Information processing device, information providing method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9451409-B2
Application number	US-201314407651-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 3, 2013
Priority date	Jun 27, 2012
Publication date	Sep 20, 2016
Grant date	Sep 20, 2016

Abstract

A mobile terminal guides a user to a destination by a navigation application and outputs destination information indicative of a destination upon arrival at the destination to information providing application and executes the information providing application. The mobile terminal on which the information providing application is running, determines whether the mobile terminal is staying at the destination by a motion sensor and starts counting a staying time. When the counted staying time reaches a predetermined length of time, the mobile terminal send to the user an inquiry to confirm that the present location is the destination. Upon confirmation that the user has been staying at the destination for a predetermined length of time, the mobile terminal transmits destination information to a server, obtains facility information corresponding to destination information, and outputs the obtained facility information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing device comprising:
a first determination unit that determines whether a mobile terminal is situated in a predetermined location based on a result of predetermined processing executed by the mobile terminal using location information;
a second determination unit that determines whether the mobile terminal has been staying at the location for a predetermined length of time upon determination of existence of the mobile terminal at the predetermined location, which is performed by the first determination unit; and
an execution unit that executes processing to output information about a facility located in the location, upon determination of a stay of the mobile terminal at the predetermined location for the predetermined length of time, which is performed by the second determination unit,
wherein when a predetermined condition with regard to determination of a stay of the mobile terminal is satisfied, the second determination unit sends to the user an inquiry on the mobile terminal as to a current location and determines that the mobile terminal has been staying at the location for the predetermined length of time upon receipt of a reply indicative that the user is at the location.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the processing is configured to guide the user of the mobile terminal to a destination; and
the first determination unit determines that the mobile terminal is situated at the predetermined location when the user arrives at the destination.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the mobile terminal comprises a sensor that senses a motion of the mobile terminal; and
the second determination unit determines the predetermined condition based on a result of the sensing performed by the sensor.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3 , wherein:
the second determination unit starts measurement of the staying time when the motion sensed by the sensor is less than a threshold, which indicates that the user is in the same location.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the predetermined location includes two or more locations; and
the second determination unit performs the determination based on the predetermined length of time which is variable depending on a location determined by the first determination unit.

6. The information processing device according to claims 1 , wherein the second determination unit changes the predetermined length of time depending on a date and/or time at which the determination is performed.

7. A method of providing information utilizing a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
a first step of determining, by a first determination unit of a mobile terminal, whether the mobile terminal is situated in a predetermined location based on a result of predetermined processing executed by the mobile terminal using location information;
a second step of determining, by a second determination unit of the mobile terminal, whether the mobile terminal has been staying at the location for a predetermined length of time upon determination of existence of the mobile terminal at the predetermined location, which is performed in the first step; and
a third step of executing processing, by an execution unit of the mobile terminal, to output information about a facility located in the location, upon determination of a stay of the mobile terminal at the location for the predetermined length of time, which is performed in the second step,
wherein when a predetermined condition with regard to determination of a stay of the mobile terminal is satisfied, the second determination unit sends to the user an inquiry on the mobile terminal as to a current location and determines that the mobile terminal has been staying at the location for the predetermined length of time upon receipt of a reply indicative that the user is at the location.

8. A program stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium for causing a processor coupled to a mobile terminal to execute:
a first step of determining, by a first determination unit of the mobile terminal, whether the mobile terminal is situated in a location based on a result of predetermined processing executed by the mobile terminal using location information;
a second step of determining, by a second determination unit of the mobile terminal, whether the mobile terminal has been staying at the location for a predetermined length of time upon determination of existence of the mobile terminal at the predetermined location, which is performed in the first step; and
a third step of executing, by an execution unit of the mobile terminal, processing to output information about a facility located in the location, upon determination of a stay of the mobile terminal at the location for the predetermined length of time, which is performed in the second step,
wherein when a predetermined condition with regard to determination of a stay of the mobile terminal is satisfied, the second determination unit sends to the user an inquiry on the mobile terminal as to a current location and determines that the mobile terminal has been staying at the location for the predetermined length of time upon receipt of a reply indicative that the user is at the location.

Assignees

• Ntt Docomo Inc

Inventors

• Otsuka Takayuki
• Yoshimi Toshiyasu

Classifications

• G01C21/3679

  Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities (G01C21/3611 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04W4/02

  Services making use of location information · CPC title

• H04W4/027 Primary

  using movement velocity, acceleration information · CPC title

• H04W4/008

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title