JP2021072508A - Mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide information at appropriate timing by utilizing a sensing function of a mobile communication terminal such as a smartphone.SOLUTION: A user terminal 100 acquires state information indicating a situation in which both or one of its own terminal and a user is placed with a built-in sensor and displays electronic information associated in advance with a provision condition when the provision condition is met regarding the acquired state information. For example, when high-speed movement is detected in the morning, the user terminal 100 may determine that a user is commuting by railway and display news on a screen.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

The present invention relates to a technique for controlling the timing of providing electronic information in a portable communication terminal.

With the spread of smartphones, users can access the Internet anytime, anywhere. On the other hand, there is a bias in the time zone when users access the Internet. For example, on weekdays, it is said that there are many accesses around 7 o'clock (commuting time), around 12 o'clock (lunch time), and around 22:00 (returning time). In addition, the access time zone varies depending on the age group of the user.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2013-257837 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2011-253510

Whether or not the information provided on the Internet is actually seen by the user depends not only on the content of the information but also on the timing of providing the information. In particular, in the case of information with high breaking news or information provided by a push method, the information transmission effect is greatly affected by whether or not the user is in a situation where the information can be received.

One method is to grasp the user's schedule in advance and control the timing at which information should be provided according to the schedule. However, the user does not always act according to the schedule, and such a method is not effective.

The present invention is an invention completed based on the above-mentioned problem recognition, and its main purpose is a technique for providing information at an appropriate timing by utilizing a sensing function of a portable communication terminal such as a smartphone. Is to provide.

In a portable communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, a state acquisition unit that acquires state information indicating a situation in which both or one of the own terminal and the user is placed by a built-in sensor, and a predetermined state information regarding the acquired state information. It is provided with an information display unit that displays electronic information associated with the provision conditions in advance when the provision conditions are satisfied.

According to the present invention, it becomes easy to provide information to a user at an appropriate timing.

It is a schematic diagram for demonstrating the information provision method in this Embodiment. It is a hardware configuration diagram of an automatic information providing system. It is a functional block diagram of the user terminal which installed the concierge function. It is a data structure diagram of the provision condition information. It is a flowchart which shows the automatic display processing of electronic information. It is a screen view of the information provision screen. It is a data structure diagram of response condition information.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram for explaining the information providing method in the present embodiment.
In FIG. 1, first, the lifestyle proposed by the present invention will be outlined, and a specific realization method will be described in relation to FIGS. 2 and later.

The user shown in FIG. 1 is a general female living with a smartphone (user terminal 100). This user gets on the train around 8 o'clock in the morning and heads for the office. During the commuting time, the user terminal 100 automatically displays a news article on the screen. Although the details will be described later, the user terminal 100 collectively downloads today's news from various websites (servers) before commuting. The user terminal 100 displays the accumulated news articles on the screen during the commuting time. Users read news articles carefully on the commuter train.

Users always buy lunch boxes around 12:30 and eat them at the office. The user terminal 100 displays tourist information of Kyoto on the screen during lunch break. The user has set in advance that the user terminal 100 wants information on sightseeing in Kyoto, and the user terminal 100 visits various websites and collects information on sightseeing in Kyoto before lunch break. .. The tourist information may be an individual article provided by a weblog or the like, or may be an advertisement provided by a travel agency.

The user goes home from the office around 19:00. At this time, the user terminal 100 displays an English text. The user studies English on the return train. Around 22:00 before going to bed, the user terminal 100 automatically displays the fashion information requested by the user. The user checks the information on the clothes he / she is interested in while relaxing in the living room.

As described above, the user terminal 100 in the present embodiment automatically and appropriately displays various electronic information according to the lifestyle of the user. Hereinafter, a general method in which a user accesses a website to acquire electronic information and displays the electronic information is referred to as "manual display", and the electronic information acquired by the user terminal 100 by itself as in the present embodiment. Is called "automatic display" to automatically and appropriately display the information according to the user's life.

The user sets conditions for desired information (hereinafter referred to as "request conditions") such as "economic news" and "information about sightseeing in Kyoto" in the user terminal 100 in advance. The concierge software installed on the user terminal 100 (hereinafter, simply referred to as "concierge function") patrolls the Internet as background processing, collects and stores electronic information that meets the required conditions. For example, the concierge function may collect web pages related to sightseeing in Kyoto by setting the search words "Kyoto" and "sightseeing" to access an existing search engine. The user terminal 100 automatically displays the stored electronic information as appropriate.

FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration diagram of the automatic information providing system 300.
The automatic information providing system 300 in the present embodiment provides servers 200a, 200b ... 200n (hereinafter collectively referred to as "server 200") that provide various electronic information by means of a web page or the like, and the Internet 102 to the server 200. Includes a user terminal 100 connected via. A concierge function is installed in the user terminal 100. As the user terminal 100 (portable communication terminal), a smartphone is assumed. A plurality of companies (servicers) transmit various electronic information from a plurality of servers 200 (own site). The "electronic information" here may be any digital content such as text information, moving images, still images or audio images related to advertisements, comments, introductions, news and the like.

The user sets various request conditions for the concierge function of the user terminal 100. The concierge function of the user terminal 100 goes around each server 200 and downloads electronic information (hereinafter, electronic information acquired from the server 200 is referred to as "external electronic information") that meets the required conditions. For example, the user terminal 100 may collect external electronic information when connected to Wi-Fi (registered trademark).

FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of the user terminal 100 on which the concierge function is installed.
Each component of the user terminal 100 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a computing unit such as various coprocessors, a storage device such as a memory and a storage device, hardware including a wired or wireless communication line connecting them, and a storage device. It is realized by software that is stored and supplies processing commands to the arithmetic unit. A computer program may be composed of a device driver, an operating system, various application programs located on the upper layers thereof, and a library that provides common functions to these programs. Each block described below shows a block for each function, not a configuration for each hardware.

The user terminal 100 includes a state acquisition unit 110, a user interface processing unit 112, a communication unit 114, a data processing unit 116, and a data storage unit 118.
The state acquisition unit 110 acquires "state information" by various sensors built in the user terminal 100 or externally attached to the user terminal 100. The sensor may be a known sensor such as a GPS (Global Positioning System), an acceleration sensor, a gyro sensor (angle speed sensor), a camera, an optical sensor, a thermometer, and a sound collecting microphone. The status information is information indicating the situation where the user terminal 100 and the user are placed, such as the position of the user (user terminal 100), the moving speed, the type of application software running on the user terminal 100, the outside air temperature, and the time. It should be.

The user interface processing unit 112 accepts operations from the user via the touch panel, and is in charge of processing related to the user interface such as image display and audio output. The communication unit 114 is in charge of communication processing with the server 200 and another user terminal 100 via the Internet 102. The data storage unit 118 stores various data. The data processing unit 116 executes various processes based on the data acquired by the state acquisition unit 110, the user interface processing unit 112, and the communication unit 114, and the data stored in the data storage unit 118. The data processing unit 116 also functions as an interface for the state acquisition unit 110, the user interface processing unit 112, the communication unit 114, and the data storage unit 118.

The user interface processing unit 112 includes an input unit 120 that accepts input from the user and an output unit 122 that outputs various information such as images and sounds to the user.

The communication unit 114 includes a transmission unit 124 for transmitting data and a reception unit 126 for receiving data. The transmission unit 124 includes a response response unit 128. The receiving unit 126 receives an inquiry (hereinafter, referred to as "advance confirmation notification") as to whether or not it is okay to make a phone call from another user. The response response unit 128 returns a response (hereinafter, referred to as “response availability notification”) indicating whether or not it is in a state where it can respond to the prior confirmation notification. Details of the prior confirmation notification and the response availability notification will be described in detail in relation to FIG. 7.

The data storage unit 118 includes a content storage unit 140 (electronic information storage unit) and a setting storage unit 144.
The content storage unit 140 stores external electronic information and "internal electronic information". The internal electronic information is not the electronic information acquired from the external server 200, but the electronic information set or stored in the user terminal 100 by the user. As the internal electronic information, for example, a scheduled action (TODO), a captured image, voice information, and the like are assumed. In the present embodiment, scheduled actions (memorial information indicating what to do) will be described as a representative example of internal electronic information. When external electronic information and internal electronic information are not distinguished, they are simply called "electronic information". The setting storage unit 144 stores "providing condition information" indicating the timing of automatic display of electronic information and "response condition information" defining a state in which the telephone cannot be answered. The provision condition information will be described later in relation to FIG. 4, and the response condition information will be described later in relation to FIG. 7.

The data processing unit 116 includes a content selection unit 130, a condition setting unit 132, a scheduled action setting unit 134, a response determination unit 136, and a content collection unit 148.
The content collection unit 148 searches for and acquires external electronic information according to the requested conditions, and stores the external electronic information in the content storage unit 140. The content selection unit 130 selects external electronic information or internal electronic information to be automatically displayed, and instructs the output unit 122 to display the screen. The content selection unit 130 and the output unit 122 function as an "information display unit". The condition setting unit 132 sets or updates the provision condition information (see FIG. 4) and the response condition information (see FIG. 7) according to the setting input from the user. Further, the condition setting unit 132 sets various requested conditions according to an instruction from the user. When the response determination unit 136 receives the prior confirmation notification, the response determination unit 136 determines whether or not the response is possible according to the response condition information. The response / response unit 128 causes the response / rejection notification indicating the determination result to be transmitted.

FIG. 4 is a data structure diagram of the provision condition information 150.
The provision condition information 150 is stored in the setting storage unit 144. The provision condition information 150 defines a condition for automatically displaying various electronic information (external electronic information and internal electronic information) (hereinafter referred to as “providing condition”) and a type of electronic information to be automatically displayed. According to FIG. 4, in the early morning time zone from 6:00 to 6:30, when the user is at rest at home, the provision condition of ID = C1 (hereinafter referred to as “providing condition (C1)”). ) Is established. Scheduled action A1 is associated with the provision condition (C1). Scheduled action A1 is information indicating "what to do" such as "cleaning the toilet of a domestic cat".

The content selection unit 130 automatically displays the scheduled action A1 of "cleaning the toilet of the domestic cat" when the provision condition (C1) is satisfied, that is, when the user is relaxing at home in the early morning. The time can be measured by the clock function of the user terminal 100. Further, the user's position information can be acquired by GPS as a part of the state information. The state acquisition unit 110 determines whether or not the user is stationary based on the gyro sensor. According to such a control method, the content selection unit 130 does not burden the user as much as possible when the user is stationary in a busy time in the early morning, in other words, when various tasks after waking up in the morning are completed. The scheduled action A1 can be reminded to the user.

Further, in the early morning time zone from 6:30 to 6:40, the provision condition (C2) is satisfied when the user is at rest at home. An "advertisement" is associated with the provision condition (C2). When the provision condition (C2) is satisfied, the content selection unit 130 selects one of the advertisements acquired as a kind of external electronic information and automatically displays the advertisement. The advertisement to be automatically displayed is pre-downloaded as external electronic information that meets the user's request conditions. In addition, the content collection unit 148 may select an advertisement to be acquired by applying a known technique in the targeting advertisement.

The provision condition (C3) is satisfied when the user is moving at a high speed in the time zone from 7:00 to 9:00, for example, at a speed of 30 km / h or more. The moving speed of the user can be estimated from the change of the position information (GPS information). "Advertisement" and "news" are associated with the provision condition (C3). When the provision condition (C3) is satisfied, the content selection unit 130 automatically displays an advertisement or news. The content selection unit 130 may automatically display advertisements and news in order, or may automatically display either one of them. The user's commuting time may not be constant. Since the provision condition (C3) is satisfied when the user actually moves at high speed in the time zone from 7:00 to 9:00, advertisements and news can be provided in a timely manner when the user is commuting by train.

The provision condition information 150 is initially set in advance. The user can freely set or change the provision condition information 150. The user sets a plurality of provision conditions and the type of electronic information for each provision condition according to his / her lifestyle. In FIG. 4, one or more of "advertisement", "scheduled action", and "news" is set as the type of electronic information for each provision condition. In addition to advertisements, scheduled actions, and news, the content selection unit 130 may automatically display various types of electronic information such as manga, novels, music of singers that users like, and videos.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an automatic display process of electronic information.
The process shown in FIG. 5 is repeatedly executed periodically, for example, at a frequency of about once per minute. The state acquisition unit 110 periodically acquires state information by a sensor mounted on the user terminal 100. The content selection unit 130 refers to the latest state information and determines whether or not any of the provision conditions defined in the provision condition information 150 is satisfied (S10).

If any of the provision conditions is satisfied (Y in S10), the content selection unit 130 selects the electronic information (content) to be displayed with reference to the provision condition information 150 (S12). The content selection unit 130 instructs the output unit 122 to automatically display the selected electronic information (S14), and the process returns to S10. If there is no provision condition that holds (N in S10), the process ends.

FIG. 6 is a screen view of the information providing screen 160.
When the provision condition is satisfied, the output unit 122 displays the butler 162. Butler 162 is a character that conveys various information to the user. The information window 164 shows all or a part of the electronic information selected by the content selection unit 130 as the lines of the butler 162. The information window 164 of FIG. 6 displays news about the domestic economy. When the user taps the information window 164, the output unit 122 displays the news on the entire screen. As described above, the content collecting unit 148 collects news in advance before the automatic display and stores it in the content storage unit 140. The content selection unit 130 automatically displays the acquired news when the provision condition is satisfied. Therefore, the user can see the news without any trouble even in a place where the communication environment is not good such as when passing through a tunnel.

FIG. 7 is a data structure diagram of the response condition information 170.
The response condition information 170 is stored in the setting storage unit 144. The response condition information 170 defines a condition when a user cannot answer a telephone call with another user (hereinafter, referred to as a “non-response condition”). First, assume a situation in which user P1 (speaker) wants to call user P2 (receiver). Normally, the user P1 does not know until the user P2 makes a call, that is, whether or not the user P2 can make a call. Therefore, the concierge function of the user terminal 100 of the user P1 (hereinafter referred to as "user terminal 100 (P1)") can be inquired by sending a prior confirmation notice to the concierge function of the user terminal 100 (P2). , Confirm in advance whether or not the user P2 is in a responsive state.

The user terminal 100 (P1) transmits a prior confirmation notice to the user terminal 100 (P2) according to an instruction from the user P1. The response determination unit 136 of the user terminal 100 (P2) refers to the response condition information 170 and determines whether or not any of the non-response conditions is satisfied.

As an example, it is assumed that a prior confirmation notice is transmitted from the user terminal 100 (P1) to the user terminal 100 (P2) at 23:00. In the time zone from 22:00 to 6:00, the unresponsive condition (R1) is satisfied. Therefore, the response determination unit 136 of the user terminal 100 (P2) instructs the response response unit 128 to transmit a response availability notification indicating that the response is not possible to the user terminal 100 (P1). When the output unit 122 of the user terminal 100 (P1) is notified that the response is not possible, the output unit 122 displays on the screen a mark indicating that it is not preferable to make a call to the user P2, for example, a cross mark. Therefore, the user P1 can determine whether or not the other party is inconvenienced before making a call by using the concierge function without bothering the user P2 (the person who is going to receive the call).

The response availability notification indicating that the response is not possible may include information indicating the time zone during which the call can be made. For example, the response response unit 128 may include in the response availability notification the information that the telephone can be called after 6:00 when the non-response condition (R1) is released. At this time, the output unit 122 of the user terminal 100 (P1) displays that it is not preferable to make a call now, but that the call can be made after 6:00 am the next day. This allows the user P1 to know when to call and not bother the user P2. In addition, the user P2 can easily suppress a call that takes an inconvenient time for himself / herself.

Similarly, when the user P2 is in the office during the time zone from 7:30 to 8:00, the unresponsive condition (R2) is satisfied. Further, when the user P2 is moving along the Yokosuka line at high speed, that is, when the user P2 is moving along the Yokosuka line, the unresponsive condition (R3) is satisfied. In addition to this, various conditions can be set as the unresponsive condition, such as while taking a bath (the position information of the user P2 is the bathroom) and while temporarily leaving.

The automatic information providing system 300 has been described above based on the embodiment.
According to the present embodiment, the content selection unit 130 automatically displays various electronic information when the provision condition is satisfied, in other words, at a timing when the user can easily accept the information. In particular, it is effective to automatically display the advertisement at a timing when it is easy for the user to read the advertisement in order to improve the advertising effect (improvement of viewing rate and application rate, etc.).

The content selection unit 130 can estimate the situation in which the user is actually placed with high accuracy based on various sensors mounted on the user terminal 100. The state acquisition unit 110 can accurately grasp where the user is and whether the user is moving by acquiring the position information by GPS. In addition, the state acquisition unit 110 can accurately grasp whether the user is moving on foot or by transportation such as a car or train, depending on the speed of change in position. In addition, if the gyro sensor detects the shaking of the user's body, it can be determined whether the user is walking, running, or moving by transportation. The user terminal 100 can accurately grasp a time zone in which information acceptance is high, such as during commuting, and automatically display electronic information at an appropriate timing. Even for busy users, there are times when information acceptability increases, such as during commuting and before going to bed. The information transmission effect can be enhanced by accurately capturing the timing at which the information acceptability is enhanced by the sensor and automatically displaying the electronic information without missing such a timing.

Further, the content selection unit 130 determines the success or failure of the provision condition based on the state information. The response determination unit 136 determines the success or failure of the unresponsive condition based on the state information. Since the user terminal 100 is equipped with a determination function, it is not necessary to send personal information such as state information to the Internet 102. It is easy to protect the user's personal information, and there is no need to ask the user for consent procedures related to the acquisition of personal information.

The content collection unit 148 collects external electronic information as appropriate and stores it in the content storage unit 140. Therefore, the user can read the external electronic information without worrying about the communication environment. When the communication environment is good, the content collection unit 148 may collect external electronic information based on the required conditions.

In addition, it is possible to remind the user of the planned action based on the state information, not only based on the time. For example, when the user comes near the supermarket during the time to return home, the content selection unit 130 may automatically display the scheduled action of "buying toilet paper and returning". Even if I have to buy toilet paper on my way home, I don't know when I'll be back home. According to the information providing method in the present embodiment, it is possible to prompt the user to perform a scheduled action at an appropriate timing in consideration of the user's position information.

In the present embodiment, when one user P1 wants to make a call to another user P2, it is possible to confirm in advance whether or not the user P2 is in a responsive situation. If the user P2 registers the unanswerable condition, the troublesomeness of receiving a call at an inappropriate time can be reduced. Some people can answer the phone even at midnight, while others cannot answer the phone in the morning. In particular, now that flextime is widespread, there are various times when people can answer the phone. When the user P2 on the receiving side defines the unresponsive condition, the user P1 can easily make a call at an appropriate timing according to the circumstances of the user P2.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment or modification, and the components can be modified and embodied within a range that does not deviate from the gist. Various inventions may be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of components disclosed in the above embodiments and modifications. In addition, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the above embodiments and modifications.

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In addition to the above, various modifications can be considered.

In the present embodiment, it has been described that the user terminal 100 collects external electronic information and automatically displays the electronic information when the provision condition is satisfied. As a modification, when the provision condition is satisfied, the content selection unit 130 of the user terminal 100 instructs the content collection unit 148 to acquire external electronic information of the type corresponding to the provision condition from the server 200, and automatically displays the external electronic information. You may let it. Even in such a control method, the user terminal 100 does not need to transmit the state information to the outside, so that the user's personal information can be protected.

The server 200 may have a concierge function instead of the user terminal 100. The user terminal 100 periodically acquires the state information and transmits the state information to the server 200. In this modification, the server 200 stores the provision condition information 150. The server 200 may include a content selection unit 130, and the content selection unit 130 of the server 200 may push and transmit external electronic information to the user terminal 100 based on the state information and the provision condition information 150.

The user terminal 100 in this embodiment has been described as being a smartphone. The user terminal 100 may also be a laptop computer, a tablet computer, or a wearable computer. In any case, the user terminal 100 (portable communication terminal) may be a device that is portable, has a communication function, and can acquire state information by various sensors.

Electronic information provided to users includes not only web pages such as advertisements, news, and weblogs, but also still images such as photographs and manga, moving images such as movies, music data, and computer games. Good.

When acquiring an advertisement, the content collection unit 148 may select an advertisement to be acquired based on the user's behavior history. For example, when the user performs an Internet search for "clothes" a predetermined number of times or more in a unit period, the content collection unit 148 may collect advertisements for clothes. The user may set "information about the bargain in Yokohama City" as a request condition. In this case, the content collection unit 148 may visit the web page of the department store in Yokohama City and download the information related to the bargain.

In the automatic display of advertisements, the content selection unit 130 may randomly select an advertisement to be displayed from a plurality of advertisements collected by the content collection unit 148.

Electronic information is classified from multiple perspectives. In FIG. 4, three types of advertisement, scheduled action, and news are illustrated. News may be further subdivided into "commentary articles" and "breaking news articles." In addition to this, electronic information may be classified based on a data format such as "moving image" and "text". Further, the time assumed for the user to read the electronic information (hereinafter, referred to as "assumed acceptance time") may be set for each electronic information. For example, when the electronic information is acquired, the content collecting unit 148 may set the assumed acceptance time based on the number of characters if the electronic information is text information and the playback time if the electronic information is a moving image or music.

The content collection unit 148 may classify the electronic information into "long-term information" in which the assumed reception time is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value and "short-term information" in which the assumed reception time is equal to or less than the threshold value. The content selection unit 130 may automatically display long-time information when there is time to spare, such as on a commuter train or before going to bed, and may automatically display short-time information during the gap time when staying in the office. In addition to this, it is classified into severe information such as editorial articles that impose a load on reading comprehension and mild information such as manga that does not impose a load on reading comprehension, and the content selection unit 130 selects either severe information or mild information according to the provision conditions. You may decide whether to display it automatically.

The user's preference (thinking tendency) may be searched for from the text posted by the user on the SNS (Social Networking Service). For example, when the user posts "I did a triathlon in Kyushu", the condition setting unit 132 may extract "Kyushu" and "triathlon" and automatically set these as request conditions. In this case, the content collection unit 148 may collect news and advertisements related to "Kyushu" and "triathlon" that the user may be interested in.

In the provision condition information 150, not only the provision condition for executing the automatic display of the electronic information but also the "unprovidable condition" for disabling the automatic display of the electronic information may be set. For example, the user may set a non-provision condition as "no advertising in the morning of May 8th". In this case, the content selection unit 130 does not automatically display the advertisement even when the provision condition of the advertisement is satisfied, when the non-provision condition is satisfied at the same time. According to such a control method, it is possible to meet the detailed needs of the user, such as "I am busy only in the morning of May 8th, so I do not want the advertisement to be automatically displayed" as described above.

When the user is on the phone, the unprovided condition may be satisfied. The state acquisition unit 110 may determine that the user is jogging or walking by the gyro sensor. At this time, the content selection unit 130 may determine that the unprovidable condition is satisfied. When the user is running a predetermined application software such as a web browser or a computer game, the provision disagreement condition may be satisfied.

The state acquisition unit 110 may acquire a wide variety of state information based on various sensors other than the above-mentioned sensors. The user terminal 100 may have a built-in optical sensor. The state acquisition unit 110 can detect that the cover of the user terminal 100 has been opened by the optical sensor. The provision condition may be satisfied when the optical sensor detects the light, and the advertisement may be displayed when the provision condition is satisfied. According to such a control method, the advertisement can be displayed when the user tries to use the user terminal 100, so that it is considered that the user can easily pay attention to the advertisement. Such provision conditions may be initialized in the provision condition information 150.

The provision condition may be satisfied when the radio wave intensity is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value. For example, when the Internet 102 cannot be accessed from the user terminal 100, the content selection unit 130 may automatically display various stored electronic information. Since the user cannot access the Internet 102, it is considered that the information acceptability for the electronic information to be automatically displayed is enhanced when the communication environment is poor.

As part of the provision conditions, additional conditions regarding time may be added when determining whether the vehicle is moving or stationary. For example, the state acquisition unit 110 may determine "rest" when the user has been in a rest state for 5 minutes or more. Further, when determining whether or not the user is moving by train, the state acquisition unit 110 determines that the user is "moving at high speed" when the duration of movement at a predetermined speed or higher is longer than a predetermined time. You may.

The user terminal 100 may acquire the user's physiological information, for example, blood pressure, pulse rate, body temperature, sweating, etc. as a part of the state information. In addition, it may be determined whether or not the user is talking with the microphone and whether or not the user is facing the user terminal 100 by the camera. Further, when the user terminal 100 has a built-in thermometer, the state acquisition unit 110 may acquire the temperature information as a part of the state information. For example, the provision condition is satisfied when the outside air temperature becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature in the evening, and when the provision condition is satisfied, the content selection unit 130 may display a beer advertisement. The electronic information automatically displayed by the content selection unit 130 does not have to be limited to the information requested by the user.

In the present embodiment, when the user P1 wants to make a call to the user P2, the user terminal 100 (P1) transmits a prior confirmation notice to the user terminal 100 (P2). The user terminal 100 (P1) may send a prior confirmation notice not only by telephone but also when sending a message or e-mail by SNS. The user terminal 100 (P2) returns a response availability notification to the user terminal 100 (P1). According to such a control method, the user P1 can easily predict whether or not the user P2 may reply to the message at an early stage.

Different unresponsive conditions may be set for each speaker. For example, the user P2 may set the user P1 as unanswerable for the telephone after 22:00 and another user P3 as unanswerable for the telephone after 20:00.

100 user terminal, 102 Internet, 110 status acquisition unit, 112 user interface processing unit, 114 communication unit, 116 data processing unit, 118 data storage unit, 120 input unit, 122 output unit, 124 transmitter unit, 126 receiver unit, 128 response Answer unit, 130 content selection unit, 132 condition setting unit, 134 scheduled action setting unit, 136 response judgment unit, 140 content storage unit, 144 setting storage unit, 148 content collection unit, 150 provision condition information, 160 information provision screen, 162 Butler, 164 information window, 170 response condition information, 200 servers, 300 automatic information providing system

Claims (5)

A state acquisition unit that uses the built-in sensor to acquire state information indicating the situation in which both or one of the terminal and the user is placed.
A portable communication terminal including an information display unit that displays electronic information associated with the provision conditions in advance when a predetermined provision condition is satisfied with respect to the acquired state information. A receiver that receives multiple types of electronic information from a server,
An electronic information storage unit that stores the received electronic information,
It is further equipped with a condition setting unit that associates the type of electronic information with each of a plurality of provision conditions according to the setting input from the user.
When any of the plurality of provision conditions is satisfied with respect to the acquired state information, the information display unit selects electronic information of a type preliminarily associated with the satisfied provision conditions from the accumulated electronic information. The portable communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the portable communication terminal is selected and displayed. It is further equipped with a scheduled action setting unit that associates location information and scheduled actions according to the setting input from the user.
The state acquisition unit acquires the position information of the own terminal as the state information, and obtains the position information of the own terminal.
The portable communication terminal according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the information display unit displays the associated scheduled action when there is a scheduled action associated with the acquired position information. The state acquisition unit acquires the moving speed of the own terminal as the state information, and obtains the movement speed of the own terminal.
The information display unit according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the information display unit displays a predetermined electronic information on a screen when the acquired movement speed is within a predetermined range and is in a predetermined time zone. The described portable communication terminal. A response determination unit that determines whether or not a response is possible based on the acquired status information,
Any of claims 1 to 4, further comprising a response response unit that returns whether or not it is in a responseable state when receiving an inquiry notification regarding the availability of a call from another portable communication terminal. The portable communication terminal described in.

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