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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2013
Interman Corporation, Kagoshima-shi, Kagoshima, JP;
Shigeki Uetabira, Kagoshima, JP;
INTERMAN Corporation, Kagoshima, JP;
Abstract
A user similarity provision method for providing mobile communication devices with information about common interests among first and second users of the mobile communication devices is described. The current position of each mobile communication device are periodically acquired in association with the current time and accumulated as a visited location history. The visited location history consists of location visited records each of which consists of a visited location and a visit time. Similar visited location records are extracted from the visited location histories of the first and second users to indicate common interests shared by them. The similar visited location records are then displayed on the mobile communication devices.