Information providing apparatus for providing reservation information with reduced response delay, information providing method, information providing program, and recording medium
US9916544B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 24, 2012 |
| Grant date | Mar 13, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 27, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/568
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An information providing apparatus caches, based on a number of reservation remains which is periodically acquired from a management apparatus managing numbers of reservation remains of services, a number of remains of a reservation target in a cache means for each reservation target identified by a combination of a service and a time of providing the service; estimates, for each of a plurality of reservation targets corresponding to a request of a user, a probability that information related to a reservation target is browsed by the user; acquires the number of remains of a reservation target where the probability is greater than or equal to a threshold value from the management apparatus and acquires the number of remains of a reservation target where the probability is smaller than the threshold value from the cache means; and provides a state of remains of each of the plurality of reservation targets, the state of remains corresponding to the number of remains.
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