Method for presetting a mobile phone communications mode and vehicle mobile phone arrangement

• US 20030027594A1
• Filed: 07/12/2002
• Published: 02/06/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Pfoertner, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US10/193,679
• Publication Number:
  US 20030027594A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/557
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6075 adapted for handsfree use in a vehicle H04M1/6058 takes precedence; arrangements for holding telephones in a vehicle B60R11/0241
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/66 with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling verifying user identity or authority in secret or secure digital communications H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• 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 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Method for presetting a mobile phone communications mode in a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, using at least one built-in mobile phone terminal or a built-in holder and a portable mobile phone terminal which fits in the latter, at least one communications function of the mobile phone terminal, or of at least one mobile phone terminal, being automatically controlled by a function of the vehicle or of a peripheral unit thereof and/or at least one separate data carrier, in particular a chip card or magnetic card, in such a way that various communications profiles are thus set.

Claims

1. A method for presetting a mobile phone communications mode in a vehicle using at least one built in mobile phone terminal or a built-in holder and a portable mobile phone terminal which fits into the built-in terminal or holder, comprising:

automatically controlling at least one communications function of the mobile phone terminal by a function of the vehicle or of a peripheral unit thereof and/or at least one separate data carrier such that various communications profiles are set.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one basic communications profile which is stored on the at least one data carrier and/or implemented at least partially in a service control node of a mobile phone network is temporarily modified with at least one basic setting of the mobile phone terminal in response to registration of vehicle functions or function parameters.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein an adjustable communications profile includes a voice control mode and/or text-message voice output mode.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the voice control or voice output mode is carried out with access to a voice recognition device or voice synthesizer which is installed in the vehicle or implemented in an intelligent peripheral of a mobile phone network.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein an adjustable communications profile includes a call divert function which can be controlled as a function of a velocity of the vehicle and/or internal sound volume and/or caller number and/or a function of a traffic information system or navigation system.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the call divert function includes a call diversion to a voice mailbox.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein an adjustable communications profile includes the automatic activation of a built-in mobile phone terminal when the vehicle is entered or started or when the data carrier is read.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the activation of the built-in mobile phone terminal is associated with an automatic deactivation of a portable mobile phone terminal which is located in the vehicle.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a chip card which is read in a contactless fashion and is used as data carrier for controlling the vehicle functions.

10. The vehicle mobile phone arrangement, comprising:

a mobile phone terminal which is installed in a vehicle, or a built-in holder for receiving a portable mobile phone terminal;

a card reading device, assigned to the installed mobile phone terminal and/or the built-in holder for reading a data carrier;

a function sensor for registering a vehicle function or an equipment function of a peripheral unit; and

a communications mode control unit, connected to the card reading device and/or the function sensor at the input end, for controlling at least one communications function of the mobile phone terminal, or of at least one mobile phone terminal, as a function of the information content of the data carrier and/or of a registration result of the function sensor.

11. The vehicle mobile phone arrangement as claimed in claim 10, further comprising a built-in voice recognition device and/or voice synthesizer or an interface to a voice recognition device or synthesizer which is implemented in a mobile phone network and which is connected via a control input to the communications mode control unit.

12. The vehicle mobile phone arrangement as claimed in claim 10, further comprising a call diversion control unit which is connected via a control input to the communications mode control unit for automatically activating/deactivating a call diversion.

13. The vehicle mobile phone arrangement as claimed in claim 12, wherein the call diversion control unit has a call number list store for storing a black/white list of call numbers for which a specific call diversion is valid, or an interface to a call number list store which is implemented in a service control node of a mobile phone network.

14. The vehicle mobile phone arrangement as claimed in claim 10, wherein the communications mode control unit controls, in response to the reading of a data carrier which authorizes the control, a keyless-go or keyless-entry system, activation of the built-in mobile phone terminal and at the same time deactivation of a portable mobile phone terminal located in the vehicle.

15. The vehicle mobile phone arrangement as claimed in claim 14, wherein the communications mode control unit is configured to automatically set a call diversion from the portable mobile phone terminal to the built-in mobile phone terminal.

16. The vehicle mobile phone arrangement as claimed in claim 10, wherein the function sensor is connected to a tachometer and/or revolution counter of the vehicle and/or to an audio output of a traffic information system or navigation system or a signal output of a vehicle-mounted computer.

17. The vehicle mobile phone arrangement as claimed in claim 10, wherein the reading device of an access control system or activation control system of the vehicle is used as card reading device.

18. The vehicle mobile radio arrangement as claimed in claim 10, defined by a multiplicity of exchangeable data carriers, in particular magnet cards or chip cards, for storing specific basic communications profiles of various users or for various application situations.