System for taking out insurance policy, method of taking out insurance policy, server apparatus and terminal apparatus

• US 20030069761A1
• Filed: 03/14/2002
• Published: 04/10/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Increment P Corporation Shuji Kawakami and Nobuhiro Shoji
• Original Assignee: Increment P Corporation Shuji Kawakami and Nobuhiro Shoji
• Inventors: Amano, Koji, Nonomura, Tadao, Kawakami, Shuji, Shoji, Nobuhiro, Nozaki, Takashi, Ogawa, Kazuya, Takenaga, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US10/097,132
• Publication Number:
  US 20030069761A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/4
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• 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: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

To provide a system for taking out an insurance policy which uses a communication navigation system utilizing an Internet. A terminal apparatus transmits a destination or a route that is set based on an instruction of a user to a server apparatus via the Internet. The server apparatus retrieves stored insured contents according to a purpose of travel or a traveling state that is received from the terminal apparatus to prepare an insurance list and transmits this insurance list to the terminal apparatus via the Internet.

Claims

1. A system for taking out an insurance policy using a communication navigation system for carrying out navigation by utilizing map data accumulated in a map database site and present position data of a terminal apparatus and transmitting the map data from a server apparatus to the terminal apparatus via a communication network,

wherein the terminal apparatus comprises:

an information transmitting device for transmitting information on a purpose of travel or a traveling state, which is set based on an instruction of a user, to the server apparatus via the communication network, and

the server apparatus comprises;

a storing device for storing insured contents;

a list preparing device for retrieving the insured contents stored in the storing device to prepare an insurance list according to the information on a purpose of travel or a traveling state received from the terminal apparatus; and

a list transmitting device for transmitting the insurance list prepared by the list preparing device to the terminal apparatus via the communication network.

2. The system for taking out an insurance policy according to claim 1,

wherein the information transmitting device transmits a destination or a route that is set based on an instruction of the user to the server apparatus via the communication network, and

the list preparing device retrieves the insured contents stored in the storing means to prepare an insurance list according to the destination or route received from the terminal apparatus.

3. The system for taking out an insurance policy according to claim 1,

wherein the information transmitting devices transmits information on travel during the travel of a mobile unit to the server apparatus via the communication network, and

the list preparing device retrieves the insured contents stored in the storing device to prepare an insurance list according to the information on travel received from the terminal apparatus.

4. The system for taking out an insurance policy according to claim 3,

wherein the information on travel includes positional information of the mobile unit.

5. The system for taking out an insurance policy according to claim 1,

wherein the terminal apparatus comprises:

a displaying device for displaying the insurance list received from the server apparatus;

a receiving device for receiving an instruction to select a predetermined insurance out of the insurance list displayed on the displaying device; and

an insurance transmitting device for transmitting the insurance selected according to the instruction with respect to the receiving device to the server apparatus via the communication network.

6. The system for taking out an insurance policy according to claim 3,

wherein the terminal apparatus comprises:

a receiving device for receiving an application for taking out an insurance policy;

a storing device for storing the insurance received by the receiving device and information on the receipt by the receiving device;

an insurance transmitting device for transmitting the insurance stored in the storing device to the server apparatus together with the information on receipt by the receiving device when communication is possible.

7. The system for taking out an insurance policy according to claim 6,

wherein the information on receipt includes a position and time of the terminal apparatus at the time when the application for taking out an insurance policy is received.

8. The system for taking out an insurance policy according to claim 2,

wherein the terminal apparatus comprises a first terminal apparatus that is provided in a mobile unit and receives the map data transmitted from the server apparatus via a communication network and a second terminal apparatus connected to the communication network, and

the second terminal apparatus comprises:

an inputting device for receiving an input of a destination; and

an information transmitting device for transmitting a destination received by the inputting device or a route to the destination to the server apparatus via the communication network, and

the server apparatus comprises;

a storing device for storing insured contents;

a list preparing device for retrieving the insured contents stored in the storing device to prepare an insurance list according to the destination or the route received from the second terminal apparatus; and

a list transmitting device for transmitting the insurance list prepared by the list preparing device to the second terminal apparatus via the communication network.

9. The system for taking out an insurance policy according to claim 8,

wherein the second terminal apparatus comprises:

a displaying device for displaying the insurance list received from the server apparatus;

a receiving device for receiving an instruction for selecting a predetermined insurance out of the insurance list displayed on the displaying device; and

an insurance transmitting device for transmitting a selected insurance according to an instruction with respect to the receiving device to the server apparatus via the communication network.

10. The system for taking out an insurance policy according to claim 1,

wherein the list preparing device prepares the insurance list with reference to information obtained via the communication network.

11. The system for taking out an insurance policy according to claim 10,

wherein the information is weather information or traffic information.

12. A system for taking out an insurance policy in a communication apparatus that comprises a server apparatus for transmitting navigation information via communicating means and a terminal apparatus for receiving and accumulating the navigation information transmitted from the server apparatus via the communicating means and moving with a mobile unit and carries out navigation of the mobile unit in accordance with the navigation information, comprising:

an inputting device for carrying out an input for taking out an insurance policy and registering for a safety drive insurance from the terminal apparatus;

a travel data obtaining device that is provided in the terminal apparatus and obtains travel data of the mobile unit; and

a driving conditions determining device that is provided in at least one of the server apparatus and the terminal apparatus for receiving the travel data to determine whether or not a user is driving within a coverage of the safety drive insurance.

13. A method of taking out an insurance policy using a communication navigation system that carries out navigation by utilizing map data accumulated in a map database site and present position data of a terminal apparatus and transmitting the map data from a server apparatus to the terminal apparatus via a communication network, comprising the processes of:

transmitting information on a purpose of travel or a traveling state that is set based on an instruction of a user to the server apparatus by an information transmitting device of the terminal apparatus via the communication network;

retrieving the insured contents stored in a storing device of the server apparatus for storing insured contents and preparing an insurance list by a list preparing device of the server apparatus according to the received information on purpose of travel or traveling state; and

transmitting the insurance list prepared by the list preparing device to the terminal apparatus by a list transmitting device of the server apparatus via the communication network.

14. The method of taking out an insurance policy according to claim 13,

wherein the process of transmitting the information on purpose of travel or traveling state transmits a destination or a route that is set based on an instruction of the user, and

the process of preparing the insurance list prepares an insurance list according to the received destination or route.

15. The method of taking out an insurance policy according to claim 13,

wherein the process of transmitting the information on purpose of travel or traveling state transmits information on travel while the mobile unit is traveling, and

the process of preparing the insurance list prepares an insurance list according to the received information on travel.

16. The method of taking out an insurance policy according to claim 15,

wherein the information on travel includes positional information of the mobile unit.

17. The method of taking out an insurance policy according to claim 13, further comprising the processes of:

displaying the insurance list received from the server apparatus on a displaying device of the terminal apparatus;

receiving an instruction to select a predetermined insurance out of the insurance list displayed on the displaying device by a receiving device of the terminal apparatus; and

transmitting the insurance selected according to the instruction with respect to the receiving device to the server apparatus by an insurance transmitting device of the terminal apparatus via the communication network.

18. The method of taking out an insurance policy according to claim 13,

wherein the process of preparing the insurance list prepares the insurance list with reference to the information obtained via the communication network.

19. The method of taking out an insurance policy according to claim 18,

wherein the obtained information is weather information or traffic information.

20. The method of taking out an insurance policy according to claim 15, further comprising the processes of:

receiving an application for taking out an insurance policy by a receiving device of the terminal apparatus;

causing a storing device to store the insurance received by the receiving device and information on the receipt by the receiving device; and

transmitting the insurance stored in the storing device to a server apparatus by an insurance transmitting device of the terminal apparatus together with the information on the receipt by the receiving device when communication is possible.

21. The method of taking out an insurance policy according to claim 20,

wherein the information on the receipt includes a position and time of the terminal apparatus at the time when the application for taking out an insurance policy is received.

22. A server apparatus to be used in communication navigation system for carrying out navigation by utilizing map data accumulated in a map database site and present position data of a terminal apparatus and transmitting the map data from the server apparatus to the terminal apparatus via a communication network, comprising:

a storing device for storing insured contents;

a list preparing device for retrieving the insured contents stored in the storing device to prepare an insurance list according to the purpose of travel or traveling state that is set based on an instruction of a user received from the terminal apparatus; and

a list transmitting device for transmitting the insurance list prepared by the list preparing device to the terminal apparatus via the communication network.

23. The server apparatus according to claim 22,

wherein the list preparing device prepares the insurance list according to a destination or a route that is set based on an instruction of the user received from the terminal apparatus.

24. The server apparatus according to claim 22,

wherein the server apparatus transmits the map data to a first terminal apparatus via a communication network, and

the list preparing device retrieves the insured contents stored in the storing device to prepare an insurance list according to a route to a destination that is set based on the instruction of the user received from a second terminal apparatus, and

the list transmitting device transmits the insurance list to the second terminal apparatus via the communication network.

25. The server apparatus according to claim 22,

wherein the list preparing device prepares the insurance list according to information on travel during travel of a mobile unit received from the terminal apparatus.

26. The server apparatus according to claim 25, further comprising:

an insurance receiving device for receiving an insurance for which an application for taking out an insurance policy is received by a receiving device of the terminal apparatus and information on the receipt.

27. A server apparatus to be used for a system for taking out an insurance policy in a communication navigation apparatus that transmits navigation information to a terminal apparatus moving with a mobile unit via communicating means and carries out navigation of said mobile unit in accordance with this navigation information, comprising:

a travel history storing device for receiving travel data of the mobile unit received by the terminal apparatus to store its history; and

a driving conditions determining device for determining whether or not a user is driving within a coverage of a safety drive insurance based on the history of travel data.

28. The server apparatus according to claim 27, further comprising:

a setting device for setting a rate of the safety drive insurance based on the history of travel data.

29. A terminal apparatus to be used in communication navigation system for carrying out navigation by utilizing map data accumulated in a map database site and present position data of the terminal apparatus and transmitting the map data from a server apparatus to the terminal apparatus via a communication network, comprising:

an information transmitting device for transmitting information on a purpose of travel or traveling state that is set based on an instruction of a user to the server apparatus, which retrieves insured contents stored in a storing device according to the information on purpose of travel or traveling state to prepare an insurance list and transmits the insurance list to the terminal apparatus via the communication network, via the communication network.

30. The terminal apparatus according to claim 29,

wherein the information transmitting device transmits a destination or a route that is set based on an instruction of the user, and

the server apparatus prepares an insurance list according to the received destination or route.

31. The terminal apparatus according to claim 29,

wherein the information transmitting device transmits information on travel during travel of a mobile unit, and

the server apparatus prepares an insurance list according to the received information on travel.

32. The terminal apparatus according to claim 31, further comprising:

a receiving device for receiving an application for taking out an insurance policy;

a storing device for storing an insurance for which an application is received by the receiving device and information on the receipt by the receiving device; and

an insurance transmitting device for transmitting the insurance stored in the storing device to a server apparatus together with the information on the receipt by the receiving device.

33. A terminal apparatus to be used for a system for taking out an insurance policy in communication navigation that receives and accumulates navigation information transmitted from a server apparatus via communicating means and moving with a mobile unit to carry out navigation of a mobile unit in accordance with the navigation information, comprising:

an inputting device for taking out an insurance policy and registering for a safety drive insurance.

34. The terminal apparatus according to claim 33, further comprising:

a travel data obtaining device for obtaining travel data of the mobile unit; and

a driving conditions determining device for determining whether or not the user is driving within a coverage of said safety drive insurance based on the travel data.

35. The terminal apparatus according to claim 34,

wherein the driving conditions determining device determines whether or not the user is driving within the coverage of the safety drive insurance according to whether or not the user travels within a travel speed and a travel route based on the navigation information.

36. The terminal apparatus according to claim 34,

wherein it is determined by the driving conditions determining device that the user is driving within a coverage of the safety drive insurance, and a low rate of the safety drive insurance is applied to an accident that occurs under the driving conditions.

37. The terminal apparatus according to claim 35, further comprising an alarming device for emitting an alarm to the user if the user is driving outside the coverage of said safety drive insurance.

38. The terminal apparatus according to claim 34,

wherein travel data of the mobile unit is position information, time information and speed information of said mobile unit.