Operation regulation method, operation regulation program product, mobile terminal, vehicular apparatus, and vehicular communication system

A mobile terminal communicably connected with a vehicular apparatus via a wireless communication, the mobile terminal comprising:

• a terminal-side control portion executing an application that controls the mobile terminal to cooperate with the vehicular apparatus;
• a terminal-side communication portion communicating with the vehicular apparatus based on a data communication protocol and receiving vehicle information indicating whether a vehicle provided with the vehicular apparatus is in a traveling state, wherein:
• when the mobile terminal is connected with the vehicular apparatus based on a handsfree communication protocol other than the data communication protocol, the terminal-side control portion determines whether the vehicle is in the traveling state based on the vehicle information received by the terminal-side communication portion;
• and
• when the terminal-side control portion determines that the vehicle is in the traveling state, the terminal-side control portion performs an operation regulation by regulating at least one of (i) an operation of the application that controls the mobile terminal to cooperate with the vehicular apparatus or (ii) all or part of functions provided to the mobile terminal;
• and
• a determination portion determining whether the wireless communication between the mobile terminal and the vehicular apparatus is established based on the data communication protocol but not based on the handsfree communication protocol in order to disable the operation regulation.

A vehicular communication system comprising:

• a mobile terminal;
• and
• a vehicular apparatus communicably connected with the mobile terminal via a wireless communication and cooperating with the mobile terminal,
• wherein the mobile terminal includes:
• a terminal-side communication portion communicating with the vehicular apparatus based on a data communication protocol and receiving vehicle information indicating whether a vehicle provided with vehicular apparatus is in a traveling state;
• and
• a terminal-side control portion executing an application that controls the mobile terminal to cooperate with the vehicular apparatus, wherein:
• when the mobile terminal is connected with the vehicular apparatus based on a handsfree communication protocol other than the data communication protocol, the terminal-side control portion determines whether the vehicle is in the traveling state based on the vehicle information received by the terminal-side communication portion;
• and
• when the terminal-side control portion determines that the vehicle is in the traveling state, the terminal-side control portion performs an operation regulation by regulating regulates at least one of (i) an operation of the application that controls the mobile terminal to cooperate with the vehicular apparatus or (ii) all or part of functions provided to the mobile terminal;
• and
• a determination portion determining whether the wireless communication between the mobile terminal and the vehicular apparatus is established based on the data communication protocol but not based on the handsfree communication protocol in order to disable the operation regulation,
• wherein the vehicular apparatus includes:
• a vehicle information acquisition portion acquiring the vehicle information;
• a vehicle-side communication portion communicating with the mobile terminal and transmitting the vehicle information to the mobile terminal;
• and
• a vehicle-side control portion, wherein, when the mobile terminal is connected with the vehicular apparatus via the wireless communication based on the handsfree communication protocol, the vehicle-side control portion controls the vehicle-side communication portion to transmit the vehicle information to the mobile terminal connected based on the handsfree communication protocol in response to a transmission request from the mobile terminal or at a predetermined time interval, and
• wherein the vehicular apparatus is communicably connected with a plurality of mobile terminals including the mobile terminal via the wireless communication.