Patent ID: 8566478

Claim:
An information collecting system which collects collected information as information held in a plurality of communication terminals existing in a serving area under a specific base station via a mobile communication network, the system comprising: an information receiving unit for receiving base station identifying information as information identifying the base station, and a collected-information type as information identifying the type of the collected information; a terminal information acquiring unit for acquiring terminal information that includes information representing the number of communication terminals for which the collected information is collected, based on the base station identifying information; an information amount acquiring unit for acquiring information-amount information according to an information amount of information identified by the collected-information type, based on the collected-information type; a capacity information acquiring unit for acquiring capacity information as information according to a capacity of performing communication via the base station, based on the base station identifying information; an information collection controlling unit for generating transmission timing information that designates the timing at which the plurality of communication terminals transmits the collected information, based on the terminal information, the information-amount information and the capacity information; a transmission request creating unit for creating an information transmission request that includes the transmission timing information and the collected-information type; and a transmission request delivering unit for delivering the information transmission requests to the plurality of communication terminals.