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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2001

Filed:

Oct. 07, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Kouichi Ando, Susono, JP;

Toru Ito, Nagoya, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ; G06F 1/100 ; G01R 3/128 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ; G06F 1/100 ; G01R 3/128 ;
Abstract

The present system executed data recovery without affecting other operations in the event that some recorded data has failed. In a database installed on a motor vehicle, program data, map data and the like used to carry out navigation are stored. If any set of these data has failed, a controller evaluates the urgency of recovery of the failed data set. For example, the urgency of recovery is evaluated by determining whether the failed data is part of a program in current use or whether it is map data scheduled to be used directly before long. Even if lower priority data in terms of the urgency of recovery has failed, the request for data recovery is issued at an appropriate delay timing instead of immediately requesting the information center to send that data, so that the influence of the data recovery on normal operation can be decreased.


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