US 12,136,048 B2
Information processing apparatus and information processing method
Yuta Tone, Nagoya (JP); Yukinori Ii, Toyota (JP); Tadayuki Tanaka, Nagoya (JP); Naoki Ishizuka, Nagoya (JP); Yuichiro Yano, Nagakute (JP); Nariaki Amano, Nagoya (JP); Yusuke Maeda, Miyoshi (JP); Kei Yazaki, Okazaki (JP); and Yu Hamada, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/720,559.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-087250 (JP), filed on May 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0374788 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/02 (2012.01)
CPC G06Q 10/02 (2013.01) 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a storage; and
a controller operatively coupled to the storage,
wherein the storage store one or more instructions and facility information about a predetermined facility that is cap able of removing component from a first vehicle and installing the component to a second vehicle, and wherein the facility information includes available reservation dates and times of the predetermined facility, and
wherein, upon execution of the instructions, the controller is configured to:
receive, via a wireless communication network, the facility information from a facility terminal related to predetermined facility,
store the received facility information in the storage,
receive, via the wireless communication network from a terminal of a user accessing a website, a request to move the component included in the first vehicle to the second vehicle, the user being an owner of the first vehicle and the second vehicle,
select one or more facilities with available times that are capable of removing the component from the first vehicle and installing the component to the second vehicle in response to the stored facility information and the received request,
transmit, via the wireless communication network, inform about the available reservation dates and times of the selected one or more facilities to the user terminal,
determine whether reservation information has been received from the user terminal, the reservation information being information for reserving any of the one or more facilities selected by the user, and the reservation information including a removal date and time of the component from the first vehicle and an installation date and time removed component to the second vehicle, at any of the one or more facilities selected by the user,
generate reservation completion information for reserving the facility selected by the user so that two frames including a first time frame corresponding to the first vehicle and a second time frame corresponding to the second vehicle are reserved in response to the reception of the reservation information from the user terminal, and
transmit, via the wireless communication network, the generated reservation completion information to the user terminal and the facility terminal.