Patent ID: 8183996

Claim:
A mobile information-terminal apparatus that moves with a user and provides information to the user, the mobile information-terminal apparatus comprising: a position-related-information storing unit that stores related information for local use downloaded from a server storing related information related to an item arranged in each area; a setting-information storing unit that stores setting information correlating position information of the mobile information-terminal apparatus with URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of corresponding related information; a receiving unit that receives signals at regular intervals, the received signals transmitted from one of a plurality of transmitters installed in a site to respective areas that are allocated to the transmitters; a control unit that detects the position information based on the received signals, and determines whether the mobile information-terminal apparatus moves quickly or not by determining whether a number of times position information identical to position information previously received is detected is greater than a predetermined number of times; and a position-related-information informing unit that obtains the related information for local use from the position-related-information storing unit when the URL correlating with the detected position information indicates the mobile information-terminal apparatus, obtains related information of which amount of data is larger than that of the related information for local use from the server when the URL correlating with the detected position information indicates the server, and informs, when it is determined that the mobile information-terminal apparatus does not moves quickly, the user of the obtained related information.