Patent ID: 7257394

Claim:
A mobile communications system comprising an information communications terminal and a network controller; wherein the network controller comprising: a resource management unit configured to obtain and manage an ID of each available device, a function of each available device, and a location of each available device, in association with one another, based on information obtained from each available device via a radio interface; and an information provision unit configured to obtain a location of an inquiring information communications terminal in accordance with a request for provision of information transmitted from the inquiring information communications terminal, to extract an ID of a suitable device which is associated with a particular function included in the request and a location of the suitable device with the extracted ID located in a vicinity of the location of the inquiring information communications terminal, and to provide the location of the suitable device with the extracted ID to the inquiring information communications terminal; and the information communications terminal comprising: an information provision request transmitter configured to transmit the request; and an indicator configured to indicate the location of the suitable device provided from the network controller.