JP5994389B2 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing program, and, for example, relates to a technique for providing a service using position information.

  In recent years, a movement to accumulate big data, that is, a large amount of data and try to use it for detection, prediction, grasping, etc. of an event has become active. This means storing and utilizing system logs, call logs, histories, etc. that have been discarded so far, due to technological developments such as search systems that can handle large volumes of data and large databases. This is because there is a possibility that it can be used for future management and new business.

  One type of big data is location information. Conventionally, there are various services that use location information obtained by GPS, etc., but these are mainly for navigation to destinations, etc., and services that accumulate location information and serve some purpose Almost never existed.

  In recent years, mobile terminals having a position information acquisition function using GPS or the like, such as smartphones, have become widespread, but generally, these mobile terminals do not regularly acquire and store position information. The user or the like cannot retrospectively refer to the location information at a specific time in the past.

  When referring to past location information, one method is to identify the base station used by the mobile terminal based on the call history held by the mobile phone company and obtain the location information. However, it has been virtually impossible to implement such a method as an individual. Further, the position information obtained by such a method is rough, and it is impossible to know position information with high accuracy. For this reason, services that use the user's location information history and the user's behavior patterns extracted from them have hardly been provided so far.

  However, with the development of infrastructure that can handle a large amount of data, in the future, many people will be able to automatically acquire and store their location information, and it will be possible to provide various services based on the accumulated location information. It is considered to be.

  For example, in Patent Documents 1 and 2, an abnormal situation or the like has occurred in the search target person based on the current position information of the search target person, the accumulated data of the past position information of the search target person, and the notification determination condition. A system for determining and notifying is described.

  Further, Patent Document 3 discloses a system for predicting a user's movement route based on the user's current position information and historical data of the user's past position information, and searching and presenting information on the movement route. Is described.

  Patent Document 4 describes a system for selecting and presenting a document that is likely to be of great interest to the user based on the user's behavior history.

JP 2010-067169 A JP 2004-032575 A JP 2008-210244 A JP 2004-272355 A

  However, these patent documents accumulate the user's location information history for a long period of time, estimate the user's lifestyle based on the history, and adapt to services based on the lifestyle, for example, the user's needs It does not disclose a specific method for providing a flexible search service.

  The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and an object thereof is to provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing program that can provide a service utilizing position information.

  An information processing system according to the present invention includes a collection server that collects a first action pattern including a plurality of action specifying elements, a database server that stores one or more second action patterns including a plurality of action specifying elements, The difference between the first behavior pattern and each of the second behavior patterns is determined based on the degree of overlap of the behavior specifying elements, and the first behavior pattern is different from any of the second behavior patterns. When it determines, it comprises a search server that accumulates the first behavior pattern in the database server as the second behavior pattern.

  An information processing method according to the present invention includes a collection step of collecting a first action pattern including a plurality of action specifying elements, the first action pattern, and a plurality of action specifying elements accumulated in one or more databases. When the difference between each of the second behavior patterns is determined based on the degree of overlap of the behavior specifying elements, and when it is determined that the first behavior pattern is different from any of the second behavior patterns, And an accumulation step of accumulating one action pattern in the database as the second action pattern.

  An information processing program according to the present invention includes a collection step of collecting a first behavior pattern including a plurality of behavior specifying elements in a computer, a plurality of behaviors accumulated in the database at least one of the first behavior pattern and the database. When the difference between each of the second action patterns including the specific element is determined based on the degree of overlap of the action specific elements, and the first action pattern is determined to be different from any of the second action patterns And an accumulation step of accumulating the first behavior pattern in the database as the second behavior pattern.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing program that can provide a service utilizing position information.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the information processing apparatus 100 of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the information processing apparatus 100 of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the collection server 4 and the database server 5 of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the search server 6 and the database server 5 of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows operation | movement of the collection server 4 of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the positional infomation history table 501 of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows operation | movement of the search server 6 of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the action pattern table 504 of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows operation | movement of the search server 6 of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows operation | movement of the search server 6 of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows operation | movement of the search server 6 of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows operation | movement of the search server 6 of Embodiment 1 of this invention.

  Hereinafter, specific embodiments to which the present invention is applied will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

<Embodiment 1>
First, the outline of the configuration of the information processing system 100 according to the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

  The information processing system 100 includes a collection server 4, a database (DB) server 5, and a search server 6. The database server 5 is communicably connected to the collection server 4 and the search server 6.

  The collection server 4 collects a first behavior pattern including a plurality of behavior specifying elements. The database server 5 stores one or more second action patterns including a plurality of action specifying elements. The search server 6 determines the difference between the first action pattern and the second action pattern based on the degree of overlap of the action specifying elements, and the first action pattern is different from any of the second action patterns. If it is determined, the first behavior pattern is stored in the database server as the second behavior pattern.

  Next, a specific implementation example of the information processing system 100 will be described with reference to FIGS.

  First, FIG. 2 shows an example of connection with an external terminal or system when an information search service is provided using the information processing system 100.

  The GPS portable terminal 2 and the content server 8 are connected to the collection server 4 of the information processing system 100 via the network 3. A communication terminal 7 and a map search service 9 are connected to the search server 6 via the network 3.

  The network 3 is a communication network such as a fixed telephone network, a mobile phone network, and the Internet, and connects the above-described devices by wired or wireless communication.

  The GPS mobile terminal 2 is a mobile phone having a positioning function using, for example, GPS. The GPS portable terminal 2 calculates the position (latitude, longitude) of the terminal 2 based on the positioning information received from the plurality of GPS satellites 1 and provides the position information to the information processing system 100. The GPS mobile terminal 2 may further include a call function as a mobile phone, a network connection function to the Internet, an e-mail transmission / reception function, and a web access function by a browser.

  The content server 8 is an external system that provides the information processing system 100 with various information that is the basis of an information search service provided to the user by the information processing system 100. The information provided by the content server 8 may be, for example, a commercial facility such as a store, a public facility such as a hospital, location information such as an evacuation site at the time of a disaster, or weather or traffic information of a predetermined area. The content server 8 provides these information to the collection server 4.

  The communication terminal 7 is a terminal for using an information search service provided by the information processing system 100 and has a function of accessing the network 3. For example, the same terminal as the GPS portable terminal 2 may be used.

  The map search service 9 is an external system that provides the information processing system 100 with map information used in the information search service provided to the user by the information processing system 100. For example, it is a web service that is operated by a map company and provides map information in response to access from a browser or other software. Specifically, according to access using parameters such as latitude and longitude, it is possible to provide map information corresponding to the parameters, a straight-line distance between two points or a distance on the route, address text information, and the like. More specifically, a parameter indicating the longitude and latitude and the type of map to be provided is included in a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and transmitted to the map search service 9, so that a map of an area corresponding to the parameter, A map in which the locations of stores and hospitals included in the area are mapped can be provided to the search server 6.

  The collection server 4 collects position information from the GPS portable terminal 2 and various content data from the content server 8 and transfers them to the database server 5. A typical GPS portable terminal 2 periodically measures position information and notifies the collection server 4 of the position information each time it is measured. However, in this case, since there is a possibility that communication traffic increases, the GPS portable terminal 2 transmits a file in which a history of position information for a predetermined time, for example, one day is described, to the collection server every predetermined time. It is good as well.

  The configuration of the collection server 4 will be described with reference to FIG.

  The position information collection unit 401 collects, that is, receives, the position information transmitted from the GPS portable terminal 2.

  The position information conversion unit 402 shapes the collected position information into a predefined format in order to efficiently register it in the table of the database server 5.

  The data transfer unit 403 transfers the position information shaped by the position information conversion unit 402 to the position information history table 501 of the database server 5.

  The store / various facility information collection unit 404 and the various event information collection unit 407 collect content data that is periodically or occasionally input from the content server 8 on the Internet, that is, store information, various facility information, event information, and the like.

  The store / various facility information conversion unit 405 and the various event information conversion unit 408 shape the collected content data into a predefined format in order to efficiently register the collected content data in the table of the database server 5.

  The data transfer unit 406 and the data transfer unit 409 convert the content data shaped by the store / various facility information conversion unit 405 or the various event information conversion unit 408 into the store / various facility information table 502 or various event information table 503 of the database server 5. Forward to.

  Since the collection server 4 collects data from the plurality of GPS mobile terminals 2 and the content server 8, a large amount of data is handled. Therefore, the collection server 4 and the database server 5 may be configured by a plurality of units and perform load distribution.

  The search server 6 executes a search for data stored in the database server 5 in response to a search request issued by the service user using the communication terminal 7, and outputs the result to the communication terminal 7. To do. In the above search, the search server 6 includes the search condition input from the communication terminal 7, for example, a search by keyword, and the search result is included in the behavior pattern extracted from the history of position information collected from the GPS mobile terminal 2. It is possible to further narrow down the output to those suitable for the conditions to be met, for example, the area. The action pattern here is extracted from the history data of the position information as described above, but this extraction process can be executed as a batch process at a certain time of the day, for example. By the extraction process, the search server 6 can extract, as a plurality of behavior patterns, which area the GPS mobile terminal 2 is moving, for example, every day of the week or every hour. Using this behavior pattern, the search server 6 can select and output only a search result that matches the day of the week, time, and area included in the behavior pattern, for example, from search results obtained by keyword search. At the time of output, for example, the position of a store, facility, event, etc. included in the search result can be displayed on a map together with a route indicating the person's behavior pattern.

  The configuration of the search server 6 will be described with reference to FIG.

  When receiving the search request from the communication terminal 7, the control unit 602 causes the search unit 603 to execute a search based on the search condition included in the search request.

  The search unit 603 retrieves information on stores, various facilities, events, and the like of the database server 5 based on behavior patterns extracted from the history of position information of the GPS mobile terminal 2 in addition to keywords that are general search conditions. Search from the data stored in the tables 502 and 503.

  The behavior pattern extraction unit 601 extracts a behavior pattern based on the history data of the position information of the GPS mobile terminal 2. The behavior pattern extraction unit 601 typically extracts behavior patterns regularly every day. The behavior pattern extraction unit 601 acquires the history data of the location information of the GPS portable terminal 2 from the location information history table 501 of the database server 5 and analyzes in which area the terminal 2 was present for each day of the week and every hour. To do. If a new behavior pattern is found as a result of the analysis, the behavior pattern is stored in the behavior pattern table 504 of the database server 5 as a new behavior pattern. This behavior pattern is included in the search condition by the search unit 603 and is narrowed down by the search result area, so that the search server 6 can quickly provide the search result based on the user's lifestyle.

  The mail transmission unit 605 notifies the communication terminal 7 of a certain behavior pattern and an event related to the behavior pattern, for example, information such as traffic information and weather in the area included in the behavior pattern, by mail. In a conventional traffic information notification service or the like, a user has to receive a notification regarding an event that has occurred in a time zone that is not related to the user's behavior pattern. According to the user's behavior pattern, for example, it is possible to receive only a route that is used by the user and that occurs in a time zone in which the user uses the route.

  The map creation unit 604 generates a display when the search result by the search unit 603 is displayed on the map. For example, the obtained search results can be displayed on a map for each of several behavior patterns.

  Next, the operation of the information processing system 100 will be described.

  First, the operation of the collection server 4 will be described with reference to FIG.

  Step S11: The GPS portable terminal 2 periodically measures the position information of the terminal 2 and notifies the collection server 4 of it. The location information unit 401 of the collection server 4 receives this location information. In this example, since the GPS portable terminal 2 frequently accesses the collection server 4, the GPS portable terminal 2 holds the position information inside the terminal 2 for a certain period of time, and the above example It is also possible to send to the collection server 4 data that summarizes the history of position information, for example, data in a text format, etc., for a longer time interval, for example, once a day.

  Similarly, the store / various facility information collection unit 404 and the various event information collection unit 407 also collect content data from the content server 8.

  Step S12: In order to efficiently store the collected position information in the database, that is, the position information history table 501 of the database server, the position information conversion unit 402 needs to format the data into an appropriate format. Perform conversion.

  Similarly, the store / various facility information conversion unit 405 and the various event information collection unit 408 also shape content data collected from the content server 8 as necessary.

  FIG. 6 shows an example of the location information history table 501 of the database server 5. In this example, the position information history table 501 is composed of information indicating a telephone number as an identifier for uniquely identifying the GPS portable terminal 2, a time when the position is measured, and a latitude and longitude of the measured position.

  Step S13: The data transfer unit 403 transfers the appropriately shaped position information to the position information history table 501 of the data server 5. Here, when there is a large amount of data to be transferred, the overhead of data registration processing in the location information history table 501 in the database server 5 becomes high. Therefore, a plurality of pieces of position information are grouped in the data transfer unit 403, for example, for each GPS mobile terminal 2 (for example, grouped by a terminal identifier such as a telephone number included in the position information) or for each time zone. A function of performing registration processing once for each group can be provided.

  Similarly, the data transfer units 406 and 409 also transfer the appropriately shaped content data to the store / various facility information table 502 and the various event information table 503 of the data server 5.

  Next, a behavior pattern extraction process in the behavior pattern extraction unit 601 of the search server 6 will be described with reference to FIG. The behavior pattern extraction unit 601 periodically performs behavior pattern extraction processing. Here, the action pattern is information indicating in which area the GPS portable terminal 2 exists, for example, for each day of the week or for each time period. The behavior pattern is generated based on behavior identification elements included in the accumulated position information, for example, time, latitude, longitude, and the like. The behavior pattern is used to extract information with high needs based on the lifestyle of the user when the communication terminal 7 performs a search using the search server 6.

  Step S21: The behavior pattern extraction unit 601 collectively acquires a history of position information for a certain period for each identifier (phone number) of the GPS mobile terminal 2 from the position information history table 501 of the database server 5. In the present embodiment, since the behavior pattern extraction unit 601 performs the behavior pattern extraction process once a day, the behavior pattern extraction unit 601 acquires a history of position information for one day.

  Step S22: The behavior pattern extraction unit 601 analyzes in which area the GPS mobile terminal 2 was present in a predetermined time zone from the history of position information. The area here is defined based on, for example, a plurality of points (latitude, longitude) indicating a plurality of positions measured in a predetermined time zone. Specifically, a rectangle or circle including all these points can be used as the area. The area is represented by the coordinates of two vertices of the rectangle if it is a rectangle, and the center coordinates and parameters such as the radius if it is a circle.

  Step S23: The behavior pattern extraction unit 601 determines whether the area obtained in Step S22, that is, the area where the GPS portable terminal 2 is present for each time period is the same as the area in the same day of the week and the same time period in the past. judge. This determination is made by, for example, calculating the ratio of overlapping portions between the area obtained in step S22 and the area in the same day of the week and the same time zone, and the ratio is set to a predetermined threshold value. Judgment can be made based on whether or not the number is exceeded. Here, areas corresponding to past specific days of the week and time zones can be acquired from an action pattern table 504 of the database server 5 described later.

  Step S24: As a result of the determination in step S23, the area of the current day of the week and time zone (also referred to as the first action pattern) is any of the areas of the same day of the week and time of the past (also referred to as second action pattern). Otherwise, information indicating the current day of the week, time zone, and area (first action pattern) is stored in the action pattern table 504 of the database server 5 as a new action pattern (second action pattern). On the other hand, if both are the same, the current behavior pattern (first behavior pattern) is not stored in the behavior pattern table 504.

  In addition, when the upper limit of the number of action patterns that can be stored for a certain day of the week and time period is determined, if the number of patterns reaches the upper limit, the registered old date pattern or the same in step S23 It is good also as deleting in order from the pattern etc. with the less frequent determination.

  FIG. 8 shows an example of the behavior pattern table 504 of the database server 5. In this example, the action pattern table 504 includes a telephone number as an identifier of the GPS portable terminal 2, a pattern identifier, a day of the week, a time zone, an area, and a moving speed. Here, the area is indicated by the latitude and longitude of two points measured within the time zone. The moving speed is obtained by dividing the distance (moving distance) between these two points by the measurement time interval (moving time).

  Next, the operation of the process in which the communication terminal 7 refers to and obtains the position information history of the GPS portable terminal 2 stored in the database server 5 will be described with reference to FIG. Here, the user of the communication terminal 7 may be the user himself / herself of the GPS portable terminal 2 who wants to check his / her own action history, or may be a third person who wants to obtain the action history of another person. .

  Step S <b> 31: When accessing the search server 6, the communication terminal 7 performs user authentication for specifying the individual user using an authentication screen provided by the access control mechanism provided in the search server 6 or the communication Tamatsu 7. Here, the communication terminal 7 is, for example, a PC or a mobile terminal connected to the network 3.

  Step S32: The control unit 602 of the search server 6 receives a search request including a search condition from the communication terminal 7, analyzes the search condition, and passes it to the search unit 603. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the identifier and period of the GPS portable terminal 2 are specified as the search condition. The search unit 603 acquires from the position information history table 501 position information history data for a specified period of the specified GPS mobile terminal 2.

  Step S33: The control unit 602 passes the history data of the position information acquired in step S32 to the map creation unit 604. This position information includes latitude and longitude. The map creation unit 604 can acquire the map information obtained by superimposing the history of the position information on the map by passing the latitude and longitude information to the map search service 9 via the network 3, for example. The control unit 602 generates a screen including the map information acquired by the map creation unit 604 and outputs the screen as a search result to the communication terminal 7.

  If this function is used, for example, it is possible to acquire and display a large number of unspecified position information in a specific area in a certain time zone, and thus it is possible to provide various services. For example, when providing the location information to a commercial facility or public institution that wishes to conduct a traffic volume survey, no personally identifiable information (such as the identifier of the GPS portable terminal 2) is output. Information such as the gender and age of the user of the GPS portable terminal 2 is provided. As a result, it becomes possible to simply and in detail carry out the traffic volume survey that has been conducted manually by the facilities or institutions so far by simply specifying an arbitrary place and time. Until now, many people have used the counters to measure traffic volume in the past, but according to the present embodiment, data relating to traffic volume can be obtained simply by specifying the location and time from the communication terminal 7. In addition, it is also possible to obtain statistical information such as age and gender. Thereby, various users from a large-scale commercial facility to a privately managed store can use the history data of the location information for marketing and sales promotion. Further, a service provider that provides location information can also provide the information for a fee.

  Further, the location information related to a certain GPS portable terminal 2 may be permitted to be provided only to a predetermined user. As a result, for example, the parent can monitor the behavior of his / her child whether he / she goes to a cram school every day or whether he / she goes to a dangerous area.

  Furthermore, for a user having a predetermined privilege, by specifying conditions such as a specific time and place, a function for specifying an individual who meets the above conditions from a history of a large number of unspecified positions is provided. Can be provided. Thereby, for example, in response to a request from an administrative organization such as the police or a judicial organization, it can be used for criminal investigations such as searching for witnesses. Moreover, since the tendency of traffic at a specific time and place can be known from the history of position information, it can be used for patrol planning, for example, when patrol is performed at a time when traffic is low. In addition, local governments can make use of methods such as which places are less busy for streetlight installation and security camera installation planning. Alternatively, it is possible to find an area with a lot of traffic for the road width and use it for road expansion and sidewalk maintenance plans.

  In the case where the user browses the position information of another person as in the above example, the user's ID and password are linked to the information indicating the authority, and the authority is confirmed by a measure such as confirming the authority at the time of authentication or search. It is desirable to ensure.

  In addition, when the user of the communication terminal 7 is the user of the GPS portable terminal 2, it is desirable that the position information and the action pattern data can be edited and deleted by the intention of the user. However, since it is used for the above-mentioned investigations and investigations, necessary data can be automatically backed up to other tables and the like, and editing and deletion can be disabled. In this case, when performing a search for the above-described investigation or investigation, the search can be performed on the data in the other table.

  Next, an operation in which the search server 6 performs a search process in response to a search request using the behavior pattern as a search condition by the communication terminal 7 will be described with reference to FIG. In this case, the search server 6 narrows down the search target area based on the behavior pattern. According to this search process, for example, if the user wants to go to a cake shop on the way to work, in addition to the word “cake shop”, the day of the week and the time of the day at which the shop is stopped can be specified. It is possible to narrow down and search for stores near the commuting route according to past behavior patterns corresponding to.

  Step S41: The communication terminal 7 designates the URL of the search server 6 and displays the search screen of the search server 6. The user inputs, for example, a search keyword for searching for a store or a facility that the user wants to go to the search screen using the communication terminal 7. In the present embodiment, at this time, as a search option, the day of the week and the time zone scheduled for the user to go to the store or facility are also specified. Here, multiple days of the week and time zones can be specified.

  Step S42: The search unit 603 searches the behavior pattern table 504 for a behavior pattern corresponding to a day of the week and a time zone specified as a retrieval option. The search unit 603 passes one or more pieces of area information included in one or more action patterns included in the search result, in this embodiment, latitude and longitude to the control unit 602.

  Step S43: The control unit 602 searches the store / various facility information table 502 using the specified search keyword, and acquires the search result.

  Step S44: The control unit 602 extracts only the stores and facilities included in the area obtained in Step S42 from the stores and facilities acquired as search results in Step S43. When a plurality of areas are acquired in step S42, the above extraction is performed for each area.

  Step S45: The control unit 602 transmits the store and facility information extracted in step S44, for example, parameters such as the store or facility name, latitude, and longitude, to the map search service 9 via the map creation unit 604. The parameters can be transmitted as URL parameters, for example. The map creation unit 604 acquires map information whose search results are displayed on the map from the map search service 9.

  Step S46: The control unit 602 generates a screen that combines the map information obtained in step S45 and the store and facility information obtained for each area in step S43, and outputs the screen as a search result to the communication terminal 7. To do.

  FIG. 11 shows an example of a search result output screen. On the left side of the screen, the search result is displayed for each behavior pattern specified by the day of the week and the time zone specified as the search option. Further, when a plurality of areas are included in the action pattern in the designated time range, the search results are further classified for each area. Map information is displayed on the right side of the screen. In the present embodiment, among a plurality of behavior patterns displayed on the left side of the screen, information indicating a plurality of areas included in the behavior pattern selected by the user, and information indicating the positions of stores and facilities included in these areas Are displayed.

  Here, if these areas include an area that has only passed during movement by transportation or the like, it may be excluded from the search results. Whether or not the user is moving can be determined based on the speed information of the behavior pattern table 504 and the latitude and longitude of the area. For example, if the behavior pattern extraction unit 601 examines the behavior pattern table 601 at any time and finds a behavior pattern in which the speed information matches a predetermined condition and the area is on a route such as a railway, a general road, or a highway. For example, it is possible to determine that the action pattern is moving on a railway, a general road, an expressway, or the like, and a flag or the like indicating that fact can be stored in the action pattern table 504. The control unit 602 can determine whether or not the action pattern is being moved by some moving means by referring to the flag or the like. If it is found that the user cannot use a store or facility, such as when using a railroad or an expressway, the search result for that area can be excluded from the output target.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 12, when a predetermined event related to traffic information, weather information, or the like occurs in an area included in a predetermined action pattern, the mail transmission unit 605 notifies the alarm by e-mail or the like. The operation will be described. According to this process, if an event that has occurred may affect the user, the user can be notified by e-mail or the like. For example, when a train used for commuting is delayed due to an accident, or when a heavy rain warning is issued at a distant work location.

  Step S51: The various event information collection unit 407 collects event information such as traffic information and weather information from the content server 8 periodically or as needed. The control unit 602 acquires various event information by periodically referring to the various event information tables 503 via the search unit 603.

  Step S52: When new event information is acquired in step S51, the control unit 602 confirms the content, location, and time zone of the event information.

  Step S53: The control unit 602 searches the behavior pattern table 504 of the database server 5 for the GPS portable terminal 2 in which the behavior pattern corresponding to the time and place of the event information acquired in Step S52 is registered.

  Steps S54 to S55: As a result of the search in Step S53, the control unit 602 has registered that the event information related to the GPS portable terminal 2 should be notified to the corresponding GPS portable terminal 2 or in advance. Event information by email. For example, when the event information indicates that the train has stopped due to an accident, the control unit 602 detects the user currently using the train and the user who will use the train from the behavior pattern table 504, and transmits the mail. The unit 605 can notify the accident information by e-mail.

  In addition, when an event information indicating the occurrence of a disaster or the like is acquired by associating and holding an area and an evacuation place at the time of a disaster in a table or the like (not shown), it corresponds to the area included in the user's behavior pattern The evacuation place to be automatically extracted can be notified to the GPS portable terminal 2 or to the communication terminal 7 that has previously registered that event information related to the GPS portable terminal 2 should be notified. . Thereby, if the user confirms the GPS portable terminal 2 or the communication terminal 7, it becomes possible to immediately know where to evacuate when a natural disaster or the like occurs.

  According to the present embodiment, the location information of the GPS portable terminal 2 is collected by the collection server 4, accumulated by the database server 5, and the history of location information of specific or unspecified users is stored in the past by the search server 6. You can browse back to.

  Thereby, the user himself / herself of the GPS portable terminal 2 can look back on the action history for the purpose of paperwork later. In addition, a person who has been given special authority can specify a person who exists at a specific time and place. In addition, it is possible to grasp the tendency of traffic by time and place.

  In addition, according to the present embodiment, the information processing system 100 learns the behavior pattern generated from the history of past position information, and adds the behavior pattern to the search condition, so that the results narrowed down by the behavior pattern can be obtained. It is possible to output.

  Thereby, a search result suitable for the user's behavior pattern can be provided.

  Further, according to the present embodiment, when event information that matches a behavior pattern occurs, it is possible to automatically notify a user having that behavior pattern.

  Thereby, event information suitable for the user's behavior pattern can be provided in real time.

<Other embodiments>
It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.

  For example, the information collected by the collection server 4 is not limited to user location information, information about stores and facilities, event information, and the like, and may be various other contents. For example, sales information can be collected and automatically distributed to users who pass near stores based on behavior patterns. In addition, information on incidents and accidents can be collected from the police, and the information can be automatically distributed to users who pass near the site, thereby calling for crime prevention and accident prevention.

  Further, when the GPS portable terminal 2 registers the position information in the collection server 4, not only the position information but also a comment regarding an event or the like at that place, and a content such as a photo or a video may be stored. As a result, when the user refers to the history of his / her past location information, events, photos, videos, etc. at the location can be acquired from the map, and the present invention can be used as a diary or personal navigation. it can.

  In the above-described embodiment, the present invention has been mainly described as a hardware configuration. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and an arbitrary process is executed by a CPU (Central Processing Unit). Can also be realized. In this case, the computer program can be stored and provided to the computer using various types of non-transitory computer readable media. Non-transitory computer readable media include various types of tangible storage media. Examples of non-transitory computer-readable media include magnetic recording media (for example, flexible disks, magnetic tapes, hard disk drives), magneto-optical recording media (for example, magneto-optical disks), CD-ROMs (Read Only Memory), CD-Rs, CD-R / W, semiconductor memory (for example, mask ROM, PROM (Programmable ROM), EPROM (Erasable PROM), flash ROM, RAM (Random Access Memory)). The program may also be supplied to the computer by various types of transitory computer readable media. Examples of transitory computer readable media include electrical signals, optical signals, and electromagnetic waves. The temporary computer-readable medium can supply the program to the computer via a wired communication path such as an electric wire and an optical fiber, or a wireless communication path.

1 GPS satellite 2 GPS mobile terminal 2
3 Network 4 Collection Server 5 Database Server 6 Search Server 7 Communication Terminal 8 Content Server 9 Map Search Service 401 Location Information Collection Unit 402 Location Information Conversion Unit 403 Data Transfer Unit 404 Store / Various Facility Information Collection Unit 405 Store / Various Facility Information Conversion 406 Data transfer unit 407 Various event information collection unit 408 Various event information conversion unit 409 Data transfer unit 501 Location information history table 502 Store / various facility information table 503 Various event information table 504 Action pattern table 601 Action pattern extraction unit 602 Control unit 603 Search part 604 Map creation part 605 Mail transmission part

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A collection server for collecting a first behavior pattern including a plurality of behavior identification elements;
A database server that accumulates one or more second action patterns including a plurality of action specifying elements;
The difference between the first action pattern and the second action pattern is determined based on the degree of overlap of the action specifying elements, and the first action pattern is different from any of the second action patterns. A search server that stores the first behavior pattern in the database server as the second behavior pattern ,
The action specifying element includes position information and a measurement time of the position information,
The database server further includes:
Stores search target information associated with location information,
The search server further includes:
In response to an input of a search keyword and search auxiliary information that is at least one of the action specifying elements included in the second action pattern,
Extracting at least one second behavior pattern based on the search assistance information;
Perform a search for the search target information using the search keyword to obtain a search result,
The extracted second action pattern, wherein the second action pattern in which the position information included in the second action pattern and the speed information calculated based on the measurement time match a predetermined condition An information processing system that extracts and outputs information that conforms to the position information included in the information from the obtained search results . The search server
Wherein when the second behavior pattern is a plurality extracted, the information processing system of claim 1, wherein said search result, and outputs the sorted for each of the second behavior pattern. It said action specified elements, day of the week, time, time zone, the information processing system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein at least one of position information. The information processing system according to any one of claims 1 to 3 , wherein the behavior specifying element is generated by a terminal device and transmitted to the collection server. The information processing system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the first behavior pattern and the second behavior pattern further include identification information of a user or a terminal device. The database server further includes:
Storing the first behavior pattern;
The search server further includes:
According to at least one input of the identification information of the actions specified element,及BiToshi for user or the terminal device,
The information processing system according to claim 5 , wherein the first behavior pattern related to at least one of the behavior specifying element and the identification information is extracted and output as a search result. The search server
Authenticates the searcher who is making the input,
The information processing system according to claim 6 , wherein the search result is output only when the searcher has an authority to search for the behavior specifying element and the identification information. A collection step in which the collection server collects a first behavior pattern including a plurality of behavior identification elements;
The search server determines the difference between the first action pattern and each of the second action patterns including one or more action specifying elements accumulated in the database based on the degree of overlap of the action specifying elements. And when the first behavior pattern is determined to be different from any of the second behavior patterns, an accumulation step of accumulating the first behavior pattern in the database as the second behavior pattern ;
The search server, possess a search step of searching,
The action specifying element includes position information and a measurement time of the position information,
The database further includes:
Stores search target information associated with location information,
In the search step,
In response to an input of a search keyword and search auxiliary information that is at least one of the action specifying elements included in the second action pattern,
Extracting at least one second behavior pattern based on the search assistance information;
Perform a search for the search target information using the search keyword to obtain a search result,
The extracted second action pattern, wherein the second action pattern in which the position information included in the second action pattern and the speed information calculated based on the measurement time match a predetermined condition An information processing method for extracting information that matches the position information included in the extracted search results and outputting the extracted information. On the computer,
A collection step of collecting a first behavior pattern including a plurality of behavior identification elements;
Determining the difference between the first action pattern and each of the second action patterns including a plurality of action specifying elements accumulated in the database by one or more, based on the degree of overlap of the action specifying elements; An accumulation step of accumulating the first behavior pattern in the database as the second behavior pattern when it is determined that one behavior pattern is different from any of the second behavior patterns ;
And execute a search step to search ,
The action specifying element includes position information and a measurement time of the position information,
The database further includes:
Stores search target information associated with location information,
In the search step,
In response to an input of a search keyword and search auxiliary information that is at least one of the action specifying elements included in the second action pattern,
Extracting at least one second behavior pattern based on the search assistance information;
Perform a search for the search target information using the search keyword to obtain a search result,
The extracted second action pattern, wherein the second action pattern in which the position information included in the second action pattern and the speed information calculated based on the measurement time match a predetermined condition An information processing program that extracts and outputs information that matches the position information included in the file from the acquired search results .

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