Patent ID: 8903600
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: G06Q,G08G,H04W

Abstract:
1. A vehicle-mounted device adapted for use in a distribution system including a server apparatus for organizing content information in accordance with user's taste information, the vehicle-mounted device for providing the user's taste information to the server apparatus, and a roadside apparatus for transmitting the content information according to the user's taste information from the server apparatus to the vehicle-mounted device having entered into a wireless communication area, the roadside apparatus receiving uplink information including past drop-in place information together with the user's taste information from the vehicle-mounted device to forward the received uplink information to the server apparatus, wherein the server apparatus is capable of understanding the past drop-in place information and the content information while associating the past drop-in place information and the content information with each other, characterized in that the vehicle-mounted device comprises: a parking spot detection unit configured to detect, as a detected parking spot, a point where the vehicle-mounted device has been powered off; a decision unit configured to decide whether the detected parking spot is appropriate as a past drop-in place of the uplink information and deciding whether a duration for which the vehicle-mounted device has been powered off is more than a predetermined duration; and a past drop-in place registration unit configured to register the detected parking spot as a past drop-in place of the uplink information if the detected parking spot is appropriate as the past drop-in place of the uplink information and the duration for which the vehicle-mounted device has been powered off is more than the predetermined duration.