US 2018/0321054 A1Published application

Navigation server and program

AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.

InventorsDaisuke Nakahara, Shigeomi Kubota, Kazuya Tamura, Hiroshi Inoue

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Abstract

The same navigation information and facility information are directly distributed to both a vehicle-mounted navigation device and a portable terminal. A server is connected to the vehicle-mounted navigation device and portable terminal in a manner able to communicate, wherein on the basis of an information distribution request from the vehicle-mounted navigation device, facility information satisfying a predetermined standard is searched from a storage unit and distributed to the vehicle-mounted navigation device, it is determined whether or not the portable terminal is present within the vehicle on the basis of the current position information of the vehicle received from the vehicle-mounted navigation device and the current position information of the portable terminal received from the portable terminal, and when it has been determined that the portable terminal is present within the vehicle, the searched-for facility information satisfying the predetermined standard is directly distributed to the portable terminal as well.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A server which is communicably connected respectively to a portable terminal and a navigation device having a wireless unit to be carried inside a vehicle, the server comprising:

a wireless unit of the server;
a storage unit that stores facility information;
a facility retrieval unit that retrieves facility information that satisfies predetermined criteria from the storage unit in response to an information distribution start request received from the navigation device having a wireless unit via the wireless unit of the server;
a first determination unit that determines whether the portable terminal is present inside the vehicle based on current position information of the navigation device received from the navigation device having a wireless unit via the wireless unit of the server and current position information of the portable terminal received from the portable terminal via the wireless unit of the server;
and
a facility information providing unit that transmits the facility information retrieved by the facility retrieval unit to the navigation device having a wireless unit via the wireless unit of the server, wherein
the facility information providing unit further transmits the facility information retrieved by the facility retrieval unit directly to both the navigation device having a wireless unit and the portable terminal via the wireless unit of the server when the first determination unit determines that the portable terminal is present inside the vehicle.

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A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium storing a program that causes a control unit of a server to function as:

a facility retrieval unit that retrieves, in response to an information distribution start request received via a wireless unit of the server from the navigation device having a wireless unit which is communicably connected respectively to the server and to be carried inside a vehicle, facility information that satisfies predetermined criteria from a storage unit of the server that stores facility information;
a first determination unit that determines whether the portable terminal is present inside the vehicle based on current position information of the navigation device received from the navigation device having a wireless unit via the wireless unit of the server and current position information of a portable terminal which is communicably connected respectively to the server received from the portable terminal via the wireless unit of the server;
and
a facility information providing unit that transmits the facility information retrieved by the facility retrieval unit to the navigation device having a wireless unit via the wireless unit of the server, wherein
the facility information providing unit further transmits the facility information retrieved by the facility retrieval unit directly to both the navigation device having a wireless unit and the portable terminal via the wireless unit of the server when the first determination unit determines that the portable terminal is present inside the vehicle.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/026,538Filed 3 Jul 2018
Priority: 16 Sep 2016
Published: 8 Nov 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

G01C 21/3611
Destination input or retrieval: using character input or menus, e.g. menus of POIs
G01C 21/3614
Destination input or retrieval: through interaction with a road map, e.g. selecting a POI icon on a road map
G01C 21/3682
Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities: output of POI…
G06Q 30/0282
Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising: rating or review of business operators or products

Family

Application15/126,773Continuation · filed 16 Sep 2016
Application16/026,538Continuation
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