Patent ID: 6691114
Filing Date: 2004-02-10
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A geographical information distribution system that is communicable with a service user and a search object publisher offering a service via a communication network, wherein the geographical information distribution system responds to a request of the search object publisher and provides at least geographical information to the service user, the geographical information distribution system comprising:a map database that stores map data; a search object database that stores data of search objects registered by the search object publisher via the network, the data of search objects including item IDs representing the search objects; a search object publisher database that stores server information of the search object publisher registered by the search object publisher via the network; a search map generation unit that generates a search map using the map data and the search object data based on a request made by the service user through the communication network; and a distribution coordinator that transmits the search map to the service user through the network to allow the service user to select a desirable search object in the search map, receives the selected search object from the service user, and transmits the item ID of the selected search object to the search object publisher, with reference to the server information of the search object publisher, in order to feed back the user's selection to the search object publisher for further processing making use of item ID.