On-board web server telematics systems and methods

• US 10,142,420 B2
• Filed: 08/25/2015
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Lei, Oliver, Murray, Allen R., Dragescu, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Heinle, Courtney D
• Application Number:
  US14/835,389
• Publication Number:
  US 20170063994A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,190 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/10 of different types
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/069 using certificates or pre-shared keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A web server may be installed to a telematics control unit of a vehicle. The telematics control unit and a plurality of vehicle controllers may be connected to a vehicle bus. The web server may be programmed to host a plurality of web applications configured to expose telematics functions of the vehicle controllers to a mobile device connected to the web server, and authenticate the mobile device to access to the web applications.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a request, including a vehicle identifier, for a network address of a web server of a vehicle;

accessing a database to retrieve a telephone number of the vehicle associated with the vehicle identifier;

sending a wake-up message, to the telephone number, requesting wake-up of the web server;

receiving a wake-up response from the vehicle including the network address of the web server; and

returning the network address responsive to the request.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending the wake-up message to an in-vehicle modem over short message service (SMS).

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising receiving the wake-up response from the in-vehicle modem over short message service (SMS).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the network addresses include one or more Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address or Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the network address of the web server in the database in association with the vehicle identifier;

receiving a second request, including the vehicle identifier, for the network address of the web server of the vehicle;

retrieving the network address from the database using the vehicle identifier; and

returning the network address responsive to the second request.