Patent ID: 8417743

Claim:
An apparatus for managing data processed in a vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a processor including: a rule acquiring unit acquiring, from outside the vehicle, a management rule including at least one of information indicating a type of data acquired by an external device placed outside the vehicle and information indicating an acquisition cycle at which the data should be acquired; a rule setting unit setting, in the apparatus, at least one of the type of data and the acquisition cycle by making reference to the management rule in response to acquisition by the rule acquiring unit; a data acquiring unit acquiring data which is according to at least of one of the type of data and the acquisition cycle set by the rule setting unit; a data recorder; a data storing unit for storing in the data recorder the data acquired by data acquiring unit; a travel determining unit determining whether or not the vehicle is traveling at present; an inhibiting unit inhibiting the rule setting unit from setting at least one of the type of data and the acquisition cycle when the travel determining unit determines that the vehicle is traveling at present; a stop monitoring unit monitoring that the vehicle has stopped moving after the inhibiting unit inhibits the rule setting unit from setting at least one of the type of data and the acquisition cycle; and a resuming unit resuming the rule setting unit by releasing the inhibition of the setting of at least one of the type of data and the acquisition cycle.