JP2011034200A - Meeting place recommendation device, meeting place recommendation method, meeting place recommendation program, and portable terminal equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To retrieve and recommend a meeting place which is the optimal to each user. <P>SOLUTION: The portable telephone set of a user A as a manager communicates with the portable telephone sets of users B to D as meeting participants to acquire the current location information and going-home station information of each user B to D. Also, the portable telephone set of the user A performs the class classification of the respective users B to D based on the content of electronic mail transmitted/received among the respective users B to D or titles registered in a telephone book memory. The portable telephone set of the user A performs weighting corresponding to the class of each user and the going-home station of each user to the plurality of meeting places retrieved based on the current locations of all the users. Then, the respective weighted meeting places are displayed in the higher recommendation order, and information showing the meeting place selected by the user A from them is transmitted to the portable telephones of the respective users B to D as meeting participants. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

The present invention includes, for example, a mobile phone, a PHS phone (PHS: Personal Handyphone System), a PDA device (PDA: Personal Digital Assistant), a portable game machine having a current position detection function such as a GPS unit (GPS: Global Positioning System). The present invention relates to a meeting place recommendation device, a meeting place recommendation method, a meeting place recommendation program, and a portable terminal device suitable for application to portable devices such as the above.
In particular, a meeting place recommendation device, a meeting place recommendation method, a meeting place recommendation program, and a mobile phone that can be recommended by determining the optimum meeting place in consideration of the user's hierarchical relationship as well as the return path of each user. It relates to a terminal device.

  When meeting or entertaining with friends or companies, the user who is the secretary needs to select a geographically appropriate meeting place. At this time, the user who is the secretary must determine an appropriate meeting place in consideration of various parameters such as the departure point, the return home point, the position, and the past meeting place of all the participants. At this time, as the number of participants increases, the combinations of the above parameters also increase in a non-linear manner, so that it becomes very difficult to obtain an optimal solution. In such a state, it is no longer known whether the hard-answered solution (= meeting place) is the optimal solution.

  Furthermore, the user who is the secretary is often appointed from among younger participants. For example, in a company, a manager is often appointed from new employees. New employees need to set an optimal meeting place for all participants, even though they are not familiar with the geography around their work location. This is a very difficult task.

  As a prior art for managing the waiting, in the published patent publication (Patent Document 1) of Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2006-2443827, when waiting with a plurality of people cannot be performed as scheduled, the situation of each person is acquired. A management device for notifying each member of a change in waiting according to the situation is disclosed.

  In the case of this management apparatus, the member information of the member to be queuing and the queuing condition are received from the inquiry source terminal, and a message for inquiring the member status based on the member information is transmitted to the inquiry destination terminal. Member status information is received from the server, the waiting information is obtained based on the situation information and the waiting condition, and the waiting information is transmitted to the inquiry destination terminal and the inquiry source terminal. Thereby, it is possible to notify each member of a change in waiting according to the situation of each member.

JP 2006-243827 A

  Here, when determining an optimal meeting place among a plurality of participants in the real world, the meeting place is determined in consideration of various parameters in addition to geographical parameters.

  Specifically, the meeting place is determined in consideration of each participant's job title, relationship, and human relations, and the meeting place is set so that each participant can board the last train even if the return time is late. What is determined is what is often done in the real world.

  The present invention has been made in view of such a process for determining a meeting place in the real world. In determining the optimum meeting place among a plurality of participants, the geographical location of each participant is determined. In addition to the parameters, each participant's job title, return route, and available time at the meeting place are also taken into consideration to determine the meeting place, so that the best meeting place for each participant can be determined and recommended. An object is to provide a place recommendation device, a meeting place recommendation method, a meeting place recommendation program, and a mobile terminal device.

In order to solve the above-described problem, the meeting place recommendation device according to the present invention is provided.
A priority storage unit in which the priorities of all the users who are waiting are stored;
A current position detection unit for detecting the current position of all users who are waiting;
Based on the current position and map information of all users detected by the current position detection unit, a waiting candidate site detection unit that detects a plurality of waiting candidate sites as waiting candidates,
A travel time detection unit that detects a travel time required for travel from the current position to each of the waiting candidate sites detected by the waiting candidate site detection unit for each user and for each waiting candidate site; ,
A weighting processing unit that performs weighting processing according to the priority order of the user corresponding to each travel time for each travel time detected by the travel time detection unit;
A total travel time calculation unit that calculates a total travel time that is the sum of the travel times of all users weighted by the weighting processing unit, for each of the candidate meeting locations detected by the meeting candidate site detection unit. When,
A candidate meeting place display unit for displaying at least information indicating the candidate meeting place on the display part in order of decreasing the total moving time for each waiting candidate place calculated by the total moving time calculating unit;
Waiting information transmission for transmitting waiting information indicating a waiting candidate site selected via the operation unit from the waiting candidate sites displayed by the waiting candidate site display unit to the terminal device of each user performing the waiting. And a part.

  Such a meeting place recommendation device determines and recommends a meeting place in consideration of each user's geographical parameters as well as each user's priority parameter.

  In the present invention, when determining an optimum meeting place among a plurality of users, each meeting place is determined in consideration of at least the priority parameter of each user in addition to the geographical parameters of each user. It is possible to determine and recommend an optimum meeting place for the user.

It is a figure for demonstrating the structure of the meeting place recommendation system used as the Example to which this invention is applied. It is a block diagram of the mobile telephone used for the meeting place recommendation system used as an Example. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the classification operation | movement of each user of the mobile telephone used with the meeting place recommendation system used as an Example. It is a figure which shows an example of the class classification | category of the mobile telephone used with the meeting place recommendation system used as an Example. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the meeting place recommendation operation | movement of the mobile telephone used for the meeting place recommendation system used as an Example. It is a figure for demonstrating the search area of the meeting place detected in the mobile telephone used for the meeting place recommendation system used as an Example, and the nearest station of each user. It is a figure for demonstrating the recommendation operation | movement of the waiting place by the weighting according to each user's class of the mobile telephone used for the waiting place recommendation system used as an Example. It is a figure for demonstrating the recommendation operation | movement of the waiting place by the weighting according to the return path | route of each user of the mobile telephone used for the waiting place recommendation system used as an Example.

  The present invention can be applied to a meeting place recommendation system that determines and recommends an optimum meeting place for each user of a plurality of mobile phones.

[System configuration]
FIG. 1 shows a configuration diagram of a meeting place recommendation system as an embodiment to which the present invention is applied. As can be seen from FIG. 1, this meeting place recommendation system includes a mobile phone of a user who is a secretary who is a determinant of a meeting place, and a plurality of mobile phones of each user who is a participant in the meeting. It is formed by connecting to each other via a base station nearest to the telephone and a communication network of each mobile telephone.

[Configuration of mobile phone]
As shown in FIG. 1, each mobile phone used in this meeting place recommendation system is described later in addition to voice calls, videophone calls, e-mails, Web data (Web: World Wide Web) with the base station. Antenna 1 and communication circuit 2 that perform wireless communication such as return home information, waiting information, and current position information, speaker unit 3 for outputting received voices, and microphone unit for collecting transmitted voices 4, an operation menu, e-mail, images (still images and moving images), a display unit 5 for displaying waiting information to be described later, and a plurality of operation keys such as a cross key, a determination key, and a numeric key. The operation unit 6 is provided, and a light emitting unit 7 (LED: Light Emitting Diode) for notifying the user of incoming / outgoing calls with light.

  The mobile phone includes a camera unit 8 for capturing a still image or a moving image of a desired subject, and a vibration unit 9 for notifying a user of incoming / outgoing calls by vibrating the housing of the mobile phone. A timer 10 that counts the current time and an acceleration sensor 11 that detects a rotation operation, a tilt operation, and the like of the casing of the mobile phone are included.

  In addition, this mobile phone includes a non-contact wireless communication antenna 12 and a non-contact IC unit 13 for performing non-contact wireless communication with a communication distance of about 50 cm, for example, and a GPS antenna 14 for detecting the current position of the mobile phone. (GPS: Global Positioning System) and GPS unit 15 and a memory storing various data handled by each application program in addition to a communication program and various application programs for performing wireless communication processing via the base station. 16 and a control unit 17 for controlling the operation of the entire mobile phone.

  In the memory 16, in addition to the communication program described above, a waiting place recommendation program that automatically searches for and recommends a waiting place that is optimal for all participants when waiting for each user, and imaging control of the camera unit 8. A camera control program for performing is stored. This camera control program also has a viewer function for captured still images and moving images.

  The memory 16 also includes an e-mail management program for controlling creation and transmission / reception of e-mail, a schedule book management program for managing a schedule book in which a user's schedule is registered, a communication network, the Internet, and the like. A web browsing program for browsing a web page published on a server device provided on a predetermined network, a phone book management program for managing a phone book, and playing music data Are stored.

In addition, the memory 16 stores a schedule book in which a user's desired schedule is registered, a user name such as a user's acquaintance or friend, a still image (face photo, etc.), an address, a telephone number, an e-mail address, and a date of birth. And the like, music data reproduced based on the music player program, still image data and moving image data reproduced based on the viewer function of the camera control program, transmitted and received e-mail data, Phone / email call history, map information for searching for a meeting place, and pre-registered information about a station located near the user's home registered in advance by the user. Yes.

[Recommended action for meeting place]
The meeting place recommendation system of such an embodiment determines and recommends an optimum meeting place for each user who makes a meeting. For example, when Mr. A shown in FIG. 1 is the secretary, and Mr. A, Mr. B, Mr. C, and Mr. D are waiting for the meeting, Mr. A who is the secretary uses the operation unit 6 of his mobile phone. The meeting place recommendation program stored in the memory 16 is activated. When this activation operation is performed, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone activates and controls the meeting place recommendation program stored in the memory 16, and first classifies the weighting class of each participant who participates in the meeting. (= Prioritization).

[Weight classification operation]
The flowchart of FIG. 3 shows the flow of the weighting class classification operation in the control unit 17 of the mobile phone of Mr. A.

  When the control unit 17 controls the start of the waiting place recommendation program stored in the memory 16 as described above, the control unit 17 controls the display unit 5 to display the input screen of each participant in step S1 of the flowchart of FIG.

  In this example, Mr. A who is the secretary is, for example, Mr. A (= self), Mr. B, Mr. C, Mr. D, etc. on the input screen of each participant displayed on the display unit 5. Next, the user name of each participant who is scheduled to participate in the waiting to be performed is input, and at the timing when the input is completed, any key on the operation unit 6 to which the enter key is assigned is pressed. To do.

  In step S2, the control unit 17 determines whether or not the input of the user name of each participant has been completed by monitoring the presence or absence of the pressing operation of the determination key. The process proceeds to step S3 when it is determined that the input has been completed.

  In step S3 and step S4, the control unit 17 refers to the outgoing mail and the incoming mail stored in the memory 16 based on the user name of each participant who has made the above input, and each participation in which the above input has been made. Whether there is a received mail (= an e-mail received from the participant) that is a sender and a send mail (= an e-mail sent to the participant) that is addressed to each participant Determine. When the control unit 17 detects the received mail or the transmitted mail corresponding to the participant, the process proceeds to step S8, and the received mail or the transmitted mail corresponding to the participant cannot be detected. If so, the process proceeds to step S5.

  When the process proceeds to step S8 by detecting the received mail or the transmitted mail corresponding to the participant, the control unit 17 analyzes the title and body of the received mail and the transmitted mail, and in step S8, It is determined whether or not only the participant is using honorifics. In step S9, it is determined whether or not only the secretary is using honorifics. In step S10, both the secretary and the participants use honorifics. It is determined whether or not.

  The fact that only the participant uses honorifics means that the participant is likely to be a user who is a junior or manager of Mr. A who is the secretary. The unit 17 advances the processing from step S8 to step S11, and classifies the weighting class of the participant as the “non-consideration” class.

  In addition, if only Mr. A who is the secretary uses honorifics, it is highly likely that the participant is a superior user such as the boss or teacher of Mr. A who is the secretary. For this reason, in this case, the control unit 17 advances the process from step S9 to step S12, and classifies the weighting class of the participant as the “very considered” class.

  In addition, the fact that both Mr. A who is the secretary and the participant are using honorifics may indicate that the participant is in a relationship that the two of them are acquainted with each other or that both of them are at a glance. high. Therefore, in this case, the control unit 17 advances the processing from step S10 to step S13, and the weighting class of the participant is an intermediate class between the “non-consideration” class and the “very consideration” class. Classify into the “consideration” class.

  Also, it is not that only participants use honorifics, only the secretary A uses honorifics, and both the secretary A and participants use honorifics. If not (= not applicable to any of the above steps S8 to S10), the control unit 17 proceeds from step S4 to step S7 through step S8 to step S10, and the participant Classify the weighted classes into “not considered” classes.

  The memory 16 is provided with a class table having a storage area for each class. When the classifying of each participant is performed as described above, the control unit 17 registers the user name of each user in the storage area of the class table corresponding to the classified class, and displays the registered contents of the class table as a display unit. The display is controlled to 5. As a result, for example, as shown in FIG. 4, the class display of each participant and secretary classified and registered is made. In the example shown in FIG. 4, the participant C is classified and registered in the “very considered” class, and the participant B is classified and registered in the “considered” class. An example is shown in which A who is the secretary of the class and C who is the participant are classified and registered.

  Moreover, the class of such a secretary and each participant can be changed manually. In other words, by displaying the registered contents of the class table, when Mr. A who is the secretary looks at the classified classes of himself and each participant and feels the need to change the class, Mr. A By operating the operation unit 6, a participant who performs class change is specified and a class to be moved is specified. For example, in the example shown in FIG. 4, when the participant B who is classified into the “consideration” class is changed to the “very consideration” class, the secretary A moves the operation unit 6. Then, the participant B who is the user who is the object of the class change is designated and operated, and the “very considered” class is designated as the class to which the participant B is moved.

  When such an operation is performed, the control unit 17 re-registers the user name of the participant B in the storage area of the “very considered” class in the class table. Thereby, a desired user can be manually re-registered in a desired class.

  On the other hand, when the process proceeds to step S5 because the received mail or the transmitted mail corresponding to the participant could not be detected in step S4, the control unit 17 is input in steps S5 and S6. By searching the telephone book stored in the memory 16 based on the user name of each participant, it is determined whether or not the inputted user name of each participant is registered in the telephone book.

  If it is determined that the participant is not registered in the phone book, the participant has no email sent to or received from Mr. A who is the secretary. Since the name is a registered participant, the control unit 17 determines that the participant is a less important participant, proceeds to step S7, and sets the weighting class of the participant to “ Categorize in the “not considered” class.

  On the other hand, when the user name of the participant is detected from the phone book, the control unit 17 determines whether “kun” or “chan” is used as the user name registered in the phone book in step S14. In step S15, it is determined whether "sama" or "teacher" is used as the user name registered in the phone book. In step S16, the user registered in the phone book It is determined whether or not “san” is used in the name.

  The fact that “kun” and “chan” are used in the user name registered in the phone book means that the participants are Mr. A's junior who is the secretary, the younger, and the title is more than Mr. A. In this case, the control unit 17 advances the processing from step S14 to step S17, and classifies the weighting class of the participant as the “non-consideration” class.

  In addition, the fact that “sama” and “teacher” are used in the user name registered in the phone book means that the participant can be the supervisor of Mr. A who is the secretary or the superior user. In this case, the control unit 17 advances the processing from step S15 to step S18, and classifies the weighting class of the participant as a “very considerate” class.

  In addition, the fact that “san” is used in the user name registered in the phone book may indicate that the participant is in a relationship that both sides have already known or that both sides have at a glance. Is expensive. Therefore, in this case, the control unit 17 advances the processing from step S16 to step S19, and the weighting class of the participant is an intermediate class between the “non-consideration” class and the “very consideration” class. Classify into the “consideration” class.

  When the control unit 17 classifies each participant based on the titles of each participant registered in the phone book as described above, the control unit 17 corresponds to the classified class as described with reference to FIG. The user name of each user is registered in the storage area of the class table.

In the example shown in the flowchart of FIG. 3, first, each participant is classified by performing “analysis of sent / received mail”, and when there is no sent / received mail, the “honorific title” registered in the telephone directory It was decided to classify each participant by performing “analysis”, but this order may be reversed. First, the class of each participant is analyzed by performing “analysis of titles” registered in the phone book. Classification may be performed, and when the participant is not registered in the phone book, class analysis of each participant may be performed by performing “analysis of sent / received mail”.

[Waiting information transmission operation]
Next, when the class classification of each participant is completed, the control unit 17 detects a meeting place that is most suitable for Mr. A who is the secretary and each of the participants B to D, and this meeting is performed. Send information to each participant. The flowchart of FIG. 5 shows the flow of the waiting information transmission operation in the control unit 17 of the mobile phone of Mr. A who is the secretary.

  The flowchart of FIG. 5 is a flow of processes that are continuous from the processes shown in the flowchart of FIG. 3. The process of step S21 in the flowchart of FIG. It is a process of classifying the person. In the flowchart of FIG. 5, when the control unit 17 classifies each participant in step S21, the process proceeds to step S22.

  In step S <b> 22, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone serving as the secretary controls activation of the GPS unit 15, detects the current position of the mobile phone of Mr. A, and temporarily stores this in the memory 16. At the same time, by communicating with the mobile phones of Mr. B to Mr. D who are each participant, current location information indicating the current location of each participant is acquired, and the process proceeds to step S23.

  Specifically, although it is only an example, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone serving as the secretary advances the processing to step S22, and the email addresses of Mr. B to Mr. D who are the participants Is detected from the telephone directory of the memory 16, and the electronic mail for Mr. B, the electronic mail for Mr. C, and the electronic mail for Mr. D are created. Then, a transmission request command for the current position is attached to the header, title, or text of each electronic mail, and the communication circuit 2 is controlled to transmit these. As a result, the electronic mail to which the transmission request command for the current position is attached is transmitted to the cellular phones of Mr. B to Mr. D who are the participants.

  When the electronic mail arrives, the control unit of the mobile phone of Mr. B to D who is each participant adds the above-mentioned transmission request command for the current location to the received electronic mail based on the meeting place recommendation program. It is determined whether or not. If it is determined that the current position transmission request command is attached to the incoming e-mail, the GPS unit or the like provided on the mobile phone of Mr. B to Mr. D that is each participant The current position detection function detects the current position of the user, and returns the current position information indicating the detected current position to the header, title, or body of the reply mail to the received electronic mail. Thus, Mr. A's mobile phone, who is the secretary, receives each e-mail with the current location information of each participant.

  When receiving the above e-mails, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone who is the secretary detects the current position information of each participant from the received e-mails based on the meeting place recommendation program, This is temporarily stored in the memory 16 in association with the user name of the corresponding participant.

  In this example, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone who is the secretary uses the e-mail to obtain the current location of each participant. A communication line for transmission / reception of current position information may be established between the mobile phone and each participant's mobile phone, and the current position of each participant may be acquired via this communication line.

  Next, when the current position of each participant is acquired in this way, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone, who is the secretary, proceeds to step S23 in the flowchart of FIG. Based on the current location information of the mobile phone of Mr. A and the current location information of each of the participants B to D, the center of the current location of these four people is determined, and a meeting centered on this central location A search area for searching for a place is set, and each station existing in the search area is set as a waiting candidate station that is a candidate for a waiting place.

  Specifically, map information is stored in the memory 16 in the case of a mobile phone used in the meeting place recommendation system of this embodiment. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, the control unit 17 is configured based on the location information of the secretary A and each of the participants B to D and the map information stored in the memory 16. The point at which the sum of the distances from the current position is minimum is determined as the center.

  Further, the control unit 17 gradually expands the range of the circle centered on the center on the map until, for example, 10 stations (shown as “station 1” to “station 10” in FIG. 6) enter. The range of the circle including the 10 stations is set as a search area for searching for a meeting place. In addition, the control unit 17 sets the stations from “Station 1” to “Station 10” existing in the search area as waiting candidate stations that are candidates for waiting places.

  In this example, a circle range including 10 stations is set as a search area for searching for a meeting place, but the number of stations included in the circle may be any number, Or it is good also as a number according to the congestion degree of a station.

  In this example, the map information is stored in the memory 16, but the control unit 17 acquires and uses the corresponding map information from the server device on the network based on each of the current position information. You may do it.

  Next, the control unit 17 of the cellular phone of Mr. A who is the secretary advances the process to step S24 in the flowchart of FIG. 5, and based on the current location of each user and the map information, the nearest station of each user. Is detected. In the case of the example shown in FIG. 6, the control unit 17 sets “Station 10” as the nearest station of Mr. A, “Station 11” as the nearest station of Mr. B, “Station 7” as the nearest station of Mr. C, D "Station 8" will be detected as the nearest station.

  Next, the control unit 17 advances the process to step S25, detects the travel time from each user's nearest station to each waiting candidate station existing in the search area, and advances the process to step S26.

  Specifically, when the process proceeds to step S25, the control unit 17 accesses a server device on a predetermined network that provides transportation information via the communication circuit 2, and accesses this server device. On the other hand, information indicating the nearest station of each user and information indicating each meeting candidate station existing in the search area are transmitted. The server device has each user's nearest station as a departure station, and each waiting candidate station existing in the search area as an arrival station, and each waiting candidate existing in the search area from the nearest station of each user. The travel time to the station is calculated and transmitted to the mobile phone of Mr. A. Thereby, the control part 17 of A's mobile telephone can acquire the movement time from each user's nearest station to each waiting candidate station in the said search area.

  In this example, the control unit 17 acquires the travel time via the network as described above. However, an application program for detecting the travel time is stored in the memory 16 and stored in the application program. Based on the above, each moving time may be detected in the same manner as described above.

  Next, when each of the travel times is detected, the control unit 17 advances the processing to step S26, and weighting processing corresponding to each user class previously classified as described above with respect to each travel time of each user. And the process proceeds to step S27. In step S27, the control part 17 calculates the sum total of the movement time of each user who performed the weighting process for each waiting candidate station, and advances the process to step S29 via step S28 described later. In step S29, the control unit 17 ranks the total travel time of each user calculated for each meeting candidate station in step S28 in ascending order, and station names corresponding to the ranks are assigned the station names corresponding to the ranks. Display control is sequentially performed on the display unit 5.

  Mr. A who is the secretary selects and operates the station name to be determined as the meeting place among the station names displayed according to the above ranks, via the operation unit 6. In step S30, the control unit 17 monitors the presence / absence of this selection operation, and advances the process to step S31 at the timing when the selection operation is detected. In step S31, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone, who is the secretary, forms an e-mail with meeting information with the station selected by Mr. A as the meeting place. It transmits to a user's address, and complete | finishes the process shown to the flowchart of this FIG.

  The processing from step S25 to step S31 will be described in detail. First, as shown in FIG. 7 (a), the control unit 17 determines each of the waiting candidate station A stations from the current positions of the users A to D. When the travel times to the station D are detected, as shown in FIG. 7C, the sum of values obtained by multiplying the travel times of the users A to D by the coefficients corresponding to the classes of the users. Is calculated for each waiting candidate station.

  That is, Mr. A's travel time for station A in FIG. 7A is 10 minutes, Mr. B's travel time is 20 minutes, Mr. C's travel time is 30 minutes, and Mr. D's travel time is 40 minutes. In addition, Mr. A's travel time for station B is 20 minutes, Mr. B's travel time is 10 minutes, Mr. C's travel time is 20 minutes, and Mr. D's travel time is 30 minutes. In addition, A's travel time for station C is 30 minutes, B's travel time is 20 minutes, C's travel time is 10 minutes, and D's travel time is 20 minutes. In addition, A's travel time for D station is 40 minutes, B's travel time is 30 minutes, C's travel time is 20 minutes, and D's travel time is 10 minutes.

  In such a current position situation of each user, when the total of the movement time (total movement time) of each user for each station is simply calculated, the total movement time for station A is 10 minutes as shown in FIG. A's travel time) + 20 minutes (B's travel time) + 30 minutes (C's travel time) + 40 minutes (D's travel time) = 100 minutes, and the total travel time for station B is 20 minutes (A's Travel time) + 10 minutes (B's travel time) + 20 minutes (C's travel time) + 30 minutes (D's travel time) = 80 minutes, and the total travel time for station C is 30 minutes (A's travel) Time) + 20 minutes (B's travel time) + 10 minutes (C's travel time) + 20 minutes (D's travel time) = 80 minutes, the total travel time for D station is 40 minutes (A's travel time) + 30 minutes (B's travel time) + 0 minutes (C's travel time) +10 minutes (D's travel time) = it is 100 minutes.

  Then, when the recommended order is determined by ranking the stations as meeting places in order from the shortest total travel time, the first place is B station (total travel time 80 minutes), and the first rank of the same rank is C station (total travel time) 80 minutes), 3rd place will be A station (total travel time 100 minutes), and 3rd place will be D station (total travel time 100 minutes). However, this recommendation order is a recommendation order that is not weighted corresponding to the class of each user.

  Here, as described with reference to FIG. 4, in the mobile phone of this embodiment, each user who is to wait is classified in advance. Specifically, in the example shown in FIG. 4, Mr. A is classified into a non-consideration class, Mr. B as a consideration class, Mr. C as a very consideration class, and Mr. D as a non-consideration class.

  For this reason, when calculating the total travel time of each user, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone serving as the secretary depends on the class of the user with respect to the travel time of each user relative to the station. After multiplying the weighting coefficients, the total travel time is calculated by adding the travel times of the respective users.

  Referring to the example of FIG. 4, the moving time of the non-considered classes A and D is multiplied by a weighting coefficient of “0.1”, for example. Further, for the travel time of Mr. B of the consideration class, for example, a weighting coefficient of “2.0” is multiplied. Further, for the travel time of Mr. C of the very consideration class, for example, a weighting coefficient of “4.0” is multiplied.

  When such a weighting process is performed to calculate the total travel time of each user, the total travel time for station A is 10 minutes × 0.1 (Mr. A's travel time) +20 minutes as shown in FIG. X 2 (B's travel time) + 30 minutes x 4 (C's travel time) + 40 minutes x 0.1 (D's travel time) = 165 minutes, and the total travel time for station B is 20 minutes x 0. 1 (Mr. A's travel time) + 10 minutes x 2 (Mr. B's travel time) + 20 minutes x 4 (Ms. C's travel time) + 30 minutes x 0.1 (Ms. D's travel time) = 105 minutes, C station Total travel time is 30 minutes x 0.1 (Mr. A's travel time) + 10 minutes x 2 (Mr. B's travel time) + 10 minutes x 4 (Ms. C's travel time) + 20 minutes x 0.1 (Ms. D's Travel time) = 65 minutes, and the total travel time for station D is 40 minutes x 0.1 (Mr. A's travel time) 30 min × 2 (B's travel time) + 20 minutes × 4 (C's moving time) becomes +10 min × 0.1 (D's travel time) = 145 minutes.

  Then, if the recommendation order is determined by ranking the stations as meeting places in order from the shortest total travel time, the first place is C station (total travel time 65 minutes) and the second place is B station (total travel time 105 minutes) 3rd place is D station (total travel time 145 minutes), 4th place is A station (total travel time 165 minutes).

  By performing such weighting processing in consideration of each user's class, the meeting place is determined in such a way as to place emphasis on the users classified into the higher class.

  When the control unit 17 of Mr. A's cellular phone, who is the secretary, determines the recommendation order of the meeting place in consideration of the class of each user in this way, it becomes a waiting candidate as shown in FIG. 7D, for example. Each station name and the total travel time of each user for each station are arranged according to the recommendation order and displayed in a list on the display unit 5.

  The user moves the cursor via the operation unit 6 and selects a desired station from the stations displayed as waiting candidates displayed in the list. The control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone who is the secretary forms meeting information for Mr. A corresponding to the selected station, stores it in the memory 16 and displays it on the display unit 5. , The meeting information for Mr. B corresponding to the selected station, the meeting information for Mr. C corresponding to the selected station, and the meeting information for Mr. D corresponding to the selected station are respectively formed and corresponded To each user to be transmitted via the transmission circuit 2.

  FIG. 7 (e) is an example of this waiting information. As shown in FIG. 7 (e), the control unit 17 sets the station name, the meeting time, and the meeting place from each user's nearest station. The travel information such as the travel route to the station to be displayed is displayed on the display unit 5 as the above-mentioned waiting information, and transmitted to the mobile phones of the participants B to D, respectively.

  Among these, the waiting time is automatically calculated and input by the control unit 17 of Mr. A's cellular phone as the secretary. Specifically, when calculating the waiting time, the control unit 17 acquires the current time from the timer 10 shown in FIG. 2 and also acquires it via the network as described above, or stores it in the memory 16. The travel time of each user with respect to the station serving as the meeting place, which is detected based on the application program (= the travel time not subjected to the weighting process) is acquired. And the control part 17 detects the longest travel time among the travel time of each user with respect to the station used as the said meeting place, The time which added this longest travel time to the said present time is made into the waiting time of the said waiting information. .

  More specifically, assuming that station C is determined as the meeting place in FIGS. 7A to 7E, the travel time from each user's current position to station C is as shown in FIG. As can be seen from a), Mr. A has a travel time of 30 minutes, Mr. B has a travel time of 20 minutes, Mr. C has a travel time of 10 minutes, and Mr. D has a travel time of 20 minutes. From this, it can be understood that Mr. A, who has a travel time of 30 minutes, requires the most travel time for the station C, which is the meeting place (= the longest travel time). For this reason, if the current time is 13:00, the controller 17 adds 13:30, which is the longest travel time to 13:00, as the waiting time for the waiting information. .

  In this example, the waiting time is calculated by the control unit 17 and automatically input. However, the user may manually input a desired waiting time.

  Further, a desired time of about 10 minutes or 20 minutes may be added to the calculated waiting time, and this may be used as the waiting time. Thereby, the user who requires the most travel time to the station serving as the meeting place can move with some margin.

  Next, when forming the movement information of the waiting information, the control unit 17 accesses the server device on the predetermined network that provides the transportation facility information via the communication circuit 2, and accesses the server device. On the other hand, information indicating the waiting time calculated as described above, information indicating the nearest station of each user, and information indicating the station determined as the meeting place are transmitted. The server device has the nearest station of each user as the boarding station, and forms the travel information that can arrive at the station determined as the meeting place before the meeting time, and Mr. A who is the secretary Send to your mobile phone. Specifically, the server device forms the travel information for each user including the boarding station name, boarding time, arrival time at the station that is the meeting place, boarding route name, and the like. To the mobile phone of Mr. A.

When receiving the movement information for each user from the server device, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's cellular phone who is the secretary forms the waiting information described with reference to FIG. 7E for each user. The waiting information for oneself (for Mr. A) is stored and controlled in the memory 16 and displayed on the display unit 5. The waiting information for the participants B to D is, for example, those of the participants B to D It is attached to an e-mail addressed to each address (or may be filled in the text etc.) and transmitted to the mobile phones of the participants B to D.

[Recommended action at the meeting place considering the return path of each user]
Next, in the above description, each user's travel time with respect to the meeting place is weighted according to the class of each user, and the meeting place obtained as a result of the weighting is recommended according to each rank. However, in the case of the meeting place recommendation system according to this embodiment, together with such a class of each user, a meeting place considering the return path of each user can be detected and recommended for each rank.

  Specifically, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone, who is the secretary, selects whether or not to search for a meeting place considering the return path of each user when the meeting place recommendation program is started. The screen is displayed on the display unit 5 (valid / invalid option for return route consideration). The control unit 17 starts the process from step S21 in the flowchart of FIG. 5 when the user selects the valid or invalid return path option. Then, the control unit 17 determines the validity and invalidity of the return route consideration option in step S28 of the flowchart of FIG. 5, and when the return route consideration option is set to valid, the process proceeds to step S32, If the return route consideration option is set to invalid, the process proceeds to step S29, and the meeting place is determined based on the travel time of each user weighted according to the class of each user as described above. Recommended for users.

  When it is determined that the return route option is set to be valid, the process proceeds from step S28 to step S32, and the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone becomes each participant. The mail addresses of Mr. B to Mr. D are detected from the telephone directory in the memory 16, and the e-mail for Mr. B, the e-mail for Mr. C, and the e-mail for Mr. D are created. Then, a transmission request command for returning home station information is attached to the header, title, or body of each electronic mail, and the communication circuit 2 is controlled to transmit these. Thereby, the e-mails to which the transmission request command for the return home station information is attached are transmitted to the cellular phones of Mr. B to Mr. D who are the participants.

  When the electronic mail arrives, the control units of the mobile phones of Mr. B to Mr. D who are the participants attach the above-mentioned return station information transmission request command to the received electronic mail based on the meeting place recommendation program. It is determined whether or not. If it is determined that the incoming e-mail is attached with the return station information transmission request command, the return home station information stored in advance in the memory of each participant's mobile phone is read out. , Reply to the received e-mail with the header, title or body of the reply mail. As a result, the mobile phone of Mr. A who is the secretary receives the respective e-mails with the return home station information of the participants B to D.

  When receiving the above e-mails, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone, who is the secretary, detects the return home station information of each participant from the received e-mails based on the meeting place recommendation program. Is temporarily stored in the memory 16 in association with the user name of the corresponding participant.

  In this example, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone, who is the secretary, uses the e-mail to acquire the information on the return home stations of each participant, but this is the secretary. A communication line for sending and receiving return home station information may be established between Mr. A's mobile phone and each participant's mobile phone, and the return home station information of each participant may be acquired via this communication line. .

  In this example, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone serving as the secretary communicates with the mobile phones of Mr. B to Mr. D who are participants, and each participant B ~ It was decided that Mr. A's return home station information was acquired. This is because Mr. A who is the secretary manually inputs the return station information of each participant B ~ D through the operation unit 6. Also good.

  Next, when the return home station information of each participant is acquired in this way, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone, who is the secretary, proceeds with the process to step S33 of the flowchart of FIG. 5, and is shown in FIG. The last train time corresponding to each waiting candidate station (= station 1 to station 10) existing in the search area and the return station of each user A to D is acquired.

  Specifically, when the process proceeds to this step S33, the control unit 17 reads the return home station information indicating the return home station of Mr. A stored in the memory 16 in advance, and each of the participants B to D described above. The information of each return home station acquired from the memory 16 is read out from the memory 16, and the information on each return home station, waiting candidate station information indicating each waiting candidate station existing in the search area, and the last train time request are transmitted on the predetermined network. Send to server device. Upon receiving the return home station information, waiting candidate station information, and the last train time request for each user, the server device displays the last train time corresponding to each station indicated by each return home station information and the last candidate train station. Each time information is formed and transmitted to the mobile phone of Mr. A who is the secretary. Thereby, the last train time corresponding to each return home station of each of user A to user D and each waiting candidate station is acquired.

  Next, in step S34, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone serving as the secretary acquires the information as described above based on the application program acquired through the network or stored in the memory 16. The travel time of each user with respect to each queuing candidate station (= the travel time not subjected to the weighting process) is acquired. Then, the control unit 17 calculates the waiting time by detecting the longest moving time among the moving times of the respective users for the waiting candidates and adding the longest moving time to the current time acquired from the memory 10. To do. Further, in step S34, the control unit 17 calculates, for each user, the staying time that is the time from the calculated waiting time to the last train time of each of the users A to D.

  Next, in step S35, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone serving as the secretary calculates the sum of the stay times of each of the users A to D for each meeting candidate station. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 8A, Mr. A's stay time at station A is 500 minutes, Mr. B's stay time is 600 minutes, Mr. C's stay time is 600 minutes, Mr. D's stay time When it is 400 minutes, as shown in FIG. 8B, the control unit 17 calculates the total stay time of each user at the station A as 2100 minutes (500 minutes + 600 minutes + 600 minutes + 400 minutes = 2100 minutes). To do. Similarly, as shown in FIG. 8A, Mr. A's stay time at C station is 300 minutes, Mr. B's stay time is 300 minutes, Mr. C's stay time is 200 minutes, Mr. D's stay time is 500 minutes. In this case, as shown in FIG. 8 (b), the control unit 17 calculates the total stay time of each user at this C station as 1300 minutes (300 minutes + 300 minutes + 200 minutes + 500 minutes = 1300 minutes).

  Next, in step S36, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone serving as the secretary performs the weighting process for each class in step S27 and calculates each of user A to user D. A value obtained by dividing the total travel time by the total stay time of each user A to user D calculated in step S35 is calculated for each waiting candidate station.

  Specifically, the total movement time after weighting processing for each class of each of user A to user D with respect to station A in this example is 165 minutes as described with reference to FIG. Further, as described with reference to FIGS. 8A and 8B, the total stay time of each user A to user D with respect to the A station is 2100 minutes. For this reason, the control part 17 calculates total travel time 165 minutes / total stay time 2100 minutes = 0.0785 minutes. This means that it takes 0.0785 minutes of travel time for all users to stay at station A for 1 minute.

  Similarly, the total movement time after weighting processing for each class of each of user A to user D with respect to station C is 65 minutes as described with reference to FIG. Moreover, as demonstrated using Fig.8 (a) and FIG.8 (b), the total stay time of each user A-user D with respect to C station is 1300 minutes. For this reason, the control part 17 calculates total travel time 65 minutes ÷ total stay time 1300 minutes = 0.05 minutes. This means that it takes 0.05 minutes of travel time for all users to stay at station C for 1 minute.

  Similarly, the total movement time after weighting processing for each class of each user A to user D with respect to D station is 145 minutes as described with reference to FIG. Moreover, as demonstrated using FIG. 8A and FIG. 8B, the total stay time of each user A-user D with respect to D station is 400 minutes. For this reason, the control part 17 calculates total travel time 145 minutes / total stay time 400 minutes = 0.3625 minutes. This means that it takes 0.3625 minutes of travel time for all users to stay at D station for 1 minute.

  In the case of the example shown in FIG. 8A, the stay time of the participant D with respect to the B station is 0 minute. This is because, even if the station to be meeting is set to B station, participant D can arrive at station B at the meeting time, but he can stay at station B because of the last train time. It means 0 minutes. In such a case, since the participant D cannot participate even if the station serving as the meeting place is set to the B station, the station serving as the meeting place cannot be set to the B station. It becomes meaningless. For this reason, the control unit 17 does not perform the above-described division calculation for a station where there is a user whose stay time is 0 minutes. The character “excluded” in FIG. 8C means that the above-described division operation has not been performed on the B station.

  Next, in step S37 of the flowchart of FIG. 5, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone serving as the secretary sequentially sets the station name to each value in order from the smallest value obtained by such division processing. , And the total movement time are displayed in a list on the display unit 5, and the process proceeds to step S30.

  Specifically, in the example shown in FIGS. 8A to 8C, as can be seen from FIG. 8C, when the division values are arranged in order from the smallest station, the division value is 0.05. C station for minutes, A station for division value of 0.0785 minutes, and D station for division value of 0.3625 minutes (B station is excluded for the above reason). For this reason, the control unit 17 displays on the display unit 5 the station name of the C station with the highest recommendation ranking and the total travel time of 65 minutes to the C station weighted according to the class described with reference to FIG. Then, the station name of the station A of the recommendation rank 2 and the total travel time 165 minutes to the station A weighted according to the class described with reference to FIG. 7C are displayed on the display unit 5, and the rank of recommendation rank 3 The display section 5 displays the station name of the station D and the total travel time 145 minutes to the station D weighted by the class described with reference to FIG.

As described above, when the station names and the total travel time are displayed in a list on the display unit 5 in the order of each recommendation order, the control unit 17 proceeds to step S30 in the flowchart of FIG. 5 and selects the station selected by the user as described above. In step S31, the meeting information corresponding to the meeting station is displayed on the display unit 5 and transmitted to the mobile phones of the participants B to D. For details, refer to the description of step S30 and step S31 described above.

[Effect of Example]
As is apparent from the above description, the meeting place recommendation system of this embodiment performs weighting according to the class of each user, such as job title and relationship, and weighting corresponding to the return path of each user. An optimum meeting place for the user is determined and recommended to each user. Thereby, the following effects can be acquired.

1. It is possible to search and recommend a meeting place in consideration of the weighting in a short time and at a low cost.

2. Even in an unfamiliar geographical area, it is possible to objectively determine and recommend an optimal meeting place.

3. Since each user's return route can be taken into consideration, even when the departure point and the return home point are different, a meeting place can be recommended flexibly. For this reason, although it is possible for a certain user to gather at a meeting place, it is possible to prevent the inconvenience of recommending a meeting place that makes it difficult to return from the meeting place. In addition, when the departure point of each participant is the same and the return point of each participant is different, such as a dinner party with a company companion, recommend a meeting place that is optimal for each user. Can do.

4). By performing weighting in consideration of the return journey, it is possible to recommend a meeting place where the stay time is maximized.

5). Since the waiting information is transmitted to each participant including information such as the travel route, it is possible to eliminate the trouble of each participant checking the train transfer.

[Modification 1]
In the description of the above-described embodiment, “recommendation of meeting place where only weighting by class classification is performed” and “recommendation of meeting place where weighting by class classification and weighting by each user's return path” are possible are possible. However, when the meeting place recommendation program is started, a selection screen for selecting one or both of the weights of “weighting by class classification” and “weighting by return of each user” is displayed. The weighting selected by the user may be executed.

In this case, the control unit 17 of Mr. A's mobile phone serving as the secretary, when only “weighting by return of each user” is selected, steps S21 to S27 and steps S32 to S32 in the flowchart of FIG. Each process is executed in the order of S37, step S30, and step S31. Accordingly, a waiting place where only the weighting by the return path of each user is performed without weighting by the class classification is recommended.

[Modification 2]
The meeting place recommendation system of the above-described embodiment performs the series of processes described with reference to FIG. 5 by operating Mr. A's mobile phone as the main server device, and each participant B Mr. to Mr. D's mobile phone has received the above-mentioned waiting information as a client terminal device (centralized processing). This is because of Mr. A's mobile phone and each participant's B to D's mobile phone. The above-described processes may be distributed between the processes (distributed process).

  In this case, Mr. A's mobile phone serving as the secretary transmits each meeting candidate station and the above classes of each of the participants B to D to the mobile phones of the participants B to D. Each participant B-D's mobile phone detects the nearest station based on his / her current location, and also calculates the travel time from this nearest station to each meeting candidate station received from A's mobile phone. Detect each. Then, a weighting process corresponding to the class (= your class) received from the mobile phone of Mr. A is performed on the travel time information for each waiting candidate station, and each waiting candidate station for which the weighting process has been performed is performed. The travel time information is transmitted to Mr. A's mobile phone. The mobile phone of Mr. A is ranked on the display unit 5 in order from the station where the total travel time of each of the users A to D is the minimum (see the description of step S29 in the flowchart of FIG. 5). Then, the waiting information corresponding to the station selected from these is stored in the memory 16 and displayed on the display unit 5 and transmitted to the mobile phones of the participants B to D (steps in the flowchart of FIG. 5). (See description of S31).

As a result, the same effect as described above can be obtained, and the processing load on the cellular phone of Mr. A who is the secretary can be reduced.

[Other variations]
In the description of the above-described embodiment, the meeting place is determined based on the current position of each user. This is because each of the participants B to D is connected to the mobile phone of Mr. A. Transmits the information indicating the desired meeting place, and the mobile phone of Mr. A who is the secretary has received from the waiting place that he / she desires and the mobile phones of the participants B to D, You may determine the meeting place on the basis of the meeting place which each participant B-D wishes.

  In addition, information indicating a meeting place determined in the past is stored in the memory 16, and the controller 17 recommends a meeting place other than the meeting place determined in the past when recommending the meeting place next time. This makes it possible to recommend a meeting place that is varied.

  In the description of the above-described embodiment, the travel time for each waiting candidate station from each user's nearest station is detected and used, but instead of this travel time, each waiting candidate station from each user's nearest station is used. It is also possible to detect and use the travel cost for.

  In the description of the above-described embodiment, a mobile phone is used. However, in addition to a mobile phone, a PHS phone (PHS: Personal Handyphone System) or a PDA device (PDA: PDA) can be used as long as it has a current position detection function and a communication function. Other portable devices such as a personal digital assistant) and a portable game machine may be used. In either case, the same effect as described above can be obtained.

  Finally, the above-described embodiment is an example of the present invention. For this reason, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made according to the design and the like as long as they do not depart from the technical idea according to the present invention. Let me add that.

  1 antenna 2 communication circuit 3 speaker unit 4 microphone unit 5 display unit 6 operation unit 7 light emitting unit 8 camera unit 9 vibration unit 10 timer 11 acceleration sensor 12 contactless wireless communication antenna 13 Non-contact IC unit, 14 GPS antenna, 15 GPS unit, 16 memory, 17 control unit

Claims (8)

A priority storage unit in which the priorities of all the users who are waiting are stored;
A current position detection unit for detecting the current position of all users who are waiting;
Based on the current position and map information of all users detected by the current position detection unit, a waiting candidate site detection unit that detects a plurality of waiting candidate sites as waiting candidates,
A travel time detection unit that detects a travel time required for travel from the current position to each of the waiting candidate sites detected by the waiting candidate site detection unit for each user and for each waiting candidate site; ,
A weighting processing unit that performs weighting processing according to the priority order of the user corresponding to each travel time for each travel time detected by the travel time detection unit;
A total travel time calculation unit that calculates a total travel time that is the sum of the travel times of all users weighted by the weighting processing unit, for each of the candidate meeting locations detected by the meeting candidate site detection unit. When,
A candidate meeting place display unit for displaying at least information indicating the candidate meeting place on the display part in order of decreasing the total moving time for each waiting candidate place calculated by the total moving time calculating unit;
Waiting information transmission for transmitting waiting information indicating a waiting candidate site selected via the operation unit from the waiting candidate sites displayed by the waiting candidate site display unit to the terminal device of each user performing the waiting. A device for recommending meeting places. An email storage unit for storing sent and received emails;
An e-mail transmitted / received to / from each user who performs the waiting is detected from each e-mail stored in the e-mail storage unit, and the presence / absence of an honorific used in the detected e-mail is determined. Detect and prioritize each user in the order of a user who uses honorifics only in outgoing mail, a user who uses honorifics in both outgoing mail and incoming mail, and a user who uses honorifics only in incoming mail The waiting place recommendation device according to claim 1, further comprising: a priority adding unit that ranks and stores the priority in the priority storage unit. Having a phone book that stores at least the username of each user;
The priority adding unit detects a user name of each user who performs the waiting from the telephone directory, detects a title given to each detected user name, and provides a title used for the upper user. In order of the user who is given, the user who is given the title used for the user who is the peer, and the user who is given the title used for the current user, the priority is given to each of the above users. The meeting place recommendation device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the device is stored in a priority storage unit. A return home detection unit for detecting the return homes of all the users;
Based on the return home of each user detected by the return home detection unit, the stay time detection for detecting for each user the stay time that can be stayed at each waiting candidate site detected by the waiting candidate site detection unit And
A total stay time calculation unit that calculates a total stay time that is the sum of the stay times of each of the users detected by the stay time detection unit for each of the meeting candidate sites detected by the meeting candidate site detection unit;
A division processing unit that divides the total travel time calculated by the total travel time calculation unit by the total visit time calculated by the total stay time calculation unit for each of the waiting candidate sites; Have
The said waiting | standby candidate place display part displays the information which shows at least a waiting | listening candidate place on a display part in order with a small division value calculated in the said division | segmentation process part. The recommended meeting place recommended device. The meeting place recommendation device according to claim 4, wherein the division processing unit performs the division process on a candidate meeting place other than a meeting candidate place where the stay time detected by the stay time detecting unit is 0 hour. A current position detecting step in which a current position detecting unit detects current positions of all users who are waiting;
Based on the current positions and map information of all users detected in the current position detection step, the waiting candidate place detection unit detects a plurality of waiting candidate places that are candidates for waiting, and a waiting candidate place detection step,
The moving time detection unit detects the moving time required for moving from the current position to each waiting candidate site detected by the waiting candidate site detecting unit for each user and each waiting candidate site. A travel time detection step to
A weighting processing step in which a weighting processing unit applies a weighting process according to the priority order of each user stored in the priority order storage unit to each travel time detected in the travel time detection step;
A total travel time calculation unit calculates a total travel time, which is the sum of the travel times of all users who have been subjected to the weighting process in the weighting processing step, for each of the waiting candidate sites detected in the waiting candidate site detection step. A total travel time calculating step to calculate,
The meeting candidate site display unit displays at least information indicating the meeting candidate site on the display unit in order from the shortest total moving time for each meeting candidate site calculated in the total moving time calculation step. A display step;
Each of the waiting information transmitting units waits for waiting information indicating the waiting candidate sites selected via the operation unit from the waiting candidate sites displayed on the display unit in the waiting candidate site display step. A meeting place recommendation method comprising: a meeting information transmission step to be transmitted to a user terminal device. The computer functions as a current position detection control unit that controls the current position detection unit so as to detect the current position of all users who are waiting.
Waiting candidates for detecting a plurality of waiting candidate locations as waiting candidates based on the current position and map information of all users detected by the current position detecting unit by causing the computer to function as the current position detecting control unit Let the computer function as a ground detection unit,
Causing the computer to function as a moving time detecting unit that detects the moving time required for moving from the current position to each of the waiting candidate sites for each user and for each of the waiting candidate sites,
A computer as a weighting processing unit that performs weighting processing according to the priority order of each user stored in the priority order storage unit for each travel time detected by causing the computer to function as the travel time detection unit. Make it work
For each of the waiting candidate locations detected by causing the computer to function as the waiting candidate location detection unit, the sum of the travel times of all users subjected to weighting processing by causing the computer to function as the weighting processing unit. Let the computer function as a total travel time calculation unit that calculates a certain total travel time,
Waiting candidate place display that displays at least information indicating the waiting candidate place on the display part in the order of the total moving time for each waiting candidate place calculated by causing the computer to function as the total moving time calculating part. The computer as a part,
Each of the waiting information indicating the waiting candidate site selected via the operation unit from the waiting candidate sites displayed on the display unit by causing the computer to function as the waiting candidate site display unit. Waiting place recommendation program that causes a computer to function as a waiting information transmission control unit that controls a transmitting unit to transmit to a user terminal device. A priority storage unit in which the priorities of all the users who are waiting are stored;
A current position detection unit for detecting the current position of all users who are waiting;
Based on the current position and map information of all users detected by the current position detection unit, a waiting candidate site detection unit that detects a plurality of waiting candidate sites as waiting candidates,
A travel time detection unit that detects a travel time required for travel from the current position to each of the waiting candidate sites detected by the waiting candidate site detection unit for each user and for each waiting candidate site; ,
A weighting processing unit that performs weighting processing according to the priority order of the user corresponding to each travel time for each travel time detected by the travel time detection unit;
A total travel time calculation unit that calculates a total travel time that is the sum of the travel times of all users weighted by the weighting processing unit, for each of the candidate meeting locations detected by the meeting candidate site detection unit. When,
A candidate meeting place display unit for displaying at least information indicating the candidate meeting place on the display part in order of decreasing the total moving time for each waiting candidate place calculated by the total moving time calculating unit;
Waiting information transmission for transmitting waiting information indicating a waiting candidate site selected via the operation unit from the waiting candidate sites displayed by the waiting candidate site display unit to the terminal device of each user performing the waiting. A mobile terminal device.

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