Patent ID: 7026915
Filing Date: 2006-04-11
Classification: G01C,G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information service method for providing information from an information service apparatus to a user of an information terminal connected via a communication line, comprising: a setting step of allowing the user to set a category used to specify contents that the user wants to receive, a predetermined condition used to specify partial contents of user's choice in contents which belong to the category, and a service timing of the partial contents to the user in the information terminal, wherein when a live sports program is selected as the category, said setting step allows the user to set at least one of a team or a player of his or her choice, and an event that may occur during a game, which are associated with the selected live sports program as the predetermined condition, and the contents of the selected live sports program are stored in a database wherein the contents of the live sports program are sequentially stored as an actual game progresses; and an information service step of extracting partial contents which satisfy the category and the predetermined condition from many unspecified contents, and providing the extracted partial contents to the user at the service timing in the information terminal, wherein said information service step extracts a part of contents associated with the live sports program as partial contents to be provided to the information terminal by analyzing the many unspecified contents on the basis of the predetermined condition associated with the live sports program set as the category in said setting step, and said information service step can extract contents of the live sports program stored in the database as the partial contents to be provided to the information terminal from a timing before occurrence of the event in accordance with a predetermined service period.