US 12,462,281 B2
Information processing device and method of creating fee plan
Shinya Kotera, Nagoya (JP); Yu Hamada, Nagoya (JP); Shohei Manabe, Nagoya (JP); Kazuyuki Sakuma, Nagoya (JP); Yuri Sonehara, Nagoya (JP); Shunichi Suzuki, Nagoya (JP); Takuya Taniguchi, Nagoya (JP); and Kenta Kawashima, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Mar. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/115,903.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-033784 (JP), filed on Mar. 4, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0281683 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06Q 30/06 (2023.01); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01)
CPC G06Q 30/06 (2013.01) [G06Q 50/40 (2024.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing device that outputs a fee plan indicating a fee required to use a vehicle including a battery selected by a user, the information processing device comprising:
a communication unit that communicates over a network with an external terminal operated by the user and an external server; and
a processor configured to:
receive, from the external terminal via the communication unit, selection information specifying a selected object selected by the user on the external terminal;
acquire a residual value of the battery mounted on the vehicle specified in the selection information, wherein the residual value of the battery is calculated based on a capacity retention of the battery and includes a residual value of the battery at a start time of a use period and a plurality of residual values of the battery at a plurality of times after the start time and before an end time of the use period, the residual value of the battery being updated regularly;
set an initial fee plan based on the residual value of the battery such that a rate of change of the fee with passage of time during the use period follows a rate of change of the residual value of the battery with passage of time during the use period;
upon determining that the selected object is not eligible for a subsidy, cause the external terminal to display the initial fee plan; and
upon determining that the selected object is eligible for the subsidy, cause the external terminal to display an eligible plan which is a fee plan modified from the initial fee plan, wherein
in the eligible plan, the fee is set to a fixed amount of money in an initial predetermined period out of the use period, and after the initial predetermined period, the fee is set to be lower than the fixed amount of money and to be decreased with passage of time until the end time of the use period.