JP2013196024A - Matching service providing device and matching service providing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a matching service providing device which enables a user to actually take an opportunity for communications.SOLUTION: The matching service providing device capable of communicating with a plurality of terminal devices includes: a present location information acquisition unit which acquires information showing positions of the plurality of terminal devices from the respective terminal devices; a request information reception unit which receives, from a first terminal device out of the plurality of terminal devices, request information showing request contents including a time, a place, and the number of target persons; a user information storage unit in which identification information for individually identifying the plurality of terminal devices and attributes are stored in association with each other; an extraction unit which extracts terminal devices present within a transmission object range and corresponding to an attribute while changing the transmission object range on the basis of the place until the number of extracted terminal devices reaches the number of target persons; and a transmission unit which transmits the time and place included in the request information to the terminal devices extracted by the extraction unit.

Description

  The present invention relates to a matching service providing apparatus and a matching service providing method process for transmitting information to a terminal apparatus that meets conditions.

When a person who has the same taste is identified and extracted at a university campus, etc., and the service is called to the person, many people such as SNS (Social Networking Service) that searches for people with the same hobby on the Internet A network service is being used.
As a technique related to such SNS, there is a technique described in Patent Document 1, for example.

JP 2009-098964 A

However, in the above-described SNS or the like, its own information is disclosed to an unspecified number of users, and some users may not want such a disclosure method. In addition, there are services that can be accessed only by university officials, but they are limited to the use of bulletin boards, and it is difficult to provide information by specifying users, places, and times in real time.
Moreover, in patent document 1, it can search for the user of the same hobby and can communicate in the virtual space using an SNS site etc. However, when trying to communicate in reality as well as in virtual space, it is difficult for the technology of Patent Document 1 to find a user who can communicate in reality.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a matching service providing apparatus and a matching service providing method capable of obtaining an opportunity for actual communication.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, the present invention provides a matching service providing apparatus that can communicate with a plurality of terminal devices, and obtains information indicating the position of the terminal device from each of the plurality of terminal devices. The acquisition unit, the request information receiving unit that receives request information indicating the request content including the time, the location, and the target number of people from the first terminal device among the plurality of terminal devices, and the plurality of terminal devices are individually identified. A user information storage unit that stores identification information and attributes in association with each other, and a terminal device that exists in the transmission target range while changing the transmission target range based on the location until the number corresponds to the target number of people. An extraction unit that extracts a terminal device corresponding to the attribute of the first terminal device with reference to the user information storage unit, and the request information for the terminal device extracted by the extraction unit. And having a transmitting section that transmits the time and place that is included in.

  Further, the present invention provides the above-described matching service providing apparatus, wherein the participation number acquisition unit that acquires the number of users that can be aggregated among the users of the terminal device that has transmitted from the transmission unit, and the extraction unit includes the participation unit The transmission target range is expanded and extracted until the number acquired by the number acquisition unit reaches the target number.

  Further, the present invention provides the above-described matching service providing apparatus, wherein the extraction unit calculates a range that can be moved to the place by the time based on a current time, the time, and the place, A terminal device existing in the transmission target range within a range not exceeding the calculated range is extracted.

  Further, the present invention, in the above-described matching service providing device, has a contact prohibition information storage unit that stores information indicating a prohibition of communication and a location in association with each other, and the extraction unit is within the transmission target range, In addition, the terminal device is extracted from a place other than the contact prohibited place stored in the contact prohibited information storage unit.

  Further, the present invention is a matching service providing method in a matching service providing apparatus capable of communicating with a plurality of terminal devices, wherein information representing a position of the terminal device is acquired from each of the plurality of terminal devices, The request information indicating the request contents including the time, the place, and the target number of people is received from the first terminal device among the terminal devices, and the transmission target range is changed based on the place until the number corresponding to the target number of people is reached. On the other hand, a terminal device that exists in the transmission target range and that corresponds to the attribute of the first terminal device is stored in association with identification information and attributes that individually identify a plurality of terminal devices. Extracting with reference to the information storage unit, and transmitting the time and place included in the request information to the extracted terminal device.

  As described above, according to the present invention, the request information including the time, location, and target number of persons received from the request source terminal device is a terminal device that conforms to the attribute of the request source, and the location is the starting point. Information related to the request information is transmitted to the terminal devices existing in the area. This makes it possible to notify users who are related to attributes and close to the meeting place to gather at the time requested by the requester, so it is easy to find a user who can actually communicate. , You can call to gather.

It is a schematic block diagram which shows the structure of the matching service system 1 by one Embodiment of this invention. 2 is a schematic block diagram illustrating a configuration of a matching service providing apparatus 10. FIG. It is a figure showing an example of contact prohibition information. It is a figure showing an example of place name information. It is a figure showing an example of user information. 4 is a schematic block diagram showing functions of a terminal device 30. FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the terminal device 30. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the matching service providing apparatus 10. It is a figure explaining the case where call information is transmitted.

Hereinafter, a matching service system using a matching service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing a configuration of a matching service system 1 using a matching service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
In the matching service system 1, the matching service providing apparatus 10 is connected to the access point 20a and the access point 20b via the network 40 so as to be able to communicate with each other. In this embodiment, a case will be described in which a user who matches a condition is extracted from users belonging to a certain group and a call is made to that user. As a certain group, for example, a user having a common item such as a school such as a high school or a university, a company, or a local resident.

The matching service providing apparatus 10 communicates with each terminal apparatus 30 via the network 40 and the access point 20, and transmits and receives various information.
Each of the access points 20a and 20b has a function of communicating with a terminal existing in an area where the access points 20a and 20b can communicate. The case where two access points 20a and 20b are connected to the network 40 will be described, but may be one or three or more. In addition, the access point 20a and the access point 20b are described as the access point 20 when it is not necessary to distinguish between them.

  The terminal devices 30a, 30b, and 30c are devices that are carried by the user, such as a mobile phone or a smartphone. The terminal devices 30a, 30b, and 30c are described as the terminal device 30 when it is not necessary to distinguish between them. The terminal device 30 receives a function of communicating with the matching service providing device 10 via the access point 20, a function of receiving a GPS (Global Positioning System) signal and measuring its own position, and an IMES (Indoor Messaging System) signal. And the function of transmitting the current location information to the matching service providing apparatus 10 via the access point 20 and the network 40, and the like. The current location information is information including a measurement result obtained by measuring its own position by GPS or IMES and identification information of the terminal device 30 that performed the measurement.

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing the configuration of the matching service providing apparatus 10.
The current location information acquisition unit 101 acquires current location information transmitted from each terminal device 30 by receiving the current location information.
The request information receiving unit 102 receives request information representing request contents including the set time, the place, and the target number of persons from the first terminal device among the terminal devices 30.

The extracting unit 104 extracts terminal devices that exist in the transmission target range and correspond to attributes while changing the transmission target range based on the meeting place until the number according to the target number of people is reached. To do. The transmission target range is information indicating a physical range based on the meeting place, and is, for example, a range determined according to the distance from the meeting place as a starting point. For example, the transmission target range is an area having a meeting place as a starting point and a certain distance as a radius.
Further, the extraction unit 104 performs extraction by expanding the transmission target range until the number acquired by the participant number acquisition unit 106 reaches the target number of people.
Further, the extraction unit 104 calculates a range in which the user can move to the meeting place by the meeting time based on the current time and the time (meeting time) and the place (meeting place) included in the request information. The terminal device existing in the transmission target range within the range not exceeding the specified range is extracted.
Further, the extraction unit 104 extracts terminal devices that are within the transmission target range and exist in places other than the contact prohibited place stored in the contact prohibited information storage unit 107.

The communication unit 105 transmits call information including the time and place included in the request information to the terminal device 30 extracted by the extraction unit 104 via the network 40 and the access point 20.
The number-of-participants acquisition unit 106 acquires the number of users that can be aggregated among the users of the terminal device 30 that is the transmission destination transmitted from the communication unit 105. In this acquisition, for example, for the call information transmitted from the communication unit 105, response information that is information indicating whether or not to participate is acquired from the terminal device 30 via the communication unit 105, and the acquired response information Among them, it is obtained by counting the number of participants according to the answer information indicating the intention to participate.

The contact prohibition information storage unit 107 stores contact prohibition information in which information indicating contact prohibition is associated with a place.
The place name storage unit 108 stores place name information.
The user information storage unit 109 stores user information.
The control unit 110 controls each unit of the matching service providing apparatus 10.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of contact prohibition information stored in the contact prohibition information storage unit 107.
The contact prohibition information is associated with position information, a place name, time, and a contact prohibition flag. The position information is information representing a position, and represents a position corresponding to a measurement result measured using a GPS signal or an IMES signal. The place name is a name that indicates which place in the target area for which the matching service is provided by the matching service system 1. For example, in the case where the target area for providing the matching service is a school, it is a name that indicates which place in the school, such as classroom N1,... Entrance hall, gymnasium, library, etc. .

  The time is information representing the time for which contact is prohibited. Here, information specifying the time such as “all day”, “8:00 to 13:00” is stored. The communication prohibition flag is data of 0 or 1. When 0, it indicates that communication is not prohibited. When it is 1, it indicates that communication is prohibited. For example, the classroom N1 indicates that all-day communication is prohibited because the time is “all day” and the communication prohibition flag is “1”. In the classroom N3, “13:00 to 24:00” is set as the time, but since the contact prohibition flag is “0”, it indicates that the contact is not prohibited.

This communication prohibition flag can be rewritten by the administrator inputting it through the input device of the administrator terminal. For example, for the classroom N3, since the communication prohibition flag is 0, communication is not prohibited, but when the communication prohibition flag is rewritten to 1, communication is prohibited between 13:00 and 24:00. The term “contact” here refers to transmitting call information from the communication unit 105 to the terminal device 30.
Here, a case will be described in which it is determined whether or not to prohibit communication according to location and time. However, communication may be prohibited according to only one of location and time.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of place name information stored in the place name storage unit 108. The place name information is information in which position information and a place name are associated with each other. By associating the position information with the place name, the actual place name for the position represented by the position information can be specified.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of user information stored in the user information storage unit 109. In this figure, user information is information in which identification information, personal ID, attribute information, current position, and authority are associated with each other.
The personal ID is information for identifying a user individually. By associating the personal ID, the identification information, and the position information, it can be understood which user carries which terminal device 30 and which location. The identification information and personal ID are registered as a user in response to a request from the user when using the matching service provided by the matching service providing apparatus 10.

  In FIG. 3, the attribute information shows a case where hobby (1), hobby (2), age, and gender are used. Each time the current position information is received from the terminal device 30 by the current position information acquisition unit 101, the current position information is written as information on the current position corresponding to the identification information in the user information storage unit 109. It is. The authority is information indicating whether or not the user has the authority to transmit request information to other users using the matching service system. A user who does not have authority cannot receive request information from another terminal device 30, but can receive it.

FIG. 6 is a schematic block diagram illustrating functions of the terminal device 30.
The position measurement unit 301 measures its own position with a function capable of positioning either GPS or IMES. For example, when the user carrying the terminal device 30 is present outdoors and can receive GPS signals, the position measuring unit 301 measures the position by GPS, and the user carrying the terminal device 30 is indoors. If present and cannot measure position by GPS, but can measure position by IMES, measure position by IMES. Also, this position is detected at regular intervals.

The input unit 302 is, for example, a numeric keypad or a touch panel, and inputs various types of information according to user operations.
The request information generation unit 303 generates request information based on information on the gathering time, place, and target number of persons input from the input unit 302. For example, the request information is information such as “Trump in the refresh room at 15:00. Recruitment of 2 participants”.

The response information generation unit 304 generates response information indicating whether participation in the request information is possible according to the content input from the input unit 302. For example, the answer information is information such as “I will participate” or “I will not participate”.
The control unit 305 controls each unit of the terminal device 30.
The output unit 306 is, for example, a liquid crystal display device, a touch panel, or a speaker, and displays various types of information or outputs audio.

The communication unit 307 has a function of communicating with the matching service providing apparatus 10 via the access point 20. More specifically, the communication unit 307 displays the current location information including the measurement result obtained by measuring the position by the position measurement unit 301 and the identification information assigned to the communication unit 307 via the access point 20 and the network 40. Send to.
Further, the communication unit 307 transmits the current location information to the matching service providing apparatus 10 at a predetermined timing. For example, it may be transmitted at regular intervals, or may be transmitted when a measurement result measured at regular intervals by the position measurement unit 301 is obtained and it is detected that a predetermined distance has been moved.

Next, the operation of the above-described matching service system 1 will be described. FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the terminal device 30.
When the log-in request is input by the user from the input unit 302 and the ID and password are input, the control unit 305 of the terminal device 30 transmits the ID and password to the matching service providing device 10 through the communication unit 307. A login request is made (step S10). Then, the control unit 305 receives a response to the login request from the matching service providing apparatus 10 via the communication unit 307, and determines whether login is permitted (step S11). The control unit 305 terminates when login is not permitted, and instructs the position measurement unit 301 to perform position measurement when login is permitted.

  When the position measurement is instructed, the position measurement unit 301 starts measuring its own position by GPS or IMES. When this measurement is started, the position measurement unit 301 performs measurement at regular time intervals and outputs the measurement result to the communication unit 307 every time a measurement result is obtained. Thereby, until the terminal device 30 is logged out, position information is measured at regular intervals, and each time the current location information is transmitted from the communication unit 307 (step S12).

  Next, the control unit 305 detects whether or not request information has been input from the input unit 302 (step S13). When the request information is input from the input unit 302 by the user and the control unit 305 detects that the request information is input, the request information generation unit 303 displays the request information according to the content input from the input unit 302. It is generated (step S14), and the generated request information is transmitted to the matching service providing apparatus 10 by the communication unit 307 (step S15).

  Next, the control unit 305 determines whether or not the communication unit 307 has received a counting result, which is a result of counting the number of participants for the request information, from the matching service providing apparatus 10 (step S16). If received, the output result is output by the output unit 306 (step S17), and the process proceeds to step S13.

  On the other hand, when it is detected in step S13 that no request information has been input, the control unit 305 determines whether or not the call information is received from the matching service providing apparatus 10 by the communication unit 307 (step S18). When the call information is received, the control unit 305 outputs the received call information by the output unit 306 (step S19), and instructs the response information generation unit 304 to generate the response information.

  Upon receiving an instruction to generate response information, the response information generation unit 304 outputs a screen for prompting input of response information indicating “participate” or “not participate” to the output unit 306, from the user. Wait for input. Then, when an answer of “participate” or “do not participate” is input from the user via the input unit 302 (step S20), the answer information generation unit 304 displays the input answer and its own identification information. Is transmitted to the matching service providing apparatus 10 by the communication unit 307 (step S21).

  On the other hand, if the call information is not received in step S18, the control unit 305 determines whether or not a logout request is input from the user via the input unit 302 (step S22), and the logout request is received. If it is not input, the process proceeds to step S13, and if a logout request is input, logout processing is performed (step S23).

FIG. 8 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the matching service providing apparatus 10.
When receiving the login request from the terminal device 30, the control unit 110 performs processing for the login request (step S50). Here, the control unit 110 refers to the information associated with the ID and password for each user stored in the storage area in the matching service providing apparatus 10, and the stored ID and password are stored in the terminal device 30. It is determined whether or not the ID and the password transmitted from the password match, and if they match, the login is permitted, and if they do not match, the login is rejected.

  When the login is permitted, the control unit 110 transmits information indicating the login permission to the requesting terminal device 30, and starts the position information update process (step S51). Here, the control unit 110 receives the current location information by the current location information acquisition unit 101 every time the current location information is transmitted from each terminal device 30. Then, the control unit 110, based on the identification information stored in the user information storage unit 109 and the identification information included in the received current location information, corresponds to the current location information corresponding to the identification information stored in the user information storage unit 109. To the current location information of the received current location information.

  Next, the control unit 110 determines whether or not the request information receiving unit 102 has received the request information (step S52). If received, based on the identification information of the terminal device 30 that has transmitted the request information. Then, the user information storage unit 109 is referred to and it is determined whether or not the terminal device 30 has the authority to transmit the request information to another terminal device 30 (step S53). In the authority item corresponding to the identification information, the control unit 110 determines that there is an authority if “present”, and determines that there is no authority if “not present”. If the controller 110 determines that there is no authority, the controller 110 discards the request information and proceeds to step S52.

If it is determined that the user has authority, the extraction unit 104 extracts location information from the received request information (step S54), and sets the area within the radius R1 centered on the extracted location as a transmission range. (Step S55). Here, when the transmission range is set first, a radius R1 given in advance is used as an initial value.
Next, the extraction unit 104 refers to the user information storage unit 109 and extracts the user terminal device 30 that matches the request for the request information (step S56). Specifically, the extraction unit 104 reads attribute information corresponding to the identification information of the terminal device 30 that is the transmission source of the request information from the user information storage unit 109 and extracts a user that matches the attribute information from the user information storage unit 109. To do. Here, (a) a user whose attributes in all items of the attribute information match, (b) a user who matches any one or more items, (c) only a specific item (for example, only hobby (1)) Of the matching users, any one of (a) to (c) or two or more extraction rules can be extracted. This extraction rule may be determined in advance, or may be specified when the request information user transmits the request information or before the request information is transmitted.

  Then, the extraction unit 104 reads the current position of the terminal device 30 with the matching attribute information with reference to the user information storage unit 109, and extracts the terminal device 30 existing within the transmission range. Further, the extraction unit 104 reads out the location names corresponding to the extracted current positions of the terminal devices 30 with reference to the location name storage unit 108 (step S57). Then, the extraction unit 104 refers to the contact prohibition information storage unit 107, and for each of the read place names, if there is a place name whose contact prohibition flag indicates contact prohibition, a terminal device that exists within the transmission range 30, the terminal device 30 at the position corresponding to the place name is excluded (step S58), and the terminal device 30 to be transmitted is determined. Here, when the request information includes information indicating an emergency request, the extraction unit 104 does not exclude the transmission prohibition flag from the transmission target even if the contact prohibition flag is set. 30 is determined.

  When the terminal device 30 to be transmitted is determined, the control unit 110 transmits call information corresponding to the request information to the terminal device 30 to be transmitted via the communication unit 105 (step S59). When the response information is generated in the terminal device 30 that has received the call information and transmitted to the matching service providing device 10, the communication unit 105 receives the response information (step S60).

  When the answer information is received, the participant number acquisition unit 106 counts the number of answers indicating “participate” based on the received answer information, and determines whether or not the target number of persons included in the request information has been reached. (Step S61). When the target number of people has been reached, the control unit 110 transmits information indicating that the target number of people has been reached to the terminal device 30 that has transmitted the request information via the communication unit 105 (step S62). finish. On the other hand, if the target number has not been reached, the control unit 110 determines whether or not the elapsed time from the time when the request information is received has reached the time-out time (step S63), and the time-out time is reached. If it has arrived, information indicating that timeout has occurred is transmitted to the terminal device 30 that is the source of the request information (step S64), and the process is terminated. On the other hand, if the time for timeout has not been reached, the control unit 110 instructs the extraction unit 104 to reset the transmission range, and proceeds to step S55.

When receiving the transmission range reset instruction from the control unit 110, the extraction unit 104 resets the transmission range (step S65). That is, the extraction unit 104 expands the transmission range (increases the radius) from the previously set transmission range, and determines whether or not the expanded transmission range has reached the maximum range according to the request information ( In step S66), if not reached, the process proceeds to step S56, and the terminal device 30 suitable as a transmission target is extracted from the terminal devices 30 existing in the expanded transmission range. This maximum range may be determined in advance as the radius Rmax. Further, the extraction unit 104 calculates a range that can be moved to the location by the time represented by the request information based on the current time and the location and time included in the transmission information, and the calculated range May be used as the maximum range.
On the other hand, when the transmission range after expansion reaches the maximum range according to the request information, the extraction unit 104 ends the process.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a case where the matching service providing apparatus 10 transmits call information to the terminal apparatus 30 that is a transmission target.
Here, for example, a description will be given of a case where request information having the content “Trump in the refresh room at 15:00. Recruitment of 2 participants” is received from the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U01.

  If there is a request information transmission request from the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U01, the extraction unit 104 performs extraction according to the attribute. That is, for example, the extraction unit 104 reads the hobby (1) “watching baseball” and the hobby (2) “travel” of the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U01 from the user information storage unit 109, and reads “baseball watching”, “ The terminal device 30 in which “travel” is set as a hobby (1) or a hobby (2) is extracted. In the extraction according to this attribute, for example, it is assumed that the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U02, U04, U06, U07 is extracted. Then, from the extracted terminal devices 30, the terminal devices 30 existing in the transmission area R <b> 1 centering on the “refresh room” (destination 500) included in the request information are extracted. To do. Here, out of the terminal devices 30 whose identification information is U02, U04, U06, and U07, the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U02 is extracted.

  Next, after the reply information “participation” is obtained from the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U02, the participation number acquisition unit 106 counts the reply “participate” and obtains the count number 1. Since the target number of people in the request information is “2” and the count is “1”, the control unit 110 resets the transmission range. The extraction unit 104 changes (enlarges) the transmission range from the region R1 to the region R2, and extracts the terminal device 30 existing in the region R2 from the terminal devices 30 that match the attribute.

Here, since the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U02 and the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U04 are extracted, and the number of extracted terminal devices 30 has reached the target number of people, the extraction unit 104 determines that the identification information is The terminal device 30 that is U02 and the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U04 are extracted as terminal devices 30 that meet the conditions. Then, the extraction unit 104 determines whether the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U02 and the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U04 are in a place where communication prohibition is specified by the contact prohibition flag, and communication is prohibited. If not, the communication unit 105 transmits call information to the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U02 and the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U04.
Of the terminal device 30 with identification information U02 and the terminal device 30 with identification information U04, if there is a terminal device in a location where communication is prohibited by the contact prohibition flag, it is excluded as a transmission target and transmitted Expand the range and extract again.

  The control part 110 complete | finishes transmission of call information, when the reply of "joining" is obtained from the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U02 and the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U04. On the other hand, when receiving an answer “participate” from the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U02 and “do not participate” from the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U04, the extraction unit 104 enters the region R2. Since there is no terminal device 30 that has not answered whether participation is possible or not among the terminal devices 30 that meet the conditions, the transmission range is expanded to the region R3, and it is determined whether there is a terminal device 30 to be transmitted. To do. Also in this case, since there is no terminal device 30 to be transmitted, the extraction unit 104 expands the transmission range to the region R4 and determines whether the terminal device 30 to be transmitted exists. Here, since the terminal device 30 having the identification information U06 and U07 is extracted from the region R4 and the number of the terminal devices 30 has reached the target number of people (identification information U02, U06, and U07), the extraction unit 104 It is determined whether or not the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U06 and the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U07 are in a place where communication prohibition is designated. If the communication is not prohibited, the communication unit 105 transmits call information to the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U06 and U07.

  Here, among the terminal devices 30 having identification information U06 and U07, by selecting and transmitting the terminal device 30 whose attribute is high in similarity with the transmission source, the terminal devices 30 in a range not exceeding the target number of people are transmitted. You may make it transmit. For example, among the plurality of attributes, the priority of the attribute of the item of hobby (1) is set to be high, and the hobby (1) of the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U06 is “watching baseball”, When the hobby (1) of the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U07 is set as “drive”, the call information is transmitted to the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U06, and the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U06. If non-participating answer information is obtained or answer information is not obtained within a predetermined time, the call information may be transmitted to the terminal device 30 whose identification information is U07.

In the above-described embodiment, when the call information is transmitted again without reaching the target number of people, it is determined again whether there is a suitable terminal device 30 in the region R1 before expanding the transmission range. Of the terminal devices that meet the conditions in R1, (a) the number of terminal devices that have received request information but have not returned reply information, and (b) the number of terminal devices that have not yet received call information When the total number of terminal devices that have answered “participate” has reached the target number of people, the transmission target may be extracted from the region R1 without expanding the transmission range.
For example, in the case of (a), when calling information is transmitted again to a terminal device that has not yet returned reply information, the user can be prompted to input reply information. In the case of (b), as a terminal device that has not yet received the call information, for example, (f) a terminal device that has moved from outside the region R1 into the region R1 after the request information is transmitted; For terminal devices that have moved from a place where contact is prohibited by the prohibition flag to a place where contact is not prohibited, (g) terminal devices that are no longer in the time zone where contact is prohibited, etc. Call information can be sent.

  When the area is expanded from the area R1 to the area R2, etc., a suitable terminal apparatus may be extracted from the area R2 including the area R1, or a suitable terminal apparatus may be selected from the range of the area R2 excluding the area R1. It may be extracted.

  Note that, according to the above-described embodiment, based on the current time and the location and time included in the transmission information, the range that can be moved to the location by the time represented by the request information is calculated, and the calculation is performed. When the determined range is used as the maximum range, it is possible to prevent the call information from being transmitted to a user who is in a place that cannot reach the meeting place at the set time.

  In the above-described embodiment, request information is transmitted for emergency information even in a region where contact is prohibited by a contact prohibition flag. As a result, for example, information regarding an urgent event such as an earthquake or flood can be transmitted to the user.

  Further, the program for realizing the function of the matching service providing device 10 or the function of the terminal device 30 in FIG. 1 is recorded on a computer-readable recording medium, and the program recorded on the recording medium is read into a computer system. , The functions of the matching service providing device 10 and the terminal device 30 may be realized in the computer system. Here, the “computer system” includes an OS and hardware such as peripheral devices.

Further, the “computer system” includes a homepage providing environment (or display environment) if a WWW system is used.
The “computer-readable recording medium” refers to a storage device such as a flexible medium, a magneto-optical disk, a portable medium such as a ROM and a CD-ROM, and a hard disk incorporated in a computer system. Further, the “computer-readable recording medium” refers to a volatile memory (RAM) in a computer system that becomes a server or a client when a program is transmitted via a network such as the Internet or a communication line such as a telephone line. In addition, those holding programs for a certain period of time are also included. The program may be a program for realizing a part of the functions described above, and may be a program capable of realizing the functions described above in combination with a program already recorded in a computer system.

  The embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the specific configuration is not limited to this embodiment, and includes designs and the like that do not depart from the gist of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Matching service system 10 Matching service provision apparatus 30, 30a, 30b, 30c Terminal apparatus 101 Present location information acquisition part 102 Request information receiving part 104 Extraction part 105,307 Communication part 106 Participant acquisition part 107 Contact prohibition information storage part 108 Location name Storage unit 109 User information storage unit 110, 305 Control unit 301 Position measurement unit 302 Input unit 303 Request information generation unit 304 Answer information generation unit 306 Output unit

Claims (5)

A matching service providing device capable of communicating with a plurality of terminal devices,
From each of the plurality of terminal devices, a current location information acquisition unit that acquires information representing the position of the terminal device;
A request information receiving unit that receives request information representing request contents including time, place, and target number of persons from the first terminal device among the plurality of terminal devices;
A user information storage unit that stores identification information and attributes that individually identify the plurality of terminal devices in association with each other;
The terminal device corresponding to the attribute of the first terminal device is a terminal device that exists in the transmission target range while changing the transmission target range based on the place until the number according to the target number of people is reached. An extraction unit that extracts the user information by referring to the user information storage unit;
A transmission unit that transmits the time and place included in the request information to the terminal device extracted by the extraction unit;
An apparatus for providing a matching service, comprising: Participant number acquisition unit for acquiring the number of users that can be aggregated among the users of the terminal device that has transmitted from the transmission unit;
The matching service providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the extraction unit performs extraction by expanding the transmission target range until the number acquired by the participant number acquisition unit reaches the target number of people. The extraction unit calculates a range that can move to the location by the time based on the current time, the time, and the location, and sets the transmission target range within a range that does not exceed the calculated range. An existing terminal device is extracted. The matching service providing device according to claim 1, wherein the matching service providing device is extracted. A contact prohibition information storage unit for storing information indicating a prohibition of communication and a location in association with each other;
The extraction unit extracts a terminal device from a location other than the location where the communication is prohibited and stored in the communication prohibition information storage unit within the transmission target range. The matching service providing apparatus according to any one of the preceding claims. A matching service providing method in a matching service providing apparatus capable of communicating with a plurality of terminal devices,
Obtaining information representing the position of the terminal device from each of the plurality of terminal devices,
Receiving request information representing request contents including time, place, and target number of persons from the first terminal device among the plurality of terminal devices;
The terminal device corresponding to the attribute of the first terminal device is a terminal device that exists in the transmission target range while changing the transmission target range based on the place until the number according to the target number of people is reached. , Referring to a user information storage unit that stores identification information and attributes that individually identify a plurality of terminal devices in association with each other,
The matching service providing method, wherein the time and place included in the request information are transmitted to the extracted terminal device.

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