DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS, DATA TRANSFER METHOD, AND DATA TRANSFER PROGRAM

• US 20090293068A1
• Filed: 08/07/2006
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Yagiu, Riko
• Application Number:
  US12/373,144
• Publication Number:
  US 20090293068A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/318
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes

Abstract

A communication apparatus 110 may automatically extract data items that a user wishes to protect from data items stored in a data storing section 102, and then automatically transfer extracted data items to a communication device 200. A data storing section 102 may store data 1020. A data managing section 101 may automatically extract a data item to be transferred to the communication device 200 from the data items of the data 1020, with reference to protected data definition information 1040, and generate an additional information list 1050, in which the data item to be transferred is included. The data managing section 101 may transfer the data item to be transferred to the communication device 200 with reference to the additional information list 1050, when a power supply managing section 104 detects a power OFF event.

Claims

1. A data transfer apparatus comprising:

a communicating section that communicates with a previously specified data storage device,

a data storing section that stores data,

an event detecting section that detects a predetermined event, and

a data managing section that transfers the data stored in the data storing section to the data storage device, via the communicating section, when the event detecting section detects the predetermined event.

2. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the event detecting section detects a power OFF event, as the predetermined event, indicating a cutting off of operating power for the data transfer apparatus.

3. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data transfer apparatus is mounted on a mobile object.

4. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the event detecting section detects a power OFF event, as the predetermined event, indicating a cutting off of operating power for the data transfer apparatus, to which the event detecting section belongs.

5. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the event detecting section detects a stopped state of the mobile object, on which the data transfer apparatus is mounted, as the predetermined event.

6. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the data storing section stores protected data definition information that defines data to be protected, and

wherein the data managing section extracts a data item to be transferred from among items of the data stored in the data storing section, based on the protected data definition information stored in the data storing section, and transfers an extracted data item to the data storage device.

7. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 6, wherein an acquisition route of the data stored in the data storing section is managed,

wherein the protected data definition information stored in the data storing section includes correspondence relation information indicating a correspondence relation between the acquisition route of the data and whether the data is to be protected, and

wherein the data managing section extracts the data item to be transferred from among the items of the data stored in the data storing section, based on the correspondence relation information stored in the data storing section, and transfers an extracted data item to the data storage device.

8. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the protected data definition information stored in the data storing section includes protected file information that specifies a file to be protected, and

wherein the data managing section extracts the file specified by the protected data definition information from among the items of the data stored in the data storing section, based on the protected data definition information included in the protected data definition information, and transfers an extracted file to the data storage device.

9. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the data managing section, after transferring an item of the data stored in the data storing section to the data storage device, deletes an identical data item to a transferred data item from the data stored in the data storing section.

10. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the data managing section identifies a plurality of previously specified data storage devices by assigning priority, and transfers data to a data storage device whose assigned priority is high and which is available for communication among the plurality of data storage devices identified.

11. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the data storage device is capable of responding to predetermined inquiry information, and

wherein the data managing section transmits prior notice information informing of a data transfer in advance, as the predetermined inquiry information, to the data storage device via the communicating section, when the event detecting section detects the power OFF event, and transfers the data stored in the data storing section to the data storage device upon receipt of a response to the prior notice information from the data storage device.

12. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the data storing section stores protected data definition information that defines data to be protected, and

wherein the data managing section extracts a data item to be transferred from among items of the data stored in the data storing section, based on the protected data definition information stored in the data storing section, and transfers an extracted data item to the data storage device.

13. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 12, wherein an acquisition route of the data stored in the data storing section is managed,

wherein the protected data definition information stored in the data storing section includes correspondence relation information indicating a correspondence relation between the acquisition route of the data and whether the data is to be protected, and

wherein the data managing section extracts the data item to be transferred from among the items of the data stored in the data storing section, based on the correspondence relation information stored in the data storing section, and transfers an extracted data item to the data storage device.

14. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 12 wherein the protected data definition information stored in the data storing section includes protected file information that specifies a file to be protected, and

wherein the data managing section extracts a file specified by the protected data definition information from among the items of the data stored in the data storing section, based on the protected data definition information included in the protected data definition information, and transfers an extracted file to the data storage device.

15. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 5 wherein the data managing section, after transferring an item of the data stored in the data storing section to the data storage device, deletes an identical data item to a transferred data item from the data stored in the data storing section.

16. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the data managing section identifies a plurality of previously specified data storage devices by assigning priority, and transfers data to a data storage device whose assigned priority is high and which is available for communication among the plurality of data storage devices identified.

17. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the data storage device is capable of responding to predetermined inquiry information, and

wherein the data managing section transmits prior notice information informing of a data transfer in advance to the data storage device via the communicating section, as the predetermined inquiry information, when the event detecting section detects the stopped state, and transfers the data stored in the data storing section to the data storage device upon receipt of a response to the prior notice information from the data storage device.

18. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communicating section receives protection indication information added data from an information transmission device, the protection indication information added data having protection indication information added to indicate that the data is to be protected,

wherein the data storing section stores the protection indication information added data received by the communicating section, and

wherein the data managing section transfers the protection indication information added data stored in the data storing section to the data storage device via the communicating section, when the event detecting section detects the predetermined event.

19. The data transfer apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data managing section determines whether the previously specified data storage device is available for communicating with the communicating section,

the data transfer apparatus further comprising:

a notification data generating section that generates predetermined notification data notifying that the data storage device is not available for communication with the communicating section, when the data managing section determines that the data storage device is not available for communication with the communicating section, and

an external output section that outputs the notification data generated by the notification data generating section to a predetermined device.

20. A mobile terminal apparatus, as a previously specified data storage device, comprising:

a receiving section that receives, from a data transfer apparatus, data transferred by a data managing section, and

a received data memory section that stores the data received by the receiving section,

wherein the data transfer apparatus includes,

a communicating section that communicates with the previously specified data storage device,

a data storing section that stores the data,

an event detecting section that detects a power OFF event indicating a cutting off of operating power for the data transfer apparatus, and

the data managing section that transfers the data stored in the data storing section to the data storage device via the communicating section, when the event detecting section detects the power OFF event.

21. The mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 20 further comprising:

a data updating section that updates the data stored in the data storing section, based on received data, when the receiving section receives the data from the data managing section.

22. The mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 20,

wherein the data managing section of the data transfer apparatus transmits prior notice information informing of a data transfer in advance via the communicating section when the event detecting section detects the power OFF event, and transfers the data stored in the data storing section upon receipt of response information in reply to the prior notice information, and

wherein the receiving section of the mobile terminal apparatus receives the prior notice information,

the mobile terminal apparatus further comprising:

a transmitting section that transmits information, and

a data requesting section that generates the response information upon receipt of a predetermined operation from a user, and transmits the response information generated to the data transfer apparatus via the transmitting section, when the receiving section receives the prior notice information from the data transfer apparatus.

23. A mobile terminal apparatus, as a previously specified data storage device, comprising:

a receiving section that receives data, from a data transfer apparatus, data transmitted by a data managing section, and

a received data memory section that stores the data received by the receiving section,

wherein the data transfer apparatus, which is mounted on a mobile object, includes,

a communicating section that communicates with the previously specified data storage device,

a data storing section that stores the data,

an event detecting section that detects a stopped state of the mobile object on which the data transfer apparatus is mounted, and

the data managing section that transfers the data stored in the data storing section to the data storage device via the communicating section, when the event detecting section detects the stopped state.

24. The mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 23 further comprising:

a data updating section that updates the data stored in the data storing section, based on received data, when the receiving section receives the data from the data managing section.

25. The mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 23,

wherein the data managing section of the data transfer apparatus transmits prior notice information informing of a data transfer in advance via the communicating section when the event detecting section detects the stopped state, and transfers the data stored in the data storing section upon receipt of response information in reply to the prior notice information, and

wherein the receiving section of the mobile terminal apparatus receives the prior notice information,

the mobile terminal apparatus further comprising:

a transmitting section that transmits information, and

a data requesting section that generates the response information upon receipt of a predetermined operation from a user, and transmits the response information generated to the data transfer apparatus via the transmitting section, when the receiving section receives the prior notice information from the data transfer apparatus.

26. A data transfer method, which is performed by a data transfer apparatus equipped with a communicating section to communicate with a previously specified data storage device and a data storing section to store data, comprising:

detecting a power OFF event, by an event detecting section, indicting a cutting off of operating power for the data transfer apparatus; and

transferring the data stored in the data storing section, by a data managing section, to the data storage device via the communicating section, when the event detecting section detects the power OFF event.

27. A data transfer method, which is performed by a data transfer apparatus mounted on a mobile object, the data transfer apparatus being equipped with a communicating section to communicate with a previously specified data storage device and a data storing section to store data, the data transfer method comprising:

detecting a stopped state of the mobile object, by an event detecting section, on which the data transfer apparatus is mounted; and

transferring the data stored in the data storing section, by a data managing section, to the data storage device via the communicating section, when the event detecting section detects the stopped state.

28. A data transfer program that causes a computer of a data transfer apparatus, which is equipped with a communicating section to communicate with a previously specified data storage device and a data storing section to store data, to carry out:

(1) detecting a power OFF event indicting a cutting off of operating power for the data transfer apparatus; and

(2) transferring the data stored in the data storing section to the data storage device via the communicating section when the power OFF event is detected.

29. A data transfer program that causes a computer of a data transfer apparatus mounted on a mobile object, the data transfer apparatus being equipped with a communicating section to communicate with a previously specified data storage device and a data storing section to store data, to carry out:

(1) detecting a stopped state of the mobile object on which the data transfer apparatus is mounted; and

(2) transferring the data stored in the data storing section to the data storage device via the communicating section when the stopped state is detected.