Patent ID: 7860376
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: G06Q,G07B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A content delivery apparatus which is connected, through a communication network, to a mobile terminal for reproducing a content and to a ticket gate machine, said apparatus comprising: a user information storing unit operable to hold user information in which information for identifying a mobile terminal to which a content is delivered is associated with each user ID; a travel duration calculating unit operable to calculate a travel duration for a user traveling by vehicle, based on a boarding zone notified from a ticket gate machine which identifies at least the boarding zone by detecting the user's entrance into a station area or boarding onto the vehicle; a content determining unit operable to determine a content to be reproduced whose reproduction completes within the calculated travel duration; and a delivery unit operable to identify, based on the user information stored in said user information storing unit, a mobile terminal corresponding to the user ID notified from the ticket gate machine, and to deliver the content determined by said content determining unit.