Inside-vehicle information communication method, inside-vehicle information communication apparatus, inside-vehicle information communication system, inside-vehicle information communication program, recording medium storing the inside-vehicle information communication program, vehicle-provided communication network system, and information recording medium issuing apparatus
First Claim
1. An inside-vehicle information communication method, comprising the steps of:
- causing a server, provided in a vehicle, to output a request for vehicle using right information, possessed by a user, to an electric device possessed by the user, upon receipt of a request for connection outputted by the electric device;
causing the server to receive the vehicle using right information, outputted from the electric device upon receipt of the request for the vehicle using right information; and
causing the server to confirm whether the electric device has the using right of the vehicle or not, in accordance with the vehicle using right information, and to allow an electric device having the using right to be connected to the server.
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Abstract
An inside-vehicle information communication method, includes the steps of: causing a server, provided in a vehicle, to output a request for vehicle using right information, possessed by a user, to an electric device possessed by the user, upon receipt of a request for connection outputted by the electric device; causing the server to receive the vehicle using right information, outputted from the electric device upon receipt of the request for the vehicle using right information; and causing the server to confirm whether the electric device has the using right of the vehicle or not, in accordance with the vehicle using right information, and to allow an electric device having the using right to be connected to the server. Thus, the server can be connected to only the electric device having the using right, so that it is possible for users to receive information communication service by performing a simple procedure.
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33 Claims
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1. An inside-vehicle information communication method, comprising the steps of:
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causing a server, provided in a vehicle, to output a request for vehicle using right information, possessed by a user, to an electric device possessed by the user, upon receipt of a request for connection outputted by the electric device;
causing the server to receive the vehicle using right information, outputted from the electric device upon receipt of the request for the vehicle using right information; and
causing the server to confirm whether the electric device has the using right of the vehicle or not, in accordance with the vehicle using right information, and to allow an electric device having the using right to be connected to the server.
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2. An inside-vehicle information communication method, comprising the steps of:
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causing a server, provided in a vehicle, to output requests for vehicle using right information, possessed by users, to electric devices possessed by the users, upon receipt of requests for connection outputted by the electric devices;
causing the server to receive the vehicle using right information, outputted from the electric devices upon receipt of the requests for the vehicle using right information;
causing the server to confirm whether the electric devices have the using right of the vehicle or not, in accordance with the vehicle using right information, and to allow electric devices having the using right to be connected to the server;
causing the server, provided in the vehicle, to output requests for private information, used to specify the electric devices, to the electric devices allowed to be connected to the server;
causing the server to receive the private information outputted from the electric devices upon receipt of the requests for the private information; and
causing the server to specify the electric devices in accordance with the private information. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An inside-vehicle information communication apparatus which is provided in a vehicle so as to transmit and receive information to and from an electric device possessed by a user of the vehicle, comprising:
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communication means for transmitting and receiving the information to and from the electric device; and
a managing section (a) for outputting a request for vehicle using right information, possessed by a user, to the electric device possessed by the user, upon receipt of a request for connection outputted from the electric device, (b) for receiving the vehicle using right information via the communication means, (c) for confirming whether the electric device has the using right or not in accordance with the vehicle using right information, and (d) for allowing an electric device having the using right to be connected to the inside-vehicle information communication apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (11, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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12. An inside-vehicle information communication system, comprising:
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an inside-vehicle information communication apparatus which is provided in a vehicle so as to transmit and receive information to and from an electric device possessed by a user of the vehicle; and
an electric device, said apparatus including;
communication means for transmitting and receiving the information to and from the electric device; and
a managing section (a) for outputting a request for vehicle using right information, possessed by the user, to the electric device possessed by the user, upon receipt of a request for connection outputted from the electric device, (b) for receiving the vehicle using right information via the communication means, (c) for confirming whether the user has the using right or not in accordance with the vehicle using right information, and (d) for allowing an electric device having the using right to be connected to the inside-vehicle information communication apparatus, said electric device including;
(a) a radio section for transmitting and receiving information to and from communication means of the inside-vehicle information communication apparatus;
(b) a memory section for saving vehicle using right information and private information; and
(c) a controlling section for controlling the radio section and the memory section.
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13. An inside-vehicle information communication system, comprising:
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a vehicle for carrying users; and
an inside-vehicle information communication apparatus which is provided in a vehicle so as to transmit and receive information to and from an electric device possessed by a user of the vehicle, said inside-vehicle information communication apparatus including;
communication means for transmitting and receiving the information to and from the electric device; and
a managing section (a) for outputting a request for vehicle using right information, possessed by the user, to the electric device possessed by the user, upon receipt of a request for connection outputted from the electric device, (b) for receiving the vehicle using right information via the communication means, (c) for confirming whether the user has the using right or not in accordance with the vehicle using right information, and (d) for allowing an electric device having the using right to be connected to the inside-vehicle information communication apparatus.
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16. An inside-vehicle information communication program, wherein a server, provided in a vehicle, is made to execute respective steps of an inside-vehicle information communication method, said method comprising the steps of:
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causing a server, provided in a vehicle, to output a request for vehicle using right information, possessed by a user, to an electric device possessed by the user, upon receipt of a request for connection outputted by the electric device;
causing the server to receive the vehicle using right information, outputted from the electric device upon receipt of the request for the vehicle using right information; and
causing the server to confirm whether the electric device has the using right or not, in accordance with the vehicle using right information, and to allow an electric device having the using right to be connected to the server.
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17. A recording medium, which stores an inside-vehicle information communication program for making a server, provided in a vehicle, execute respective steps of an inside-vehicle information communication method, said method comprising the steps of:
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causing a server, provided in a vehicle, to output a request for vehicle using right information, possessed by a user, to an electric device possessed by the user, upon receipt of a request for connection outputted by the electric device;
causing the server to receive the vehicle using right information, outputted from the electric device upon receipt of the request for the vehicle using right information; and
causing the server to confirm whether the electric device has the using right or not, in accordance with the vehicle using right information, and to allow an electric device having the using right to be connected to the server.
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18. A vehicle-provided communication network system, comprising a server, provided in a vehicle, and an information communication terminal, which performs information communication between the server and the information communication terminal, wherein:
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the information communication terminal which has (a) reading means for reading a using condition to use the system from a first information recording medium in which the using condition is recorded, and (b) transmitting means for transmitting the using condition, read by the reading means, to the server; and
the server which has (a) memory means for storing the using condition to use the system, (b) a first checking means for checking the using condition, transmitted from the transmitting means, with the using condition, stored in the memory means, and (c) communication controlling means which enables information communication, performed between the server and the information communication terminal, only in a case where the first checking means judges that the both using conditions are identical to each other.
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19. A vehicle-provided communication network system which performs information communication between a server, provided in a vehicle, and an information communication terminal, comprising:
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the server which has (a) external communication means for performing the information communication with a information communication apparatus outside the vehicle, and (b) memory means for saving identification information of a portable communication terminal connected to the information communication terminal; and
means for performing a relay with respect to communication performed between the information communication apparatus and the portable communication terminal, or receiving information transmitted from the information communication apparatus, instead of the portable communication terminal, in a case where the external communication means receives the information transmitted from the information communication apparatus to the portable communication terminal, the information being the identification information stored in the memory means.
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23. An information recording medium issuing apparatus which issues a first recording medium storing a using condition to use a vehicle-provided communication network system in which information communication is performed between a server and a information communication terminal, and sets a first using condition to use the vehicle-provided communication network system and a second using condition to use the vehicle in advance, comprising:
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a third reading means for reading a third using condition from a second information recording medium in which the third using condition to use the vehicle is stored;
a second reading means for reading the second using condition that has been set;
a second checking means for checking the second using condition, read by the second reading means, with the third using condition, read by the third reading means;
a first reading means for reading the first using condition that has been set; and
first recording means for recording the first using condition in the first recording medium, whereinsaid recording means records the first using condition in the first information recording medium, when the second checking means judges that the second using condition is identical to the third using condition.
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24. An information recording medium issuing apparatus which issues a third information recording medium recording a using condition to use a vehicle-provided communication network system in which information communication is performed between a server and a information communication terminal, and a using condition to use a vehicle, and sets a first using condition to use the vehicle-provided communication network system and a second using condition to use the vehicle in advance, comprising:
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outputting means for outputting a third using condition to use the vehicle;
a second reading means for reading the second using condition that has been set;
a second checking means for checking the second using condition read by the second reading means with the third using condition outputted by said outputting means;
a first reading means for reading the first using condition that has been set; and
a second recording means for recording the first using condition, and the second using condition, in a third information recording medium, whereinthe second recording means records the first using condition and the second using condition in the third information recording medium, when the second checking means judges that the second using condition is identical to the third using condition.
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31. A vehicle-provided communication network system, comprising a server, said server including:
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communication means for performing communication with a information communication terminal;
memory means for storing a using condition to use the system;
a first checking means for checking a using condition, received via the communication means from the information communication terminal, with the using condition stored in the memory means; and
communication controlling means which enables information communication performed between the information communication terminal and the server only in a case where the first checking means judges that the both using conditions are identical to each other.
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32. An inside-vehicle information communication method, comprising the steps of:
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causing a server, provided in a vehicle, to receive vehicle using right information outputted from an electric device, possessed by a user of the vehicle, which outputs a request for connection to the server; and
causing the server to confirm whether the electric device has using right of the vehicle or not, in accordance with the vehicle using right information, and to allow an electric device having the using right to be connected to the server.
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33. An inside-vehicle information communication apparatus which is provided in a vehicle so as to transmit and receive information to and from an electric device possessed by a user of the vehicle, comprising:
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communication means for transmitting and receiving the information to and from the electric device; and
a managing section for (a) receiving vehicle using right information, outputted from the electric device which requests the inside-vehicle information communication apparatus to connect to the electric device, via the communication means, and (b) for confirming whether the electric device has the using right or not in accordance with the vehicle using right information, and (c) for allowing an electric device having the using right to be connected to the inside-vehicle information communication apparatus.
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Specification