Patent ID: 8874474
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: G06Q,H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication server comprising: a request acquiring unit that acquires a request for content creation with specification of a desired location for the content creation; a terminal location acquiring unit that acquires locations of a plurality of accepter terminals each capable of performing the content creation; a notifying unit that provides a notification of the request to an accepter terminal selected from among the plurality of accepter terminals; an acceptance information acquiring unit that acquires acceptance information showing whether or not the selected accepter terminal provided with the notification of the request has accepted the request; a history managing unit that manages history information showing a history of notifications provided to each of the plurality of accepter terminals by the notifying unit in the past, the history information containing for each notification: a location at the time of provision of the notification, of an accepter terminal provided with the notification; a desired location specified in a corresponding request; and the acceptance information; and a selecting unit that, upon acquisition of a new request, selects an accepter terminal to which the notifying unit provides a notification of the new request, according to: the locations of the plurality of accepter terminals; a desired location specified in the new request; and the history information, wherein upon the acquisition of the new request, the selecting unit calculates expectation values showing a probability of accepting the new request for each of the plurality of accepter terminals by using: the locations of the plurality of accepter terminals; the desired location specified in the new request; and the history information, and selects the accepter terminal to which the notifying unit provides the notification of the new request, according to the expectation value.