Patent ID: 7366149

Claim:
A content reservation and pickup system, where multiple access points as radio relay stations for a wireless LAN are located at multiple spots that are mutually apart from each other, and a radio communication area of each access point is established in a coverage of radio wave transmitted from the access point, in said content reservation and pickup system, when a terminal enters a radio communication area of a first access point which is one of said multiple access points, said terminal gains access to said first access point to reserve acquisition of a selected content via the Internet, after the reservation, said terminal gains access to said second access point to pick up the reserved selected content, said first access point comprising: an input module that inputs content identification information for identifying the selected content for pickup, location specification information for specifying a location outside the radio communication area of said first access point as a pickup location of the selected content, and receiver identification information for identifying a person who picks up the selected content, through an access from said terminal entering the radio communication area of first access point; a specification module that retrieves a radio communication area including the location specified by the input location specification information and specifies an access point that covers the retrieved radio communication area as an second access point; and an information transmission module that maps the input receiver identification information to information on the selected content for pickup and transmits the mapped information to said specified second access point via the Internet, said second access point comprising: a storage module that stores the selected content for pickup, which is acquired through an access to a Web server on the Internet based on the content identification information and is mapped to the receiver identification information; an authentication module that requests input of the receiver identification information in response to an access from any terminal, and authenticates the access when the input receiver identification information is identical with the stored receiver identification information; and a content transmission module that transmits the selected content, which is stored as mapped to the receiver identification information, to said terminal authenticated by said authentication module.