Patent ID: 8078149

Claim:
An advertising information display method, which displays advertising information on a display of a communication terminal that is capable of transmitting location information, said advertising information is transmitted from an advertising information transmission source that is capable of transmitting location information and advertising information, where the method comprising: a step to obtain terminal location information transmitted from the communication terminal, a step to obtain a terminal location information transmission time when the terminal location information has been transmitted from the communication terminal, a step to obtain transmission source location information and advertising information, which have been transmitted from a plurality of the advertising information transmission sources, a step to select neighborhood advertising information, which should be transmitted to the communication terminal, from among a plurality of the advertising information, based on the terminal location information and a plurality of the transmission source location information, a step to perform a ranking of the neighborhood advertising information, based on time difference information between advertising information transmission time when the neighborhood advertising information has been transmitted to the communication system, and the terminal location information transmission time, as well as location difference information between the terminal location information and the transmission source location information, a step to associate the neighborhood advertising information with the ranking information, a step to transmit said neighborhood advertising information to the communication terminal; and a step to display the neighborhood advertising information on the display of the communication terminal, based on said ranking information.