System and method for contacting occupants of a remote vehicle using DSRC

• US 10,575,152 B2
• Filed: 09/04/2015
• Issued: 02/25/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: MacNeille, Perry Robinson, Cui, Dehua, Gusikhin, Oleg Yurievitch, Kowalski, David Allen, Makke, Omar, Neubecker, Cynthia M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Danh C
• Application Number:
  US15/744,535
• Publication Number:
  US 20180262888A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,635 Days
• Field of Search: 4554221, 4555501, 455418, 709204, 3404262
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/20 for indoor coverage or short range network deployment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/186 Processing of subscriber group data

Abstract

A system for a vehicle includes a controller programmed to, in response to discovering, without an already established connection with a remote vehicle, a service broadcasted by the remote vehicle indicating that cellular communication with the remote vehicle is available, confirm that the service is a subscribed-to service, and upon receiving input to invoke the subscribed-to service, contact the remote vehicle using the subscribed-to service.

Claims

1. A system for a vehicle comprising:

a controller programmed to, responsive to discovering, without first establishing a connection with a remote vehicle, a service broadcasted by the remote vehicle indicating that communication with the remote vehicle using the service is available, confirm that a unique identifier of the service corresponds to a service identifier of a subscribed-to service, wherein the subscribed-to service is selected by an occupant in the vehicle, and upon receiving input to invoke the subscribed-to service, contact the remote vehicle using the subscribed-to service.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the service broadcasted is a short message service (SMS), a multimedia messaging service (MMS), or a cellular call service.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the service broadcasted is selected and made available by an occupant in the remote vehicle.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the service broadcasted is selected from a plurality of services associated with a position of the occupant in the remote vehicle.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the subscribed-to service selection originates from a personal communication device (PCD) in communication with a telematics system of the vehicle.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the service broadcasted originates from a personal communication device (PCD) in communication with a telematics system of the remote vehicle and wherein the controller is further programmed to, in response to the input, contact the PCD using the subscribed-to service.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the input to invoke the subscribed-to service originates from a receiving personal communication device (PCD) in communication with a telematics system of the vehicle.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the service is an online gaming service.

8. A communication method for a vehicle comprising:

in response to discovering, without first establishing a connection with a remote vehicle, a service broadcasted by the remote vehicle indicating that communication with the remote vehicle using the service is available, confirming that a unique identifier of the service corresponds to a service identifier of a subscribed-to service, wherein the subscribed-to service is selected by an occupant of the vehicle, and upon receiving input to invoke the subscribed-to service, contacting the remote vehicle using the subscribed-to service.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the service broadcasted is a short message service (SMS), a multimedia messaging service (MMS), or a cellular call service.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the service broadcasted is selected and made available by an occupant in the remote vehicle.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the service broadcasted is selected from a plurality of services associated with a position of the occupant in the remote vehicle.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the subscribed-to service selection originates from a personal communication device (PCD) in communication with a telematics system of the vehicle.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the service broadcasted originates from a personal communication device (PCD) in communication with a telematics system of the remote vehicle and further comprising, in response to the input, contacting the PCD using the subscribed-to service.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the input to invoke the subscribed-to service originates from a receiving personal communication device (PCD) in communication with a telematics system of the vehicle.

18. The method of claim 8, wherein the service is an online gaming service.

15. A communication system for a vehicle comprising:

a controller programmed to

discover, via a dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) network, a broadcasted service advertised by a remote vehicle indicating that communication with the remote vehicle using the service is available,

confirm that a unique identifier of the service corresponds to a service identifier of a subscribed-to service, wherein the subscribed-to service is selected by an occupant in the vehicle, and

upon receiving input invoking the subscribed-to service, contact the remote vehicle using the subscribed-to service.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the input invoking the subscribed-to service originates from a receiving personal communication device (PCD) in communication with a telematics system of the vehicle.