Patent ID: 7308441

Claim:
An apparatus for providing real time information comprising: a processor coupled to a memory; a data receiver receives status information data and an information user's data request message on the status information data in real time, the status information data consisting of either video data or data obtained by combining video data with at least one of audio data and text data and the status information data being indicative of temporal status information on an arbitrary area and theme; a data base management system (DBMS) sorts the status information data received through the data receiver in accordance with a corresponding area and theme and manages them in a temporal order; a data base (DB) retrieval unit extracts status information data corresponding to the theme and area selected by the information user from the DBMS, as the data request message is received through the data receiver; a data transmitter transmits the status information data extracted from the DB retrieval unit to the information user; a controller controls the data transmitter, the data receiver, the DB retrieval unit, and the DBMS to manage the status information data for the area and theme based on the temporal order and to provide the information user with corresponding status information data, as the data request message is received from an arbitrary information user, the controller selects only a latest status information data from a list of the extracted status information data to provide to the arbitrary information user, the controller selects the latest status information data only from a list of the status information data extracted from the DB retrieval unit to provide the information user with the selected information; and sequentially providing the information user with previous status information data included in the list of the status information data by selection of the information user as the information user requests additional status information data.