Patent ID: 7653384

Claim:
A remote service system for vehicles comprising: a remote service terminal mounted on a vehicle and having a communication function; and a management center for providing predetermined remote services to the remote service terminal by communication, enabling the remote services to be used through only a contract made for using the services, wherein the remote service terminal, for which the contract of using the services is still valid, is constructed to detect a state where an owner of the vehicle have changed and communicate a detected content to the management center when an owner change is detected, and wherein the management center is constructed to access a contractor database accumulating data of contracted users of the services, confirm a change of the owner of the vehicle by retrieving a contractor database based on the detected content notified from the remote service terminal, inquire if the contract be canceled or if the name of the contractor is changed through the remote service terminal when the owner of the vehicle has changed, and cancel the contract or changes the name of the contractor based upon a response from the remote service terminal to an inquiry.