US 2004/0111280 A1 · Method of providing vehicle information and vehicle information providing program

Abstract

According to the present invention, vehicle riding information is provided that alleviates problems such as not being able to distinguish between the buses heading to different destinations when the buses stop at only a little time difference, or not being able to know whether the bus will stop at the desired destination or not and other difficulties in recognizing the bus to ride on, enabling the user to easily check the bus and then ride on the bus. This can be achieved by querying the information center about the planned ride-on bus stop and the planned ride-off bus stop, or the bus riding information, storing the “bus identifying information” of the bus specified by the information center while the bus riding information is in the portable terminal, comparing the “bus identifying information” of the route bus and the stored “bus identifying information” when getting on the route bus, and notifying the user of the comparison result. Thus it becomes possible to check whether the route bus is the desired bus or not.

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Dependent claims

A method of providing vehicle information comprising the steps of:

storing vehicle identifying information identifying a vehicle a user plans to ride on as planned vehicle identifying information;
receiving present vehicle identifying information identifying a present vehicle;
comparing said planned vehicle identifying information and said present vehicle identifying information;
and
notifying the user whether said planned vehicle identifying information and said present vehicle identifying information correspond or not based on said comparison result.

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