INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE

• US 20110201373A1
• Filed: 03/26/2009
• Published: 08/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
• Inventors: Hotta, Nobuyuki, Shimoshimano, Hideo, Ogura, Takuya, Suzuki, Hiroyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,761,793 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/517
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/06 Arrangements for road pricing or congestion charging of vehicles or vehicle users, e.g. automatic toll systems
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0962 having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/166 for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/186 Processing of subscriber group data

Abstract

Provided is an information distribution system (100), in which a control section (4) deletes, when a member registration cancellation of a distribution service is instructed by an input unit (1d) of a vehicle-mounted device (10), the contents information and the uplink information stored in a storage unit (1f), other than the fundamental information, thereby to set ON a member registration cancellation flag. If the member registration cancellation flag is set ON when the communication with a center apparatus (30) is established, moreover, the control section (4) writes a code indicating the member registration cancellation, in the fundamental information of the uplink information, and transmits the same to the center apparatus (30). When this center apparatus (30) receives the uplink information from the vehicle-mounted device (10), the center apparatus (30) decides whether or not the code indicating the member registration cancellation is contained in the fundamental information. If the center apparatus (30) decides that the code is contained, the center apparatus (30) deletes, from a member information DB (341), the member registration information of the record having the vehicle-mounted device ID of the sender vehicle-mounted device (10). As a result, it is possible to cancel the member registration of the distribution service of the content information in the vehicle-mounted device.

Claims

1. An information distribution system in which a center apparatus for distributing content information from any one of a plurality of providers and a vehicle-mounted device are connected via a roadside apparatus so that data can be transmitted and received, wherein

the vehicle-mounted device comprises:

a member registration cancellation setting unit configured to set member registration cancellation information including information for each of providers which provides a distribution service of the content information;

a writing unit configured to receive information for providers when communication with the center apparatus is automatically established, and if it is determined to be a distribution service from a subscribed provider, for determining whether or not the member registration cancellation information is set, and if the member registration cancellation information is set, writing information indicating member registration cancellation in predetermined items of uplink information to be transmitted to the center apparatus; and

an uplink information transmission unit configured to transmit the uplink information to the center apparatus, and

the center apparatus operates, when communication with the vehicle-mounted device is automatically established, to transmit information for the providers and to determine whether or not the information indicating the member registration cancellation is included in the predetermined items of the uplink information received from the vehicle-mounted device, and if the information indicating the member registration cancellation is included, to delete member registration information corresponding to the vehicle-mounted device which is a sender of the uplink information, from a member registration database.

2. A vehicle-mounted device, comprising:

a communication unit configured to transmit and receive data to and from a center apparatus for distributing content information from any one of a plurality of providers, via a roadside apparatus;

a member registration cancellation setting unit configured to set member registration cancellation information including information for each of the providers which provides a distribution service of the content information;

a writing unit configured to receive information for the providers when communication with the center apparatus is automatically established, and if it is determined to be a distribution service from a subscribed provider, to determine whether or not the member registration cancellation information is set, and if the member registration cancellation information is set, to write information indicating member registration cancellation in predetermined items of uplink information to be transmitted to the center apparatus; and

an uplink information transmission unit configured to transmit the uplink information to the center apparatus by the communication unit.

3. The vehicle-mounted device according to claim 2, comprising:

a storage unit configured to store the content information distributed from the center apparatus, and the uplink information to be transmitted to the center apparatus,

wherein when the member registration cancellation setting unit sets the member registration cancellation information on the distribution service of the content information, the member registration cancellation setting unit deletes the content information and the uplink information which are stored in the storage unit.

4. The vehicle-mounted device according to claim 2, further comprising:

an operating unit configured to instruct to perform the member registration cancellation of the distribution service,

wherein if the instruction to perform the member registration cancellation of the distribution service has been issued through the operating unit, the member registration cancellation setting unit sets the member registration cancellation information on the distribution service.

5. The vehicle-mounted device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a home registration point storage unit configured to store home registration point information; and

an operating unit configured to instruct to change the home registration point information stored in the home registration point storage unit,

wherein if the home registration point information stored in the home registration point storage unit has been changed in response to an operation of the operating unit, the member registration cancellation setting unit sets the member registration cancellation information on the distribution service.

6. The vehicle-mounted device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a current location detection unit configured to detect position information on a current location;

a parking detection unit configured to detect parking of a vehicle on which the vehicle-mounted device is mounted;

a home registration point storage unit configured to store home registration point information; and

a home registration point changing unit configured, when the parking of the vehicle on which the vehicle-mounted device is mounted has been detected by the parking detection, if the number of times in which the position information on the current location detected by the current location detection unit and position information indicated by the home registration point information stored in the home registration point storage unit do not coincide with each other has exceeded a predefined reference number of times, to change the home registration point information stored in the home registration point storage unit to the position information on the current location,

wherein if the home registration point information stored in the home registration point storage unit has been changed by the home registration point changing unit, the member registration cancellation setting unit sets the member registration cancellation information on the distribution service.

7. The vehicle-mounted device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a current location detection unit configured to detect position information on a current location;

a parking detection unit configured to detect parking of a vehicle on which the vehicle-mounted device is mounted;

a home registration point storage unit configured to store home registration point information; and

a home registration point changing unit configured, when the parking of the vehicle on which the vehicle-mounted device is mounted has been detected by the parking detection, determining whether or not the number of times of the parking of the vehicle at the current location detected by the current location detection unit has exceeded a predefined reference number of times, and if it is determined that the number of times of the parking has exceeded the predefined reference number of times, to change the home registration point information stored in the home registration point storage unit to the position information on the current location detected by the current location detection unit,

wherein if the home registration point information stored in the home registration point storage unit has been changed by the home registration point changing unit, the member registration cancellation setting unit sets the member registration cancellation information on the distribution service.