Information providing system, information providing method, and information providing server

摘要

A positioning terminal (10) including a positioning function transmits location identifying information (IL) received from a positioning infrastructure (30), and transmits destination designating information for designating a destination of location-related information generated by an information generating unit (120) to an information providing server (100). With this arrangement, a user can receive the location-related information through a display terminal (20) not including a positioning function, without advance registration of a mapping table associating the positioning terminal (10) with the display terminal (20) in the information providing server (100). In this manner, the usability of an information providing system that provides location-related information related to locations is improved.

主权项

1. An information providing system comprising:
a first portable terminal that includes a positioning function and outputs location identifying information for identifying a location; a second portable terminal that receives and outputs location-related information that is information related to the location, and does not include the positioning function; and an information providing server that provides the location-related information to said second portable terminal, the location-related information being related to the location identified based on the location identifying information input from said first portable terminal, wherein said information providing server includes:
a receiving unit that receives destination designating information for designating a destination to send the location-related information from said first portable terminal, and receives the location identifying information from said first portable terminal;an information generating unit that generates the location-related information related to the location of said first portable terminal identified by the received location identifying information; anda transmitting unit that transmits the generated location-related information to the destination, based on the received destination designating information,wherein said destination designating information is at least one of: information that designates the second portable terminal as the destination; and information that designates other hardware accessible by the second portable terminal as the destination, andwherein the transmitting unit of the information providing server transmits the location-related information to the destination which is designated by said destination designating information.