JP2006018511A - Communication terminal device and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication terminal device capable of supporting browsing of facility information so that received facility information can be used comfortably.
A mobile terminal device 1 transmits commuter pass information, a balance, and a terminal ID to an automatic ticket gate 2 when a user leaves the station. The automatic ticket checker 2 transmits the station ID indicating the station to the coupon distribution server 3 together with the terminal ID when the condition for the user to leave the station is satisfied. The server 3 transmits a coupon corresponding to the station ID via the mobile communication network 4 based on the terminal ID. The mobile terminal device 1 determines and displays the display order by paying attention to the information of the received coupon.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a communication terminal device capable of receiving service information indicating the contents of a service provided by a facility such as a store distributed via a communication network, and facility information having time information indicating a service provision period. About.

  Currently, communication networks represented by the Internet are widely used in society. As a result, in recent years, communication networks have been widely used for business. In facilities such as stores, facility information such as announcements and coupons is distributed to communication terminal devices, and many users are trying to secure users for the users. As conventional techniques for performing the distribution, for example, there are those described in Patent Documents 1 and 2, respectively.

  In order to use the facility, it is necessary to inform the contents of the service provided. If the facility actually exists (not like an electronic store), it is necessary to inform the location so that you can visit it. It is necessary to inform the business hours in order to avoid that the person who visited the facility cannot receive the service. In the coupon, it is necessary to inform the contents of the privilege (service) that can be received by the customer who presents the coupon and the validity period thereof. For this reason, the facility information usually includes various facility usage information corresponding to the facility.

  Browsing of facility information received by a communication terminal device has been conventionally performed according to a user instruction. As a result, the user browses the facility information and decides whether to use the facility that distributes the facility information.

The facility information to be browsed includes various facility usage information. For this reason, it may happen that information to be considered is overlooked. For this reason, it is considered that some people visit facilities on closed days, for example. With coupons, even if the expiration date has passed, some people may visit the facility to use it. As a result, any such person will not be able to receive at the facility that visited the desired service. For this reason, it is considered significant to support browsing of the facility information so that the facility urged to use the facility information can be used comfortably.
JP 2003-216081 A JP 2003-067615 A JP 2004-078674 A

  The subject of this invention is providing the communication terminal device which can support browsing of the facility information so that the received facility information can use the facility which encourages utilization comfortably.

  The communication terminal devices according to the first to third aspects of the present invention both show service information representing the contents of services provided by a facility such as a store distributed via a communication network, and the service provision period. On the premise that facility information having various facility usage information such as time information can be received, the following means are provided.

  The communication terminal device according to the first aspect includes a communication unit for transmitting and receiving information via a communication network, and a facility use information included in the facility information when the facility information received by the communication unit is displayed on the display unit. And an order determining means for determining the order in which the facility information is displayed, and a control means for causing the display means to display the facility information according to the order determined by the order determining means.

  In addition to the configuration of the first aspect, the communication terminal device according to the second aspect includes facility recognition information including position recognition means for recognizing the current position and facility position information indicating the position of the facility as facility use information. A moving time calculating means for calculating an expected moving time expected to be taken from the current position recognized by the position recognizing means to the position indicated by the facility position information. When the facility information having the facility location information is displayed on the display means, the current time, the expected travel time calculated by the travel time calculation means, and a warning based on the time information are displayed as necessary.

  The communication terminal device according to the third aspect communicates communication means for transmitting and receiving information via a communication network, position recognition means for recognizing the current position, and facility location information indicating the location of the facility as facility use information A travel time calculating means for calculating an expected travel time expected to travel from the current position recognized by the position recognition means to the position indicated by the facility position information when the facility information received by the means has; Control means for displaying the current time, the expected travel time calculated by the travel time calculation means, and a warning based on the time information as necessary when displaying the facility information having the facility position information on the display means; It comprises.

  The program according to the first and second aspects of the present invention is equipped with a function for realizing the means included in the communication terminal apparatus according to the first and third aspects.

  The present invention relates to facility information having various facility use information such as service information representing the contents of services provided by facilities such as stores and delivered through a communication network, and time information indicating the service provision period. When displaying, the order in which the facility information is displayed is determined and displayed based on the facility use information included in the facility information.

  By displaying the facility information in such an order, any person who browses the facility information will be emphasized. By emphasizing the information, oversight or misunderstanding of the emphasized information is surely avoided. As a result, since the person who browsed the facility information is supported to grasp the information more accurately, it is possible to comfortably use the facility that prompts the user to use the facility information. If the order of display is determined by paying attention to the information that is important to the person, the desired facility information can be browsed more quickly.

  In the present invention, when the facility information has facility position information indicating the position of the facility as the facility use information, the expected movement expected to be taken from the recognized current position to the position indicated by the facility position information The time is calculated, and the warning based on the current time, the expected travel time calculated by the travel time calculation means, and the time information is displayed as necessary, at least on the condition that the facility information having the facility location information is displayed. For this reason, the facility can be surely visited so that a desired service can be received.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a network system that can be used by a communication terminal device according to the present embodiment. The system is intended for users of portable terminal devices 1 that can communicate with the automatic ticket gate 2 and the mobile communication network 4 respectively. The automatic ticket gate 2, the mobile communication network 4, and its communication And a coupon distribution server 3 that transmits a coupon (electronic coupon) as facility information to the mobile terminal device 1 via the network 4.

  In FIG. 1, the communication terminal device according to the present embodiment is realized as a mobile terminal device (hereinafter abbreviated as “mobile terminal”) 1. The mobile terminal 1 is a mobile body such as a PHS or a mobile phone, for example, and performs communication for telephone or data transmission / reception via the mobile communication network 4. When a portable user uses the facility, communication is performed with the automatic ticket gate 2. Hereinafter, a typical station is assumed as a facility where the automatic ticket gate 2 is installed. A store is assumed as a facility that requested coupon distribution.

  FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of the mobile terminal 1. As shown in FIG. 2, the terminal 1 includes a CPU 11 that controls the entire terminal 1, a ROM 12 that stores programs executed by the CPU 11 and various data, a RAM 13 that the CPU 11 uses for work, and various operators. Input unit 14, display unit 15 used for displaying various information, communication unit 16 for performing communication via mobile communication network 4, non-contact IC chip 17 for performing non-contact communication, and notification sound And a voice output unit 18 for outputting voice of a telephone, a voice input unit 19 for inputting voice to be transmitted, and a GPS unit 20 for acquiring position information indicating the current position. Yes.

  The non-contact IC chip (hereinafter abbreviated as “IC chip”) 17 is used for non-contact communication with an IC card existing at a short distance or a card capable of communicating therewith. Communication with the automatic ticket gate 2 is performed using the IC chip 17.

  The automatic ticket gate 2 monitors and manages entry / exit of users who use facilities for getting on and off a transportation means such as a train. Although not specifically shown, one or more are installed for each facility. In addition to the commuter pass information indicating the commuter pass section and the validity period, and the balance that is the available amount, the mobile terminal 1 possessed by the user who uses the station, that is, who enters or leaves the terminal 1 The information etc. which can identify uniquely is received. Here, the information is referred to as “terminal ID”. Specifically, the terminal ID is, for example, a telephone number assigned to each mobile terminal 1 by a mobile communication company or a mail address that can be changed by the user.

  The commuter pass information and the balance are stored in, for example, the IC chip 17 or the RAM 13. The terminal ID is stored in the ROM 12 or the RAM 13. The transmission to the automatic ticket gate 2 is realized by the CPU 11 sending at least the terminal ID to the IC chip 17 and instructing the transmission.

  The coupon distribution server 3 accesses a coupon database (DB) 3a storing coupons requested to be distributed, and transmits it to the mobile terminal 1 held by the user who is going out of the station through the automatic ticket gate 2. Read and send the coupon to be sent. The transmission is performed via the mobile communication network 4 by using the terminal ID. The DB 3a is stored in an auxiliary storage device mounted on or connected to the server 3 or an auxiliary storage device accessible by an external device capable of communication. The coupon may be transmitted via the automatic ticket gate 2.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of the coupon DB 3a. In FIG. 3, “CP” in parentheses such as CP [1] indicates a coupon (data). Thereby, in FIG. 3, it represents that the coupon is stored in DB3a for CP_MAX in total.

  Each coupon has an identification ID attached thereto (indicated as “CP_ID” in the figure), an ID of a store that requested distribution of the coupon (indicated as “SP_ID” in the figure), and a genre of service provided by the store. ID (indicated as “JR_ID” in the figure), start date of coupon valid period (indicated as “S_DATE” in the figure), end date (indicated as “E_DATE” in the figure), and time zone in which the coupon is valid Start time (indicated as “S_TIME” in the figure), end time of the time zone (indicated as “E_TIME” in the figure), location information of the place where the store is located (indicated as “ADR” in the figure), and coupon display Image data (indicated as “PCT” in the figure).

  In a store where the use of coupons is always valid, the valid time zone coincides with the business hours. The mobile terminal 1 that has received the coupon stores the same data configuration as that in FIG.

  The coupon is transmitted to the portable terminal 1 for a user who is about to leave the station through the automatic ticket gate 2. This is because it seems that there is a high possibility of being in the station or in the vicinity thereof, so it is considered effective to distribute coupons that encourage the use of stores in the station or in the vicinity thereof. It is. In the present embodiment, the coupon distribution management data shown in FIG. 4 is prepared for accessing the server 3 so that the server 3 can transmit the coupon that is considered to be valid in a timely manner.

  In FIG. 4, “CPR” with parentheses such as CPR [1] indicates coupon distribution management data. Thereby, in FIG. 4, it represents that the coupon is stored in DB3a for CPR_MAX in total. This is because the management data is prepared for each station.

  Business hours vary from store to store. Coupons that encourage customers to visit stores that have been closed are less likely to be sent in a timely manner. For this reason, in the present embodiment, coupons to be distributed are made different according to time zones. In FIG. 4, “TZ” with parentheses such as TZ [1] represents coupon distribution management data for each time zone. Here, for convenience, it will be referred to as “time zone management data”. The coupon distribution management data is composed of a plurality of time zone management data.

  The management data by time zone includes the start time of the corresponding time zone (indicated as “S_TIME” in the figure), the end time of the time zone (indicated as “E_TIME” in the figure), and a coupon to be distributed in that time zone. And a coupon ID corresponding to the total number (indicated by “CP_N” in the figure).

  The coupon distribution server 3 receives information (station ID) uniquely indicating a station from the automatic ticket gate 2 in order to transmit the coupon to be transmitted to the mobile terminal 1 in a timely manner. Corresponding coupon distribution management data is specified from the received station ID, and management data by time zone corresponding to the current time is extracted from the management data. The coupon in which the coupon ID is stored in the management data by time zone extracted as described above is read from the coupon DB 3a and transmitted to the mobile terminal 1 specified by the terminal ID via the mobile communication network 4. In addition, you may make it transmit a coupon according to the position registration of the portable terminal 1 accompanying a user's movement.

  When receiving the coupon transmitted in this way, the mobile terminal 1 pays attention to the information constituting it and determines the display order and displays it on the display unit 15. For example, the coupons are displayed in the order of the end of the valid period of the coupon, in the order of the end of the valid time period, in the order of the end of the valid period, according to the genre of the store or in accordance with the rule selected by the user. The display is switched in accordance with, for example, a user operation on the input unit 14.

  By displaying the coupons in such an order, any of the information it has will be highlighted in its browsing. For example, if coupons are displayed in order from the end of the effective period, the effective period will be emphasized, and if coupons are displayed by genre, the genre will be emphasized. By emphasizing such information, oversight or misunderstanding of the emphasized information is surely avoided. As a result, since the person who browsed the coupon grasps the information more accurately, the store that promotes the use of the coupon can be comfortably used. In the case where the display order is determined by paying attention to the information that is important to the user, the user can quickly browse a desired coupon.

  By the way, even if you look at a coupon and want to visit a store, it usually takes some time to actually visit the store. Therefore, in the present embodiment, the travel time estimated to be required to travel from the current position detected by the GPS unit 20 to the location indicated by the store position information is calculated, and a warning that takes the travel time into consideration is required. It is made to display together according to. As a result, in situations where it is difficult to visit a store before the time when the coupon is valid, it is not recommended to visit the store so that the store where you visit can receive the desired service. To help.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing executed by the mobile terminal 1 and other devices (the automatic ticket gate 2 and the coupon distribution server 3) when the user participates. An example of the flow is shown by excerpting the processing executed from the passage of the automatic ticket gate 2 for participation until the user views the coupon transmitted by the passage. Hereinafter, operations of the mobile terminal 1 and other devices will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. The processing shown in the flowchart includes, for example, a program in which the mobile terminal 1 has the CPU 11 stored in the ROM 12, the automatic ticket gate 2 has the CPU stored in the flash memory, and the server 3 has the CPU stored in the hard disk device or the like. It is realized by executing each.

  The automatic ticket gate 2 performs communication with the portable terminal 1 by a reader / writer, for example. The reader / writer is always driven intermittently by being driven intermittently. The IC chip 17 mounted on the portable terminal 1 is activated by power generated by entering the communication area of the reader / writer, for example, and notifies the CPU 11. For this reason, when the user moves the portable terminal 1 to a designated place on the automatic ticket gate 2 for participation, communication is performed between them, and the portable terminal 1 uses the IC chip 17 to pass the commuter pass information and balance. And information such as the terminal ID are transmitted to the automatic ticket gate 2 (step SA1).

  The automatic ticket gate 2 that has received them determines whether or not the user (user of the mobile terminal 1) satisfies the conditions for participation, and if it determines that the conditions are satisfied, the terminal ID and the station ID are determined. Transmission is made to the coupon distribution server 3, and the terminal device 1 is notified of this (step SB1). When it is determined that the condition is not satisfied, a door (not shown) is closed, and a process for rejecting the user's passage is executed.

  The coupon distribution server 3 specifies coupon distribution management data corresponding to the station ID received from the automatic ticket checker 2, and management data classified by time zone corresponding to the current time from the management data ("reference data CPR [ST_TD in the figure"). ] .TZ [CTZ] "). The coupon in which the coupon ID is stored in the management data classified by time zone as described above is read from the coupon DB 3a and transmitted to the mobile terminal 1 specified from the received terminal ID via the mobile communication network 4 (and above). Step SB2).

  The portable terminal 1 that has been notified that it can participate from the automatic ticket gate 2 receives the coupon transmitted from the server 3 by the communication unit 16 as described above, and secures and stores an area for storage in the RAM 13 ( Step SA2). After the storage, as shown above, for example, the coupons are displayed in the order of the end of the valid period of the coupon, in the order of the end of the valid time period, in the order of the end of the valid time period, according to the genre of the store or in accordance with the rules selected by the user Sorting is performed so as to be performed (step SA3).

  After the sorting, 1 is substituted into the variable m (step SA4). In the subsequent step SA4, the coupon image data designated by the value of the variable m is read from the RAM 13 and displayed on the display unit 15. After the display, the process proceeds to step SA6 to determine whether or not the user has instructed navigation. If the user gives an instruction by operating the input unit 14, the determination is yes and the process proceeds to step SA7, and if not, the determination is no and the process proceeds to step SA10.

  In step SA7, an application program for navigation is read from, for example, the ROM 12 and activated, and position information indicating the current position is acquired by the GPS unit 20. From the acquired position information and the store position information of the coupon, a request for a display map is obtained by the communication unit 16, and the current position and the store location indicated by the store position information are displayed on the map. 15 is newly displayed, and the travel time expected to travel from the map to the store is calculated and substituted into the variable DT. After performing such a thing, it transfers to step SA8. The travel time is calculated by, for example, identifying the travel route to the store on the map, obtaining the distance, and dividing the obtained distance by the average walking speed.

  In step SA8, the time (time) obtained by adding the value of the variable DT (calculated travel time) to the current time indicated by “CT” in the figure is the end time (“CP [ m] .E_TIME "). If there is a high possibility that the store cannot be visited by the end time of the effective time zone even immediately toward the store, the determination is YES, and a step for displaying a warning to that effect on the display unit 15 in step SA9 is performed. Move to SA10. Otherwise, the determination is no and the process moves to step SA10 without displaying such a warning.

  In step SA10, it is determined whether display of the next coupon has been instructed. When the user gives an instruction by operating the input unit 14, the determination is YES, and after updating the value of the variable m in step SA11, the process returns to step SA5 to redisplay the coupon. Otherwise, the determination is no and the process returns to step SA6. The value of the variable m is updated cyclically so that the value does not exceed the total number of coupons (CP_MAX in FIG. 3).

  In this way, in this embodiment, if a map is displayed after displaying a coupon, is it possible to come to the store by the end time of the effective time zone by immediately heading to the store that requested distribution of the coupon? It is determined whether or not, and the determination result is displayed in the form of a warning if necessary. It is considered that the reason that the warning is displayed in such a procedure is very likely that the person who displayed the map has a willingness to visit the store compared to the person who displayed only the coupon. Because. By targeting only people who are likely to have a willingness to visit, the cost of power consumption and data communication is further reduced. Depending on the display of the coupon, the warning may be displayed together as necessary or at different display timings. When doing so, the estimated travel time may be calculated for each store, and the order in which the coupons are sorted, that is, displayed, may be determined by paying attention to the travel time.

  The display of the coupon and the end of the display are actually performed according to a user instruction. Erase of received coupons, selection of items to be displayed among received coupons, and the like are also performed according to user instructions. However, the processing to be executed in accordance with these instructions is not particularly important and is omitted here.

  In this embodiment, the sorting of coupons is performed by focusing on one piece of information (facility usage information). However, the sorting may be performed by focusing on a plurality of pieces of information. The evaluation of the meaning of information may be determined as appropriate. The application of the present invention to a communication terminal device can be widely applied to devices capable of data communication via a communication network.

  A program for realizing the communication terminal device (mobile terminal 1) as described above may be distributed by being recorded on a recording medium such as a CD-ROM, a DVD, or a removable flash memory. Part or all of the program may be distributed via a communication network such as the mobile communication network 4 or the public network. In such a case, the present invention can be applied to an existing communication device by acquiring and loading a program. Therefore, the recording medium may be accessible by a device that distributes the program.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the network system which can use the communication terminal device by this Embodiment. It is a block diagram of the portable terminal device implement | achieved as a communication terminal device by this Embodiment. It is a figure explaining the structure of a coupon database. It is a figure explaining the structure of coupon delivery management data. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the process which the portable terminal 1 and another apparatus perform when a user participates.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Portable terminal device 2 Automatic ticket gate 3 Coupon delivery server 3a Coupon database 4 Mobile communication network 11 CPU
12 ROM
13 RAM
14 Input unit 15 Display unit 16 Communication unit 17 Non-contact IC chip 20 GPS unit

Claims (5)

Communication capable of receiving facility information having various facility usage information such as service information representing the contents of services provided by facilities such as stores and time information indicating the service provision period, distributed via a communication network In the terminal device,
A communication means for transmitting and receiving information via the communication network;
Order display means for determining the order in which the facility information is displayed based on the facility use information of the facility information when the facility information received by the communication means is displayed on the display means;
Control means for displaying the facility information on the display means according to the order determined by the order determination means;
A communication terminal apparatus comprising: Position recognition means for recognizing the current position;
If the facility information includes facility location information indicating the location of the facility as the facility usage information, it is expected that the location recognition unit will move from the current location recognized by the location recognition means to the location indicated by the facility location information. A travel time calculating means for calculating a predicted travel time.
The control means needs a warning based on the current time, the estimated travel time calculated by the travel time calculation means, and the time information when displaying the facility information having the facility location information on the display means. Display accordingly
The communication terminal device according to claim 1. Communication capable of receiving facility information having various facility usage information such as service information representing the contents of services provided by facilities such as stores and time information indicating the service provision period, distributed via a communication network In the terminal device,
A communication means for transmitting and receiving information via the communication network;
Position recognition means for recognizing the current position;
From the current position recognized by the position recognition means to the position indicated by the facility position information when the facility information received by the communication means has facility position information indicating the position of the facility as the facility use information A travel time calculating means for calculating an expected travel time expected to be moved,
Control means for displaying the current time, the expected travel time calculated by the travel time calculation means, and a warning based on the time information as necessary when displaying the facility information having the facility location information on the display means When,
A communication terminal apparatus comprising: Communication capable of receiving facility information having various facility usage information such as service information representing the contents of services provided by facilities such as stores and time information indicating the service provision period, distributed via a communication network A program to be executed by a terminal device,
A function for transmitting and receiving information via the communication network;
A function for determining the order in which the facility information is displayed based on the facility use information included in the facility information when displaying the facility information received by the function for performing the transmission and reception;
A function of displaying the facility information on the display means according to the order determined by the function to be determined;
A program to realize Communication capable of receiving facility information having various facility usage information such as service information representing the contents of services provided by facilities such as stores and time information indicating the service provision period, distributed via a communication network A program to be executed by a terminal device,
A function for transmitting and receiving information via the communication network;
A function to recognize the current position,
When the facility information received by the function for performing transmission / reception has facility location information indicating the location of the facility as the facility usage information, the facility location information is determined from the current location recognized by the recognition function. A function to calculate the estimated travel time expected to travel to the indicated position,
A function for displaying the current time, the expected travel time calculated by the travel time calculation means, and a warning based on the time information as necessary when displaying the facility information having the facility location information on a display means; ,
A program to realize

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