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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2000
Kunihiro Yamada, Okazaki, JP;
Toru Ezaki, Tokyo, JP;
Other;
Abstract
A guidance system using a telephone number and other information on a subscriber of that telephone number so as to be input and checked, whereby, retrieval and guidance by inputting the telephone number is properly performed. The system has a memory for storing specific information for specifying at least a telephone number and a subscriber and information on a point of the subscriber, an input device means for inputting the specific information for specifying the telephone number and subscriber, a retrieval mechanism for retrieving information on the point of the subscriber on the basis of the telephone number input by input means or specific information for specifying the subscriber, an output controller for controlling an output of information on the point of the subscriber retrieved by retrieval means on the basis of the inputs of the telephone number and the specific information for specifying the subscriber, wherein information is retrieved for a point of the subscriber of the hit telephone number by inputting a telephone number and according to classification of the subscriber whether the subscriber is a private subscriber, a facility, or an entrepreneur of firm, shop or the like. The invention further controls an output of personal information on a condition that a name of the subscriber is input when the subscriber is a private subscriber.