Information processing device, information processing supporting server and information processing system

• US 8,160,807 B2
• Filed: 07/13/2007
• Issued: 04/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Nogawa, Tadafumi, Murata, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Koppikar, Vivek
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TRANG T
• Application Number:
  US12/374,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20090254737A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,740 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 701/200
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0962 having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/573 Single
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5743 Disconnectable

Abstract

In information processing device or the like is provided to output a suitable form of information from a view point of user'"'"'s non-feeling of trouble. In the information processing system, whether a user issues an output instruction or not is confirmed only with respect to information that is not extracted out of information stored in a first storing unit (211) and information that is not output out of information stored in a second storing unit (212) and the importance of which is not less than the standard value. Thus, it is avoidable for a user to coerce an output instruction or non-output instruction for information that is less important than the standard value even in the case that the information has been distributed or broadcasted from a distributing information server (100) and has been output or non-output information.

Claims

1. An information processing device, which is mounted in a mobile device, for outputting information delivered or broadcasted from an information processing supporting server, comprising:

a first processor performing a first processing which receives information delivered or broadcasted from the information processing supporting server and tagged with a level of importance, and stores the information in a first storing unit; and

a second processor performing a second processing which extracts entire un-extracted information from the information stored in the first storing unit as a first candidate, outputs at least a portion of the first candidate as first information if an output instruction has been issued by a user to at least the portion of the first candidate and stores the first information in a second storing unit as output information, stores the first candidate in the second storing unit as non-output information if the output instruction has not been issued to the first candidate, selectively extracts non-output information having a level of importance equal to or greater than a reference value from the second storing unit as a second candidate, outputs at least a portion of the second candidate as second information if the output instruction has been issued to at least the portion the second candidate and stores the second information in the second storing unit as output information, meanwhile stores the second candidate in the second storing unit as non-output information if the output instruction has not been issued to the second candidate.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the first processor performs the first processing when a first event is detected.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the second processor performs the second processing when a second event is detected.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the second processor confirms whether there is a presence of the output instruction to each of the extracted information according to a sequence related to the level of importance of each of the extracted information.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the second processor recognizes whether an elapsed time calculated from a timing when each of the information stored in the second storing unit is received by the first processor, or an elapsed time calculated from a timing when each of the information is stored in the second storing unit is greater than a predefined time limit, and deletes or discards the information on a condition when the elapsed time is recognized greater than the time limit.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5, wherein the second processor recognizes the time limit longer with an increment of the level of importance of the information.

7. An information processing system, comprising:

an information processing device mounted in a mobile device, and

an information processing server which supports an information processing performed by the information processing device via communication with the information processing device,

the information processing device including;

a first processor performing a first processing which receives information delivered or broadcasted from the information processing supporting server and tagged with a level of importance, and stores the information in a first storing unit; and

a second processor performing a second processing which extracts entire un-extracted information from the information stored in the first storing unit, as a first candidate, outputs at least a portion of the first candidate as first information if an output instruction has been issued by a user to at least the portion of the first candidate and stores the first information in a second storing unit as output information, stores the first candidate in the second storing unit as non-output information if the output instruction has not been issued to the first candidate, selectively extracts non-output information having a level of importance equal to or greater than a reference value from the second storing unit as a second candidate, and outputs at least a portion of the second candidate as second information if the output instruction has been issued to at least the portion the second candidate and stores the second information in the second storing unit as output information, meanwhile stores the second candidate in the second storing unit as non-output information if the output instruction has not been issued to the second candidate,

the information processing supporting server including;

a first supporting processor which recognizes a device identifier of the information processing device or the mobile device in which the information processing device is mounted according to the communication with the information processing device, and searches an information defined on the basis of the device identifier in a supporting information storing unit; and

a second supporting processor which delivers the searched information obtained by the first supporting processor to the information processing device which is identified according to the device identifier, or the information processing device mounted in the mobile device which is identified according to the device identifier.