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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2001
Yoshihide Ishiguro, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihide Ishiguro, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information delivery server and clients, which can deliver geographic information to a user based on a reaching possibility such as a physical distance or time from a place such as a location of the user or a place where the user had an interest, is provided. A user inputs his/her interested place information and a range condition at a place condition inputting means. A user managing means manages user IDs and identifies a user and attaches the user ID of the user to the inputted information, and stores them in a user interested place database. A map information retrieving means retrieves a map database under the conditions of the interested place information and the range condition storing in the user interested place database, and obtains information such as a list of building names, and place names, and so on within the range from the map database. A document database retrieving means retrieves a document database by making the obtained building names and place names as keywords, and obtains a document to be delivered to the user. And the obtained document is delivered to the user from a document informing means.