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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1998
Yukie Motomiya, Kokubunji, JP;
Hiroki Kitagawa, Foster City, CA (US);
Jun Furuya, Hachioji, JP;
Tsutomu Hatakeyama, Tachikawa, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system and a method for aiding in the use of a facility arranged to equip each visitor with a portable information storing unit is provided for registering several visitors as a group in the portable information storing unit such as an IC card. One visitor holding the portable information storing unit can grasp how another visitor of the group is moving about the facility and exchange a message with another visitor. Further, the facility provides access terminals for the portable information storing unit, on which the visitable unit facilities, the visiting history of each visitor, and a waiting time of each unit facility are displayed.