JP2003242169A - Method and device for collecting and distributing information, program therefor, and recording medium for program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize an aggregation service providing the latest information required by a user with minimum time loss and cost required for access, according to a user's status or time zone. <P>SOLUTION: An aggregation server 20 calculates traveling speed from a past position of a portable terminal 41 the user holds, measurement time of the position, and a present position, measures a distance from a fixed terminal the user can use or a fixed network access point to the present position, determines the registered information of the user from the traveling speed, distance, and present time information to determine information to be viewed by the user, collects various information from a contents holder server 10 based on the determined contents, and delivers the information to the fixed terminal or the like the user can use. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technology for realizing a ubiquitous content aggregation service, and in particular, an information collection and distribution processing method and an information collection and distribution device for realizing an information search and distribution service using a position situation. , The program and the recording medium of the program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art One of the services using the Internet is called a content aggregation service. This is a service that constantly monitors multiple websites, such as news, that are frequently updated daily, and notifies the contracted user of the information on the user's browser screen when any changes occur. Since information on a plurality of sites is extracted to form one display screen, the name "aggregation" meaning "integrate" is given. For example, changes in stock prices, traffic information, weather forecasts, catastrophes,
It can be applied to information distribution specialized for notification of urgent newspaper reports.

Generally, the content aggregation service has a system and business model configuration as shown in FIG. Businesses that perform content aggregation services generally call "content
It is called "aggregator". The content aggregator 2 of FIG. 1 is the vendor. The content aggregator 2 is a content holder 1 having many contents.
And a service provider 3 that provides a connection service for a user 4 who wants to browse the content to connect to the network, collects content information based on the request from the user 4, and distributes it to each user 4.

Generally, each user 4 has different tastes, and therefore information distribution according to the taste of each user 4 is required. Further, as a result, the content holder 1 concentrates on the collection of information that is the source of the content, and the content aggregator 2 concentrates on the distribution of the content, which has the merit that the division of labor can be achieved.

On the other hand, the value of such a content aggregation service is determined by whether the user 4 finally acquired the information and was able to browse the information. For example, even if there is a content aggregator 2 that wants to convey information to the user 4 promptly, such as news flash and stock price information, if the user 4 who is trying to receive is not in front of the terminal, the value of the promptness is lost. .

Alternatively, the value of information may vary depending on the situation in which the user 4 stays. For example, when a certain user 4 tries to receive an aggregation service on a mobile terminal, the information he wants to receive while staying in Tokyo and the information he wants to receive while traveling by transportation such as a train from a rural area to Tokyo are: The contents may be different. For example, the former case may be information about the use of public facilities in Tokyo, while the latter case may be traffic information or weather forecast information that requires immediacy.

The user 4 has a terminal (a personal computer, a mobile terminal, etc.) owned by the user, a type of access means (optical network, dial-up of analog telephone line, mobile phone, wireless L).
(AN, etc.) can be variously selected and used according to the current position, but the selecting action itself does not match the action of the user 4 selecting information desired to be received.

[0008]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As one method of effectively utilizing the content aggregation service,
There is a realization mode in which the information required by the user is immediately sent when the user can access a large amount of data in a short time and at low cost, that is, when a fixed network access point becomes accessible. Conceivable.

That is, not only the terminal type and access means of the user at present, but also the action to be taken to reach a wider-band network access means, or at the time of contact with the network access means, The method of collecting information in advance of the user's actions and having information about whether or not information is needed as prior information is an effective service realization form.

[0010] For example, when a user uses a content aggregation service in a situation where a company has a high-speed / broadband access means such as an in-house local area network (LAN) and also has a mobile terminal. think of. Although there is a possibility that the mobile terminal can always obtain the latest information as long as the connection with the network continues, only a small amount of information can be obtained within the range permitted by the transmission amount and communication cost.

On the other hand, if an in-house LAN is used, a large amount of detailed information can be obtained. However, if the content aggregation service is used after arriving at the company, it will take time and effort to access a large amount of data. It takes time to obtain and display the information.

[0012] However, if the user can grasp the current position of the user who owns the mobile terminal such as the current PHS terminal or mobile terminal equipped with GPS, the user enters a certain distance from the company in the process of heading to the company. Information can be collected by the aggregation service from the stage, and when this user arrives at his / her desk in the office,
A large amount of information is available at a relatively latest level.

Further, if it is possible to know how much distance the user has moved in a short time based on the transition status of the user position, it is possible to grasp the situation regarding the movement of the user such as the moving speed and to provide the information according to each situation. It will be possible. Although the content aggregator 2 may uniquely determine the content of information provision according to the scene, a method of allowing the user who uses the aggregation service to select in advance is desirable because the intention of the user can be respected.

Further, it may be judged from the history of the user's past access in the moving situation of the user. For example, when the user is moving at high speed, there may be movement by public transportation such as a train or bus, and there is a possibility that the car is in the middle of driving. There is also a method of automatically selecting the information provision content.

In view of the above points, the present invention requires a user in accordance with the situation and time zone of the user to realize a content aggregation display for collecting and displaying contents such as news that are updated successively. The purpose is to make it possible to obtain the latest information to be obtained with less loss of access time and cost.

[0016]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is based on the past position of a portable terminal owned by a user, the time at which the position was measured, and the current position in an apparatus for performing an aggregation service. Calculate the moving speed and, if necessary, measure the distance from the fixed terminal or fixed network access point available to the user to the current position, and then use the moving speed, distance and current time information It is possible to determine the information to be browsed by the user by determining the registered information, collect various information from the server holding the content based on the determined content, and send the information to a fixed terminal or the like that the user can use. Characterize.

The system to which the present invention is applied is, for example, a portable terminal capable of estimating the current position of a user by a wireless network, a content holder server accumulating various latest information (contents) such as newspaper articles, and a user. Fixed terminal (or fixed network
An access point) as geographical data, and a content collection (aggregation) server that determines the content to be acquired by accessing the content holder server based on the user's current position, moving speed, and current time. , A storage device installed by a user at a fixed network access point. The mobile terminal may itself be capable of receiving the content data.

Here, for the content aggregation service to be realized, the content collection (aggregation) server uses the past position of the portable terminal possessed by the user, the time at which the position was measured, and the current position. Fixed terminal (or fixed network access point) that can be used by users to calculate the moving speed
To the current position, the information to be browsed by the user is determined based on the determination from the table data (for example, the table in FIG. 3) based on the moving speed, the distance, and the current time information, and the determined content is determined. Based on this, various information is collected from the content holder server, and the information is sent to the storage device installed by the user at a fixed network access point.

The operation of the present invention is as follows. According to the present invention, a user has a mobile terminal and provides a position information display service having a network function of a mobile phone system with PHS (small mobile phone system), PDC (digital mobile phone system), or GPS (global positioning system). To use. In these services, the current location of the terminal is reported to the server at regular intervals.

The server stores in advance a location, such as a user's home or office, where this user can use a fixed network access point, as geographic information, and monitors the distance between the current location and the location. . When the distance becomes shorter than a certain section, the server notifies the user that the high-speed network is available, and starts receiving the content by the content aggregation service. Also, the server determines the moving speed of the user from the moving amount and the elapsed time of the mobile terminal of the user, changes the content of the aggregation service according to the moving speed, and separates it when moving at high speed. The contents of can be displayed.

[0021]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 shows an example of a system configuration according to the embodiment of the present invention.

The content holder server 10 is a server installed by, for example, a newspaper company, a magazine company, a record company, a movie company, etc. for the purpose of buying and selling the latest information possessed by them. Has been done.

The aggregation server 20 accesses each content holder server 10 via the network 50, obtains various latest information and contents such as newspaper articles and news videos from each server, and Based on the position, moving speed, and browsing time of each user, only the necessary information is selected according to the browsing desire pre-registered by the user, and the content for that user is the mobile terminal 41, the home terminal 42, the company terminal. The information is sent to various user terminals such as 43 and the hotspot terminal 44.

For example, among the contents (article texts, news videos, etc.) obtained by collecting information in the content holder server 10 as a genre belonging to the keyword in the “information to be browsed” column in FIG. It is possible to use a criterion such as narrowing down the content to 10 or less from the latest information, or only the contents dated today, and various other selection criteria can be adopted. This selection method is the same in the following description.

The internal block of the aggregation server 20 confirms the presence or absence of new information in each content holder server 10 periodically or by polling the content holder server 10, and if there is new information, accesses the information. Content information collecting unit 21 for collecting
User ID management for registering each user's ID and a telephone number for uniquely identifying the mobile terminal 41, home terminal 42, company terminal 43, and hotspot terminal 44 possessed by the user, geographical information of the installation location of the terminal, and the like. Unit 22, a user position information receiving unit 23 that obtains the current position information of the mobile terminal 41 of the user, a moving speed calculation unit 24 that calculates the moving speed from the previous position and the current position of the user, and to obtain the current time information. 25, the geographical distance from the fixed terminal (or fixed network access point) such as the home terminal 42, the company terminal 43 and the hotspot terminal 44 regarding the current position of the portable terminal 41 owned by the user and the current moving speed. And the user situation judgment that determines the current situation of the user from the table data (table of FIG. 3) based on information such as the current time. Part 26, viewing desired extraction unit 27 to determine the areas to be viewed by the user from the judgment result of the table data,
Data of the content information collection unit 21 and browsing desire extraction unit 2
The content information organizing unit 28 selects the contents to be browsed by the user from the data of 7, and the content information output unit 29 sends out the selected contents to the user.

The mobile terminal 41 uses a network such as a mobile phone system with PHS (small mobile phone system), PDC (digital mobile phone system), or GPS (Global Positioning System), and detects the electric field strength from the base station. Terminal position calculation unit 30 based on the derived position information and the position information notified from the satellite
It is a terminal that can roughly estimate its current location on the network from the calculation results of, and has a built-in wireless network access means.

The position information estimated by the wireless network is
Numerical values that can be uniquely specified and calculated on the surface of the earth, such as UTM (transverse Mercator) geographical information based on the geodetic reference system, for example, receive user position information of the aggregation server 20 at regular intervals of 3 minutes. It is sent to the unit 23.

The home terminal 42, the company terminal 43, and the hotspot terminal 44 are arranged at the user's home, work company, street hotspot, etc., respectively, and a private network such as an in-house LAN 52 or a public network 51.
The terminal is a terminal that can be connected to the aggregation server 20 via the, and can store and display the content information sent from the aggregation server 20. For example, a personal computer (PC) is used. The public network 51 is
It has a built-in terminal position calculation unit 30 that can calculate the position information of the mobile terminal 41 and send the information to various terminals such as the aggregation server 20.

Next, the operation of the system shown in FIG. 2 will be described. The user registers the user ID and password as a service user in advance with the aggregation server 20, and the mobile terminal 41 and the home terminal 4
2. Identification information of terminals such as the company terminal 43 and the hotspot terminal 44 that can be used by the user at home or in the office,
The contents of information to be browsed when those terminals are placed under a certain condition are registered.

The identification information is information for uniquely identifying the terminal, and is, for example, information such as the MAC address of the hardware used for network access of the terminal and the telephone number given to the terminal.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the browsing desired information table according to the situation. As shown in FIG. 3, "contents of information that the user wants to browse when the terminal is placed under a certain condition" is registered in the browse desired information table. In the example of FIG. 3, the name of the user's location environment is the name of the user terminal 4 which is the time zone for access and the condition for starting access.
2. Distance from fixed terminals (or fixed network access points) such as company terminal 43 and hotspot terminal 44 (here, home terminal 42, company terminal 4)
3, the distance from the hotspot terminal 44), and a table format data that allows you to obtain information about the list of information you want to browse and whether there is a limit on the amount of received data when indexed under the conditions of moving speed Registered as.

In the browse desired information table according to the situation of FIG. 3, the aggregation / reception information table is displayed according to each position information.
The information desired to be obtained from the server 20 can be changed in various ways, and even in the same environment, the content desired to be obtained can be changed depending on the time zone of access.

Further, during the movement, the transmission speed of the data transmitted and received by the portable terminal 41 is the same as that of the home terminal 42 and the company terminal 4.
3. Since it is often slower than a fixed terminal (or a fixed network access point) such as the hotspot terminal 44, the amount of data to be received may be reduced.

As a method of reducing the content data, for example, in the case of text data of newspaper articles, only the headline with the main text deleted is used, or for example, the total of the headline and the first part of the main text is reduced to 64 characters or less. For moving image data, for example, a method of canceling transmission of the moving image itself can be used.

After the information as shown in FIG. 3 is input, the aggregation server 20 stores, for each user, a portable terminal 41, a home terminal 42, a company terminal 43, a hotspot terminal 44, etc. that the user can use. The location of a fixed terminal (or fixed network access point) is stored as geographical information. The geographical information is, for example, UTM geographical information [unit: meter] based on a geodetic reference system.

The information registered by the user as "information desired to be browsed" becomes a search keyword used by the browse desire extraction unit 27 of the aggregation server 20. The aggregation server 20 also enables the operation of accessing the content holder server 10 and acquiring information at the time when the user attempts access.

Now, let us consider the operation of the aggregation server 20 based on an example of the behavior of the user.

(1) Early morning access at home: home terminal 4
Reference numeral 2 is a fixed terminal (or a fixed network access point) accessible by the user. Although the user has the mobile terminal 41, the mobile terminal 41 does not move during the sleeping hours of the user. Therefore, immediately after the user has woken up and immediately after logging in to the server from the home PC, the aggregation server 20 determines that this user is at the user position “inside home (weekday morning)” based on the determination result of the table data of the user status determination unit 26. When it is determined that there is such a content, the content holder server 10 is accessed, the content required by this user is collected and selected, and the information is sent to the home terminal 42.

(2) From home to a station near the office: If this user travels by train from a station near his home to a station near his office, the location of the user is It can be determined from the position situation measured by the terminal position calculation unit 30. These pieces of position information are sent to the aggregation server 20, and the aggregation server 20 sends these pieces of position information to the user position information receiver 2.
At the same time, the moving speed is calculated in the moving speed calculation unit 24 in the form of "moving distance / moving time".

For example, the time [unit: minute] when leaving a station near my home and the UTM coordinate [unit: meter] based on the geodetic reference system are (t ₀ , x ₀ , y ₀ ), respectively.
It is assumed that the portable terminal 41 measures the position situation every 3 minutes, for example, and the reporting time and the UTM coordinates after 21 minutes (7th time) are (t ₇ , x ₇ , y ₇ ). Moving speed (speed) v
V = 60 × {(x ₁ −x ₀ ) ² + (y ₁ −y ₀ ) ² } ^1/2
Assuming that / (3 × 1000), for example, when moving by a train that frequently runs and stops, the moving speed v is unlikely to be a stable value, but as a long-term average value, v _{= 60 × {(x 7 -x} 0) 2 + (y 7 -y 0) 2} 1/2
By setting / (21 × 1000), a more stable movement speed can be derived.

As a result, for example, if the speed v per hour is a fixed threshold value, for example, 6 (km) per hour or less, "moving at low speed" such as walking, and if it is more than "moving at high speed" using public transportation. Judge that there is. At this time, the information required by this user can be determined from the table data of FIG. 3 based on the moving state at this time.

If the content holder server 10 obtains important information for the user while the user is moving, the content holder server 10 pushes the information from the content holder server 10 or the aggregation server 2
If the aggregation server 20 obtains it by the polling process of 0, the aggregation server 20
Sends a message to the user's mobile terminal 41 to confirm that he / she wants to receive such as "Information is included. Are you sure you want to receive it?"

If the user approves by pressing a button or the like, the aggregation server 20 determines that the content
Obtaining the information from the holder server 10, the contents requested for the moving state at that time and the mobile terminal 41 in use
The content is transmitted to the mobile terminal 41 with the data amount reduced so as to be less than or equal to the maximum memory amount that can be stored.

As a method of reducing the content data, for example, in the case of text data of newspaper articles, only the headline with the text deleted is used, or for example, the total of the headline and the first part of the text is reduced to 64 characters or less. ，
For moving image data, a method of canceling the transmission of the moving image itself is used.

Each time the portable terminal 41 receives one content, the remaining receivable memory amount is reported to the aggregation server 20, and the content that the aggregation server 20 transmits next based on this remaining memory amount. By limiting the data amount of the above, it is possible to prevent the memory of the mobile terminal 41 from overflowing and from causing unnecessary data transmission more than the mobile terminal 41 receives.

Even when the user operates the portable terminal 41 to request information, the aggregation server 20 performs the table data shown in FIG. 3 based on the user's position, moving speed, and current time as in the case described above. The content browsed by the user is determined by the content holder server 10
The content information is acquired from the mobile terminal 41, and the content reduced to the data amount within the memory capacity that the mobile terminal 41 can receive is transmitted to the mobile terminal 41.

(3) From near the company to reach the company's own seat: It is assumed that the user uses various transportation means to reach the vicinity of the company where the user works. At this time as well, the user's position can be determined by the user situation determination unit 26 from the position information reported by the mobile terminal 41, and the distance from the company is the same as in (2), and the UTM coordinate [unit: M] (x _p , y _p ), the company's UTM
If the coordinates are (x _c , y _c ), the straight line distance d [unit: kilometers] from the company to the current user is d = {(x _c −x _p ) ² + (y _c −y _p ) ² } ^1/2 / 1
It can be calculated as 000.

At this time, if the straight line distance d is a certain threshold value, for example, 4 (km) or less, the aggregation server 20 determines from the determination result of the user situation determination unit 26 to the user's portable terminal 41, "approaching the company terminal. Are you sure you want to receive the information? "

If the user approves by pressing a button or the like, the aggregation server 20 determines that the content
The information from the holder server 10 is obtained, and only the necessary information is selected from the information and stored as the content exclusively for this user. When the user arrives at the company and accesses the aggregation server 20 at the company terminal 43 at his / her seat, the user can browse the contents selected and sorted before the arrival.

(4) When approaching a hotspot environment: A wireless LAN having a communication speed of 1 Mbit / sec or more is used at a coffee shop or the like, and it is available to visitors for a fee.
Even in a so-called hot spot communication environment, as in the case of (3), when the user holding the mobile terminal 41 approaches, the user can be prompted to access. As in the case of (3), the UTM coordinate of the user's current position [unit:
[M]] (x _p , y _p ), UTM of hotspot
If the coordinates are (x _h , y _h ), the straight line distance d from the hotspot to the current user [unit: kilometers]
It _{is, d = {(x h -x} p) 2 + (y h -y p) 2} 1/2 / 1
It can be calculated as 000.

At this time, if the linear distance d is a certain threshold value, for example, 2 (km) or less, the aggregation server 20 directs to the user's mobile terminal 41 from the determination result of the user situation determination unit 26, "To the hot spot terminal. You are approaching. Are you sure you want to receive the information? " At this time, the mobile terminal 4
In 1, the user is notified of the position situation of accessible hotspots.

Further, in such a hotspot, the consideration of the network usage fee may be incorporated into the price of another article such as bread and coffee which is a menu of a coffee shop, so it corresponds to the hotspot usage fee. The user can also be notified of these commodity prices as reference information.

If the user approves by pressing a button or the like, the aggregation server 20 obtains the information from the content holder server 10, selects and discards only the necessary information from the information, and creates the dedicated content for this user. accumulate.

When the user arrives at the hotspot, pays the price corresponding to the access fee to the hotspot installer, and accesses the aggregation server 20 at the hotspot terminal 44, this user has completed the selection of contents. You can browse.

(5) When the user returns home: As in the case of (1) above, the home is a fixed terminal (or fixed network access point) accessible by the user. Then, as in the case of (3), when the user approaches a certain distance from the home, for example, 1 (km) or less, the aggregation server 20 directs the user's mobile terminal 41 to "approach the home terminal. Are you sure you want to receive "?"

If the user approves by pressing a button or the like, the aggregation server 20 obtains the information from the content holder server 10, and selects and discards only the necessary information from the information, and creates the content for this user. accumulate.

When the user arrives at his home and accesses the aggregation server 20 at his home terminal, he can browse the acquired contents. At this time, even if it is the same fixed terminal as in the case of (1) as in the table of FIG. 3,
If the time zone to access and the day of the week are different, in the case of (1), that is, based on another request such as "at home (weekday afternoon)" or "at home (Saturday and Sunday)" which is completely different from weekday morning. You may browse the content.

In the above embodiment, the portable terminal 4
1, the home terminal 42, the company terminal 43, and the hotspot terminal 44 are separate terminals, but they are centralized terminals that can access the network outdoors and can use Ethernet (registered trademark) at home, company, and hotspot. May be

FIG. 4 is a processing flowchart of the aggregation server 20. An example of the processing flow of the aggregation server 20 will be described below with reference to FIG.

The user position information receiver 23 receives the current position information of the portable terminal 41 owned by the user from the public network 5
It is received from the terminal position calculation unit 30 of No. 1 and converted into numerical values of UTM coordinates (step S1).

The user situation determination unit 26 determines the current position of the mobile terminal 41 received by the user position information reception unit 23 and the straight line distance d _m from the “home” position based on the UTM coordinates registered in the user ID management unit 22 in advance. Calculate (step S2). Further, the straight line distance d _c from the current position of the mobile terminal 41 and the “company” position based on the UTM coordinates registered in advance is calculated (step S3).

Next, the position information of the hot spot H _{x that} can be used by the user is read as UTM coordinates from a database (not shown) published by the hot spot installer (step S4). After that, hotspot H _X
In order to calculate the distance from the hot spot H _{X by the} number n of {H _X : H ₁ , H ₂ , H ₃ , ..., H _n } installed,
The number of loops is set to n, and the following processing is repeated (step S5).

The distance between the current position of the portable terminal 41 and the position of the hot spot H _X is calculated (step S).
6). Of the distances calculated so far, the position of the hotspot H _X and the distance d _h at which the distance to the current position of the mobile terminal 41 is the smallest and the distance d _h thereof are stored (step S7). From H ₁ to the distance calculation for all the hot spots until H _n ends, repeat steps S6～S7, if calculations are completed, proceeds to the next processing (step S
8).

The linear distance between the position of the mobile terminal 41 measured in the past (eg, 21 minutes before) and the current position of the mobile terminal 41 is divided by the elapsed time (21 minutes) to calculate the moving speed v _p . (Step S9). Further, the current time t _now is acquired from the clock 25 (step S10).

Next, the calculated distance d _m from the home, distance d _c from the company, and distance d from the nearest hot spot.
Depending on the value of _h , the moving speed v _p, and the current time t _now ,
The browsing desired information table corresponding to the situation shown in FIG. 3 is referred to, and the corresponding user position environment situation S is confirmed (step S11).

When the user position environment situation S is confirmed,
The aggregation server 20 holds the relevant information by using the search keyword or the like registered as the information desired to be browsed in the browse desired information table by the content information collecting unit 21 based on the confirmed user position environment situation S. The content holder server 10 requests the information that the user wants to browse and acquires the information (step S12).

The aggregation server 20 uses the content information output unit 29 to send the content to a predetermined destination such as a fixed terminal or a fixed network access point based on the user position environment condition S.
Send the acquired content data (step S1)
3). At this time, if there is a limit on the amount of received data, all the data of the collected content is not sent, but only the heading is used as the sent data, and the data is sent out after being reduced. Further, the collected content data is stored in a storage device prepared for each user in the aggregation server 20 and, when a transmission request is made from the user, is transmitted to the terminal requested by the user. Good.

The above processing (steps S1 to S13)
It is always repeated for each mobile terminal 41 of each user.

The processing performed by the aggregation server 20 described above can be realized by a computer and a software program, and the program is an appropriate recording medium such as a computer-readable portable medium memory, semiconductor memory, or hard disk. It can be executed by the computer by storing it in the computer and reading it from there. Also, the program can be downloaded from another computer via a communication line,
You can also install and run it.

In the above, the content aggregation service is taken as an example, but other services in the form of receiving various information at any place can be used. For example, even when receiving a large amount of attached files such as presentation files with images such as e-mail in addition to the text, place restrictions on the upper limit of the received data for each piece of information at each access location. If this is done, the financial and time burden for access can be reduced.

[0071]

As described above, the aggregation server successively receives the current position of the portable terminal owned by the user and judges the position environment condition of the user, and thus (1) the user fixed terminal (or fixed network). -Begin collection of information by the content aggregation service before reaching the access point) and make it possible to browse the latest information when the user reaches a fixed terminal (or fixed network access point) that can be used. The effect of being able to reduce the loss of time required for access, (2) When the user stays in the vicinity of a fixed terminal (or fixed network access point), moving at a low speed with a mobile terminal In case of, or during high-speed movement, etc., consider the network environment information and movement status As a result, different contents can be browsed. (3) Different contents can be browsed according to the access time zone even when the content aggregation service is implemented for one terminal. This has the effect of making it possible, and (4) the effect of being able to attract hotspot terminals for public use.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a business model of a content aggregation service.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a system configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a browsing desire table according to a situation in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 shows an aggregation according to an embodiment of the present invention.
It is a processing flowchart of a server.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Content Holder Server 20 aggregation servers 21 Content Information Collection Department 22 User ID Management Department 23 User Position Information Receiver 24 Moving speed calculator 25 clock 26 User status determination unit 27 Browsing wish extraction section 28 Content Information Organization 29 Content information output section 30 Terminal position calculator 41 Mobile terminal 42 Home terminal 43 Company terminal 44 hotspot terminals 50 network 51 public network 52 Company LAN

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An information collection and distribution processing method for accessing a server that holds information that is sequentially updated, collecting the latest information, and allowing the user to browse the collected information, in at least the position situation, time zone, and moving speed of the user. A process of storing registration information that specifies the information that the user wants to browse, and a process of acquiring the current position of the user for each situation regarding
A step of acquiring the current time, a step of calculating the moving speed of the user from the acquired current position and time of the user in the past, and a current position and time at the current time, and at least the current position of the user A process of searching the registered information based on the current time and the moving speed and specifying the information that the user wants to browse according to the corresponding situation, and a server that holds the information that the specified user wants to browse And a process of sending the collected information to a terminal device that can be used by the user. 2. The information collection / delivery processing method according to claim 1, wherein the status in the registration information includes information about a distance between a user's current position and a fixed terminal or a fixed network access point available to the user. In identifying the information that the user wants to browse from the registration information, the information on the distance between the user's current position and the fixed terminal or fixed network access point available to the user is used. Collection and distribution processing method. 3. The information collection and distribution processing method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the registration information includes information amount limit information for each of the situations, and information collected from a server holding the information, An information collection and distribution processing method characterized by having a process of reducing by information amount limitation information according to a corresponding situation. 4. An information collecting and delivering apparatus that accesses a server that holds information that is sequentially updated, collects the latest information, and allows the user to browse the collected information, at least the position situation, time zone, and moving speed of the user. A means for storing registration information for specifying information that the user wants to browse, a means for acquiring the current position of the user, a means for acquiring the current time, and a current position of the acquired user at a past time And a means for calculating the moving speed of the user from the time and the current position and the current time at the present time, and searching the registration information based on at least the acquired current position, current time and moving speed of the user, and Depending on the situation, the information that the user wants to browse and the information that the identified user wants to browse are collected from the server that holds the information. An information collecting and delivering apparatus comprising: a collecting means; and a means for sending the collected information to a terminal device that can be used by the user. 5. An information collection and distribution processing program for causing a computer of an information collection and distribution apparatus to execute the information collection and distribution processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 3. 6. An information collecting and delivering process characterized by recording a program for causing a computer of an information collecting and delivering apparatus to execute the information collecting and delivering process method according to any one of claims 1 to 3. Program recording medium.