Portable communication apparatus, vehicle control apparatus, and vehicle control system

• US 10,206,101 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2014
• Issued: 02/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Katou, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Lynn D
• Assistant Examiner(s): McCoy, Richard A
• Application Number:
  US15/103,575
• Publication Number:
  US 20160309325A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,569 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/209 Remote starting of engine
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/241 whereby access privileges are related to the identifiers
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00357 and the lock having more than one limited data transmission ranges
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00793 by Hertzian waves
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/069 using certificates or pre-shared keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]

Abstract

A portable communication apparatus, which communicates with vehicle control apparatuses that respectively control vehicles to achieve authentication with respect the vehicle control apparatuses, includes an authentication information change section and a post-change communication section. The authentication information change section communicates with a first vehicle control apparatus, by using a first communication technique, to change authentication information that is used in the first vehicle control apparatus to authenticate the portable communication apparatus. Upon receipt of a notice indicative of having changed the authentication information from the first vehicle control apparatus, the post-change communication section communicates with a second vehicle control apparatus, by using a second communication technique.

Claims

1. A portable communication apparatus that is capable of communication with a plurality of vehicle control apparatuses that respectively control a plurality of vehicles, and is capable of achieving authentication with respect to the vehicle control apparatuses, the portable communication apparatus having a memory with computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the portable communications apparatus, configure the portable communications apparatus to implement:

an authentication information change section that communicates with a first vehicle control apparatus that is one of the plurality of vehicle control apparatuses, by using a predefined first communication technique, wherein the communications with the first vehicle control apparatus comprise;

receiving a registration start request front the first vehicle control apparatus;

receiving vehicle information from the first vehicle control apparatus in response to receiving the vehicle information;

and sending authentication information to the first vehicle control apparatus;

and wherein subsequent to receiving the sent authentication information, the first vehicle control apparatus uses the received authentication information to authenticate with the portable communication apparatus;

and a most communication section that, upon receipt of a notice from the first vehicle control apparatus indicative of having received the sent authentication information, communicates with a second vehicle control apparatus that is one of the plurality of vehicle control apparatuses and different from the first vehicle control apparatus, by using a second communication technique that is different from the predefined first communication technique;

wherein the communications with the second vehicle control apparatus comprise;

sending a deletion request to the second vehicle control apparatus;

receiving a deletion complete notice from the second vehicle control apparatus indicating that the second vehicle control apparatus has deleted previous authentication information previously used to authenticate the second vehicle control apparatus with the portable communication apparatus;

and wherein subsequent to deleting the previous authentication information, the second vehicle control apparatus is unable to authenticate with the portable communication apparatus.