Patent ID: 9369417
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. An on-vehicle apparatus connected to a terminal device having an application for transmitting to a message management system, location information representing a position of the terminal device together with message information comprising text of a communication intended for recipients of the message information, the message management system configured to receive the message information from the terminal device on a predetermined network and provide the received message information to other terminal devices, the on-vehicle apparatus comprising: a processor configured to execute a plurality of units, the plurality of units comprising: a first area determination unit configured to determine whether the position of the terminal device corresponding to the location information is included in a predetermined first area, the first area including a predetermined registration location; a posting control unit configured to ban assignment of the location information before the message information is transmitted to the message management system to prevent others from estimating the registration location from the location information assigned to the message information, when the first area determination unit determines that the position of the terminal device is included in the first area; a second area determination unit configured to determine whether the position of the terminal device corresponding to the location information is included in a second area, the second area included within the first area; and wherein the message information comprises text of a communication intended for recipients of the message information; and wherein the posting control unit bans transmission of the message information comprising text of the communication intended for recipients of the message information to prevent others from estimating the registration location from the message information, when it is determined that the position of the terminal device corresponding to the location information is included in the second area.