Patent ID: 7268664

Claim:
A remote control apparatus for controlling on-vehicle equipment in accordance with a request made from a communication terminal, said apparatus comprising: a request receiver portion for transmitting a control content selection menu including more than one control content of said on-vehicle equipment to said communication terminal, receiving from said communication terminal a control content selection from among said more than one control content included in said control content selection menu, together with an ID information, registering a record including said control content selection and said ID information into a control information database, generating a control information comprising a control command for executing said control content selection and a parameter, and registering them into a corresponding record; a control information transmitter portion for receiving said ID information from said on-vehicle equipment, generating a control information selection menu to select said control content from a record which agrees with said ID information among said records which are registered in said control information database, and for transmitting it to said on-vehicle equipment; and a providing portion, operative when said record of said control content has registered, for executing a control information registered in said record when a control information corresponding to said control content is executed in the absence of a vehicle position information, for registering an execution result to said record corresponding to said control information database; wherein upon receipt of an execution request of said control content from said on-vehicle equipment, said providing portion causes a check of whether a registration of said execution result has been performed provides said registered control information result to said on-vehicle equipment when said execution result has registered, and provides said control result for executing said control information on said on-vehicle equipment in accordance with said execution request, when said execution result has not registered.