ROADSIDE APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM
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Abstract
A roadside device (15) is provided with a corresponding table in the case where there is an item of a new version of a taste data table to take over from user taste information in an item of an old version of the taste data table. In the corresponding table, item numbers “52”, “53”, “62” and “63” in the old version of the taste table, for example, are made to correspond to item numbers “52”, “53” and “63” in the new version of the taste table. An ITS vehicle-mounted device (17) sets user taste data in the item numbers of the old version corresponding to the item numbers of the new version to default values of the items in the new version for a transmitting-destination user of the taste data table of the new version and transmits the default data to an ITS vehicle-mounted device (17) of the transmitting-destination user. Because of the structure set forth above, a proper default value is set for a version change of the taste data table in the roadside apparatus (15) corresponding to road-vehicle communication in a town car life multi-contents data format, thereby reducing user'"'"'s input trouble.
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22 Claims
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11. A distribution system comprising:
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a vehicle-mounted device configured to provide user taste information indicating how a user chooses contents information; a server configured to organize and distribute contents information on the basis of a taste data setting table for setting the user taste information for each of items of contents data; and a roadside apparatus configured to intervene between the vehicle-mounted device and the server, which operates to receive uplink information including the user taste information reflected on the taste data setting table from the vehicle-mounted device entering a wireless communication area and to transmit this uplink information to the server, while transmitting information for the taste data setting table and its version information from the server to the vehicle-mounted device, wherein the vehicle-mounted device operates to transmit the uplink information through the roadside apparatus to the server, and wherein the server operates to decide whether the taste data setting table reflecting the user taste information from the vehicle-mounted device is of the latest version when having received the user taste information from the vehicle-mounted device, and if it is not of the latest version, the server operates to generate the latest version of the taste data setting table to transmit the generated table together with update information indicative of the table information being to be updated to the vehicle-mounted device, and further the server operates to generate update information indicative of the information on an old version of the taste data setting table being to be updated for items corresponding to the latest version in the received information on the old version of taste data setting table to transmit the generated update information to the vehicle-mounted device.
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12. A distribution system comprising:
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a vehicle-mounted device configured to provide user taste information indicating how a user chooses contents information; a server configured to organize and distribute contents information on the basis of a taste data setting table for setting the user taste information for each of items of contents data; and a roadside apparatus configured to intervene between the vehicle-mounted device and the server, which operates to receive uplink information including the user taste information reflected on the taste data setting table from the vehicle-mounted device entering a wireless communication area and to transmit this uplink information to the server, while transmitting information for the taste data setting table and its version information from the server to the vehicle-mounted device, wherein the vehicle-mounted device operates to transmit the uplink information through the roadside apparatus to the server, and wherein the server operates to decide whether the taste data setting table reflecting the user taste information from the vehicle-mounted device is of the latest version when having received the user taste information from the vehicle-mounted device, and if it is not of the latest version, the server operates to generate the latest version of the taste data setting table including all items of revised items and non-revised items to transmit the generated table together with update information indicative of the table information being to be updated to the vehicle-mounted device, and further the server operates to generate update information indicative of the information on an old version of the taste data setting table being to be updated for items corresponding to the latest version in the received information on the old version of taste data setting table to transmit the generated update information to the vehicle-mounted device. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method for controlling a roadside apparatus which operates to transmit information on a taste data table together with its version information to a vehicle-mounted device entering a wireless communication area and to receive uplink information including user taste information reflected in the taste data table from the vehicle-mounted device, the method comprising the steps of:
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causing the user taste information for the old version of the taste data setting table to be reserved in a storage device; searching items which have been revised from the old version in items in the latest version of the taste data setting table; setting a default value each of revised items of the latest version of the taste data setting table at user taste information a corresponding item of the taste data setting table on the basis of a correspondence relationship between items in the old version of taste data setting table and items in the latest version of the taste data setting table which inherits user taste information for the items of the old version; and transmitting transmission information including information with a default value on the latest version of the taste data setting table to the vehicle-mounted device.
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21. A distribution system comprising:
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a vehicle-mounted device configured to provide user taste information indicating how a user chooses contents information; a server configured to organize and distribute contents information on the basis of a taste data setting table for setting the user taste information for each of items of contents data; and a roadside apparatus configured to intervene between the vehicle-mounted device and the server, which operates to receive uplink information including the user taste information reflected on the taste data setting table from the vehicle-mounted device entering a wireless communication area and to transmit this uplink information to the server, while transmitting information for the taste data setting table and its version information from the server to the vehicle-mounted device, wherein the vehicle-mounted device operates to transmit the uplink information through the roadside apparatus to the server, and wherein the server operates to decide whether the taste data setting table reflecting the user taste information from the vehicle-mounted device is of the latest version when having received the user taste information from the vehicle-mounted device, if it is not of the latest version, the server operates to generate the latest version of the taste data setting table in such a manner that in items in an old version of the taste data setting table received from the vehicle-mounted device, as for items not having been revised in the latest version the already set taste information is maintained as it is, while covering all items and to transmit the generated table together with update information indicative of table information being to be updated to the vehicle-mounted device, and further the server operates to generate update information indicative of the information on an old version of the taste data setting table being to be updated for items corresponding to the latest version in the received information on the old version of taste data setting table to transmit the generated update information to the vehicle-mounted device.
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22. A method for controlling distribution of contents information in a distribution system which comprises a vehicle-mounted device for providing user taste information indicating how a user chooses contents information, a server for organizing and distributing contents information on the basis of a taste data setting table for setting the user taste information for each of items of contents data, and a roadside apparatus intervening between the vehicle-mounted device and the server, the method comprising the steps of:
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transmitting uplink information including the user taste information indicating how the user chooses contents information by the vehicle-mounted device entering a wireless communication area to the roadside apparatus; and receiving the uplink information from the vehicle-mounted device and transmitting this uplink information to the server by the roadside apparatus deciding by the server whether the taste data setting table reflecting the user taste information from the vehicle-mounted device is of the latest version when having received the user taste information from the vehicle-mounted device, if it is not of the latest version, generating by the server the latest version of the taste data setting table in such a manner that in items in an old version of the taste data setting table received from the vehicle-mounted device, as for items not having been revised in the latest version the already set taste information is maintained as it is, while covering all items and to transmit the generated table together with update information indicative of table information being to be updated to the vehicle-mounted device, and further generating by the server update information indicative of the information on an old version of the taste data setting table being to be updated for items corresponding to the latest version in the received information on the old version of taste data setting table to transmit the generated update information to the vehicle-mounted device.
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