(19)
(11) EP 1 098 286 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
21.11.2001 Bulletin 2001/47

(43) Date of publication A2:
09.05.2001 Bulletin 2001/19

(21) Application number: 00250369.6

(22) Date of filing: 04.11.2000
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7G08G 1/09, H04H 1/00, G06F 17/60
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK RO SI

(30) Priority: 04.11.1999 JP 31439499

(71) Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
Tokyo (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Shimazu, Hideo
    Minato-ku, Tokyo (JP)

(74) Representative: Patentanwälte Wenzel & Kalkoff 
Grubesallee 26
22143 Hamburg
22143 Hamburg (DE)

   


(54) Method for providing broadcasting program and apparatus for the same


(57) An apparatus and method are provided for broadcasting a commercial a minimum number of times at a specified interval, which is guaranteed to a sponsor, even when the commercial would not meet tastes of a user or would not be fully suitable to conditions of time and/or places on a user side. A broadcasting program providing apparatus to provide a broadcasting program in a manner to match conditions on a program receiving user who is moving is composed of a broadcasting program storing section (1) having an attribute value storing sectionn (2), a previous broadcast time storing section (3), a broadcasting interval storing section (4), a broadcasting interval storing section (5) and a matching degree storing section (6), wherein the difference between a date and/or time when a program was broadcast last time and a present date and/or time is compared with a value stored in the broadcasting interval storing section (4) for each broadcasting program and a weight is calculated based on a difference and a value obtained by multiplying the calculated weight by a value output from an attribute matching degree calculating section (9) is stored in the matching degree storing section (6).







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