Patent ID: 8180377

Claim:
A method of real-time multimedia information acquisition and provision, said method comprising the steps of: a) using an intermediate server device, receiving an information provision request including target location information from a client user; b) using the intermediate server device, selecting one of a plurality of candidate server devices, each of which is associated with service area information, based on a result of matching between the target location information from the client user and the service area information of the candidate server devices, for each of the candidate server devices, the service area information indicates locations of base stations associated with the candidate server device, the service area information of the candidate server devices form a base station database, and the target location information from the client user is matched with the base station database to find the selected one of the candidate server devices, the location of at least one base station of the selected one of the candidate server devices corresponding to the target location information from the client device; c) using the intermediate server device, transmitting the information provision request from the client user to the selected one of the candidate server devices; and d) using the selected one of the candidate server devices, selecting from a database of candidate users of the selected one of the candidate server devices, one of the candidate users in the database based on a result of matching between latitude and longitude corresponding to the target location information from the client user and latitude and longitude corresponding to current location information of the candidate users, wherein the selected one of the candidate users is a user that has a video mobile phone with Global Positioning System (GPS) function and that is available to provide real-time multimedia information corresponding to the information provision request to the client user, the longitude and latitude corresponding to the current location information of the candidate users are found using the base stations associated with the selected one of the candidate server devices that are within a range of a location corresponding to the target location information from the client user.