Navigation device for communication to an information providing server

• US 8,306,548 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2008
• Issued: 11/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Yuhara, Hiromitsu, Furukawa, Hideo
• Primary Examiner(s): Pérez-Gutiérrez, Rafael
• Assistant Examiner(s): Miah, Liton
• Application Number:
  US12/245,388
• Publication Number:
  US 20090092042A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,495 Days
• Field of Search: 455/452.2, 701/118, 701/423, 701/425
• US Class Current: 455/452.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/08 Configuration management of networks or network elements address allocation H04L61/50

Abstract

The present invention provides a navigation device which performs communication with an information-providing server device. The navigation device (3) includes a communication section (11) which transmits a message to the server device for a response confirmation, and receives a response message with respect to the message from the server device; a response value obtaining section (12) which determines a time duration from a time when the message is transmitted to another time when the response message is received, and obtains a response value indicating a communication state in relation to a communication time on the basis of the determined time duration; and a communication-parameter setting section (13) which determines an optimal communication parameter on the basis of the response value obtained by the response value obtaining device, and sets the optimal communication parameter in a communication parameter in relation to a communication disconnection condition used in the navigation device (3).

Claims

1. A navigation system having a mobile or mounted navigation device, and a server device which provides information to the navigation device via communication,

wherein the navigation device includes

a communication section which transmits a message to the server device for a response confirmation and a present location of the functional device and destination, and receives a response message with respect to the message from the server device;

a response value obtaining section which determines a time duration from a time when the message is transmitted to another time when the response message is received, and obtains a response value indicating a communication state in relation to a communication time on the basis of the determined time duration; and

a communication-parameter setting section which determines an optimal communication parameter on the basis of the response value obtained by the response value obtaining device, and sets the optimal communication parameter in a communication parameter in relation to a communication disconnection condition used in the navigation device,

wherein the communication section of the navigation device transmits the response value obtained by the response value obtaining section to the server device,

wherein the server device includes;

a second communication section which transmits the response message in response to the receiving of the message transmitted from the navigation device, and which receives the response value transmitted by the navigation device; and

a second communication parameter setting section which determines a second optimal communication parameter on the basis of the response value received by the second communication section, and sets the second optimal communication parameter in a second communication parameter in relation to a data transmitting condition used in the server device,

wherein the determination of the optimal communication parameter and the second optimal communication parameter are sequentially determined until all of a traveling route data based on the present location and destination and all of a peripheral map data of the traveling route by the navigation device are received, and

wherein the second communication parameter is a buffer length used in data transmitting.

2. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the communication parameter includes at least one of a time-out value for determining the communication disconnection and a retry number of times after the communication disconnection.