JP2012221181A - Application end batch download system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an "application end batch download system" for acquiring and downloading similar applications as well as a memory card or the like in a batch from an application providing department only by performing a procedure operation for downloading applications one time.SOLUTION: In-vehicle equipment including communication means which can be connected to an Internet network is configured to request an application providing department to provide a plurality of specific applications in a batch. One of the transmitted applications is installed in the in-vehicle equipment which has made the provision request, and the other applications are downloaded in a memory card or the like. This memory card is inserted into the other in-vehicle equipment so that the applications can be installed in the equipment. When the application is available only by a preliminarily registered person, the registrant acquires his or her ID. Thus, it is possible to download even car model-categorized different applications in a batch by designating a plurality of car models.

Description

  The present invention relates to an application batch download system in which one application or a plurality of applications can be downloaded collectively for a plurality of users.

  Various information devices such as personal computers can perform various functions by software. Such an information device is not limited to the personal computer, but is connected to the Internet network using a communication function in, for example, a portable information terminal, a smartphone, a mobile phone, etc. Applications are abbreviated as “applications” for free or free of charge, or application providing departments that provide applications as service departments of various companies (hereinafter collectively referred to as “application providing departments”), It is widely used to install and use it on various devices.

  Similarly, the download of such applications is also provided by the application providing department by connecting a mobile phone and using the communication function of the navigation device, which has been widely installed in vehicles in recent years, in addition to the communication function of the device itself. Various applications such as the navigation application currently available are downloaded to perform new functions and various functions of the navigation device.

  Even in a navigation device that does not have a function of communicating with the outside by connecting to a mobile phone or the like as described above, an application downloaded from a personal computer or the like to a memory card or the like is stored in a memory card slot provided in the navigation device. By inserting the memory card and installing the application recorded on the memory card, the application can be used in the same manner as a navigation device having a communication function.

  On the other hand, in the departments that provide various applications as described above, the users who are registered in advance in this application providing department pay the fee set for each application, and in principle the users One person can use the application.

  For this purpose, the application providing department assigns each user a unique ID when registering the user, and when the ID giver sends a predetermined ID, the application can be downloaded to that user. In addition, if necessary, the application can be installed in the device using the ID.

  In the application providing department, when providing various applications, depending on the type of the application, only one registrant can use, and the family of the main registrant is registered in advance by a predetermined number of people. There are things that make it available for free.

  In that case, after the main registrant downloads his or her own part, the ID of the family part registered in advance is assigned in the same way, and the same application provision request procedure is performed and downloaded. The user communicates with the application providing department using the communication function of his / her device, and downloads a desired application by performing the same procedure as described above.

  In providing various types of applications, in addition to the above-mentioned paid applications, there are some relatively simple applications that can be downloaded free of charge. In that case, no ID is required, and anyone can download it freely. Further, depending on the application, an application may be prepared corresponding to a difference in OS that is a comprehensive control system of each device.

  In addition, depending on the version of each device, there may be an application that operates on each device. Furthermore, for example, in the case where an application in which a part of the operation is different depending on the vehicle is prepared, such as a vehicle diagnosis application, there are various types including the above-mentioned charge-free and user restrictions. There are applications.

  The control unit reads and executes one of the application programs downloaded from the server computer to the RAM based on the selection execution instruction by the operation button, and controls the driving of one of the function processing means, thereby controlling the composite peripheral device. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-228688 discloses a technique that enables function change and function enhancement of each function processing means to be performed inexpensively and efficiently without connecting any external device.

 In addition, each semiconductor manufacturing apparatus has a version management DB in each apparatus. When the software is updated, the management DB is also updated, and an apparatus whose version is to be registered is registered in advance. When one DB is updated by communicating and automatically acquiring version information, other devices detect the update and automatically download the application from the updated device, and automatically A technique for performing the update is disclosed in Patent Document 2.

JP-A-7-093230 JP 2010-245333 A

  As described above, various applications are provided by the application providing department according to various combinations such as pay, free, limited to the applicant, limited to the family, limited to the number of people, by OS, by model, by version, and by the type of on-board vehicle. Many applications are provided through the Internet network.

  Therefore, in a device that can be connected to the Internet network using the device itself or a mobile phone equipped with an Internet connection function, a desired application can be freely downloaded from an application providing department and used. it can. In a device that does not have such an Internet connection function and does not have a function to connect to a mobile phone that is connected to the Internet so that data communication is possible, if the device has a slot for inserting a memory card, Thus, when a device or the like having an Internet connection function is downloaded and recorded on a memory card, the downloaded application can be installed and used on the device by inserting the memory card.

  Therefore, in the case of a paid application limited to the family as described above, if the person registered in advance as a family other than the applicant himself / herself can download it free of charge, for example, the applicant's own device may be connected to the Internet. If possible, after the user downloads the desired application using the ID set in advance as described above, the device used by the family cannot be connected to the Internet. Repeat the same application procedure using the family ID separately registered for the family member, download it to the memory card, install the memory card into the memory card slot of the family device It will be.

  Therefore, the user at this time performs various procedure operations including ID writing for performing download for the user, and then performs various procedure operations including similar ID writing for the family again for the memory. It is necessary to download to the card, and the number of registered families increases to two or three. When downloading to the memory card for each device, it is necessary to perform the same operation several times, which is extremely troublesome.

  Similarly, when the application to be downloaded is model-specific or model-equipped vehicle type and you want to download the application to multiple models or models, only the user's own device can connect to the Internet However, when downloading an application for another model or vehicle type, it is necessary to perform the same procedure many times and download it separately to the memory card, as described above.

  Therefore, when downloading a plurality of similar applications from the application providing department, the present invention performs a procedure operation for downloading only once, and an application for a device other than the device that has performed the download operation is stored in a memory card or the like. The main object is to provide an application batch download system that can be downloaded to other recording media.

  In order to solve the above problems, the application batch download system according to the present invention requests communication means capable of connecting to the Internet network and a plurality of specific applications to the application providing department connected to the Internet network. And a vehicle-mounted device having at least one of a plurality of applications transmitted from the application providing department, and the application providing department in response to the application provision request. One of the plurality of applications transmitted in batch from is downloaded and installed in the vehicle-mounted device itself that requested the application provision, and the other applications are downloaded to the external connection recording medium. And, the application downloaded to the external connection storage medium, characterized in that installed in the other vehicle-mounted device connected to the external connection device.

  Further, in another application batch download system according to the present invention, in the application batch download system, the application requested to be provided to the application providing department is an application that requires user registration in advance, and the application acquisition means When submitting an acquisition application, send the user registration data for each user to be acquired in batches, and the application provider confirms the sent data and then sends multiple applications in batch It is characterized by that.

  In the application batch download system according to the present invention, in the application batch download system, an ID for each registrant is transmitted from the application providing department at the time of user registration, and an application acquisition application is made by the application acquisition unit. The ID is also transmitted.

  Further, in another application batch download system according to the present invention, in the application batch download system, the application requested to be provided to the application provision request department is an application different for each vehicle type, and an application acquisition application is applied by the application acquisition means. When performing, a plurality of vehicle type data to be acquired in a batch are transmitted, and the application providing department transmits the transmitted vehicle type applications in a batch.

  Another application batch download system according to the present invention is characterized in that, in the application batch download system, the application different for each vehicle type is a free-use application that does not require user registration in advance. .

  In another application batch download system according to the present invention, the external connection recording medium is a memory card in the application batch download system.

  Since the present invention is configured as described above, when a plurality of similar applications are downloaded from the application providing department, a procedure operation for downloading is performed only once, and an application for a device other than the device that performed the download operation. Can be downloaded collectively to other externally connected recording media such as a memory card.

It is a functional block diagram of the Example of this invention. In the same Example, it is an operation | movement flowchart which performs the batch acquisition process of an ID required application. In the same Example, it is an operation | movement flowchart which performs the batch acquisition process of an ID unnecessary application. (A) is a figure which shows the example of a screen display of application provision department guidance, (b) is a figure which shows the example of the registration screen for application download. (A) shows an example of an application download request screen of the embodiment, and (b) shows an example of a screen during application download.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of the present invention, showing examples in which the present invention can be implemented in various modes. Therefore, the present invention can be implemented in various modes by selecting any one of these functional blocks. In addition, the function part which performs each function in the figure can also be said to be a means which performs each function.

  In the example shown in FIG. 1, when the present invention is used by downloading various applications from an application providing department connected to the Internet network in a vehicle-mounted device such as a vehicle navigation device or a head unit. The system aspect is shown.

  That is, in the example of FIG. 1, application providing departments A1, B18, C19, D20... Such as various application providing companies, car manufacturers or service departments of automobile related companies are connected to the Internet network 17, and the same. A communication unit 22 of the vehicle-mounted device 21 in the vehicle A as a vehicle with a device with an Internet connection function is connected to the Internet network 17. The in-vehicle device 21 includes a memory card writing unit 40 that writes data when a memory card is inserted into a memory card slot as an externally connected recording medium.

  On the other hand, the vehicle-mounted device 51 of the vehicle B does not have an Internet connection function, and includes a memory card reading unit 52 that reads data recorded in the memory card slot when the memory card is inserted into the memory card slot. Yes. As a result, when the application is downloaded and written to the memory card in the memory card writing unit 40 of the vehicle-mounted device 21 as described later, it is moved to the memory card slot of the vehicle-mounted device 51 of the vehicle B. The vehicle-mounted device 51 can insert it, read it, and install the application on the vehicle-mounted device 51.

  In the example shown in FIG. 1, a personal computer 61 connected to the Internet network 17 by a communication unit 63 is also shown. In this personal computer 61 as well as the vehicle-mounted device 21 of the vehicle A, an arbitrary application is downloaded. Then, this is written by the memory card writing unit 62, and the memory card is inserted into the memory card slot of the vehicle B, and if necessary, the memory card slot of the vehicle-mounted device 21 of the vehicle A, and the application as described above. Can be installed and used.

  In such an overall system configuration, the application providing department A1 shown as a representative example of the application providing department provides a providing application as the main function here, and as shown in FIG. A user application 2 and a freely obtainable application 5 are prepared.

  The ID registrant application 2 is pre-registered with the application providing department by the user, and various registration contracts including fee payment method registration are made for the paid application. This is an application that can be used by being given a unique ID.

  In many cases, such an application can be downloaded only by the individual applicant for registration. In the example shown in the figure, there is also a plurality of batch acquirable applications 3 as one service of the application providing department. For example, for a pre-registered family, for example, up to a total of three people are free, An example of an application that is provided free of charge is shown.

  In the ID collation unit 4, as described later, when the user transmits a registration ID when requesting the provision of the application, the ID verification unit 4 receives the registration ID, which will be described later. It is compared with an ID registered in advance in the ID registration unit 7 to check whether or not they match, and if they match, application provision is permitted.

  The application to be provided does not need to be registered in advance, and there is a freely obtainable application 5 that anyone can obtain freely. Such applications are relatively simple applications with a small amount of data, applications that have been widely used in the past, automobile manufacturers that provide users of their products with applications specific to their products, Etc. exist.

  In the example shown in FIG. 1, for such a freely obtainable application 5, for example, a vehicle diagnosing application for diagnosing the current state of a vehicle for various vehicles of the company's product, an automobile manufacturer or the like gives the user of the product of the company. On the other hand, when providing an application peculiar to an in-house product, the example provided with the vehicle type corresponding | compatible application 6 for providing an application for every vehicle type is shown.

  Here, for example, in a navigation device application, when a navigation device manufacturer provides its own products to various types of vehicles, when adding an application that adds a specific function to the navigation device of those types of vehicles, The application is an application corresponding to the vehicle type.

  In the ID registration unit 7, in particular, when providing the ID registrant application 2, user registration is performed in a predetermined format in advance, and in principle, an individual applicant is registered. As described in the description of the ID registrant application 2, a plurality of batch registration units 8 are provided to permit registration of a plurality of persons. In the illustrated example, there is shown an example in which there is also a family registration unit 9 for providing a service provided free of charge to the applicant's family as described above.

  The communication unit 10 is connected to the Internet network 17 and can communicate with the communication unit 22 of the vehicle-mounted device 21 of the vehicle A in the example of FIG. In the illustrated example, communication with the personal computer 61 is also possible. However, in the illustrated example, since the vehicle-mounted device 51 of the vehicle B does not include such a communication function unit, an example in which communication through the Internet network 17 cannot be performed is shown.

  In the illustrated example, application providing departments B15, C16, and D17 having the same function units as the application providing department A1 are also connected to the Internet network 17, and the user can select a desired application from these application providing departments. You can select and use the department that provides the service.

  As a device using these applications, the vehicle-mounted device 21 of the vehicle A as a device-equipped vehicle with an Internet connection function is connected to the communication section of the application providing department through the Internet network 17 and performs data communication as described above. A communication unit 22 is provided. Among them, a transmission unit 25 and a reception unit 28 are provided, and in order to use an application provided only for a user registered in advance in the application providing department in relation to the present invention, A transmission unit for ID registration data 24 for transmitting data is provided.

  The transmission unit 23 in the illustrated communication unit 22 includes a transmission unit for application provision request data 25 for requesting application provision to the application provision department. Here, the ID registration data 24 is transmitted and registered as described above. After that, the provision request data of the application for the desired ID registrant is transmitted, or the application provision request data is transmitted at any time for the free use application.

  In the example shown in the figure, a transmission unit with a registration ID 26 is provided therein. When an application requesting provision to the application providing department requires a registration ID, in the example shown in the figure, the registration ID is read from the ID registration data storage unit 30 and transmitted. The example which made it possible is shown. However, it is also possible not to store such a registration ID so as not to leak outside.

  In addition, the transmission unit of the application provision request data 25 shown in the figure includes a transmission unit for a plurality of batch transmission registrations 27. If the application requested for provision is free of charge for a family member registered in advance, the provision of the application is provided here. To send data including the ID of each family member.

  The registration ID receiving unit 29 in the receiving unit 28 of the communication unit 22 transmits data to the application providing department using the ID registration data 24 when an ID registered in advance is required for the application provision request as described above. After registration in the providing department, when a user-specific ID is transmitted, it is received.

  The application receiving unit 30 in the receiving unit 28 receives, as a main function of the receiving unit 28, data of the application requested to be provided from the application providing department as described above. Among them, the receiving unit of the plurality of batch receptions 31 receives applications that can be downloaded in a batch for a plurality of registrants like the family registered in advance as described above. In addition, for example, when a request for downloading applications of a plurality of vehicle types is made in a vehicle type-compatible application, the free use application is received in a lump here.

  The registered ID unit 32 stores ID data transmitted when use registration is performed with the application providing department as described above, and is not necessarily a functional unit required in the present invention, but will be described later. In particular, in order to make it possible to send a plurality of batch acquisition applications in a batch with a single request for provision, the registration ID storage unit 32 is provided in the illustrated example in order to easily transmit the IDs of the plurality of registrants. ing.

  Therefore, the registration ID storage unit 32 includes a registration ID storage unit of the applicant ID 31 for the own vehicle and a registration ID storage unit of the applicant family ID 33 for the other vehicle. In the registration ID storage section of the applicant family ID 34, registration ID data of a number of registrants within the range in which the number of persons is limited in advance, such as the family registrant A35 and the family registrant B36, can be stored. This can be read and used when requesting application provision. However, as described above, such a registered ID data storage unit may be omitted in order to prevent the outflow of ID.

  In the application acquisition unit 37, when the user of the vehicle-mounted device 21 desires a predetermined application, the application providing department of the application is selected, a desired application is specified, and application provision request data is transmitted. And this is acquired from the application providing department.

  As for the application at this time, in addition to the single acquisition unit 38 when a person who wants the application acquires it alone and the application for the own vehicle as described above, in particular for the vehicle B that does not have an Internet connection function. For example, a plurality of batch acquisition units 39 for acquiring a plurality of the same applications in a batch. There are various acquisition modes including chargeable and free of charge as modes for acquiring a plurality of batches, such as when capturing for the applicant's family or when capturing a plurality of vehicle types.

  In the various aspects described above, as one aspect of the plurality of batch acquisition unit 39, in addition to the registration ID of the own vehicle, for example, the family registered in advance according to a predetermined application provision request form prepared in advance by the application providing department. The ID is also written, and the application for family members, especially for other vehicles, is also instructed to download to the memory card. Will be able to.

  The vehicle-mounted device 21 shown in the figure includes a memory card writing unit 40. When a memory card is inserted into a memory card slot provided in this device, the above-mentioned application for other vehicles is stored in the memory card. You can write. In the application installation part 41, when the application for own vehicles is downloaded as mentioned above, it installs so that this apparatus can finally utilize the application.

  The vehicle-mounted device 51 in the illustrated vehicle B incapable of connecting to the Internet includes a memory card reading unit 52 so as to simply display the functional unit, and the vehicle A in the memory card writing unit 40 of the vehicle A as described above. After the application for B is collectively read and written by a series of operations, the memory card is read when the memory card is moved to the memory card slot of the vehicle B and inserted.

  In the ID storage unit 53, when an ID is registered in advance as in the family limited application as described above, the ID is stored, and when the application recorded on the memory card is installed, the application will be When confirming whether the device to be installed is a registered device, this data can be read and confirmed. However, when the application is installed, in the case of an application that does not require the user to register an ID in advance, the data in the ID storage unit 53 is not used. The application installation unit 54 installs the application downloaded to the memory card as described above so that the vehicle-mounted device 51 can actually operate.

  In the example of FIG. 1, a personal computer 61 including a communication unit 63 that can be connected to the Internet network 17 is illustrated. Here, the same functional unit as the vehicle-mounted device 21 of the vehicle A is provided. Therefore, a plurality of desired applications can be written to the memory card via the Internet network 17 in the same manner as the vehicle-mounted device 21 of the vehicle A.

  The plurality of applications written at this time can be used in the same manner as described above by inserting the memory card into the memory card slot of the vehicle-mounted device 51 without the Internet connection function. It can also be used in the same manner for the vehicle-mounted device 21 of the vehicle A having an Internet connection function.

  The application batch download system of the present invention comprising functional blocks as shown in FIG. 1 can be implemented in various modes by selecting an arbitrary functional block. For example, the operation as shown in FIG. By activating each functional unit in order by the flow, the ID required application collective fetching process as one aspect of the present invention can be performed.

  That is, in the example of the ID required application batch import process shown in FIG. 2, the user A applies to the application providing department for the use of the application providing department itself using the Internet connection function provided in the vehicle-mounted device. In this case, an example of processing when a plurality of usage applications such as a user and his / her family are applied and a specific application is collectively applied for after obtaining an ID is shown.

  In the example of FIG. 2, first, as described above, the user A transmits a use application procedure for the application providing department to the application providing department using the Internet connection function provided in the on-vehicle equipment (step S1). At that time, in order to receive a service such as a family-only free service provided by the application providing department, if it is necessary to register a family in advance, a multiple use application for the same application is also made.

  The application for use of the application providing department as described above from the user A is sent to the transmission unit 23 in the communication unit 22 of the vehicle-mounted device 21 in the vehicle A in FIG. This is done by sending to the providing department 1.

  However, when using the application providing department in advance, when applying for use in advance, before the first use application procedure as described above, for example, on a specific road that the user always uses for commuting, shopping, etc. When an application provider that provides such an application is found as a result of searching for an application that constantly informs the status of the application, the application provider's site is accessed and the application When a request to download the application is given on the provision request screen, the next screen confirms whether or not a usage contract has already been made with this application provision department. To display the usage application screen and let the application process Unisuru often.

  Such an example is shown in FIG. 4, and in the example of FIG. 4A, as a result of the user searching as described above, an application providing department providing such an application is found. In this example, the application providing department site is accessed and the application request screen is displayed.

  In the example of FIG. 4 (a), “application fountain” which is one of the application providing departments is accessed, and “always road watch corps” “latest road” is selected as the navigation application on the application provision request selection screen. In this example, “road data”, “latest restoration road guidance”, “planned blackout signal non-operation road guidance” exist, and “car diagnosis” exists as another application. Here, for applications other than those shown in the figure, other applications can be displayed by scrolling the screen.

  In the same figure, “Always road guards” will display “Family only” along with an application description “Look at the congestion of the roads you always go through.” Although it is charged, it also indicates that a pre-registered family is free.

  When “selection” in the display column of this application is instructed with a cursor or the like, a screen such as the application download registration confirmation screen example in FIG. In the example in the figure, the contract procedure has already been completed for the application provider department of this “app fountain”. For registered users, “Next” in the “Registered” column. In response to the instruction, the application download screen is displayed. On the other hand, the user who has not completed the registration procedure performs the necessary registration procedure on this screen.

  In the example shown in the figure, in the “Unregistered” column, “Applicant Registration” and the “Family Registration” column are provided for the family-only use permitted by this application. Then, it is possible to register “Family 1” and “Family 2”. In the example shown in the figure, when “personal information” is entered, “usage car information” is also entered in addition to “personal information”, so that when the application to be provided differs depending on the vehicle type of each vehicle, the information is registered in advance. The desired application can be downloaded immediately. Similarly, in “family registration”, “family information” and “used car information” are registered for each family. When inputting each piece of information, by instructing an “input screen”, each piece of information is input on a screen not shown. In that case, a procedure for a fee payment method and the like are also performed in order to request provision of a paid application.

  In step S1 of FIG. 2, when making a use application to the application providing department as described above, if a plurality of use applications for family-limited use shown in FIG. The providing department checks the format of the application, and accepts the application providing department use application including the multiple use applications as described above (step S2).

  Thereafter, the application providing department performs the applicant registration, and assigns an ID unique to the applicant (step S3). At this time, when multiple use registration such as family limitation is performed as described above, an ID is assigned to each family. Next, in the application providing department, the applicant ID is also sent to the user A together with the application acceptance completion notification (step S4). At that time, IDs for a plurality of users such as family registration are also sent. User A receives this and completes a series of registration application procedures (step S5).

  In the series of operations, when the application acquisition unit 37 in the vehicle-mounted device 21 of the vehicle A in FIG. 1 tries to acquire an application, the ID registration data 24 is transmitted via the Internet network 17 in the transmission unit 23 of the communication unit 22. To the application providing department A1, and the application providing department A1 receives the data as ID registration data 12 in the receiving section 11 of the communication section 10, and performs registration as described above in the ID registering section 7. The registration ID 15 is transmitted, and the vehicle-mounted device 21 receives the registration ID 15 by the registration ID reception unit 29 in the reception unit 28 of the communication unit 22. In the example of FIG. 1, this is stored in the registration ID storage unit 32.

  In the example of FIG. 2, a batch download application for a plurality of registrants is subsequently made for a specific application. At this time, a plurality of registration IDs are sent for the use of the pay application only for families (step S6). In the case of this application, in the example of FIG. 4B, when the re-screen is displayed after the registration application, the “next” in the “registered person” column is instructed, for example, in FIG. Apply for the download of the application that you request to provide on the screen as shown.

  In the example of FIG. 5A, in the application download request screen display of “ordinary road guard”, the ID of the registrant who needs this application is also input for the family in addition to the requester himself / herself. In the example in the figure, “Please specify the download destination of family data at the same time. (You can download at the same time.”), Download to a memory card unless otherwise instructed, and other For example, the memory of a portable information terminal connected to a USB connection unit of a vehicle-mounted device can be specified. By instructing “send” on this screen, it is possible to make a download request to the application providing department.

  In the example of FIG. 2, the application providing department accepts the batch download application for this specific application (step S7), confirms the IDs of the multiple applicants sent (step S8). An ID is assigned and a plurality of application data are sent together (step S9). At the time of sending, for example, the applicant himself / herself, then family 1 and then family 2 are downloaded in a predetermined order.

  The user receives these applications all at once, and installs the application for the own vehicle directly on the device mounted on the receiving vehicle. In addition, for the registered family for family limitation etc., the application for other vehicles is downloaded to the memory card in the illustrated example (step S10).

  At this time, for example, on the screen as shown in FIG. 5B, “ordinary road guard (family limited software)” is displayed as “downloading”, and a download progress screen is displayed. In the example shown in the figure, "Family data download destination" is "Memory card", and "Family download data is installed by entering the registration ID according to the screen display after inserting this memory card." Please do "and explain how to operate after that.

  For the operation for downloading a series of these specific applications, the multiple batch acquisition unit 39 of the application acquisition unit 37 in the vehicle-mounted device 21 of the vehicle A in FIG. Then, the provision request application is performed by the plural batch registration 27 of the application provision request data 25 in the transmission unit 23 of the communication unit 22.

  This is received by the application provision request data 13 of the reception unit 11 in the communication unit 10 of the application provision department 1, and the ID transmitted by the ID collation unit 4 is compared and collated with the ID registered by the ID registration unit 7, A predetermined application in the plurality of batch acquirable applications 3 in the ID registrant application 2 is selected, and the application 16 in the transmission unit 14 of the communication unit 10 is transmitted to the vehicle-mounted device 21 of the user.

  In the vehicle-mounted device 21, a plurality of batch receptions 31 are performed by the application reception unit 30 in the reception unit 28 of the communication unit 22. The application acquisition unit 37 installs the application downloaded in this way for the vehicle-mounted device 21 by the application installation unit 41. At that time, the registration ID can be confirmed again. The application for other vehicles is written and downloaded by the memory card writing unit 40 to the memory card inserted in the memory card slot.

  In the example of FIG. 2, the memory card downloaded in batch for other vehicles as described above is extracted (step S11) and inserted into the memory card slot in the vehicle-mounted device of the user B's vehicle (step S12). In the example shown in the figure, ID verification is then performed by re-inputting the ID by the user (step S13), and the application is installed on the vehicle-mounted device. When there are more users at the time of the family limited use, the same memory card downloaded in the same manner can be used and installed in the same manner.

  In the example shown in FIG. 2, an example of an operation flow for performing a process of collectively fetching ID-required applications is shown. In the present invention, “latest information on roads restored after the earthquake” in FIG. "Free road guidance" such as "We will guide you along with the map the road where the signal will not work due to the planned blackout" When downloading an application that can be freely used free of charge indicated as “app”, for example, it can be operated according to an operation flow shown in FIG.

  In the example of FIG. 3, the operation flow of FIG. 2 corresponds to an operation flow in which no ID registration process is performed. However, in the example shown in FIG. 3, in order to facilitate the selective transmission of the application type, an example is shown in which registration of a vehicle type that requires provision is performed in advance when applying for an application of a plurality of vehicle types. Therefore, if it is not necessary, the operation may be started from step S36 as shown.

  That is, in the example shown in FIG. 3, the operations of steps S31 to S35 are the same as those in steps S1 to S5 in the example of FIG. 2, and “multiple use application” in FIG. “Multiple use registration” is indicated as “Multiple vehicle type registration”, and “Multiple ID” is indicated as “Multiple vehicle type”.

  In the example shown in FIG. 3, after such vehicle type registration, an example is shown in which the same operation is performed except that steps S6 to S14 in FIG. In other words, “add multiple registration IDs” in step S6 in FIG. 2 is “specify multiple models”, step S8 in FIG. 2 is unnecessary, “add each ID” in step S9 is unnecessary, and step S13 is It becomes unnecessary. Other than that, it is almost the same as FIG.

  By performing such an operation, for example, when an automobile manufacturer or related manufacturer has a part of application software different for each vehicle with respect to the on-vehicle equipment of its own product, the user's family By specifying a plurality of related vehicle types, including those, those applications can be downloaded in a batch, eliminating the need for the same application operation many times.

  In the examples of FIGS. 2 and 3, the device for which the application request is made is an on-vehicle device. However, in the personal computer 61 as shown in FIG. Can be downloaded at once. After that, by inserting memory cards in which applications for all vehicle types are recorded in order into the memory card slots of the respective on-vehicle devices, applications for all vehicle types can be installed for each vehicle type.

1 Application provision department A
2 Application for ID registrant 3 Application for multiple batch acquisition 4 Application for ID verification 5 Application for free acquisition 6 Application for vehicle type 7 ID registration unit 8 Multiple batch registration unit 9 Family registration unit 10 Communication unit 11 Reception unit 12 ID registration data 13 Application provision request data 14 Transmitter 15 Registration ID
16 Application 17 Internet 18 Application provider B
19 Application provision department C
20 Application provision department D
21 Vehicle A Vehicle-mounted device 22 Communication unit 23 Transmission unit 24 ID registration data 25 Application provision request data 26 Registration ID
27 Multi-Batch Registration 28 Receiving Unit 29 Registration ID Receiving Unit 30 Application Receiving Unit 31 Multiple Batch Receiving 32 Registration ID Storage Unit 33 Applicant ID
34 Applicant family ID
35 Family Registrant A
36 Family Registrant B
37 Application acquisition unit 38 Single acquisition unit 39 Multiple batch acquisition unit 40 Memory card writing unit 41 Application installation unit 51 Vehicle B vehicle mounted device 52 Memory card reading unit 53 ID storage unit 54 Application installation unit 61 Personal computer 62 Memory card writing unit 63 Communication Department

Claims (6)

A communication means connectable to the Internet network;
Application acquisition means for requesting provision of a plurality of specific applications to the application providing department connected to the Internet network;
A vehicle-mounted device having an external connection recording medium that records at least one of a plurality of applications transmitted from the application providing department;
One of a plurality of applications sent in batch from the application providing department in response to the application providing request is downloaded and installed in the vehicle-mounted device itself that has requested the application providing, and the other applications are Download to the external connection recording medium,
An application batch download system, wherein an application downloaded to the external connection recording medium is installed in another on-vehicle device connected to the external connection device. The application requesting the application providing department is an application that requires user registration in advance,
When applying for an application acquisition with the application acquisition means, send the data that has been registered for each user to be acquired in batches,
The application batch download system according to claim 1, wherein the application providing department transmits a plurality of applications at once after confirming the transmitted data. At the time of user registration, an ID for each registrant is transmitted from the application providing department,
3. The application batch download system according to claim 2, wherein the ID is also transmitted when an application acquisition application is made by the application acquisition means. The application requested to the application provision request department is an application different for each vehicle type,
When applying for an application acquisition by the application acquisition means, a plurality of vehicle type data to be acquired in a batch are transmitted,
2. The application batch download system according to claim 1, wherein the application providing department transmits the transmitted vehicle type applications in a batch.   5. The application batch download system according to claim 4, wherein the application different for each vehicle type is a free-use application that does not require user registration in advance.   2. The application batch download system according to claim 1, wherein the externally connected recording medium is a memory card.

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