Granted Patent B2

US 12,633,173 · App. 18/664,730 · Granted May 19, 2026

Inventors: Shintaro Matsutani (Kariya, JP); Ryuichi Danno (Kasugai, JP); Atsushi Ikegaya (Aisai, JP); Masashi Nomoto (Tokyo, JP); Oral Kaplan (Tokyo, JP)

Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

G07C5/008G06F21/6245

Abstract

Claims (22)

1 . A system including an information processing device and a user terminal, wherein the information processing device comprises at least one memory storing a vehicle user information database and a data user information database, and a processor configured to:

receive travel data from sensors of vehicles;

receive data provision requests from a plurality of data users requesting provision of target data, each of the data provision requests including a condition;

identify the travel data fulfilling the condition as the target data;

identify a vehicle user associated with a target vehicle from the vehicles that acquired the target data by referring to the vehicle user information database;

extract data user information related to the data users who sent the data provision requests, the data user information including information about a storage period of the target data and information about a purpose of use of the target data when each of the data users is provided with the target data;

send the data user information that was extracted to the user terminal of the vehicle user associated with the target vehicle;

receive permission information from the user terminal, the permission information indicating one or more data users selected from the data users by the vehicle user based on the data user information and permitted by the vehicle user to be provided with the target data; and

send the target data to a server of the one or more data users permitted by the vehicle user to be provided with the target data for traffic congestion analysis or accident investigation, wherein

the user terminal of the vehicle user displays the data user information received from the information processing device, receives selection of the one or more data users permitted by the vehicle user to be provided with the target data, and sends the permission information to the information processing device.

2 . The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to receive additional information together with the permission information from the user terminal, the additional information indicating whether the vehicle user has permitted to provide predetermined personal information about the vehicle user, together with the travel data, to the plurality of data users permitted by the vehicle user to be provided with the travel data.

3 . The system according to claim 1 , wherein the condition includes acquisition time and acquisition area of the travel data in a vehicle.

4 . A non-transitory storage medium storing a program that causes an information processing device with at least one memory storing a vehicle information database and a data user information database to perform an information processing method, the information processing method comprising:

receiving, from a management server, travel data from sensors of vehicles;

receiving data provision requests from a plurality of data users requesting provision of target data, each of the data provision requests including a condition;

identifying the travel data fulfilling the condition as the target data;

identifying a vehicle user associated with a target vehicle from the vehicles that acquired the target data by referring to the vehicle user information database;

extracting data user information related to the data users who sent the data provision requests, the data user information including information about a storage period of the target data and information about a purpose of use of the target data when each of the data users is provided with the target data;

sending the data user information that was extracted to a user terminal of the vehicle user associated with the target vehicle;

receiving permission information from the user terminal, the permission information indicating one or more data users selected from the data users by the vehicle user based on the data user information and permitted by the vehicle user to be provided with the target data; and

sending the target data to a server of the one or more data users permitted by the vehicle user to be provided with the target data for traffic congestion analysis or accident investigation, wherein

the user terminal of the vehicle user displays the data user information received from the information processing device, receives selection of the one or more data users permitted by the vehicle user to be provided with the target data, and sends the permission information to the information processing device.

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