Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Aeronautical vehicle
Reexamination Certificate
2002-05-14
2002-12-10
Camby, Richard M. (Department: 3661)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Aeronautical vehicle
C701S201000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06493610
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a flight information providing apparatus, a flight information providing method, a flight information providing program, and a computer-readable recording medium for providing flight information on an airplane with a predetermined person aboard.
2. Related Background Art
In recent years, more and more people are using airplanes as means for movement on the occasions of overseas travels, domestic travels, business trips, and so on, and the age bracket of the users spans a wide spectrum from elderly people to children.
While the number of airplane users is increasing as described, the travel by plane still involves many unstable factors including occasional cancellation, delays of arrival times, etc. due to weather, e.g., typhoons or snow.
Under such circumstances, there are the potential needs of persons concerned with a certain passenger (e.g., a family, co-workers at a company, etc.) who want to make sure as early as possible whether the pertinent passenger got aboard an expected airplane and departed safely, or whether the pertinent passenger has arrived safely at a destination.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
However, the actual flight information, e.g., indicating that the airplane has actually arrived with a delay of twenty minutes, is indicated on a bulletin board at an airport, and there is no existing service for automatically and promptly informing the persons concerned with the airplane passenger, of the information. For this reason, there are eager demands for implementation of such service.
The present invention has been accomplished to solve the above problem, and an object of the invention is to provide a flight information providing apparatus, a flight information providing method, a flight information providing program, and a computer-readable recording medium capable of automatically and promptly providing flight information about an airplane with a predetermined user aboard to a predetermined destination address corresponding to the pertinent user.
For achieving the above object, a flight information providing apparatus according to the present invention is a flight information providing apparatus adapted to provide flight information on an airplane with a predetermined person aboard, said flight information providing apparatus comprising: an information provision request input section for entering an information provision request including at least identification information on said person, identification information on an airplane that said person is supposed to go aboard, and a destination address to which the information is to be provided; a storage section for storing the information provision request entered; a takeoff/landing information acquisition section for acquiring actual flight information on takeoff/landing of an airplane; an extraction section for collating the identification information on the airplane that said person is supposed to go aboard, with said actual flight information thereof to extract landing information comprising arrival information indicating that said airplane has arrived, from said actual flight information; and a transmission section for transmitting the landing information of the object airplane extracted, to a terminal unit on the basis of the destination address about said person.
A flight information providing method according to the present invention is a flight information providing method adapted to provide flight information on an airplane with a predetermined person aboard, said flight information providing method comprising: an input step of entering an information provision request including at least identification information on said person, identification information on an airplane that said person is supposed to go aboard, and a destination address to which the information is to be provided; a storage step of storing the information provision request entered; an acquisition step of acquiring actual flight information on takeoff/landing of an airplane; an extraction step of collating the identification information on the airplane that said person is supposed to go aboard, with said actual flight information thereof to extract landing information comprising arrival information indicating that said airplane has arrived, from said actual flight information; and a transmission step of transmitting the landing information of the object airplane extracted, to a terminal unit on the basis of the destination address about said person.
A flight information providing program according to the present invention is a flight information providing program adapted to provide flight information on an airplane with a predetermined person aboard, said flight information providing program being configured to make a computer execute the following steps: an input step of entering an information provision request including at least identification information on said person, identification information on an airplane that said person is supposed to go aboard, and a destination address to which the information is to be provided; a storage step of storing the information provision request entered; an acquisition step of acquiring actual flight information on takeoff/landing of an airplane; an extraction step of collating the identification information on the airplane that said person is supposed to go aboard, with said actual flight information thereof to extract landing information comprising arrival information indicating that said airplane has arrived, from said actual flight information; and a transmission step of transmitting the landing information of the object airplane extracted, to a terminal unit on the basis of the destination address about said person.
Incidentally, the above-stated flight information providing apparatus, flight information providing method, and flight information providing program according to the present invention are based on the same technical concept and are interpretations of the technical concept from an aspect of the flight information providing apparatus, from an aspect of the flight information providing method, and from an aspect of the flight information providing program, respectively.
For this reason, the following will describe a solution to the problem by the flight information providing apparatus according to the present invention, but it is noted that solutions to the problem by the flight information providing method and the flight information providing program are also based on the same concept.
In the flight information providing apparatus according to the present invention, an operator enters through the information provision request input section, the information provision request including at least the identification information on the person, the identification information on the airplane that the person is supposed to go aboard, and the destination address to which the information is to be delivered, whereupon the storage section stores the information provision request thus entered. On the other hand, the takeoff/landing information acquisition section acquires the actual flight information about takeoff/landing of the airplane, whereupon the extraction section collates the identification information on the airplane that the person is supposed to go aboard, with the actual flight information. If the pertinent airplane has already arrived, the actual flight information at this time contains the arrival information indicating that the pertinent airplane has arrived. Thus the extraction section extracts the landing information including the arrival information, from the actual flight information. Then the transmission section transmits the landing information of the object airplane thus extracted, to the terminal unit on the basis of the destination address about the person included in the information provision request. This permits the apparatus to automatically and promptly provide the landing information indicating that the airplane with the predetermined person aboard has safely arrived, to the user o
Camby Richard M.
NTT DoCoMo Inc.
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