Patent ID: 7216799
Filing Date: 2007-05-15
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A terminal providing system comprising: a plurality of terminals placed at a providing place for providing terminals to users, and comprising one or more application software; a providing device placed at the providing place, and that carries out processing for providing to a user, a terminal which comprises the application software that the user designates, from the plurality of terminals; and a collecting device placed at a collecting place for collecting the terminals provided to the users, and that carries out processing for collecting terminals which are returned by the users; wherein the providing device comprises a memory which stores information concerning the plurality of terminals which are placed at the providing place, a specifying unit which specifies a terminal which comprises the application software that the user designated, applying the information that said memory stores, a calculating unit which calculates a possible time and date when said terminal specified by said specifying is provided to the user, a presenting unit which presents to the user, the terminal specified by the specifying unit at the possible time and date calculated by the calculating unit, and a time and date obtaining unit which obtains a next possible time and date when the terminal provided to the user becomes possible to be provided to another user, by applying a time table that shows arrival and departure time of each station of the vehicles.