Patent ID: 9534920
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G01C

Claim:
1. An information processing terminal communicating with an external information processing terminal, the external information processing terminal having a plurality of types of applications, the information processing terminal comprising: a condition determination unit configured to determine current conditions of at least one of a vehicle on which the information processing terminal is mounted and a user riding on the vehicle; an activation control unit configured to transmit, depending on the determined current conditions, an activation request for activating at least one of the plurality of types of applications to the external information processing terminal, and thereby to let the external information processing terminal activate an application corresponding to the activation request the activation control unit having modifiable activation conditions used to judge whether to activate respective ones of the plurality of types of applications; a cooperation unit configured to execute the activated application in cooperation with the external information processing terminal, and to let the external information processing terminal to display, on a screen of the external information processing terminal, the information concerning the current conditions of at least one of the user and the vehicle on which the information processing terminal is mounted wherein: the plurality of types of applications are assigned respective priority orders; when the current condition determined by the condition determination unit satisfies the activation condition for another application during execution of the application by the external information processing terminal, the priority order of the application being executed and the priority order of the other application are compared, and (A) when the priority order of the application being executed is higher than that of another application, the activation control unit lets the external information processing terminal continue to execute the application by not transmitting the activation request for another application to the external information processing terminal; and (B) when the priority order of another application is higher than that of the application being executed, the activation control unit transmits a termination request for the application being executed to the external information processing terminal, and when receiving a termination notification of the application from the external information processing terminal, the activation control unit transmits an activation request for another application to the external information processing terminal.