminal by a wireless communication unit, a user TPO database storing for each user, user TPO data including information about a time (T), a place (P), and an individual preference according to an occasion (O) of s aid user;
• a step of extracting a user TPO element information made up of information about said time (T), and place (P), and said individual preference according to said occasion (O) of said user from a message transmitted from a portable information terminal of said user and received by said center and obtaining said user TPO data containing a present place, and/or a desired individual preference according to a present occasion of said user and automatically updating said user TPO database;
• a step of setting a presence or an absence of a desire for acquainting an individual preference according to a occasion, as a profile of said user, in said user TPO database;
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• a step of retrieving said user TPO database, when said message received by said center contains a request for transmission of a message to another user or a request for acquainting an individual preference according to an occasion matching and selecting said other user having best matching conditions in terms of said time (T), said place (P), and said individual preference according to said occasion (O) of said user and providing said message transmitted from said user to a portable information terminal of said other user,
• wherein said user TPO database holds, for each said user, said identification of said user, profile information made up of information about personal information of said user place information of said user, operational information of said user, and information about movement of said user, and wherein, when place information is transmitted from said portable information terminal of said user and when said user stays for a predetermined period of time or more within a spot area, it is judged that said user has visited said spot and spot information for said user is retrieved from said spot information database and, based on information about said spot in which said user is judged to have visited, said movement information of said user TPO database is updated.

A communication business center apparatus for mobile device users being communicated with a portable information terminal via a wireless communication unit comprising:

• a spot information database used to store spot information about a restaurant and/or a sight-seeing resort made up of information about spots and explanatory contents of said spots;
• a user TPO database used to store said user TPO data produced for each user including information about a time (T), a place (P), and an individual preference according to an occasion (O) of said user;
• an extracting unit used to extract a user TPO element information made up of information about a present time (T), a present place (P), and an individual preference according to a present occasion (O) of said user from a message fed from said portable information terminal:
• an automatically updating unit used to obtain user TPO data made up of information about a present place, and an individual preference according to a present occasion of said user from said extracted said user TPO element information and automatically updates said user TPO database;
• a spot information obtaining unit used to obtain, when said received message contains a request for spot information, by retrieving said spot information database, spot information having best matching conditions in terms of time (T), place (P), and individual preference according to occasion (O) of said user and to supply said spot information to a portable information terminal of said user,
• wherein said user TPO database holds, for each said user, said identification of said user, profile information made up of information about personal information of said user, place information of said user, operational information of said user, and information about movement of said user, said profile information of said user comprising personal information about a name, an address, a gender and an age, information about key words indicating information in which said user has an interest and information about a presence or absence of a desire for acquainting an individual preference according to an occasion, said operational information of users comprising a spot identification of spot information requested by said user, a time when a request for said spot information was made and a place where a request for said spot information was made, and said movement information of users comprising a spot identification of spot information related to spots where said user has visited and a time of said visit.

A communication program which causes processing to be performed by computers making up a center being communicated with a portable information terminal through a wireless communication unit,

• wherein said portable information terminal includes:
• a place information managing unit used to acquire information about a place where said portable information terminal exists and to manage the acquired place information;
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• a message managing unit used to manage said place information, an identification to identify a user and an operational behavior of said user in a form of a message and to transmit said message to said center and used to provide a message fed from said center to said user;
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• wherein said center has:
• a spot information database used to store spot information about a restaurant and/or a sight-seeing resort made up of information about spots and explanatory contents of said spots;
• a user TPO database used to store user TPO data made up of information about time (T), place (P), and individual preference according to occasion (O) produced for each user;
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• wherein said processing includes:
• (a) a step of managing a message to be transmitted and received between said portable information terminal;
• (b) a step of extracting a user TPO element information made up of information about a present time (T), a present place (T), and an individual preference according to an present occasion (O) of a user from a message fed to said center from said portable information terminal;
• (c) a step of learning a desired individual preference according to an occasion of said user based on said user TPO element information and said spot information database storing said spot information about said restaurant and/or said sight-seeing resort made up of information about said spots and explanatory contents of said spots and producing said user TPO data made up of static information containing said identification, an age and a gender of said user and of dynamic information about when and where said user has visited and about what kind of spot or information said user has an interest in;
• (d) a step of selecting spot information, when said message fed from said user contains a request for spot information, by achieving a match between spot information and said user TPO data of said user having transmitted said message contained in said user TPO database and requesting that said selected spot information is transmitted by said message managing step to a portable information terminal of said user having transmitted said message requesting for said spot information and, when said message fed from said user contains a request for transmission of a message from said user to another user, selecting said other user by achieving a match between said user TPO data on said user having transmitted said message requesting for transmission of said message to said other user contained in said user TPO database and user TPO database of said other user and requesting that said message fed from said user is transmitted by said message managing step to a portable information terminal of said other user.

A storage medium storing a communication program which causes processing to be performed by computers making up a center being communicated with a portable information terminal through a wireless communication unit,

• wherein said portable information terminal includes:
• a place information managing unit used to acquire information about a place where said portable information terminal exists and to manage the acquired place information;
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• a message managing unit used to manage said place information, an identification to identify a user and an operational behavior of said user in a form of a message and to transmit said message to said center and used to provide a message fed from said center to said user;
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• wherein said center has:
• a spot information database used to store spot information about a restaurant and/or a sight-seeing resort made up of information about spots and explanatory contents of said spots;
• a user TPO database used to store user TPO data made up of information about time (T), place (P), and individual preference according to occasion (O) produced for each user;
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• wherein said processing includes:
• (a) a step of managing a message to be transmitted and received between said portable information terminal;
• (b) a step of extracting a user TPO element information made up of information about a present time (T), a present place (T), and an individual preference according to an present occasion (O) of a user from a message fed to said center from said portable information terminal;
• (c) a step of learning a desired individual preference according to an occasion of said user based on said user TPO element information and said spot information database storing said spot information about said restaurant and/or said sight-seeing resort made up of information about said spots and explanatory contents of said spots and producing said user TPO data made up of static information containing said identification, an age and a gender of said user and of dynamic information about when and where said user has visited and about what kind of spot or information said user has an interest in;
• (d) a step of selecting spot information, when said message fed from said user contains a request for spot information, by achieving a match between spot information and said user TPO data of said user having transmitted said message contained in said user TPO database and requesting that said selected spot information is transmitted by said message managing step to a portable information terminal of said user having transmitted said message requesting for said spot information and, when said message fed from said user contains a request for transmission of a message from said user to another user, selecting said other user by achieving a match between said user TPO data on said user having transmitted said message requesting for transmission of said message to said other user contained in said user TPO database and user TPO database of said other user and requesting that said message fed from said user is transmitted by said message managing step to a portable information terminal of said other user.