Method and system for providing telematics services to a machine device

• US 10,332,327 B2
• Filed: 12/06/2017
• Issued: 06/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: M2MD Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: M2MD Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Link, II, Charles M.
• Primary Examiner(s): To, Baotran N
• Application Number:
  US15/833,631
• Publication Number:
  US 20180108194A1
• Time in Patent Office: 566 Days
• Field of Search: 726 9
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2325/205 Mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/34 involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/35 communicating wirelessly
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/44 Program or device authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2113 Multi-level security, e.g. mandatory access control
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00198 the keyless data carrier having more than one limited data transmission ranges
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00182 operated with unidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0853 using an additional device, e.g. smartcard, SIM or a different communication terminal cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving additional secure or trusted devices H04L9/3234
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/123 received data contents, e.g. message integrity
• 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 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/35 Protecting application or service provisioning, e.g. securing SIM application provisioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/61 Time-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/63 Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/77 Graphical identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A vehicle processing device authenticates that an authorized user has requested an action by the vehicle, and generates an authentication acknowledgement message. At least two security devices being present within the cabin of, or close to, the vehicle during a predetermined period following an authentication trigger event that occurs while the user performs a predetermined sequence of authentication activities (i.e., button presses, operating the vehicle or a part of it, etc.) provides a basis for the authentication acknowledgement message. Typically, information unique to each security device has been associated with the vehicle at a service provider'"'"'s server. The authentication acknowledgement may include an activation code that results from processing the information, unique to each security device, received from the security devices and other random information, such as date. A service provider'"'"'s server, or a user device, provides services to, or can access, respectively, the vehicle upon receiving the authentication acknowledgement.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a back end computer server having a processor to;

process a services-granted authentication acknowledgement, received from a vehicle processing device coupled to a communication bus of a vehicle, for activating one or more services via a vehicle processing device coupled to a communication bus of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle processing device is to;

receive a request for activation of one or more long-range-wireless-communication-based services for the vehicle;

receive a first security signal containing first unique information from a first security device;

receive a second security signal containing second unique information from a second security device;

generate the services-granted authentication acknowledgement that the first unique information was transmitted in the first security signal, and that the second unique information was transmitted in the second security signal; and

activate the one or more requested services based on the services-granted authentication acknowledgement.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the one or more activated services include one or more of telematics services or wireless vehicle operation services.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the first and second security devices are wireless devices uniquely associated with the vehicle, and wherein the unique association enables operation of the vehicle when either of the first or second security devices are within first and second predetermined ranges, respectively, of the vehicle.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the generated services-granted authentication acknowledgment contains an activation code.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the activation code is contained within a QR code displayed on a display in communication with the communication bus of the vehicle.

6. The system of claim 4 wherein the activation code is human-readable.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the activation code is transmitted to a device from which the request signal for activation of one or more long-range-wireless-communication-based services for the vehicle was received.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the first security signal is transmitted within a first predetermined range of the vehicle during a first predetermined authentication period that begins after a first authentication trigger.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the second security signal is transmitted within a second predetermined range of the vehicle during a second predetermined authentication period that begins after a second authentication trigger event.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the second trigger event is the same event as a first trigger event.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein the request for activation is received from a wireless user device.

12. The system of claim 9 wherein the second predetermined range of the vehicle and the second predetermined authentication period are the same as a first predetermined range of the vehicle and a first predetermined period authentication period, respectively, and wherein the second trigger event is the same event as a first trigger event.

13. The system of claim 1 wherein the first unique information and the second unique information are received wirelessly from the first security device and the second security device, respectively.

14. A method, comprising:

receiving with a vehicle processing device coupled to a communication bus of a vehicle a request for activation of one or more wireless services for the vehicle;

receiving first unique information obtained from a first security device that is uniquely associated with the vehicle;

receiving second unique information obtained from a second security device that is uniquely associated with the vehicle;

generating a services-granted authentication acknowledgement based on the receiving of the first unique information and the second unique information; and

transmitting the services-granted authentication acknowledgement to a central activation computer server equipment component for activating the one or more wireless services.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the one or more wireless services requested in the request for activation is the pairing of a user equipment device with the vehicle processing device for wirelessly controlling operation of the vehicle.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein the first and second security devices are wireless devices each uniquely associated with the vehicle, and wherein the unique associations enable operation of the vehicle.

17. A method, comprising:

receiving, with a vehicle processing device coupled to a communication bus of a vehicle, a request for activation of one or more wireless services for the vehicle, wherein the request for activation is received from a user device, wherein the request for activation includes a request for activation of one or more wireless services for the vehicle, and wherein the user device is not uniquely associated with the vehicle;

receiving, with the vehicle processing device coupled to the communication bus of the vehicle, first unique information obtained from a first security device that is uniquely associated with the vehicle;

receiving, with the vehicle processing device coupled to the communication bus of the vehicle, second unique information obtained from a second security device that is uniquely associated with the vehicle;

generating, with the vehicle processing device coupled to the communication bus of the vehicle, a services-granted authentication acknowledgement based on the receiving of the first and second unique information; and

transmitting the services-granted authentication acknowledgement to a central activation computer server equipment component for activating the one or more wireless services.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the services-granted authentication acknowledgement is transmitted wirelessly to the central activation computer server equipment component from the user device.

19. The method of claim 17 wherein the vehicle processing device coupled to the communication bus of the vehicle receives the first unique information and the second unique information from the user device.

20. The method of claim 17 wherein the user device has obtained at least one of the first unique information and the second unique information wirelessly, optically, or via manual human input, and wherein the user device provides the first and second unique information to the vehicle processing device.