Patent ID: 9451396
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: G01C,G06F,G06Q,G08G,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A facility search system comprising: a mobile communication terminal communicably connected with a server and independently performing a registration process for registering a facility visited by a user as a visited facility in the server, the server providing a visited-facility registration service in which the facility visited by the user is registered as the visited facility; and an in-vehicle device provided in a vehicle and communicably connected with the mobile communication terminal, the in-vehicle device performing the registration process in cooperation with the mobile communication terminal, wherein, in the registration process, the in-vehicle device: acquires a device position indicating a current position of the vehicle; determines whether the vehicle arrives at a destination facility by comparing the device position with a position of the destination facility, the destination facility being preliminarily set in the in-vehicle device; controls the mobile communication terminal to register the destination facility as the visited facility in the server when determining that the vehicle arrives at the destination facility; the in-vehicle device includes a first database storing destination facility information that is used for setting the destination facility, the server includes a second database used in the visited-facility registration service, and in the registration process, the in-vehicle device further: sets the destination facility based on the first database; transmits the device position to the server via the mobile communication terminal when determining that the vehicle arrives at the destination facility; acquires a plurality of peripheral facility information items from the server, the plurality of peripheral facility information items being extracted by the server from the second database based on the device position, the plurality of peripheral facility information items corresponding to a plurality of peripheral facilities positioned around the device position; and registers one of the plurality of peripheral facilities, which corresponds to the destination facility, as the visited facility in the server, the plurality of peripheral facilities being specified based on the plurality of peripheral facility information items.