Abstract: To make it possible to appropriately provide content information to a user terminal by using position information of the user terminal. An information providing apparatus (10a, 10) includes a storage unit (102a) configured to store position information associated with a position on a map, content information associated with the position information, and an attribute corresponding to the content information, and a control unit (101a) configured to output first content information to a user terminal based on position information acquired from the user terminal, and then output second content information associated with an attribute of the first content information to the user terminal.

Abstract: To make it possible to set an appropriate advertisement spot in accordance with a content service. An information providing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store position information associated with a position on a route, and content information associated with the position information, and a control unit configured to provide first content information associated with first position information acquired from a user terminal based on the first position information. The control unit sets an advertisement spot having an attribute associated with an attribute of the first content information provided at a first position at a second position on the route, the second position being a predetermined distance apart from the first position.

Abstract: When a hierarchy for which matching is performed is higher than a reference hierarchy, a matching portion sets the sum of values set in the reference hierarchy for a value in the hierarchy for which matching is performed. When the hierarchy for which matching is performed is lower than the reference hierarchy, the matching portion distributes the value set in the reference hierarchy in proportion of the values set in the hierarchy for which matching is performed. Therefore, data match is achieved through all hierarchies, and the data can be managed in a centralized manner.

Abstract: A composite ferrite cloth having ferro-magnetic property weaved with composite ferrite textile has been found. The composite ferrite textile is the mixture of ferrite powder and the binder for coupling the same. The binder may be a high molecule compound like plastics, or glass with low melting point. The composite textile may be produced either by slicing a composite ferrite sheet attached on a plastics substrate, depositing composite ferrite paint around a core textile similar to the producing process of an electric wire, or just mixing ferrite powder with plastics or glass. The ferrite cloth which is weaved with composite ferrite textile is flexible and has many fields of application.