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US 8,805,411 B2Granted
Service provision system
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorSeiichi Furuta
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Abstract
Under a state where a vehicular navigation apparatus and a cellular phone connect a Bluetooth communication link, the cellular phone acquires position information that is detected by the vehicular navigation apparatus and transmits the position information to a server. The server determines a position of a user who is provided with a service based on the position information received from the cellular phone, and provides the service to the user of which the position is determined.
Claims15
A service provision system comprising:
- a portable terminal including a terminal-side position detector to detect a first position based on a global positioning system (GPS) signal received from GPS Satellites;
- an in-vehicle apparatus mounted to a vehicle, the in-vehicle apparatus including a vehicle-side position detector to detect a second position based on a GPS signal received from GPS Satellites;
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- a server to receive position information from the portable terminal, determine service information in response to the position information received, and transmit the service information to the portable terminal,
- the portable terminal acquiring the second position detected by the vehicle-side position detector from the in-vehicle apparatus and transmitting the second position as the position information to the server when the portable terminal communicates with the in-vehicle apparatus,
- the portable terminal transmitting the first position detected by the terminal-side position detector as the position information to the server when the portable terminal is not communicating with the in-vehicle apparatus.
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A service provision system comprising:
- a portable terminal including a terminal-side position detector to detect a first position based on a global positioning system (GPS) signal received from GPS Satellites;
- an in-vehicle apparatus different from the portable terminal and fixedly mounted to a vehicle, the in-vehicle apparatus including a vehicle-side position detector to detect a second position based on a GPS signal received from GPS Satellites, the in-vehicle apparatus transmitting the second position detected by the vehicle-side position detector to the portable terminal when the portable terminal communicates with the in-vehicle apparatus;
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- a server to receive position information from the portable terminal, determine service information in response to the position information received, and transmit the service information to the portable terminal,
- the portable terminal being further configured to determine whether or not the second position detected by the vehicle-side position detector is received from the in-vehicle apparatus when the in-vehicle apparatus communicates with the portable terminal,
- wherein:
- when determining that the second position is received from the in-vehicle apparatus, the portable terminal transmits the second position as the position information to the server,
- when determining that the second position is not received from the in-vehicle apparatus, the portable terminal transmits the first position detected by the terminal-side position detector as the position information to the server.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.