Trunk-sharing system, information processing device for trunk-sharing, information processing method for trunk-sharing, and recording medium having program stored therein

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10755502-B2
Application number	US-201816177832-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 1, 2018
Priority date	Dec 28, 2017
Publication date	Aug 25, 2020
Grant date	Aug 25, 2020

Abstract

A trunk-sharing system that controls an user's authority to use a predetermined area of a vehicle by issuing a predetermined authentication information to a user terminal, the trunk-sharing system including a server configured to: acquire a first information on a permission of using the predetermined area of the vehicle from a first user who owns the vehicle; provide the first information such that the first information acquired from the first user of each of a plurality of vehicles is able to be detected by a second user other than the first user; acquire a second information on a request for a use of the predetermined area which is an information from the second user who has accessed the provided first information; and issue an authentication information for locking and unlocking the predetermined area to a terminal of the second user based on the first information and the second information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A trunk-sharing system that controls an authority of a user for using a predetermined area of a vehicle by issuing predetermined authentication information to a user terminal of the user, the trunk-sharing system comprising:
a server including circuitry configured to:
acquire first information on a permission of using the predetermined area of the vehicle from a first user who owns the vehicle;
provide the first information such that the first information is able to be detected by a second user other than the first user;
acquire second information on a request for a use of the predetermined area which is information from the second user who has accessed the provided first information;
issue authentication information for locking and unlocking the predetermined area to a terminal of the second user based on the first information and the second information; and
prohibit unlocking of the predetermined area by a user other than the second user by permitting only unlocking of the predetermined area using the authentication information issued to the terminal of the second user after the second user who uses the predetermined area has unlocked and locked the predetermined area.

2. The trunk-sharing system according to claim 1 , wherein the first information at least includes a location of the vehicle when the use of the predetermined area is permitted, a time at which a permission of the use starts, and a time at which the permission of the use ends.

3. The trunk-sharing system according to claim 1 , wherein the first information includes a use limitation for limiting use in a predetermined form.

4. The trunk-sharing system according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to notify current position information of the vehicle to the second user when the vehicle including the predetermined area moves while the second user is using the predetermined area.

5. The trunk-sharing system according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is configured to allow the second user and the first user to communicate with each other when the vehicle including the predetermined area moves while the second user is using the predetermined area.

6. The trunk-sharing system according to claim 1 , wherein the user other than the second user that is prohibited from the unlocking of the predetermined area is the first user who owns the vehicle.

7. The trunk-sharing system according to claim 6 , wherein the circuitry is configured to invalidate master authentication information of the user other than the second user while the second user uses the predetermined area.

8. The trunk-sharing system according to claim 6 , wherein the user other than the second user whose master authentication information is invalidated while the second user uses the predetermined area is the first user who owns the vehicle.

9. An information processing device for trunk-sharing that controls an authority of a user for using a predetermined area of a vehicle by issuing predetermined authentication information to a user terminal of the user, the information processing device comprising:
circuitry configured to:
acquire first information on a permission of using the predetermined area of the vehicle from a first user who owns the vehicle;
provide the first information such that first information is able to be detected by a second user other than the first user;
acquire second information on a request for a use of the predetermined area which is information from the second user who has accessed the first information provided from the provision unit;
issue authentication information for locking and unlocking the predetermined area to a terminal of the second user based on the first information and the second information;
prohibit unlocking of the predetermined area by a user other than the second user by permitting only unlocking of the predetermined area using the authentication information issued to the terminal of the second user after the second user who uses the predetermined area has unlocked and locked the predetermined area.

10. An information processing method for trunk-sharing that controls an authority of a user for using a predetermined area of a vehicle by issuing predetermined authentication information to a user terminal of the user, the information processing method comprising:
acquiring first information on a permission of using the predetermined area of the vehicle from a first user who owns the vehicle;
providing the first information such that the first information is able to be detected by a second user other than the first user;
acquiring second information on a request for a use of the predetermined area which is an information from the second user who has accessed the provided first information;
issuing authentication information for locking and unlocking the predetermined area to a terminal of the second user based on the first information and the second information; and
prohibiting unlocking of the predetermined area by a user other than the second user by permitting only unlocking of the predetermined area using the authentication information issued to the terminal of the second user after the second user who uses the predetermined area has unlocked and locked the predetermined area.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program for trunk-sharing that controls an authority of a user for using a predetermined area of a vehicle by issuing predetermined authentication information to a user terminal of the user, the program causing a computer to perform a control process comprising:
acquiring first information on a permission of using the predetermined area of the vehicle from a first user who owns the vehicle;
providing the first information such that the first information is able to be detected by a second user other than the first user;
acquiring second information on a request for a use of the predetermined area which is information from the second user who has accessed the provided first information;
issuing authentication information for locking and unlocking the predetermined area to a terminal of the second user based on the first information and the second information; and
prohibiting unlocking of the predetermined area by a user other than the second user by permitting only unlocking of the predetermined area using the authentication information issued to the terminal of the second user after the second user who uses the predetermined area has unlocked and locked the predetermined area.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sakurada Shin
• Ando Koichi
• Matsuura Mutsumi
• Endo Masato
• Fujita Koki

Classifications

• G07C9/21

  having a variable access code · CPC title

• G07C9/27

  with central registration · CPC title

• G07C2009/00468

  after n uses · CPC title

• G07C9/00571

  operated by interacting with a central unit · CPC title

• B60R25/241

  whereby access privileges are related to the identifiers · CPC title