US 11,895,110 B2
Information provision system, information provision method, and storage medium
Chisato Funayama, Tokyo (JP); Masato Tsukada, Tokyo (JP); Keiichi Chono, Tokyo (JP); Yuka Ogino, Tokyo (JP); Hiroshi Imai, Tokyo (JP); Shoji Yachida, Tokyo (JP); and Takashi Shibata, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/294,795
Filed by NEC Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 21, 2018, PCT No. PCT/JP2018/042998
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 18, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/105142, PCT Pub. Date May 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0409396 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/0861 (2013.01) [H04L 63/0492 (2013.01); H04L 63/107 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information provision system comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor coupled to the memory,
the at least one processor performing operations to:
store, for each of a plurality of articles distributed to an authentication target, feature information in which a feature of the article is associated with device information of a notification device;
authenticate an authentication target using an image obtained by imaging the authentication target, the authentication target holding one of the plurality of articles in the image;
acquire the device information associated with the one of the plurality of articles held by the authentication target in the image, based on the feature information for the one of the plurality of articles held by the authentication target in the image;
determine a transmission destination of information regarding a result of the authentication to notify the authentication target of the result of the authentication according to information regarding the authentication target or a situation of the authentication target, the transmission destination including the notification device indicated by the device information associated with the one of the plurality of articles held by the authentication target in the image; and
transmit the information to the determined transmission destination, including instructing the notification device indicated by the device notification associated with the one of the plurality of articles held by the authentication target in the image to issue a notification of the information regarding the result of the authentication.