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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2018
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi, JP;
Atsushi Mizutani, Toyota, JP;
Daiki Kaneichi, Nisshin, JP;
Hirotaka Karube, Toyota, JP;
Jun Kondo, Nisshin, JP;
Kenichi Komuro, Nagoya, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota-shi, JP;
Abstract
The server is configured to communicate with a plurality of power-supplying vehicles and a plurality of power-receiving vehicles. The server is configured to notify, to matched vehicles (candidate power-receiving vehicle and candidate power-supplying vehicle), a candidate gathering location list including respective pieces of information of a plurality of parking areas owned by third parties different from users of the matched vehicles, so as to make an inquiry to the users of the matched vehicles to select one of the plurality of parking areas included in the candidate gathering location list. The server is configured to determine a gathering location for the matched vehicles using the respective pieces of information of the parking areas selected by the users of the matched vehicles, and is configured to transmit the information of the parking area of the determined gathering location to the matched vehicles.