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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2014
Yahoo Japan Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The information providing system according to the embodiment includes a wireless LAN access point and an information providing apparatus. The wireless LAN access point detects a wireless terminal existing in a wireless LAN communication area to transmit the detection information to the information providing apparatus. The information providing apparatus determines either the wireless LAN access point or a wireless WAN base station, on the basis of information on a user of a wireless terminal specified according to the detection information and/or the information on an installation location of the wireless LAN access point, as a communication medium that notifies the notification information.