Vehicle control device and vehicle control method

A vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle, the vehicle control device comprising at least one processor with a memory storing computer program code, wherein the at least one processor with the memory is configured to implement:

• an equipment management unit configured to control vehicle equipment, which is equipped to the vehicle, and manage a state of the vehicle equipment;
• an application programming interface (API) unit having multiple function APIs, wherein the multiple function APIs are interfaces to respectively implement multiple functions using the vehicle equipment, each function API receives a request transmitted from an application software and provides the corresponding function using the vehicle equipment that is managed by the equipment management unit;
• a state prediction unit configured to predict a state of resource included in the vehicle for a specified time period;
• an information generation unit configured to generate, for each function API, reference information, which includes a time period during which the corresponding function API can be used, based on a prediction result by the state prediction unit;
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• an information providing unit configured to provide the reference information generated by the information generation unit to the function API specified in the request transmitted from the application software.