Communication system for vehicle

• US 20030228879A1
• Filed: 02/11/2003
• Published: 12/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Witkowski, Todd R., Geerlings, Steven L., Buege, Robert F., Zeinstra, Mark L., Dykema, Kurt A.
• Application Number:
  US10/364,794
• Publication Number:
  US 20030228879A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/550.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10386 the interrogation device being of the portable or hand-handheld type, e.g. incorporated in ubiquitous hand-held devices such as PDA or mobile phone, or in the form of a portable dedicated RFID reader
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3822 specially adapted for use in vehicles H04B1/3827 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/26 at least one of which is mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2609 Arrangements for range control, e.g. by using remote antennas
• 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: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6041 Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6091 including a wireless interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication
• 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 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

A system for communicating information includes a transceiver provided within a vehicle that is configured for wireless communication with a cellular phone and with a portable computing device. The wireless communication between the transceiver and the cellular phone utilizes a Bluetooth communications protocol.

Claims

1. A system for communicating information comprising:

a transceiver provided within a vehicle and configured for wireless communication with a cellular phone and with a portable computing device;

wherein the wireless communication between the transceiver and the cellular phone utilizes a Bluetooth communications protocol.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the transceiver is coupled to at least a portion of a vehicle.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein information is communicated from the cellular phone to the transceiver and the transceiver communicates at least a portion of the information to the portable computing device.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the information comprises at least one of a facsimile transmission and an electronic mail message.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein information is transmitted from the computing device to the transceiver.

6. The system of claim 5, at least a portion of the information is transmitted from the transceiver to the cellular phone.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the information comprises a phone number.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication between the transceiver and the portable computing device utilizes a Bluetooth communications protocol.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication between the transceiver and the portable computing device utilizes an infrared communications link.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable computing device is a laptop computer.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable computing device is a hand-held computing device.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein a communications link is automatically established when the cellular phone comes within a predetermined distance of the transceiver.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising a microphone coupled to the transceiver, wherein sounds input at the microphone may be transmitted from the transceiver to the cellular phone.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the transceiver is a trainable transceiver.

15. A wireless communications system for use in a vehicle comprising:

a transceiver provided within a vehicle;

a cellular phone in wireless communication with the transceiver, the wireless communication utilizing a Bluetooth communications protocol; and

a computing device in wireless communication with the transceiver;

wherein information received by the cellular phone is communicated to the transceiver and at least a portion of the information is communicated from the transceiver to the computing device.

16. The communications system of claim 15, wherein the computing device is at least one of a laptop computer and a hand-held computing device.

17. The communications system of claim 15, wherein the information is selected from a facsimile transmission and an electronic mail message.

18. The communications system of claim 15, wherein the computing device communicates with the transceiver using a Bluetooth communications protocol.

19. The communications system of claim 15, wherein the computing device communicates with the transceiver using an infrared communications link.

20. The communications system of claim 15, wherein the transceiver is a trainable transceiver configured to interface with a garage door opener system.

21. A communications system for a vehicle, the communications system comprising:

means for receiving signals transmitted by a cellular phone, the signals being transmitted in accordance with a Bluetooth communications standard and including information; and

means for transmitting signals wirelessly to a computing device;

wherein the signals transmitted to the computing device include at least a portion of the information; and

wherein at least one of the means for receiving signals and the means for transmitting signals are provided within a vehicle.

22. The communications system of claim 21, wherein the means for receiving signals and the means for transmitting signals are included in a transceiver coupled to a vehicle.

23. The communications system of claim 21, wherein the means for transmitting signals communicates with the computing device using a Bluetooth communications protocol.

24. The communications system of claim 21, wherein the means for transmitting signals communicates with the computing device using an infrared communications link.

25. The communications system of claim 21, wherein the information comprises at least one of a facsimile transmission and an electronic mail message.

26. The communications system of claim 21, further comprising means for receiving information from the computing device and means for transmitting at least a portion of the information received from the computing device to the cellular phone.

27. The communications system of claim 26, wherein the computing device is one of a laptop computer and a hand-held computing device.

28. A method of transferring information to a computing device comprising:

receiving information at a transceiver provided in a vehicle, the information transmitted from a cellular phone using a Bluetooth communications protocol; and

communicating at least a portion of the information from the transceiver to the computing device using a wireless communications link.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein the step of receiving information at the transceiver comprises receiving at least one of a facsimile transmission and an electronic mail message.

30. The method of claim 28, wherein the computing device is at least one of a laptop computer and a hand-held computing device.

31. The method of claim 28, wherein the wireless communications link is an infrared communications link.

32. The method of claim 28, wherein the wireless communications link utilizes a Bluetooth communications protocol.

33. The method of claim 28, wherein the transceiver is a trainable transceiver that is also configured to transmit signals to at least one of a garage door opener system and a home security system.