Patent ID: 7130611

Claim:
A moving status information providing method performed by a server providing moving status information, comprising: storing attribute data of users of mobile stations in association with identifiers of the mobile stations; receiving a moving status information request including attribute data and moving status monitoring period data; searching for identifiers of one or more mobile stations associated with the attribute data included in the received moving status information request, and storing the searched identifiers of mobile stations in association with the moving status monitoring period data included in the moving status information request; obtaining location information of the mobile stations whose identifiers are stored at predetermined intervals, and storing the obtained location information in a chronological order in accordance with the identifiers of the mobile stations; determining whether a moving status monitoring period indicated by the stored moving status monitoring period data has expired; reading out, if determining that the moving status monitoring period has expired, the identifiers of the mobile stations stored in association with the moving status monitoring period data, and generating moving status information on the basis of location information of the mobile stations which is stored in the third memory and which has been obtained within the moving status monitoring period; and providing the generated moving status information.