METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION TERMINAL AND INFORMATION TERMINAL

• US 20170064495A1
• Filed: 07/26/2016
• Published: 03/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: TOYA, SHOICHI, IWAHORI, YUTAKA
• Granted Patent: US 10,285,031 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2010/4271 Battery management systems including electronic circuits, e.g. control of current or voltage to keep battery in healthy state, cell balancing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A method for controlling an information terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: when a user of the information terminal uses the electric mobile body, acquiring information indicative of a state of an electric storage device mounted in an electric mobile body from the electric storage device via a first communicator that is a communicator of the information terminal and that performs near field communication with the electric storage device; and transmitting the information indicative of the state of the electric storage device to a server device via a second communicator that is a communicator of the information terminal and that communicates with the server device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

when a user of the information terminal uses the electric mobile body, acquiring information indicative of a state of an electric storage device mounted in an electric mobile body from the electric storage device via a first communicator that is a communicator of an information terminal and that performs near field communication with the electric storage device; and

transmitting the information indicative of the state of the electric storage device to a server device via a second communicator that is a communicator of the information terminal and that communicates with the server device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the information indicative of the state of the electric storage device is acquired via the first communicator at a time of start of use of the electric mobile body.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the information indicative of the state of the electric storage device is acquired via the first communicator at a time of end of use of the electric mobile body.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

notifying the user that the information indicative of the state of the electric storage device is being acquired.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the information indicative of the state of the electric storage device is regularly acquired via the first communicator during use of the electric mobile body;

and

among the information regularly acquired via the first communicator, information acquired via the first communicator at a point in time nearest to end of use of the electric mobile body is transmitted to the server device via the second communicator after the end of use of the electric mobile body.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

activating near field communication between the information terminal and the electric storage device when the user of the information terminal uses the electric mobile body.

7. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

deactivating near field communication between the information terminal and the electric storage device after the information indicative of the state of the electric storage device is acquired.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

displaying, on a display screen of the information terminal, information that requests activation of near field communication with the electric storage device when the user of the information terminal uses the electric mobile body; and

activating near field communication between the information terminal and the electric storage device by an operation of the user.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing the information terminal to execute the method according to claim 1.

10. An information terminal comprising:

a first communicator that performs near field communication with an electric storage device;

a second communicator that communicates with a server device; and

a controller that acquires information indicative of a state of the electric storage device from the electric storage device via the first communicator when a user of the information terminal uses an electric mobile body and then transmits the information indicative of the state of the electric storage device to the server device via the second communicator.