Patent ID: 9723432
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04H,H04W

Claim:
1. An information providing system, which provides delivery information to an information terminal which has communicated with a particular object that is equipped with a wireless communication function, comprising: a registering unit that registers, prior to providing said delivery information to the information terminal, first link information which associates identification information of the object equipped with the wireless communication function to service information corresponding to a service provided by or at the object, the registering unit additionally registering plural timestamps indicating when each of plural information terminals has communicated with a registered object; a generating unit that generates second link information which specifies particular delivery information to be transmitted to the information terminal, determined based on behavioral trends of plural information terminals which have communicated with the particular object, said behavioral trends having been determined from (i) the first link information and (ii) identification information obtained from the plural information terminals which have communicated with the particular object, the second link information establishing an association which was not previously registered in the registering unit between the identification of the object equipped with the wireless communication function information and service information; an analyzing unit that obtains the plural timestamps registered by the registering unit, and causes the generating unit to generate the second link information when the analyzing unit determines, based on the plural timestamps indicating when each of the plural information terminals has communicated with a registered object, that a predetermined number of the plural information terminals that have communicated with a registered object have each communicated with a particular sequence of a plurality of objects equipped with the wireless communication function within a predetermined time period; and an information providing unit that delivers the particular delivery information to the information terminal.