Patent ID: 6882348

Claim:
A method for sending a plurality of advertisements and a map, over a network, to a user terminal in response to a single request sent from the user terminal via the network, comprising the steps of: receiving the single request from the user terminal; searching and transmitting the map information corresponding to the received request; searching and transmitting the plurality of advertisements corresponding to the received request by searching a database storing the plurality of advertisements to be displayed, wherein the database stores the plurality of advertisements in association with date/time information, the date/time information indicating a temporal period wherein an associated advertisement is enabled to be displayed, and the date/time information is included in the received request; and enabling the display of both the map and the plurality of advertisements on the user terminal, wherein the single request sent from the user terminal includes a unique identification code that is associated with the geographical location and with a type of business, and the type of business is associated with the plurality of advertisements to be displayed with the map, and each of the plurality of advertisements is stored in the database in association with a geographical range wherein an associated advertisement is enabled to be displayed.