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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2014
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Matsuo, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information providing system includes the following elements. An IC card stores card ID. An information providing terminal reads out the card ID of the IC card, provides information to the IC card, and transmits the card ID and the information provided to the IC card or the ID of the provided information to a management server. The management server receives the card ID and the information provided to the IC card or the provided information ID from the information providing terminal, has a database to manage the card ID and the provided information such that the card ID is associated with the provided information, acquires the information provided to the IC card from the database in response to an information request from a client terminal, and supplies the provided information to the client terminal. The client terminal displays the provided information supplied from the management server.