Patent ID: 8838068
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A vehicular information receiver coupled to a portable device that performs wireless communication with an external server to receive an information, the portable device receives the information in the form of data by paying a communication fee determined by a unit packet fee, the unit packet fee defines a fee per unit amount of data, the vehicular information receiver comprising: a reception factor set unit setting a reception factor according to an input operation of a user, wherein the reception factor affects an amount of data received by the portable device; an expected fee calculation unit calculating an expected communication fee based on the unit packet fee and an expected amount of data, wherein the expected amount of data is based on the reception factor set by the reception factor set unit; a display unit displaying the reception factor set by the reception factor set unit and the expected communication fee calculated by the expected fee calculation unit; and a reception process unit controlling the portable device to receive the information and controlling the display unit to display the information received from the portable device.