JPH08331654A - Information providing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To efficiently receive the providing of desired service. CONSTITUTION: When a user transmits a desired service request to a base station 22 by a portable terminal 21, this service request is received by a prescribed server 211 via a simple type portable telephone system network 23 and the request is transmitted to a client 27 who can provide the service requested by the user, for instance. The client 27 transmits the response information for this request to the portable terminal 21 via the server 24. When the user judges that the desired service can be obtained from the client 27 based on this response information, the user requests the client 27 to provide the service.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information providing system, and more particularly to an information providing system suitable for use in a simple mobile phone system or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 13 is a diagram showing the concept of a conventional information providing system. The mobile terminal 11 such as a mobile phone can receive a network service owned by a wireless communication carrier, and can access the database 15 or the center 16 via the network 14. Further, from the public telephone 12 through the public line network 13, the database 15 or the center 16
Has been made accessible to.

In order to obtain the information currently required by a subscriber (user) of a predetermined information providing system, a mobile terminal 11 is used to obtain information as shown in FIG.
It is general that the database 15 is accessed through 4 or the public telephone 12 is used to access the database 15 through the public line network 13.

When a user makes a predetermined request by accessing the database 15 using the public telephone 12, the database 15 retrieves predetermined service information in accordance with the request and sends it through the public line network 13. And sends it to the public telephone 12. On the other hand, when the user makes a predetermined request by accessing the database 15 using the mobile terminal 11, the database 15 searches for predetermined service information in accordance with the request, and retrieves the predetermined service information via the network 14 from the mobile terminal. Send to 11.

At this time, the database 15 and the public telephone 12 or the mobile terminal 11 which the user is currently using until there is a predetermined response from the database 15 to the user.
The line between and remains connected.

Next, for example, when the information corresponding to the current position of the user and the information desired to be provided are transmitted to the center 16, a taxi as an example of an information providing system in which the desired information is transmitted to the present position. The boarding system will be described.

[0007] Usually, a user who wants to take a taxi notifies the center 16 of the taxi company by using the public telephone 12 or the mobile terminal 11. The center 16 of the taxi company that has received the communication from the user communicates with the taxi owned by the company so that the distance between the user's current position and each taxi is the shortest or the user's current taxi. A predetermined taxi is selected based on a criterion such as whether the position is a taxi passage or not, and the user is notified of the arrival time of the taxi.

[0008]

By the way, in the above-mentioned conventional information providing system, the user is the center 16
Since it is often the case that the user does not know the telephone number of the center 16, the user needs to look up the telephone number of the center 16 by using a means different from this information providing system such as a telephone directory. Since each user independently exists, if the user refuses to provide desired information or service at a predetermined center 16,
Until you get the information or services you want,
Since it is necessary to continue to request the provision of desired information or service to a different center (not shown) other than the center 16, there is a problem that the burden on the user is heavy.

Further, when the user requests the center 16 to provide a desired service, the call state must be maintained until the center 16 sends a reply to the service, which causes a call charge during that period. There was an issue that was the economy. Further, if the access fee for the database 15 is also set corresponding to the usage time,
There was a problem that it became relatively expensive.

Further, the center 16 cannot know the current position of the user unless the user is informed of it. Therefore, when the user accesses the center 16, the user has to inform the current position of the user each time, which causes a heavy burden on the user.

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and reduces the burden and charge on the user side when the user requests the provision of desired information or service, and promptly locates at the user's current position. It enables the provision of information and services.

[0012]

According to a first aspect of the information providing system of the present invention, a terminal identifies a terminal for detecting a position of the terminal, position information corresponding to the position detected by the detecting means, and the terminal. Transmission means for transmitting request information including an identification number and additional information indicating the content of the request to the server, reception means for receiving response information corresponding to the request information from the server, and control for controlling the transmission means and the reception means. And means.

According to another aspect of the information providing system of the present invention, the server includes request information including position information corresponding to the position of the terminal transmitted from the terminal, an identification number for identifying the terminal, and additional information indicating the content of the request. Based on the determination result by the determination unit that determines the request content of the terminal from the receiving unit that receives the, and the additional information included in the request information,
And a transmission means for transmitting response information corresponding to the request information to the terminal.

In the information providing system according to claim 1, the detecting means detects the position of the terminal, and the transmitting means,
Request information consisting of position information corresponding to the position detected by the detecting means, an identification number for identifying the terminal, and additional information indicating the content of the request is transmitted to the server, and the receiving means responds to the request information from the server. Upon receiving the response information, the control means controls the transmitting means and the receiving means.

In the information providing system according to the seventh aspect, the receiving means comprises position information corresponding to the position of the terminal transmitted from the terminal, an identification number for identifying the terminal, and additional information representing the content of the request. Upon receiving the request information, the determining unit determines the request content of the terminal from the additional information included in the request information, and the transmitting unit sends the response information corresponding to the request information to the terminal based on the determination result by the determining unit. Send.

[0016]

1 is a diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of an information providing system of the present invention. The mobile terminal 21 subscribes to a simple mobile phone system (hereinafter referred to as PHS) of a predetermined business operator, and a base station 22 owned by the business operator,
Also, it is possible to access the server 24, which is connected thereto by a predetermined dedicated cable or the like, via the simplified mobile phone system network 23.

The server 24 processes the agent's (subscriber's) agent, ie, the identification number of the base station 22 closest to the user's current location, and the request information consisting of the user's subscriber number and additional information, Based on this, the database 26, the sub server 25, or the client 27, which will be described later, can be accessed.

The sub server 25 processes the agent sent from the server 24. In addition, the database 26
Stores the information, and the client 27 receives the service request agent to which the predetermined request is added as the additional information, which is transmitted from the server 24, and performs a reply process to the service request agent.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the mobile terminal 21 shown in FIG. CPU 101 (control means,
The detection means) is adapted to execute various processes in accordance with the programs stored in the ROM 102.
The ROM 102 also stores the ID number of the mobile terminal 21. The RAM 103 appropriately stores data necessary for the CPU 101 to execute various processes.

The input unit 107 is appropriately operated when a predetermined command is input to the CPU 101. The display unit 106 is composed of, for example, a liquid crystal display, and has predetermined characters,
Graphic or image is displayed. The recording / reproducing device 108 includes a magnetic disk, a magneto-optical disk,
Predetermined data can be recorded on a recording medium such as an IC card and reproduced.

Communication device 105 (transmitting means, receiving means)
Transmits data to the base station 22 or the base station 2
It is adapted to receive data supplied via 2. The interface 104 is arranged between the communication device 105 to the input unit 107 and the CPU 101, and executes interface processing.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of the server 24 shown in FIG. The CPU 201 (determining means, response content determining means, requesting means) is adapted to execute various processes in accordance with programs stored in the ROM 202. The RAM 203 stores data necessary for the CPU 201 to execute various processes as appropriate.

The input unit 207 is appropriately operated when a predetermined command is input to the CPU 201. The display unit 206 is composed of, for example, a CRT, a liquid crystal display, or the like, and is configured to display predetermined characters, figures, or images. The recording / reproducing device 208 can record predetermined data on a recording medium such as a magnetic disk, a magneto-optical disk, an IC card, etc., and reproduce it.

The communication device 205 (reception means, transmission means, transfer means) transmits data to the base station 22,
It is adapted to receive data supplied via the base station 22. The interface 204 is the communication device 20.
5 to the input unit 207 and the CPU 201,
Perform interface processing.

As described above, the configuration of the server 24 is basically the same as the configuration of the portable terminal 21 shown in FIG. 2, but the scale, processing performance, and processing speed are different. Further, the configurations of the sub server 25, the client 27, and the database 26 are basically the same as the configurations of the server 24 shown in FIG. 3, and therefore illustration and description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a sequence of an operation example of the embodiment shown in FIG. The operation of the above embodiment will be described below with reference to FIGS.

When the user wants to receive the information of the service providing company or the service, the user uses the portable terminal 21 to access the server 24 of the service providing company. At this time, first in step S300,
Communication device 10 controlled by CPU 101 of mobile terminal 21
5 transmits a line connection request to the nearest base station 22, and secures a wireless link channel between the mobile terminal 21 and the nearest base station 22.

When the wireless link channel is secured,
In step S301, the base station 22 transmits a wireless link channel establishment response (line connection response) indicating that the wireless link channel has been established to the mobile terminal 21. As a result, a communication link is established in step S302 (detection means), and a call and data can be exchanged between the mobile terminal 21 and the server 24 via the simplified mobile phone system network 23. At this time, the CPU 10
1 acquires the base station ID number (identification number for identifying the base station) of the base station 22 that has established the wireless link, as information indicating the current position.

Next, in step S303 (transmitting means), the communication device 105 controlled by the CPU 101 of the portable terminal 21 transmits the service request agent to the server 24 via the simplified portable telephone system network 23. This service request agent is, as described above, the base station ID number of the base station 22 that has established the wireless link (obtained in step S302), the subscriber number of the user (terminal 2).
1 (identification number for identifying 1) (stored in the ROM 102) and additional information (input by the input unit 107) indicating the content of the request such as service type.

The service type, etc., is determined by the portable terminal 21.
Can be assigned to various keys of, and operated by operating the keys, or a menu can be displayed on the display unit 106 to select and input from the menu.

Then, in step S304 (reception means), the communication device 205 of the server 24 causes the portable terminal 2 to operate.
A service request agent from 1 is received. Further, in step S305, the CPU of the mobile terminal 21
101 controls the communication device 105 to disconnect the communication link. The disconnection of the communication link can be performed by the communication device 205 of the server 24. As a result, it is possible to save a charge corresponding to the usage time such as a call charge and a usage charge.

Next, in step S306 (determining means), the CPU 201 of the server 24 recognizes the service requested by the user from the service request agent of the mobile terminal 21 received by the communication device 205, and then in step S3.
In 07 (requesting means), the base station ID number, subscriber number, and additional information from the user are sent to the database 26, the sub server 25, or the client 27 (other device) capable of providing the service by the communication device 205. Send Agents Including.

When the destination of this agent from the server 24 is the database 26, in step S308, the CPU 201 of the database 26 performs a predetermined process to answer the service request from the user, and then proceeds to step S309. , Service request response information by the communication device 205 (this response information also includes the base station ID number, user's subscriber number, and additional information)
To the server 24.

When the destination of the agent from the server 24 is a client, there are a plurality of clients, and therefore in step S307 the agent is transmitted to all the clients. C of each client
In step S308, each of the PUs 201 performs a predetermined process to respond to the service request from the user, and then proceeds to step S309, in which the communication device 205 transmits an agent including the service request response information to the server 24.

The server 24 (response content determination means) that has received the agent from each client selects all service request response information or selects client information that matches the service request condition from the user.
Create a response agent to the user.

When the destination of the agent from the server 24 is the sub server 25, the sub server 25 transmits the service request agent from the user to a plurality of clients (not shown) connected thereto, and the response from the client is sent. After receiving the agent, all the service request response information contained therein or the information of the client which matches the service request condition from the user is selected and transmitted to the server 24 as a response agent.

Client 27 or database 26
CPU 201 determines the current position of the user from the base station ID number included in the agent from the user.
This is because the radius of the coverage area of the PHS base station 22 is about 100 meters (m) as shown in FIG. 5, and the radius around the base station 22 where the wireless link with the mobile terminal 21 is established is the center. This is because the user can be in the area of 100 m.

In this case, however, the client 27 or the recording / reproducing device 208 of the database 26 is made to store the base station ID number and the corresponding position such as latitude, longitude and address in advance as shown in FIG. Every time, it is necessary to know where the base station having the predetermined base station ID number is.

When the necessary response information is collected in the server 24 in this way, the process proceeds to step S310 and the server 2
The communication device 205 controlled by the CPU 201 of No. 4 makes a line connection request to the simplified mobile phone system network 23 in order to transmit the response information to the mobile terminal 21. And
After the communication link is established in step S311, the agent including the service response information is transmitted to the mobile terminal 21 in step S312 (transmission means, transfer means).

Next, in step S313 (reception means), the communication device 105 of the portable terminal 21 causes the server 2
4 is received and confirmed by the CPU 201 of the server 24, in step S314, the CPU 201 of the server 24
The communication device 205 is instructed to disconnect the communication link. The communication device 205 disconnects the communication link according to an instruction from the CPU 201. The mobile terminal 21 can also disconnect the communication link.

In this way, the user can access the predetermined server 2
The client 27, which can automatically provide the service corresponding to the service request by automatically accessing the user's current position (without specially performing a predetermined input) by accessing 4 and making a predetermined service request, The response information from the sub server 25 or the database 26 can be obtained. This response information is stored in the recording / reproducing device 10 of the mobile terminal 21.
It is possible to record it in 8. The recorded information can be played back as appropriate, displayed on the display unit 106, and used.

Further, for example, when the received response information is a telephone number, the telephone number may be further called to access the desired client or database to receive the intended service. it can.

At this time, the communication link remains disconnected until the response information is returned after the mobile terminal 21 accesses the client 27, the sub server 25, or the database 26. Therefore, it is possible to save the line usage fee and the access fee during that period.

Next, a taxi boarding service system to which the information providing system of the present invention is applied will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 7, clients 55 to 57 are connected to the server 24 of the embodiment of FIG. The clients 55 to 57 are clients of taxi operating companies. The rest of the configuration is the same as that of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, and therefore its explanation is omitted here.

Next, the operation will be described. First, a user who wants to take a taxi operates the mobile terminal 21 to include a service request agent (additional information about the nearest base station ID and user's subscriber number) that includes additional information of a service type indicating that he wants to take a taxi. Is also included) is transmitted to the server 24. At this time, the additional information may include a desire to take a taxi anyway soon.

The CPU 201 of the server 24 having received the service request agent from the user first recognizes from the service type included in the additional information that the service requested by the user is the taxi boarding service, and The communication device 205 transmits an agent including information corresponding to the user's request to each of the connected clients 55 to 57 that provide the taxi boarding service.

The client 55, which has received the agent from the server 24, discriminates where the user is now (the user's current position) from the base station ID number, and determines this to all taxis owned by the company. , MCA
Contact via a communication device such as (Multi-Channel Access).

When the taxi receives information from the client 55 regarding the user's wishes and the user's current approximate location, the taxi informs the client 55 by MCA of the location of the user. When a taxi that can be dispatched is found under the user, the client 55 transmits an agent including additional information such as contact information (phone number) of the client 55 and arrival time of the taxi to the server 24 as additional information. on the other hand,
If a taxi that can reach the user's place is not found, an agent including information indicating that is sent to the server 24.

In the clients 56 and 57, basically the same processing as in the case of the client 55 is performed. Therefore, the description thereof is omitted here.

In the server 24, each client 5
All of the response information included in the additional information of the agents from 5 to 57 that match or almost match the request from the user are searched, and they are searched through the simplified mobile phone system network 23. It is transmitted to the mobile terminal 21 owned by the user.

Upon receipt of the response information from the server 24, the user who owns the portable terminal 21 informs the client destination he or she desires from the response information by using the PHS or the like to specify the detailed position information and designates the client. It will be possible to take a taxi at the scheduled time.

The above-described embodiment can be applied not only to the taxi boarding service but also to other services. That is, when another service is desired, the service request agent including the corresponding service type in the additional information is transmitted to the server 24. The server 24 that has received this service request agent determines, from the service type included in the additional information of this service request agent,
It recognizes the type of service requested by the user and sends this agent to the database, client, or subserver offering that service. In this way, it is possible to meet various service requests.

For example, FIG. 8 shows a configuration example of a system in the case where a user provides a search service for searching for a store, building, etc. closest to the current position. In this example, the store,
Database 71 that stores location information such as buildings
Are connected to the server 24.

When the user first wants to search for the nearest bank, for example, the input unit 10 of the mobile terminal 21 is first used.
Operate 7 and enter the service type that requires the search for the nearest bank. At this time, the CPU 101 transmits the additional information including the service type to the server 24 as request information. Of course, as in the case described above, the CPU
At this time, 101 acquires the base station ID number of the base station 22 and transmits this as the position information of the mobile terminal 21 together with the identification number of the mobile terminal 21.

The server 24 receiving the request agent from the user determines the current position of the portable terminal 21 from the position information included in the request agent. Further, the service content is discriminated from the service type included in the request agent, and the database 71 is searched for a bank near the mobile terminal 21.

When the server 24 acquires the information of the bank near the portable terminal 21 from the database 71 as the response information, the server 24 transmits the agent of this response information to the portable terminal 21. When the mobile terminal 21 receives the response information from the server 24, the mobile terminal 21 displays the response information on the display unit 106. Thereby, for example, a map showing the position of the nearest bank is displayed on the display unit 106 as the response information. The user can know the location of the nearest bank from this map.

In the above embodiment, the current position is obtained from the ID number of the base station 22, but the GPS (Gl
It is also possible to receive and detect the radio waves of the "Positioning System".

FIG. 9 shows a configuration example of the portable terminal 21 in this case. That is, in this configuration example, the GPS arithmetic circuit 82 is connected to the interface 104, the GPS arithmetic circuit 82 receives GPS radio waves via the GPS antenna 81, and the current signal of the mobile terminal 21 is received from the received signal. Calculate the position (latitude and longitude). CPU10
1 appropriately transmits the position information obtained by this calculation to the server 24.

Further, in the mobile terminal 21 shown in FIG. 10, the interface 104 is provided with VICS (Vehicle).
e Information and Communi
Vation with antenna 91
The ICS device 92 is connected. This VICS device 9
2 receives the electric wave transmitted from the beacon arranged at a predetermined position on the road via the VICS antenna 91, and detects the position information. This VICS
Is originally a system that provides road traffic information in real time, but since each beacon also transmits its position information, the current position of the mobile terminal 21 can be detected from the position information.

The position detection by this VICS is
It is also possible to perform it together with the position detection by the GPS shown in FIG.

FIG. 11 shows still another position detecting method. In this embodiment, a database 28 is connected to the simplified mobile phone system network 23. That is, the simplified mobile phone system network 23 detects the current position of the mobile terminal 21 at a predetermined cycle so that even if the mobile terminal 21 moves, the current position of the mobile terminal 21 can be transferred to the destination. It is designed to be registered in the database 28. Then, when transmitting a call signal to the mobile terminal 21, the registration information in the database 28 is searched to detect the current position of the mobile terminal 21. Then, the base station 22 near the detected position transmits a call signal to the mobile terminal 21.

When the CPU 101 of the portable terminal 21 detects the current position, the CPU 101 accesses the database 28 and receives the position information registered therein. Then, the position information received from the database 28 is output to the server 24 as the current position of the mobile terminal 21. The server 24 includes a table showing the correspondence between the registration information of the database 28 and the absolute position, and the absolute position is obtained from the registration information of the database 28 by referring to the table.

The database 28 is, for example, as shown in FIG.
As shown in, it is assumed that the number of the coverage area of each base station and the ID of the mobile terminal 21 currently located in the coverage area are registered. At this time, for example, the ID number 61
Since the mobile terminal 21 of 11 is located in the cover area 2, it is registered in the cover area 2. This mobile terminal 2
For example, when 1 moves to the cover area 1, the ID number 6111 of the mobile terminal is registered in the cover area 1. Thus, the database 28 stores the ID numbers of the mobile terminals 21 currently located in the respective areas.

On the other hand, in the server 24, as shown in FIG. 12B, the cover area and the position coordinates indicating the position thereof are registered as a table. In the case of this embodiment, the range of each cover area is represented by latitude and longitude.

For example, the portable terminal 21 with the ID number 6111
When it is transmitted from the database 28 that the mobile terminal 2 is located in the area 2, the server 24 refers to the table shown in FIG.
1 is 35 degrees 55 minutes 15 seconds north latitude to 35 degrees 59 minutes 05 seconds and east longitude 132 degrees 16 minutes 10 seconds to 132 degrees 17 minutes 5
It is determined that it is located within the range of 0 seconds.

In the above embodiment, the client and the server are connected by using a predetermined dedicated line, but the connection is not limited to this.

[0067]

As described above, according to the information providing system of the first aspect, the terminal transmits the request information including the additional information indicating the content of the request to the server, so that the terminal user Can obtain the response information without directly knowing the request destination of the response information. This reduces the burden on the user when making a service request.

Further, since the position information and the identification number are transmitted together with the additional information, it is possible to easily and quickly receive the requested service at the location of the user. Furthermore, it becomes possible to connect the communication line between them only when transmitting information from the terminal to the server or from the server to the terminal,
It becomes possible to save the line usage fee and the access fee.

According to the information providing system of claim 7, since the server receives the request information including the additional information indicating the content of the request, the user who does not directly know the request destination of the response information. Response information can also be provided to more users, and the information can be provided to a greater number of users, so that the information utilization efficiency can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of an information providing system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of a mobile terminal 21 of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration example of the server of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a sequence diagram showing a processing example of the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a coverage area of a base station of the simplified mobile phone system.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a table storing a correspondence relationship between base station IDs and positions.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a taxi boarding system to which the information providing system of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a configuration example of an information search system to which the information providing system of the present invention is applied.

9 is a block diagram showing another configuration example of the mobile terminal 21 of FIG.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing still another configuration example of the mobile terminal 21 of FIG.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating location registration of a mobile terminal in a simple mobile phone system.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a table storing a correspondence relationship between a registered position of a mobile terminal and a current position.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a configuration of an example of a conventional information providing system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 mobile terminal 12 public telephone 13 public line network 14 network 15 database 16 center 21 mobile terminal 22 base station 23 simplified mobile telephone system network 24 server 25 sub-server 26 database 27 client 101 CPU 102 ROM 103 RAM 104 interface 105 communication device 106 Display unit 107 Input unit 108 Recording / reproducing device 201 CPU 202 ROM 203 RAM 204 Interface 205 Communication device 206 Display unit 207 Input unit 208 Recording / reproducing device

Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. An information providing system comprising: a server that provides predetermined information; and a terminal that is connected to the server via a wireless communication system and receives the information, wherein the terminal is the position of the terminal. Transmitting means for transmitting to the server, request information including a detecting means for detecting the position, position information corresponding to the position detected by the detecting means, an identification number for identifying the terminal, and additional information indicating the content of the request. An information providing system comprising: a receiving unit that receives response information corresponding to the request information from the server; and a control unit that controls the transmitting unit and the receiving unit. 2. The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the detecting means detects the position of the terminal from a radio wave by GPS. 3. The wireless communication system is a simplified mobile phone system, and the detection means detects an identification number of a base station of the simplified mobile phone system to which the terminal is connected as a position of the terminal. The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein: 4. The detecting means detects the position of the terminal from radio waves generated by VICS.
Information provision system described in. 5. The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the detecting unit detects a position of the terminal stored in the wireless communication system to which the terminal is connected. 6. The transmitting means temporarily releases the connection with the wireless communication system after transmitting the request information until receiving the response information, and the receiving means receives the response information. The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the information communication system reconnects with the wireless communication system when the information is provided. 7. An information providing system, comprising: a server that provides predetermined information; and a terminal that is connected to the server via a wireless communication system and receives the information, wherein the server transmits from the terminal. Receiving means for receiving request information comprising position information indicating the position of the terminal, identification number for identifying the terminal, and additional information indicating the content of the request, and the terminal based on the additional information included in the request information An information providing system, comprising: a determining unit that determines the request content of 1. and a transmitting unit that transmits response information corresponding to the request information to the terminal based on a determination result by the determining unit. 8. The server, in response to the determination result of the determination means, requesting means for requesting the other device to create the response information, and the other device corresponding to the request of the requesting means. 8. The information providing system according to claim 7, further comprising: a transfer unit that transfers the response information of 1. to the terminal. 9. The server further comprises response content determination means for determining the content of the response information from the additional information included in the response information from the other device, and the transfer means includes the response content. 9. The information providing system according to claim 8, wherein a predetermined one of the response information is transferred to the terminal based on the determination result by the determination means.