INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: KOIZUMI TETSUNOSUKE, YOSHIDA TAKAYA, ISHIHARA TOMOYA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 08.09.2016
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user himself or herself to preferentially designate the content of narrowing-down items that the user wants to regard as significant.SOLUTION: An information providing device 20 is configured to, on the basis of the behavior history of a user acquired from a mobile communication terminal 10, specify the priority of narrowing-down items when the user narrows down facility information, and to transmit narrowing-down screen information for presenting the narrowing-down items in accordance with the specified priority to the mobile communication terminal 10. The user narrows down the facility information by using the presented narrowing-down items to acquire his or her desired facility information. The narrowing-down items are, for example, the genre or price range of cuisine serviced in a restaurant, the place or business hour or the situation of a facility/service of the restaurant, the purpose or the number of users of eating and drinking or evaluation by the word-of-mouth of the restaurant, or the like.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】ユーザが重視したい絞込み項目について優先的にその内容をユーザ自らが指定できるようにする。【解決手段】情報提供装置２０は、移動通信端末１０から取得したユーザの行動履歴に基づいて、そのユーザが施設情報の絞込みを行うときの絞込み項目の優先度を特定し、特定した優先度に従って絞込み項目を提示するための絞込み画面情報を移動通信端末１０に送信する。ユーザは提示された絞込み項目を用いて施設情報を絞込み、所望の施設情報を得る。絞込み項目は、例えば飲食店で提供される料理のジャンルや価格帯、飲食店の場所や営業時間或いは設備／サービスの状況、飲食の目的や利用人数或いはその飲食店の口コミによる評価等である。【選択図】図１