Patent ID: 8150474

Claim:
An in-vehicle handsfree apparatus comprising: a first phone book data transfer protocol connecting section configured to connect a first phone book data transfer protocol with a cellular phone compliant with the first phone book data transfer protocol for executing a phone book data transfer from the cellular phone to the in-vehicle handsfree apparatus without need of a user's operation to the cellular phone; a second phone book data transfer protocol connecting section configured to connect a second phone book data transfer protocol with a cellular phone compliant with the second phone book data transfer protocol for executing a phone book data transfer from the cellular phone to the in-vehicle handsfree apparatus with need of a user's operation to the cellular phone; a handsfree protocol connecting section configured to connect a handsfree communication protocol with a cellular phone compliant with the handsfree communication protocol for executing a handsfree communication using the cellular phone; a function query protocol connecting section configured to connect a function query protocol with a cellular phone compliant with the function query protocol for asking a compliance state relative to a phone book data transfer protocol of the cellular phone; and a control section configured, when connecting the handsfree communication protocol with a cellular phone using the handsfree protocol connecting section, to connect the function query protocol with the cellular phone using the function query protocol connecting section and store in a storage section a function query response, which is notified by the cellular phone, in association with the cellular phone, the control section being further configured, when the user performs, using an operation section, an operation to require all item transfer, which regards all items of phone book data as a transfer target, to refer to a function query response associated with a cellular phone, which the all item transfer is required of, in the storage section and select one of the first phone book data transfer protocol and the second phone book data transfer protocol, to thereby connect the one of the first phone book data transfer protocol and the second phone book data transfer protocol using a corresponding one of the first phone book data transfer protocol connecting section and the second phone book data transfer protocol connecting section.