Navigation apparatus, navigation system, method thereof, program thereof, and recording medium thereof

• US 7,536,545 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2003
• Issued: 05/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Increment P Corporation
• Original Assignee: Increment P Corporation
• Inventors: Nozaki, Takashi, Amano, Kouji
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu; Kimyen
• Assistant Examiner(s): PAN, PEILIANG
• Application Number:
  US10/382,997
• Publication Number:
  US 20030177399A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,265 Days
• Field of Search: 713/1, 713/2, 713/188, 713/194, 713/161, 380/200, 380/201, 380/255, 380/277, 380/25, 726/2, 707/103, 701/212
• US Class Current: 713/161
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/065 for group communications cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key management involving conference or group key H04L9/0833
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0846 using time-dependent-passwords, e.g. periodically changing passwords

Abstract

A system member of a data processing system 1 operates a terminal 3 to connect a server 5, and further to a site for creating a new group from a main site. A group name is registered, and a group ID and group password are then attained. Based on articles written on a point system registration card obtained in a shop, the member connects the terminal 3 to a registration site server 6 and inputs requirements, to register a point card. When registering points, an icon of “side trip” is operated so that shop data is transferred to the server 5, to input the shop data as data to be opened within the group. The shop data can be subjected to data processing such that the shop data can be disclosed as a favorite shop like a hiding place within a group.

Claims

1. A data processing system, comprising:

a data processing apparatus; and

a navigation apparatus which guides movement of a vehicle, wherein

the data processing apparatus includes;

a personal data storage which stores personal data;

a group attribute data attaining portion which attains group attribute data specific to a group linked to the personal data inputted from a terminal;

a group identification data creation portion which creates group identification data in correspondence with the attained group attribute data, as the group attribute data attaining portion recognizes the group attribute data, and outputs the group identification data to the terminal;

a group data storage which stores, as group data, the group attribute data attained by the group attribute data attaining portion and the group identification data created by the group identification data creation portion;

an authentication portion which compares the group attribute data and group identification data inputted from the terminal, with the group data stored in the group data storage;

a map data storage which stores map data;

a report data storage which stores report data which is inputted from the terminal, with report data being linked to the group attribute data, the report data having location data of a shop specified by the map data and genre information related to type of the shop; and

a data disclosure portion which outputs only such report data among the report data stored in the report data storage that is linked to the group attribute data, to the terminal from which the group attribute data and group identification data are inputted, as the authentication portion recognizes that the group attribute data and group identification data inputted from the terminal are identical to the group data stored in the group data storage,

wherein the navigation apparatus;

searches a first movement path from a current position to the shop based on the report data upon receiving a search request from a user;

reports a secondary shop data related to the genre information of the inputted report data and located around the movement path to the shop;

again searches a second movement path from the current position to the second shop designated by the secondary shop data as a side-trip point based on the map information; and

merges the first movement path and the second movement path to construct a new movement path to guide the vehicle.

2. The data processing system according to claim 1, wherein

the group identification data creation portion creates the group identification data in correspondence with the attained group attribute data and outputs the group identification data, only in case where it is recognized that group attribute data different from the group attribute data stored in the group data storage is attained by the group attribute data attaining portion.

3. The data processing system according to claim 1, further comprising a guide data output portion which outputs the group attribute data and group identification data to a predetermined terminal, together with guide data which invites participation in the group, based on a predetermined input from the terminal.

4. The data processing system according to claim 1, further comprising a participation/withdrawal processing portion which, based on personal data and an input determining participation in or withdrawal from a group from a terminal, links group attribute data corresponding to the group to the personal data inputted from the terminal, to prepare new group data, in case where the input determines participation, or releases a link of the personal data to group attribute data corresponding to the group, to prepare new group data, in case where the input determines withdrawal, and stores the new group data into the group data storage.

5. The data processing system according to claim 4, wherein the participation/withdrawal processing portion recognizes the input determining the participation and accordingly gives a guide notifying that new participation has taken place, based on the personal data linked to the group attribute data of the group in which the participation has been determined.

9. The data processing system according to claim 1, further comprising a map data storage which stores map data, wherein the report data attaining portion attains report data having location data specified by the map data.

6. A data processing method of processing report data, allowing the report data to be used within a predetermined group, by using a navigation apparatus which guides movement of a vehicle, the method comprising steps of:

recognizing an input of group attribute data specific to a group linked to personal data;

creating group identification data in correspondence with the group attribute data the input of which has been recognized, outputting the group identification data to a side of the input, and storing the group attribute data and group identification data as group data;

storing map data;

recognizing an input of group attribute data and group identification data, comparing the group attribute data and group identification data with the stored group data, and outputting only report data which is linked to the compared group attribute data, among report data which is inputted while linked to group attribute data and has location data of a shop specified by the map data and genre information related to type of the shop; and

displaying the report data on a display of the navigation apparatus which searches a first movement path from a current position to the shop based on the report data upon receiving a search request from a user;

reports a secondary shop data related to the genre information of the inputted report data and located around the movement path to the shop;

again searches a second movement path from the current position to the second shop designated by the secondary shop data as a side-trip point based on the map information; and

merges the first movement path and the second movement path to construct a new movement path to guide the vehicle.

7. A data processing program which makes a computer execute the data processing method according to claim 6.

8. A recording medium in which the data processing program according to claim 7 is recorded to be readable for a computer.