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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2003
Hiroshi Shishido, Iwaki, JP;
Koyo Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masana Minami, Koganei, JP;
Nozomu Saito, Iwaki, JP;
Hiroshi Shishido, Iwaki, JP;
Koyo Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masana Minami, Koganei, JP;
Nozomu Saito, Iwaki, JP;
Alpine Electronics, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for communication among mobile units and vehicular communication apparatus make it possible to automatically establish connection with a party who can provide required information on the basis of an environment or condition change of a driver or a vehicle or in response to a driver's request so as to permit communication with the party. An inter-vehicle communication apparatus of a vehicle acquires information from other mobile units through physical networks while it is moving or stopped, and registers, in a member table, mobile units satisfying predetermined conditions on the basis of the acquired information as the members of different virtual logic networks according to the conditions. In such a state, the inter-vehicle communication apparatus selects one virtual logic network from among a plurality of virtual logic networks on the basis of an environment or condition change of a driver or a vehicle or in response to a driver's request so as to permit communication with the party. The selected virtual logic network is set as an active network to establish connection with a predetermined mobile unit in the active network thereby to request or provide required information from or to the mobile unit.