US 10,984,611 B2
Server and information system matching a power-supplying vehicle and a power-receiving vehicle
Atsushi Mizutani, Toyota (JP); Daiki Kaneichi, Nisshin (JP); Hirotaka Karube, Toyota (JP); Jun Kondo, Nisshin (JP); and Kenichi Komuro, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 30, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/174,684.
Claims priority of application No. JP2017-212086 (JP), filed on Nov. 1, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0130661 A1, May 2, 2019
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G07C 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/44 (2018.01); B60L 53/60 (2019.01)
CPC G07C 5/008 (2013.01) [B60L 53/60 (2019.02); H04W 4/44 (2018.02)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A server comprising:
a communication device configured to communicate with a plurality of vehicles, each of the plurality of vehicles being able to supply power to and receive power from another vehicle; and
a controller configured to perform a matching process for setting a power-supplying vehicle and a power-receiving vehicle from the plurality of vehicles and for matching the power-supplying vehicle and the power-receiving vehicle,
wherein the controller matches the power-supplying vehicle and the power-receiving vehicle based on:
a distance between the power-supplying vehicle and the power-receiving vehicle being less than a threshold value; and
a charge supply for the power-supplying vehicle being higher than a requested amount of charge for the power-receiving vehicle; and
in the matching process, the controller being configured to prohibit setting, as the power-supplying vehicle, a vehicle included in the plurality of vehicles and having a power-receiving history that power has been received from the another vehicle,
the server further comprising a storage unit configured to store information regarding the power-receiving history that the power has been received from the another vehicle for each of the plurality of vehicles, and
wherein the controller is configured to use the information regarding the power-receiving history that the power has been received from the another vehicle, so as to determine whether or not each vehicle is the vehicle having the power-receiving history that the power has been received from the another vehicle,
wherein the controller is configured to provide, to each of the plurality of vehicles, a corresponding matching history flag indicating presence or absence of a history that a vehicle having a power-receiving history that the power has been received from the another vehicle through the matching process,
wherein the information regarding the power-receiving history includes information of the matching history flag,
wherein each of the plurality of vehicles is configured to transmit, to the server, a power-receiving history flag indicating presence or absence of a history that a vehicle having the power-receiving history that the power has been received from the another vehicle, and
wherein the information regarding the power-receiving history includes the power-receiving history flag.