US 12,308,984 B2
Communication system which determines a communication fee or a monetary amount of reward
Motoki Ito, Tokyo (JP); and Ryusuke Tamanaha, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/977,217.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-194710 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0171117 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 12/14 (2024.01)
CPC H04L 12/1428 (2013.01) [H04L 12/1403 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communication system comprising a processor that functions as:
an information transmission section that performs information transmission to an information collection apparatus via a communication network;
a communication relaying section that performs communication relaying for connecting a mobile communication terminal to the communication network by relaying a communication to or from the mobile communication terminal; and
a fee determination section that determines a communication fee for communication via the communication network, or a monetary amount of reward for the information transmission,
wherein
the fee determination section determines the communication fee or the monetary amount of reward, based on a first communication volume related to the information transmission, or based on a ratio of the first communication volume to a second communication volume related to the communication relaying,
the information transmission is transmission of image data captured by an image pick-up device, and
the fee determination section determines the communication fee or the monetary amount of reward, based on the first communication volume as a communication volume related to the transmission of the image data, or based on the ratio of the first communication volume as the communication volume related to the transmission of the image data, to the second communication volume related to the communication relaying.