JP2010134762A - Information notification system, information notification method, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable an information provider located outside of a system to predict a user's destination from the current position, according to the user's previous positional information, and to notify the user of news, traffic information and event information related to the behavior predicted, without having to directly refer to the user's personal positional information. <P>SOLUTION: An information notification system includes: a behavior pattern generating device 11, which receives position information from a mobile terminal 2 and generates the behavior pattern of the mobile terminal 2, according to a history of the position information; a notification information/notification requirement managing device 12, which when the mobile terminal 2 meets predetermined requirements, receives notification information and notification requirements from an information provider 3 who is desirous of notifying the mobile terminal 2 of information and manages them; a behavior predicting device 13, which extracts candidates for the next point to which the mobile terminal 2 will move, from the behavior pattern information of the mobile terminal 2 generated by the behavior pattern generating device 11; and an information notifying device 14, which chooses a piece of notification information matching the candidate for the next point to move to, from the pieces of notification information managed by the notification information/notification requirement managing device 12 and notifies the mobile terminal 2 of the piece of notification information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information notification system, an information notification method, and a program.

  In recent years, with the widespread use of mobile phones with a GPS function and car navigation systems, an environment in which personal location information can be periodically acquired is being prepared. At present, the mainstream technology that uses location information uses only current location information such as route guidance and surrounding map display. However, technology development using location information has been promoted in the “Information Grand Voyage Project” that the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has been working on since 2007, and in 2008 Yahoo! Technology that provides convenience to users and operators using the history of location information, such as (Registered Trademark) publicizing the location information platform, is expected to develop rapidly.

  One example of technology using position information history is described in Patent Literature 1, Patent Literature 2, and Patent Literature 3, respectively. The technique described in Patent Document 1 predicts a traffic jam situation from position information acquired from a vehicle and a typical traffic pattern, and provides the traffic jam information to the vehicle. The technique described in Patent Literature 2 learns the behavior pattern of a search target user, and when a user takes a behavior different from a normal behavior pattern such as a trap or a lost child, the related person (guardian or the like) Notification is to be performed. The technique described in Patent Document 3 estimates a movement frequency model that outputs a movement frequency from position information.

Although the position information history is not used, Patent Document 4 predicts the position of the user portable terminal according to the movement plan input by the user, and transmits the content related to the movement position to the user portable terminal. It is described that it is distributed.
JP 2007-334404 A JP 2004-032575 A JP 2006-331340 A JP 2006-350735 A JP 2002-215668 A

  However, there are few related technologies on the premise of acquiring user's personal location information over a long period of time, and when predicting user's individual behavior, general behavior tendency according to user's profile etc. There were many things that added mass information. In addition, from the viewpoint of privacy information protection, it is difficult to provide a user's individual location information history to an operator outside the system. However, with related technologies, an information provider outside the system directly provides the user's individual location information history. The result of behavior prediction using the user's location information history cannot be used without reference.

  The present invention solves such a problem, predicts a destination from the current position based on the user's past position information, and the information provider outside the system does not directly refer to the user's individual position information. An object of the present invention is to provide an information notification system, an information notification method and a program capable of notifying news, traffic information, event information and the like related to the predicted behavior.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, a behavior pattern generation device that receives location information from a mobile terminal and generates behavior pattern information of the mobile terminal from a history of the location information, and when the mobile terminal satisfies a predetermined condition From the notification information / notification condition management device that receives and manages the notification information and notification conditions from the information provider that wants to notify the mobile terminal of information, and the behavior pattern information of the mobile terminal generated by the behavior pattern generation device Notification information that matches the candidate for the next location is selected from the behavior prediction device that extracts the candidate for the next location where the terminal moves and the notification information managed by the notification information / notification condition management device, and is notified to the mobile terminal. An information notification system including an information notification device is provided.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, position information from a mobile terminal is received, action pattern information of the mobile terminal is generated from the history of the position information, and information is transmitted to the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal satisfies a predetermined condition. Receive and manage notification information and notification conditions from the information provider that wants to be notified, extract the candidate of the next location where the mobile terminal will move from the behavior pattern information, and make the candidate of the next location to move from the notification information There is provided an information notification method characterized by selecting matching information and notifying a mobile terminal.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, the information processing apparatus receives position information from the mobile terminal, and generates a behavior pattern information of the mobile terminal from the history of the position information. Notification information / notification condition management means for receiving and managing notification information and notification conditions from an information provider that wants to notify the mobile terminal of information when the condition is satisfied, behavior pattern information of the mobile terminal generated by the behavior pattern generation means From the notification information managed by the behavior predicting means for extracting the next location where the mobile terminal moves and the notification information / notification condition management means, the mobile terminal selects the notification information that matches the candidate for the next location A program for functioning as information notifying means for notifying a user is provided.

  According to the present invention, the tendency of the user's behavior of the mobile terminal is extracted from the location information history of the mobile terminal, and the optimum information from the information provider is obtained according to the predicted user's next behavior. The effect that can be provided is obtained. For the information provider, there is an advantage that the user can be notified of information about a destination to which the user is going next without referring to the location information history of the user. On the other hand, there is an advantage that the user can automatically receive only necessary destination information without disclosing his / her position information history to the business operator.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

[First Embodiment]
FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram showing the configuration according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and shows the configuration of an information notification system 1 and a mobile terminal 2 and an information provider 3 that use this information notification system 1. Show. Here, it is assumed that the information notification system 1 is installed as a center device in a place different from both the mobile terminal 2 and the information provider 3.

  The information notification system 1 illustrated in FIG. 1 includes a behavior pattern generation device 11, a notification information / notification condition management device 12, a behavior prediction device 13, and an information notification device 14. The behavior pattern generation device 11 receives position information from the mobile terminal 2 and generates behavior pattern information of the mobile terminal 2 (strictly, a user who uses the mobile terminal 2) from the history of the position information. The notification information / notification condition management device 12 receives and manages notification information and notification conditions from an information provider that wants to notify the mobile terminal 2 (the user who uses it) when the mobile terminal 2 satisfies a predetermined condition. To do. The behavior prediction device 13 extracts candidates for points where the mobile terminal 2 will move next from the user's behavior pattern information generated by the behavior pattern generation device 11. The information notification device 14 selects notification information that matches a candidate for a next location from the notification information managed by the notification information / notification condition management device 12 and notifies the mobile terminal 2 of the notification information. Although notification from the information provider 3 to the notification information / notification condition management device 12 is possible, access from the information provider 3 to other parts in the information notification system 1, particularly the behavior pattern generation device 11, is blocked. Has been.

[Detailed description of operation]
FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the operation of the behavior pattern generation device 11 in the information notification system 1 shown in FIG. The mobile terminal 2 periodically acquires the user's position information and transmits it to the behavior pattern generation device 11. The behavior pattern generation device 11 periodically acquires the user's location information (step S11), generates the user's behavior pattern from the user's location information history (step S12), and an internal storage device (not shown). To record. Specifically, the location and time that stayed in the same place for more than a certain period of time (referred to as “residence point”), the travel route between the retention points and the required time are extracted, and the retention frequency and average residence time for each retention point, and retention Record the usage frequency and average required time of the movement route between points as an action pattern.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the operation of the notification information / notification condition management apparatus 12 in the information notification system 1 shown in FIG. The notification information / notification condition management device 12 accepts the user profile conditions such as the content of the information to be notified, the location to be notified, the time zone, and the gender from the information provider 3 and registers them in an internal storage device (not shown). (Step S21).

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the operations of the behavior prediction device 13 and the information notification device 14 in the information notification system 1 shown in FIG. Based on the current position and time of the user sent from the mobile terminal 2 and the information on the user's behavior pattern registered in the behavior pattern generation device 11, the behavior prediction device 13 is a candidate for the next destination of the user. One or more are searched (step S31). When the behavior prediction device 13 finishes searching for the destination candidate, the information notification device 14 searches for information that matches the destination candidate from the information registered in the notification information / notification condition management device 12 (step S32). . At this time, the notification condition regarding the user profile such as gender is also checked. The information notification device 14 transmits the information extracted by the notification information search to the mobile terminal 2 (step S33).

[Behavior pattern generation example]
5 and 6 are diagrams for explaining generation of action pattern information from the position information history. FIG. 5 shows a map relating to the movement range of the user and position information on the map, and FIG. 6 shows an example of action pattern information generated from the history of the position information. The map shown in FIG. 5 includes a home 101, a work place 102, a customer 103, and a detour 104, and a home nearest station 111, a work nearest station 112, and a customer nearest station 113 that connect them. 5 represents the position of the position information collected by the behavior pattern generation device 11. The behavior pattern generation device 11 can obtain the behavior pattern shown in FIG. 6 by counting the number of stays at the stay point and the number of times of use of the movement route from the location and time of the position information shown in FIG.

  The action pattern information shown in FIG. 6 includes a home 101, a work place 102, a customer 103, and a detour 104 as staying points. In FIG. 6, the number of stays is represented by the thickness of the frame line of each stay point. The behavior pattern information includes a route 201 from the home 101 to the work 102, a route 202 from the detour 104 to the home, a path 203 from the work to the detour, a route 204 from the work directly to the home 101, and a work place. A route 205 from the customer 102 to the customer 103 and a route 206 from the customer to the home 101 are included. The arrow in FIG. 6 indicates the direction, and the thickness of the line indicates the frequency of use.

[Notification information selection example]
FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a selection example of notification information. It is assumed that the behavior prediction device 13 finds two destination candidates 701 and 702 from the current position and behavior pattern of the user. The candidate 701 is the staying point A, and the staying frequency is 4 times and the average staying time is 3 hours. Further, the candidate 702 is the staying point B, and the staying frequency is 10 times and the average staying time is 3 hours. On the other hand, in the notification information / notification condition management device 12, “notification count of 1 or more times, route usage count of 2 or more” is registered as a notification condition 703 of certain notification information related to the staying point A. As a notification condition 704 of related notification information, “average residence time of 2 hours or more” is registered. At this time, only the notification condition 704 matches the notification condition. In this case, information on the notification condition 704 is notified to the user's mobile terminal 2.

[Effects of the present embodiment]
According to the present embodiment, the information provider 3 can notify the user of information related to the destination next to the user without referring to the location information history of the user. The information provider 3 has an advantage that it can inform the customer of service information in a timely manner. For the user, the user does not disclose his / her location information history to the information provider 3 and can There is an advantage that only information can be received automatically.

  In addition, a plurality of destination candidates are usually listed, and information on each of the destination candidates is notified to the user. For this reason, when attractive information for the user is notified by a candidate other than the destination that the user originally planned, the user may change the schedule. In this case, the information provider 3 has an effect of inducing the customer's behavior, and the user has an effect of obtaining information other than the original destination that could not be found by the user himself / herself.

[Second Embodiment]
FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing the configuration according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The configuration of the information notification system 1 and the mobile terminal 2 and the information provider 3 that use this information notification system 1 are shown. Show. In this embodiment, the notification information / notification condition management device 12 accepts and manages registration of notification information and notification conditions from the mobile terminal 2 in addition to notification information and notification conditions from the information provider 3. Different from the first embodiment. That is, event information that the user wants to notify can be registered in the notification information / notification condition management device 12 from the mobile terminal 2 by the user himself / herself.

  According to this embodiment, the registered information is notified to the user when there is a possibility of going to a point related to the information actually registered by the user. Thereby, it becomes possible for the user himself to prevent a loss of opportunity due to the user's forgetfulness of the information.

[Third Embodiment]
FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a configuration according to the third embodiment of the present invention. The information notification system 1, the mobile terminals 2-1 and 2-2 using the information notification system 1, and the information providing business The structure with the person 3 is shown. In the above-described embodiment, in order to simplify the description, the information notification system 1 has a single mobile terminal 2 as a target for information notification. In practice, information notification can be made to a plurality of mobile terminals. FIG. 9 shows two mobile terminals 2-1 and 2-2 among a plurality of mobile terminals.

  In this embodiment, the behavior pattern generation device 11, the behavior prediction device 13, and the information notification device 14 generate behavior pattern information for each of the mobile terminals 2-1, 2-2, Candidate extraction, notification information selection and notification. Moreover, the behavior prediction apparatus 13 can obtain | require the candidate of the point where the mobile terminal 2-1 moves next, for example using the behavior pattern information produced | generated with respect to the other mobile terminal 2-2.

  For example, in a place where the mobile terminal 2-1 has visited for the first time, there is no record of a route starting from that point, and thus the behavior prediction device 13 cannot extract a destination candidate. Therefore, in the present embodiment, a movement destination candidate of the mobile terminal 2-1 is generated using the action pattern information of another mobile terminal 2-2 that has already visited the point. From this, it is possible to extract destination candidates even at the first place if the place is visited by another user.

[Fourth Embodiment]
FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing the configuration according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. The configuration of the information notification system 1 and the mobile terminal 2 and the information provider 3 using this information notification system 1 are shown. Show. In this embodiment, the mobile terminal 2 transmits web browsing information and purchase information to the behavior pattern generation device 11 in addition to the position information. The behavior pattern generation device 11 generates behavior pattern information including each history from the received web browsing information and purchase information. The behavior prediction device 13 predicts the next behavior candidate for web browsing and purchase behavior in addition to the candidate for the next location where the mobile terminal 2 moves. The information notification device selects notification information that matches a candidate for the next action and notifies the mobile terminal 2 of the notification information.

  In this embodiment, not only position information but also information other than position information such as Web reference history and purchase information is included in the action pattern. Thereby, not only the movement to the destination but also the web to be referred to from now on and what to purchase from now on, the behavior prediction device 13 can extract candidates. Further, it is possible to combine the movement to the destination and the prediction of the item to be purchased, and to estimate the article to be purchased at the destination to be moved. As a result, the information provider 3 can notify the user of information more in line with the user's next action.

[Other embodiments]
The information notification system according to the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, but the present invention can be variously modified without changing the gist. Although the behavior pattern generation device 11, the notification information / notification condition management device 12, the behavior prediction device 13, and the information notification device 14 are shown as separate devices, they should be implemented by separate computers each having a processor and a memory. It can also be implemented as a program on one computer. In addition, instead of installing the information notification system 1 as a center device and notifying information to a plurality of mobile terminals 2, it is mounted on a portable computer or built in the mobile terminal 2 to provide one mobile terminal. 2 can also be configured to control the notification of information to 2.

It is a block block diagram which shows the structure which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention, and shows the structure of the information notification system and the mobile terminal and information provider which use this information notification system. It is a flowchart of operation | movement of the action pattern production | generation apparatus in the information notification system shown in FIG. It is a flowchart of operation | movement of the notification information and notification condition management apparatus in the information notification system shown in FIG. It is a flowchart of operation | movement of the action prediction apparatus and information notification apparatus in the information notification system shown in FIG. It is a figure explaining the production | generation of the action pattern information from a positional infomation log | history, and shows the map regarding a user's movement range, and the positional information on the map. It is a figure which shows an example of the action pattern information produced | generated from a positional infomation log | history. It is a figure explaining the example of selection of notice information. It is a block block diagram which shows the structure which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention, and shows the structure of the information notification system and the mobile terminal and information provider which use this information notification system. It is a block block diagram which shows the structure which concerns on the 3rd Embodiment of this invention, and shows the structure of the information notification system, the mobile terminal which uses this information notification system, and an information provider. It is a block block diagram which shows the structure which concerns on the 4th Embodiment of this invention, and shows the structure of an information notification system, a mobile terminal using this information notification system, and an information provision provider.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Information notification system 2, 2-1, 2-2 Mobile terminal 3 Information provider 11 Action pattern production | generation apparatus.
12 Notification Information / Notification Condition Management Device 13 Behavior Prediction Device 14 Information Notification Device

Claims (9)

An action pattern generation device that receives position information from a mobile terminal and generates action pattern information of the mobile terminal from a history of the position information;
Notification information / notification condition management device for receiving and managing notification information and notification conditions from an information provider that wants to notify the mobile terminal of information when the mobile terminal satisfies a predetermined condition;
A behavior prediction device that extracts candidates for points where the mobile terminal moves next from behavior pattern information of the mobile terminal generated by the behavior pattern generation device;
An information notification system comprising: an information notification device that selects notification information that matches a candidate for the next moving point from notification information managed by the notification information / notification condition management device and notifies the mobile terminal of the notification information .   2. The information notification system according to claim 1, wherein access from the information provider to the action pattern generation device is blocked.   3. The information notification system according to claim 1, wherein the behavior prediction apparatus extracts a plurality of points as candidates for the next moving point.   The information notification system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the behavior pattern generation device includes a frequency and a residence time of a point where the mobile terminal stays, and a use frequency and a required time of a route between the residence points. An information notification system characterized in that information is generated as behavior pattern information.   5. The information notification system according to claim 1, wherein the notification information / notification condition management device includes notification information and notification from the mobile terminal in addition to notification information and notification conditions from the information provider. An information notification system characterized by receiving and managing registration of conditions. The information notification system according to any one of claims 1 to 5,
The behavior pattern generation device generates behavior pattern information for each of a plurality of mobile terminals,
The behavior prediction apparatus obtains a candidate for a point where a certain mobile terminal will move next by using behavior pattern information generated for another mobile terminal. The information notification system according to any one of claims 1 to 6,
The behavior pattern generation device generates information including web browsing history and purchase history as the behavior pattern information,
The behavior prediction device predicts candidates for the next behavior for web browsing and purchasing behavior,
The information notification system is configured to select and notify notification information that matches the candidate for the next action. Receive location information from mobile terminals,
Generate behavior pattern information of the mobile terminal from the history of the location information,
Receive and manage notification information and notification conditions from an information provider that wants to notify the mobile terminal of information when the mobile terminal satisfies a predetermined condition,
From the behavior pattern information, a candidate for the next location where the mobile terminal moves is extracted,
An information notification method comprising: selecting information that matches a candidate for the next moving point from the notification information and notifying the mobile terminal. Information processing device
Action pattern generating means for receiving position information from a mobile terminal and generating action pattern information of the mobile terminal from a history of the position information;
Notification information / notification condition management means for receiving and managing notification information and notification conditions from an information provider that wants to notify the mobile terminal of information when the mobile terminal satisfies a predetermined condition;
Action prediction means for extracting candidates for the next location where the mobile terminal will move from action pattern information of the mobile terminal generated by the action pattern generation means, and notification information managed by the notification information / notification condition management means A program for functioning as an information notification means for selecting notification information that matches a candidate for a next moving point from the information and notifying the mobile terminal.

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