Method for pairing a mobile telephone with a motor vehicle and locking/unlocking set

• US 10,187,793 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2011
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Valeo Securite Habitacle (Valeo SE)
• Original Assignee: Valeo Securite Habitacle (Valeo SE)
• Inventors: Petel, Laurent
• Primary Examiner(s): Homayounmehr, Farid
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sarker, Sanchit K
• Application Number:
  US13/876,571
• Publication Number:
  US 20130259232A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,673 Days
• Field of Search: 380270
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00865 remotely by wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00888 programming by learning
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00857 where the code of the data carrier can be programmed
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0492 by using a location-limited connection, e.g. near-field communication or limited proximity of entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/18 using different networks or channels, e.g. using out of band channels cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key distribution involving distinctive intermediate devices or communication paths H04L9/0827; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for authentication using a plurality of channels H04L9/3215
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/50 Secure pairing of devices

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for pairing a mobile telephone with a motor vehicle, said paired mobile telephone being used to lock/unlock and/or start said motor vehicle by means of at least part of an authentication code. Said method is characterized in that the mobile telephone (5) is loaded with said at least part of the authentication code required to be able to lock/unlock and/or start said motor vehicle.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

pairing a mobile telephone with a motor vehicle, the paired mobile telephone being used to lock/unlock and/or start the motor;

loading the mobile telephone with a part of an authentication code required to lock/unlock and/or start the motor vehicle received from a first medium that is one selected from the group consisting of;

a vehicle, a remote server, and an existing locking/unlocking and/or starting key;

loading the mobile telephone with another part of the authentication code received from a second medium different from the first medium, the second medium being one selected from the group consisting of;

the vehicle, the remote server, and the existing locking/unlocking and/or starting key;

operating the lock/unlock and/or start of the motor vehicle based on a communication exchange between the mobile telephone and the motor vehicle and a verification of the part of the authentication code and the another part of the authentication code, where the part of the authentication code and the another part of the authentication code are exchanged between the mobile telephone and the motor vehicle; and

performing the communication exchange between the mobile telephone and the motor vehicle by one selected from the group consisting of a bluetooth protocol and a near field communication protocol.

2. The pairing method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving at least one part of the authentication code by near field communication with the mobile telephone.

3. The pairing method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, with the mobile telephone, at least one part of the authentication code by mobile telephony communication.

4. The pairing method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the mobile telephone, a decryption key to decrypt at least one part of the authentication code;

bringing the mobile telephone close to the medium to receive the at least one part of the authentication code by communication; and

decrypting, by the mobile telephone the authentication code using the decryption key and records the at least one part of the authentication code that has been decrypted.

5. The pairing method as claimed in claim 4, further comprising:

entering the decryption key into the mobile telephone.

6. The pairing method as claimed in claim 4, further comprising:

recovering, by the mobile telephone, the decryption key from the GSM network.

7. The pairing method as claimed in claim 4, further comprising:

encrypting the at least one part of the authentication code using symmetrical cryptography.

8. The pairing method as claimed in claim 4, further comprising:

encrypting the at least one part of the authentication code using asymmetrical public-/private-key cryptography.

9. The pairing method as claimed in claim 4, further comprising:

encrypting the at least one part of the authentication code using the Diffie-Hellman protocol.

10. The pairing method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

revoking the ability of the mobile phone to lock/unlock and/or start the motor vehicle when the motor vehicle again authenticates the locking/unlocking and/or starting key.

11. The pairing method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

revoking the ability of the mobile phone to lock/unlock and/or start the motor vehicle by switching a switch on the locking/unlocking and/or starting key.

12. The pairing method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

revoking the ability of the mobile telephone to lock/unlock and/or start the motor vehicle by selecting an option from a menu of the computer on board the motor vehicle.

13. The pairing method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

producing a code derived from a primary code by the motor vehicle that further includes a memory storing the primary code and a derivation algorithm, and identifying, by the motor vehicle, a mobile telephone as including a derived code different from a currently active derived code, and to revoke the derived code currently active when a telephone is identified.

14. The pairing method as claimed in claim 13, further comprising:

sending, by the mobile telephone, to the vehicle a datum indicating an order of appearance of the successive authentication codes, and in that the vehicle is configured not to authorize activation of an authentication code unless the order datum indicates an increment of the successive appearance order in relation to the order datum sent during authentication with the preceding authentication code.

15. A motor vehicle locking/unlocking set comprising:

a motor vehicle locking/unlocking key comprising;

a first communication interface that communicates using a near field communication (NFC) protocol,

a first memory containing an encrypted authentication code; and

a mobile telephone comprising;

a second communication interface that communicates using the NFC protocol,

a second memory, and

a microcontroller that;

receives a decryption key,

receives the encrypted authentication code in two parts, a part of an authentication code and another part of the authentication code from the locking/unlocking key and the motor vehicle by two different means of the first and second communication interfaces,

decrypts the encrypted authentication code using the decryption key and stores the decrypted authentication code in the second memory, and

communicates with the motor vehicle by means of the second communication interface to unlock the motor vehicle using the two parts of the authentication code, and a verification of the part of the authentication code and the another part of the authentication code, that are exchanged between the mobile telephone and the motor vehicle.

16. A method comprising:

downloading a pairing application to a mobile telephone; and

receiving, by the pairing application downloaded to the mobile telephone, a first part and a second part of an authentication code required to lock/unlock a motor vehicle from two different sources selected from the group consisting of;

a vehicle, a remote server, and an existing locking/unlocking and/or starting key; and

locking/unlocking the motor vehicle, by the pairing application, using near field communication on a basis of exchanging the first part and the second part of the authentication code with the motor vehicle and a verifying the first part and the second part of an authentication code the authentication code.