Patent ID: 7124024

Claim:
A mobile device to supply information for tourism to a user comprising: a storage means fragmented into sectors, said storage means for gathering the information to be supplied and for having each sector corresponding at least to one given geographic location and for showing an address associated therewith; a tracking means for delivering positioning information corresponding to a location in which the device is situated; a processing means for drawing up a reading instruction containing at least the address of the sector of the information to be supplied in relation to said positioning information based on at least one correspondence table, the correspondence table associating at least the address of the sector and the positioning information regarding the corresponding geographic location; a reading means for reading the information contained in the sector, said reading means for a showing an address of a reading instruction delivered by said processing means; a playing means for transmitting the information selected in order to provide the user with messages regarding the geographic location in which the user is located, said processing means comprising a guiding means for the reading means, said guiding means for drawing up the reading instruction and for storing a list of addresses of the sectors already read in a memory unit, said processing means for comparing an address of the sector of the information to be supplied with the content of said list, said guiding means for delivering a reading instruction to the reading means, said reading instruction containing the address of a sector of said storage means, said reading instruction having a standby message to be played when the comparing indicates the sector has already been read by said reading means.