Patent ID: 7577976
Filing Date: 2009-08-18
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A support server that supports a determination of a route for providing content via a communication network from a content providing terminal that provides a content to a content user terminal that is placed in a facility where the content is to be used, comprising: a receiving unit that receives, from the content providing terminal, facility condition information that shows at least one condition to be met by a facility where the content is to be used and that receives a plurality of facility information, from content user terminals, via the communication network; a storing unit that stores the facility condition information and the plurality of facility information, received by said receiving unit; and a providing destination selecting unit that extracts information that specifies a facility, selected based at least on a determination that information included in the stored facility information regarding said facility meets the at least one condition shown by the facility condition information, from the plurality of facility information stored in said storing unit, and selects a content user terminal, placed at the facility specified by the extracted information, as the providing destination of the content.