Patent ID: 11927454
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G  H  Y | IPC B  G  H

Claim 7:
8. A non-transitory storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform operations including:
acquiring, from a global positioning system (GPS), information including latitude and longitude of a current position of the vehicle which is traveling using a battery as an energy source;
acquiring, from the vehicle, information of a travelable range of the vehicle based on a battery residual capacity of the battery of the vehicle;
extracting, from a database, at least one charging station, located within the travelable range from the latitude and longitude of the current position, out of a plurality of charging stations stored in the database;
extracting, from the database, two or more spots from among the plurality of spots for each one of said at least one extracted charging station, which are able to be visited by a vehicle occupant without driving in the vehicle while the vehicle is in a stopped state in each one of the at least one extracted charging station;
based upon the two or more spots being extracted, prioritizing the two or more extracted spots with respect to each other based upon a predetermined criteria;
transmitting, to a navigation device mounted in the vehicle, information of the two or more extracted spots along with information of the at least one extracted charging station; and
controlling the navigation device to display, at a same time, information for the at least one extracted charging station and prioritized information for the two or more extracted spots that are associated with the at least one extracted charging station,
wherein the predetermined criteria for prioritizing the two or more spots includes a model of the vehicle in which the navigation device is mounted.