Method and apparatus for implementing multi-vendor rolling code keyless entry systems

• US 10,553,060 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2018
• Issued: 02/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ikeyless, LLC
• Original Assignee: Ikeyless, LLC
• Inventors: Johnson, Daniel Charles, Bowen, Daniel Patrick, McCoy, Michael Calvin
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Zhen Y
• Application Number:
  US16/153,573
• Publication Number:
  US 20190122472A1
• Time in Patent Office: 487 Days
• Field of Search: 340 525
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00492 whereby the code is a rolling code
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00857 where the code of the data carrier can be programmed

Abstract

The present invention relates generally a system and method for providing rolling code remote device functions to provide keyless entry to multiple makes and models of cars. The present invention is adapted to produce the radio signal type and transmitted data of an original manufacturer'"'"'s keyless entry remote device system by implementing multiple modulation schema and data encoding techniques.

Claims

1. A selectively programmable radio frequency (“

RF”

) remote access device, the remote access device comprising;

a logic board comprising a processor and at least one memory;

a set of user inputs;

a transceiver;

wherein the at least one memory comprises a first read-only memory comprising a plurality of firmware configurations for the logic board, and a second memory which comprises an active memory partition adapted to store an active firmware configuration;

wherein each firmware configuration in the plurality of firmware configurations comprises a set of properties for controlling the processor, the memory, and the transceiver;

wherein the active firmware configuration is read from the plurality of firmware configurations from the first read-only memory based on a user input from the set of user inputs and is written into the active memory partition of the second memory; and

wherein the logic board is automatically configured by the selected firmware configuration loaded into the active partition of the second memory to communicate with an external device via the transceiver.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of firmware configurations comprise a set of vendor specific properties.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the vendor specific properties comprise one or more of transmit and/or receive frequencies, modulation schemes, binary encoding algorithms, data encoding techniques, packet payload templates, and algorithms configured to generate rolling codes to replicate the function of an original equipment manufacturer (“

OEM”

) keyless entry remote device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the set of user inputs are adapted to provide for the user selection of a firmware configuration from the plurality of firmware configurations.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the transceiver is adapted to generate an RF signal based on the active firmware configuration and transmit the RF signal to the external device to cause an end device to perform a predefined operation.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein each firmware configuration in the plurality of firmware configurations is associated with a specific external device.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of firmware configurations in the read-only memory are stored in an encrypted format.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the active firmware configuration selected by the user is decrypted by the processor from the read-only memory prior to being written to the active memory partition of the second memory.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the logic board comprises an encryption engine.

10. The system of claim 5, wherein the generated RF signal comprises a rolling code packet payload.

11. A method for selectively programming a selectively programmable radio frequency (“

RF”

) remote access device, the method comprising;

storing in a first read-only memory a plurality of firmware configurations for a logic board comprising a processor and a memory;

setting an active memory partition in a second memory in a neutral state, the active memory partition adapted to store an active firmware configuration;

wherein each firmware configuration in the plurality of firmware configurations comprises a set of properties for controlling the processor, the memory, and the transceiver;

reading a selected active firmware configuration from the plurality of firmware configurations in the first read-only memory based on a user input from a set of user inputs;

writing the selected active firmware configuration to the active memory partition of the second memory; and

automatically configuring the logic board based on the selected active firmware configuration loaded into the active partition of the second memory to communicate with an external device via a transceiver.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein each of the plurality of firmware configurations comprise a set of vendor specific properties.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the vendor specific properties comprise one or more of transmit and/or receive frequencies, modulation schemes, binary encoding algorithms, data encoding techniques, packet payload templates, and algorithms configured to generate rolling codes to replicate the function of an original equipment manufacturer (“

OEM”

) keyless entry remote device.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

generating by the transceiver an RF signal based on the selected active firmware configuration; and

transmitting the RF signal to the external device to cause an end device to perform a predefined operation.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein each firmware configuration in the plurality of firmware configurations is associated with a specific external device.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of firmware configurations in the read-only memory are stored in an encrypted format.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising decrypting by the processor the selected active firmware configuration from the read-only memory prior to writing the selected active firmware configuration to the active memory partition of the second memory.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the logic board comprises an encryption engine.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the generated RF signal comprises a rolling code packet payload.