Patent ID: 7050816
Filing Date: 2006-05-23
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An information providing system comprising: a portable terminal that is connected with a registration terminal for registering target information that is to be used by the portable terminal, and that provides the target information in the registration terminal to the portable terminal, the target information including information of a service location or a sightseeing spot, the registration terminal being adapted to associate a plurality of different pieces with different degrees of details of the target information with a single information group, and to register the information group, which is correlated with reference position information for specifying a reference position as a reference, the reference position information including a plurality of different position ranges that correspond to the plurality of pieces of the target information, respectively; the target information in the registration terminal being provided to the portable terminal by automatically selecting the target information from the information group on the basis of the positional relationship between the reference position that is specified by the reference position information corresponding to the information group, and the portable terminal, and by transmitting the selected target information to the portable terminal; and the target information that is provided to the portable terminal automatically becoming more detailed with a greater degree of details as the portable terminal moves closer to the reference position from one position range to another position range.