Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Reservation – check-in – or booking display for reserved space
Reexamination Certificate
1998-02-19
2001-06-19
Stamber, Eric W. (Department: 2164)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Reservation, check-in, or booking display for reserved space
C705S006000, C701S202000, C701S210000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06249767
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a portable information terminal in which the formulation of the optimum plan to be performed by a user is supported coping with the change of various statuses surrounding a user.
BACKGROUND ART
In recent years, various mobile communication systems have been contrived and developed and a sphere of user's action has shown a corresponding tendency to extend. For example, the Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication Systems (hereinafter referred to as FPLMTS) proceeding to the standardization thereof with a target of the start of operation about in the year 2000 provide a wide service area with the possibility of a roaming on a world-wide scale. The FPLMTS has been disclosed by Haruhiko Yasuda, “Mobile Communications of ISDN Age”, pp. 211-223 published by the OHMsha Ltd.
On the other hand, the progress of hardware and technology such as the elongation in lifetime of battery has made portable information terminals small in size and high in function and has made it possible for a user to carry the portable information terminal with him or her always.
Various services have been contrived under such backgrounds. For example, a reservation system includes a system, disclosed by JP-A-4-213761, in which a reservation is made from a terminal provided in a vehicle. The disclosed system is a system in which an instant of time of arrival at a service shop is determined from jam information or the like so that a reservation onto the determined instant of time is made.
However, with the extension of a sphere of user's action, statuses surrounding the user become various. In addition, these statuses change with the lapse of time. In the above-mentioned prior art, the instant of time of arrival at the service shop is determined from jam information or the like so that the reservation onto the optimum instant of time is made. But, this cannot cope with a change in jam status after reservation. In the case where the jam status changes, the user must make the reservation again in dependence upon a judgement based on the user's feeling.
An object of the present invention is to provide a status adapted planning support system in which a reservation made in advance and information of a status forming an obstacle to the execution of the reserved matter are collected by communication means and the collected information and the reserved matter are compared with each other so that an impediment in executing the reserved matter is extracted to make the presentation or vicarious execution of a new portable information terminal (or reservation), and a device such as a portable information terminal which is used in such a system.
Other objects of the present invention are to provide an information service in which information of a status as an obstacle to the execution of a matter reserved by a user in advance is provided and to provide a status adapted planning support method in which information from a status information provider to present that information service is acquired on occasion by use of communication means and a new plan is formed and presented on the basis of the acquired information.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a method in which the judgement of whether or not the execution is possible is made by estimating the user's action at the present time on the basis of status information acquired by use of communication means and the position of a user acquired by use of a self-position measuring system, and a device such as a portable information terminal which uses such a method.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
To achieve the above object, the present invention comprises a plurality of status information providing means connected to a communication network and a portable information terminal connected to the communication network by use of radio, the portable information terminal being provided with plan storing means for storing the content of a plan, status information collecting and judging means for collecting status information related to a change of the plan content from the status information providing means through the communication network and comparing the collected information and the plan content to judge whether or not the plan content is to be changed, alternative plan generating means for collecting, in the case where the status information collecting and judging means judges said plan content as being to be changed, information related to an alternative plan to formulate the alternative plan, and plan change executing means for cancelling the present plan and storing the alternative plan into the plan storing means.
Also, for example, for a reservation attendant upon a plan, the present invention comprises a reservation center and status information providing means which are connected to a communication network and a portable information terminal which is connected to the communication network by use of radio, in which the portable information terminal includes reserving means for making access to the reservation center to make a reservation, status information monitoring means for collecting, from the status information providing means through the communication network, information of a status which causes the falling of the execution of the reserved matter into a difficult situation, and making in accordance with a change of the collected status information the judgement of whether or not the execution of the reserved matter becomes difficult, and status change coping means for making the presentation or vicarious execution of an action to be taken next by a user by means of a display device when the status information monitoring means judges the execution of the reserved matter as being difficult.
Further, the portable information terminal is further provided with storing means, and the reserving means is provided for displaying information representative of the objects of reservation on the display device and for making access to the reservation center in regard to an object of reservation selected by the user to make a reservation to the reservation center and holding the reserved matter into the storing means.
Also, the status information monitoring means may be provided with means for selecting status information provided by the status information providing means to extract necessary information, and means for making in accordance with the extracted information the judgement of whether or not the execution of the reserved matter held in the storing means falls into a difficult situation.
Further, the status information monitoring means may be provided with means for receiving information from another portable information terminal in said mobile communication system through said radio communication device, and means for making on the basis of the received information the judgement of whether or not the execution of the reserved matter held in said storing means falls into a difficult situation.
Further, the portable information terminal may be further provided with a self-position measuring device, and the status information monitoring means is provided with means for determining the shortest movement time to a place for execution of the reserved matter held in the storing means on the basis of positional information acquired by the self-position measuring device, and means for making in accordance with the result of determination the judgement of whether or not the execution of the reserved matter held in the storing means falls into a difficult situation.
Further, the status change coping means may be provided with means for informing the user that the execution of the reserved matter held in the storing means is falling into a difficult situation.
Further, the status change coping means may be provided with means for making access to the reservation center to cancel the reservation held in the storing means.
Further, the status change coping means may be provided with means for determining the shortest movement time to a place to execution of the reserved matter held in the storing me
Hoshi Tohru
Okayama Masataka
Antonelli, Terry Stout & Kraus, LLP.
Hitachi , Ltd.
Kazimi Hani M.
Stamber Eric W.
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