Patent ID: 7885643
Filing Date: 2011-02-08
Classification: G07B,G07C,G08G

Abstract:
1. An inter-vehicular information communication system having plural vehicles that are respectively each equipped with a communication device for establishing direct communication with other of the plural vehicles, the information communication system comprising, in each of the plural vehicles: an ID code storage that stores an ID code for uniquely identifying that respective one of the plural vehicles; an information generation unit that generates offer information to be offered to other of the plural vehicles together with the ID code; an output unit that outputs offer information received by the communication device in a form of at least one of (i) a voice and (ii) an image; and a control unit that (a) controls a transmission of offer information generated by the information generation unit and (b) controls output of offer information received by the communication device from another vehicle, wherein the control unit performs a payment process that pays a user of an offerer vehicle from which the offer information has been transmitted to an acquirer vehicle, for one of (i) an information fee of the received offer information and (ii) an information point that corresponds to the information fee.