Patent ID: 8526972
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: G01C,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A server apparatus comprising: an information acquisition request receiving unit that receives acceleration information indicating an acceleration when a user shakes a portable terminal device toward a direction in which the user desires to acquire information, direction information indicating the direction, position information indicating a position of the portable terminal device, and an information acquisition request from the portable terminal device via a communication means; an information extraction range determining unit that determines an information extraction range based on the received acceleration information, the direction information and the position information; a providing information extracting unit that extracts providing information corresponding to a position within the determined information extraction range from a providing information storing unit that stores the providing information to be provided to the user of the portable terminal device in association with position information; and a providing information transmitting unit that transmits the extracted providing information to the portable terminal device having made the information acquisition request via the communication means.