Patent ID: 7877085

Claim:
A portable electronic device comprising: a base station and sector detection unit that detects, in response to manipulation by a user, at least one of a wireless base station and a sector managed by the wireless base station which can communicate with the portable electronic device at a current location thereof; a base station information transmission unit that produces base station and sector identification information for identifying at least one of the base station and the sector detected by the base station and sector detection unit, and transmits a part or whole of the base station and sector identification information to a content information server; a list reception unit that receives a content list, which represents a list of contents distributed by an information distribution device through at least one of the wireless base station and the sector indicated by the base station identification information transmitted from the base station information transmission unit, from the content information server; an output unit that outputs the content list received by the list reception unit; a content selection unit that selects, in response to manipulation by the user, a content from the contents indicated in the content list output by the output unit in accordance with manipulation of a user; and a content reception unit that receives the content selected by the content selection unit from the information distribution device through at least one of the wireless base station and the sector detected by the base station detection unit.