Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Authentication information providing server, authentication information providing method, delivery user terminal, and locking and unlocking method
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Application No.: US16851533Application Date: 2020-04-17
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Publication No.: US11077829B2Publication Date: 2021-08-03
- Inventor: Etsuko Nakajima , Naoki Uenoyama , Junya Masui , Akira Hoshino , Hideo Hasegawa , Keiko Nakano
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JPJP2017-237760 20171212
- Main IPC: B60R25/24
- IPC: B60R25/24 ; G06Q50/28 ; B60R25/01

Abstract:
An authentication information providing server includes: a memory configured to store information about vehicles associated with a recipient of a package as a place of delivery, and store pieces of authentication information corresponding to lock/unlock devices each configured to lock or unlock a corresponding one of predetermined compartments of the vehicles; and a processor configured to issue the authentication information to a delivery user terminal based on a request from the delivery user terminal, the delivery user terminal being used by a user who delivers the package, and, when there is a request from the delivery user terminal to set a place of delivery of the package to a vehicle different from a first one of the vehicles, corresponding to the authentication information issued first by the processor, issue the authentication information corresponding to a second one of the vehicles, different from the first one.
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