IN-VEHICLE DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD

• US 20100216401A1
• Filed: 02/18/2010
• Published: 08/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: KITAHARA, Toshio
• Granted Patent: US 8,725,217 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.200
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6091 including a wireless interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/02 Access restriction performed under specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/08 Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery signalling during connection H04W76/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

An in-vehicle device is provided. A wireless communication section is configured to perform wireless communication with a plurality of mobile terminal devices in a vehicle. A specifying section is configured to specify each of the mobile terminal devices based on radio waves which are transmitted from the mobile terminal devices carried in the vehicle and are received by an antenna provided in the vehicle. An information acquiring section is configured to acquire service specifying information for specifying available services for each of the mobile terminal devices from each of the mobile terminal devices specified by the specifying section. A share setting section is configured to set whether or not to share at least one of the available services among the mobile terminal devices based on the service specifying information acquired by the information acquiring section.

Claims

1. An in-vehicle device comprising:

a wireless communication section configured to perform wireless communication with a plurality of mobile terminal devices in a vehicle;

a specifying section configured to specify each of the mobile terminal devices based on radio waves which are transmitted from the mobile terminal devices carried in the vehicle and are received by an antenna provided in the vehicle;

an information acquiring section configured to acquire service specifying information for specifying available services for each of the mobile terminal devices from each of the mobile terminal devices specified by the specifying section; and

a share setting section configured to set whether or not to share at least one of the available services among the mobile terminal devices based on the service specifying information acquired by the information acquiring section.

2. The in-vehicle device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a restricting section configured to restrict the mobile terminal devices from sharing the at least one of the available services through the wireless communication based on a setting of the share setting section.

3. The in-vehicle device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a display control unit configured to configured to merge the service specifying information acquired by the information acquiring section and control to display a list of the merged service specifying information.

4. The in-vehicle device as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the in-vehicle device is connectable to an input device configured to receive an input operation, and

wherein the share setting section sets whether or not to share the at least one of the available services among the mobile terminal devices based on setting information input through the input device.

5. A communication control method which an in-vehicle device performs, the communication control method comprising:

performing wireless communication with a plurality of mobile terminal devices in a vehicle;

specifying each of the mobile terminal devices based on radio waves which are transmitted from the mobile terminal devices carried in the vehicle and are received by a wireless receiving device provided in the vehicle;

acquiring service specifying information for specifying available services for each of the mobile terminal devices from each o from mobile terminal devices specified in the specifying step;

setting whether or not to share at least one of the available services among the mobile terminal devices based on the service specifying information acquired in the acquiring step; and

restricting the mobile terminal devices from sharing the at least one of the available services based on a setting in the setting step.