Patent ID: 11954624
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  B | IPC B  G  H

Claim 2:
3. A server comprising:
an authentication database;
a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to:
allocate an automatic driving vehicle to a vehicle allocation place in response to reception of a vehicle allocation request signal containing at least information on the vehicle allocation place of the automatic driving vehicle, the vehicle allocation request signal being transmitted from a mobile terminal;
determine whether the automatic driving vehicle has arrived from the vehicle allocation place within a predetermined distance range based on position information transmitted from the automatic driving vehicle;
give a notification indicating that the automatic driving vehicle has arrived to the mobile terminal in response to arrival of the automatic driving vehicle from the vehicle allocation place within the predetermined distance range; and
permit usage of the automatic driving vehicle when a user of the mobile terminal is authenticated based on authentication information transmitted from the mobile terminal in response to the notification, the authentication information is announcement sound announced by the automatic driving vehicle that is in accordance with an instruction that is transmitted by the processor, wherein

the processor is further configured to establish a speech line with the mobile terminal; and
the processor is further configured to authenticate the user of the mobile terminal by determining whether the sound announced by the automatic driving vehicle which has been transmitted by the mobile terminal coincides with a sound announced of the automatic driving vehicle that is stored in the authentication database.