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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2015
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 11/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 11/00 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01); H04L 67/24 (2013.01); H04L 67/26 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is a need to effectively determine which users should be given priority for using a public service. A way of improving the public service can be to acquire information on congestion degree in use of the public service, to determine whether the congestion degree is higher than a specified level or not, and to transmit information that urges cease of the use of the public service being used to users who have higher utilization of the public service than other users among a plurality of users if the congestion degree is higher than the specified level.