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AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasaru OTAKA, Takahiro IIJIMA
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There is provided a network management apparatus comprising a processor. In a network constituted by a plurality of vehicles and a plurality of mobile terminals having wireless communication functions, a processor detects a vehicle and a mobile terminal which can be used as a next hop of a predetermined vehicle among the plurality of vehicles. The next hop is for predetermined communication originating from or relayed by the predetermined vehicle. When a vehicle which can be used as the next hop is detected, the processor preferentially selects the vehicle that has been detected as the next hop. When a vehicle which can be used as the next hop is not detected and a mobile terminal which can be used as the next hop is detected, the processor selects the mobile terminal that has been detected as the next hop.
A network management apparatus comprising a processor configured to:
A network management method executed by a network management apparatus, comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium which stores a program for causing a computer to execute a network management method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.