Nissan Motor Company Limited

Pioneer Corporation

Increment P Corporation

Hiroyuki Kashima

Yoshihide Hamaguchi

Yasufumi Iwahori

Yasushi Kikuchi

Ryota Shitamatsu

Yoshihide c/o Pioneer Corporation Hamaguchi

Yasufumi c/o Increment P Corporation Iwahori

A terminal unit () of a navigation system () transmits to a server () list request information containing a rectangular code corresponding to a predetermined display rectangular area of a travel route map. The terminal unit () acquires from the server () a server POI list corresponding to the rectangular code of the list request information, and when recognizing that the server POI list contains POI individual information corresponding to terminal base data that is not stored in a terminal base storage area, the terminal unit () transmits base data request information about POIID of the POI individual information to the server (). Upon acquisition of server base data corresponding to the base data request information from the server (), the terminal unit () stores the server base data in the terminal base storage area as terminal base data.

Information updating device, information distributing device, information processing system, method thereof, program thereof, and storage medium storing the program

An information providing device has a vehicle information acquiring section acquiring information about a plurality of vehicles, a charge history information acquiring section acquiring charge history information, and a charging facility information acquiring section acquiring charging facility information including at least a position and a utilization status of a charging facility. The device further includes a searching section searching, according to a request from a request vehicle, for a charging facility utilizable by the request vehicle as an object charging facility, a vehicle determining section determining, as a specific vehicle, a vehicle that is not the request vehicle and having a possibility of utilizing the object charging facility, and a utilization possibility predicting section predicting a utilization possibility of the specific vehicle utilizing the object charging facility. The device also includes a providing section providing information based on the utilization possibility to the request vehicle.

Information providing device and information providing method

If an information sending request is received from an information terminal via a data communication connection before search for information requested by the information terminal via a voice communication connection is finished, the sending of the information to the information terminal is prohibited. This prevents old information from being transmitted to the information terminal in response to the information sending request.

Information providing apparatus and method

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Machida, Japan

Hiroyuki Kashima