Patent ID: 8914231

Claim:
A guide system comprising a guide server, a mobile-side terminal apparatus, and a standby-side user terminal apparatus being independent of each other and communicating to each other via a network, the mobile-side terminal apparatus comprising: a route information storing unit that stores first route information showing a route that a user of the mobile-side terminal apparatus follows; a position acquiring unit that acquires a present position of the mobile-side terminal apparatus; a display unit that displays the route shown by the first route information and the present position of the mobile-side terminal apparatus; and a position transmitting unit that transmits only information showing the present position of the mobile-side terminal apparatus to the standby-side user terminal apparatus, the guide server comprising: a response unit that transmits to the standby-side terminal apparatus only a second route information showing a route related to the present position of the mobile-side terminal apparatus without transmitting to the standby-side terminal apparatus the information showing the present position of the mobile-side terminal apparatus, the standby-side user terminal apparatus comprising: a position receiving unit that receives, from the mobile-side terminal apparatus, the information showing the present position of the mobile-side terminal apparatus; a download unit that receives, from the guide server, the second route information; and a display unit that displays the route shown by the second route information and the present position of the mobile-side terminal apparatus.