Communications device of a motor vehicle and method for setting up a call diversion

• US 20030224840A1
• Filed: 03/12/2003
• Published: 12/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Tilgner, Rainer, Frank, Bernard, Hain, Ronald, Gabler, Dietrich, Scheidl, Wolfgang, Klein, Bernhard
• Application Number:
  US10/386,965
• Publication Number:
  US 20030224840A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.9
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6091 including a wireless interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A communications system of a motor vehicle is disclosed in which a communications device (101) for setting up a mobile radio link is installed in the motor vehicle, which mobile radio link also has a short-range radio device. An external mobile radio device (118; 119) also additionally has such a short-range radio device. If the mobile radio device (118; 119) enters the radio range of the short-range radio device of the communications device (101) in the vehicle, data is exchanged between the devices over the short-range radio link. A comparator module in the communications device of the vehicle compares the received data with stored data with respect to specific features which contain an identifier of the mobile radio device (118; 119). If an authorized mobile radio device (118; 119) is detected, a call diversion is activated automatically within the cellular mobile phone network. Furthermore, a corresponding communications device (101) and a method for operating the communications system are proposed.

Claims

1. The communications device of a motor vehicle comprising an input unit and an audio output unit which are connected to a control unit, and a mobile radio module, connected to the control unit, of a cellular mobile radio system, wherein the communications device has a short-range radio device which is connected to the control unit, the short-range radio device being configured to exchange data over a short-range radio link, the communications device having a comparator module for comparing data received over the short-range radio link with data stored in a storage element, and it being possible to automatically set up a mobile radio link for transferring a status message within the mobile radio system when received and stored data correspond in terms of predefined features.

2. The communications device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the status message relates to a call diversion within the mobile radio system.

3. The communications device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the communications device contains a hands-free device.

4. The communications device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the communications device is a component of an audio system, of a multimedia system, of a telematics system or of a navigation system.

5. The communications device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cellular mobile radio system is a system according to the GSM or UMTS standard.

6. The communications device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the short-range radio link is not more than 100 m, preferably not more than 10 m.

7. The communications device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the short-range radio device operates according to the Bluetooth standard.

8. A communications system comprising a communications device which is integrated in a motor vehicle and has an input unit and an audio output unit which are connected to a control unit, and a mobile radio module, connected to the control unit, of a cellular mobile radio system, and a short-range radio device which is connected to the control unit, and an external mobile radio device of a cellular mobile ratio system with a second short-range radio device, the short-range radio devices being configured to exchange data over a short-range radio link, the communications device comprising a comparator module for comparing data received from the mobile radio device over the short-range radio link with data stored in a storage element of the communication device, and it being possible to automatically set up a mobile radio link for transferring a status message within the mobile radio system when received and stored data correspond in terms of predefined features.

9. The communications system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the status messages relates to a call diversion from the mobile radio device to the communications device.

10. The communications system as claimed in claim 8, wherein an authorization for the call diversion of the mobile radio device to the communications device is stored in the cellular mobile radio system.

11. The communications system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the communications device has a hands-free function.

12. The communications system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the cellular mobile radio system is a system according to the GSM or UMTS standard.

13. The communications system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the range of the short-range radio link is not more than 100 m, preferably not more than 10 m.

14. The communications system as claimed in claim 8, wherein short-range radio device operates according to the Bluetooth standard.

15. The communications system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the predefined features are a device identifier of the mobile radio device.

16. The communications system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the communications device contains a chip card as a subscriber identification module for the cellular mobile radio system.

17. The communications system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the mobile radio device contains a chip card as a subscriber identification module for the cellular mobile radio system.

18. The communications system as claimed in claim 8, wherein only services of the cellular mobile radio system which relate to the operation of the motor vehicle can be activated by means of the subscriber identification module of the communications device.

19. The communications system as claimed in claim 8, wherein when the call diversion for the mobile radio device is activated, telephone calls or a data transfer can be carried out by means of the communications device and are billed by means of the subscriber identification module of the mobile radio device.

20. The communications system as claimed in claim 8, wherein even when the call diversion from the mobile radio device to the communications device is activated, it is possible to make a call via the mobile radio device, a call transfer being made via the short-range radio link.

21. The communications system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the call diversion is deactivated automatically if the mobile radio device leaves the range of the short-range radio link.

22. The communications system as claimed in claim 8, wherein it contains more than one mobile radio device.

23. A method for setting up an interactive call diversion between a first and a second mobile radio device of a cellular mobile radio system, which each have a short-range radio device, comprising the method steps:

data is exchanged between the first and the second mobile radio device when the second mobile radio device enters the range of the short-range radio link of the first mobile radio device,

the second mobile radio device is identified and authorized by means of the data which is exchanged via the short-range radio link,

a call diversion is set up from the second mobile radio device to the first mobile radio device within a mobile radio system of the mobile radio device.

24. The method as claimed in claim 23, wherein it is tested whether an authorization for a call diversion from the second mobile radio device to the first mobile radio device is registered within the cellular mobile radio system.

25. The method as claimed in claim 23, wherein authorization for a call diversion from the second mobile radio device to the first mobile radio device is stored once within the cellular mobile radio system.

26. The method as claimed in claim 23, wherein the cellular mobile radio system is a system according to the GSM or UMTS standard.

27. The method as claimed in claim 23, wherein the short-range radio device is operated according to the Bluetooth standard.

28. The method as claimed in claim 23, wherein the mobile radio device is contained in a subscriber identification module.

29. The method as claimed in claim 23, wherein when the call diversion from the second mobile radio device to the first mobile radio device is activated, telephone calls or a data transfer can be carried out within the cellular mobile radio system via the first mobile radio device, the billing for the mobile radio link being carried out by means of the subscriber identification module of the second mobile radio device.

30. The method as claimed in claim 23, wherein even when the call diversion from the second mobile radio device to the first mobile radio device is activated, it is possible to make a call within the cellular mobile radio system, the mobile radio link being set up from the first mobile radio device and a call transfer being made between the first and the second mobile radio device via the short-range radio link.

31. The method as claimed in claim 23, wherein the call diversion is deactivated automatically if a short-range radio link can no longer be set up between the first and the second mobile radio device.

32. The method as claimed in claim 23, wherein the first mobile radio device performs a server function and a call diversion between more than two mobile radio devices is made possible.

33. The method as claimed in claim 23, wherein a call transfer can be carried out between the mobile radio devices.

34. The method as claimed in claim 23, wherein the first mobile radio device is a component of a telematics device of a motor vehicle.

35. The method as claimed in claim 23, wherein the first mobile radio device contains a hands-free function.