In-vehicle apparatus

Abstract

An in-vehicle apparatus in a vehicle executes a vehicular application software-program and communicates with an information center that manages a general attribute of the application software-program. The in-vehicle apparatus includes an information acquisition section and an information transmission section. The information acquisition section acquires a general-attribute information data while the application software-program is executed, the general-attribute information data being an information data on the general attribute of the application software-program. The information transmission section transmits the general-attribute information data acquired by the information acquisition section to the information center (i) when a period of time for which the application software-program is executed reaches a predetermined threshold period of time or (ii) when an execution count that is a count of executions of the application software-program reaches a predetermined threshold execution count.

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