US 11,797,630 B2
Method for providing information, method for controlling communication terminal, communication terminal, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing program
Hiroshi Yahata, Osaka (JP); Takahiro Nishi, Nara (JP); Tadamasa Toma, Osaka (JP); Toshiyasu Sugio, Osaka (JP); Christopher John Wright, London (GB); Bernadette Elliott Bowman, London (GB); and David Michael Duffy, Zurich (CH)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Sep. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/468,741.
Application 17/468,741 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/029915, filed on Aug. 5, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-106431 (JP), filed on Jun. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0406330 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06Q 50/12 (2012.01); H04W 4/35 (2018.01); G06F 16/9538 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/9537 (2019.01) [G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/9538 (2019.01); G06Q 50/12 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/35 (2018.02)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing information used in an information management system that provides a food search screen, the food search screen being provided with, as one of search filters, a search filter for filtering foods or restaurants on a basis of results of evaluation of the foods or the restaurants performed by a resident of a certain area, the method comprising:
obtaining, over a network, address information indicating an address of a user of a communication terminal;
obtaining, from the communication terminal, first data indicating a value input in a measurement test relating to the user's sense of taste, the measurement test relating to the user's sense of taste being conducted to measure the user's taste sensitivity;
obtaining, from the communication terminal, evaluation information indicating evaluation of a food or a restaurant performed by the user;
generating a score of the user's sense of taste on a basis of the address information and the first data and associating the score with the user and the address indicated by the address information; and
including, if the address indicated by the address information is included in the certain area and if the score of the user's sense of taste satisfies a certain condition for taste high scorers residing in the certain area, the evaluation information indicating the evaluation of the food or the restaurant performed by the user in the results of the evaluation of the foods or the restaurants performed by the resident of the certain area.