Inter-vehicle message disseminating method and apparatus for the application of the method

• US 20040082350A1
• Filed: 01/27/2003
• Published: 04/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SIN ETKE Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: SIN ETKE Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Huang, Cheng-Hung, Chen, Kuo-Rong, Lee, Chun-Chung
• Granted Patent: US 7,027,772 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/518
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/126 Anti-theft arrangements, e.g. protection against subscriber identity module [SIM] cloning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• 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 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

An inter-vehicle message disseminating method in which every vehicle carries a blue-tooth device (or 802.11 device) to actively login to or to passively accept a login from the respective blue-tooth device (or 802.11 devices) of other vehicles with a common authorization key to make a wireless connection for mutual transmitting message. When a message provided to one first vehicle, the first vehicle transmits the message to a number of second vehicles through the respective blue-tooth device, and then the second vehicles again transmit the message with their respective blue-tooth devices to another third vehicles. To transmit the message generation to generation repeatedly within these vehicles, forming a virus infectious frame to wirelessly disseminate kinds of message of update, advertising/promoting, searching, rescuing, socializing information to everywhere without geographic limitations.

Claims

1. An inter-vehicle message disseminating method comprising the steps of:

(A) providing a plurality of vehicles each carrying a specific wireless communication apparatus using a common authorization key for mutual authorization, the specific wireless communication apparatus of the respective vehicle can actively log in the specific wireless communication apparatus of the others of said vehicles by means of said common authorization key so as to make a wireless connection for transmitting voice and/or data information mutually, and passively accept log-in request from the specific wireless communication apparatus of the others of said vehicles by means of said common authorization key so as to make a wireless connection for transmitting voice and/or data information mutually;

(B) providing a disseminating information to a first one of said vehicles;

(C) the specific wireless communication apparatus of the first one of said vehicles wirelessly transmitting said disseminating information to the specific wireless communication apparatus of a plurality of second ones of said vehicles wirelessly connected; and

(D) the specific wireless communication apparatus of the respective second one of said vehicles wirelessly transmitting said disseminating information to the specific wireless communication apparatus of a plurality of third ones of said vehicles wirelessly connected.

2. The inter-vehicle message disseminating method as claimed in claim 1, wherein each specific wireless communication apparatu of the respective vehicle comprises a blue-tooth module having a communication radius reaching to a predetermined distance outside the respective vehicle.

3. The inter-vehicle message disseminating method as claimed in claim 1, wherein an external wireless communication apparatus provides said disseminating information wirelessly during step (B).

4. The inter-vehicle message disseminating method as claimed in claim 3, wherein said external wireless apparatus comprises a blue-tooth module.

5. The inter-vehicle message disseminating method as claimed in claim 3, wherein said external wireless apparatus is fixedly located at a geographic pinpoint.

6. The inter-vehicle message disseminating method as claimed in claim 3, wherein said external wireless communication apparatus is installed in a moving vehicle.

7. The inter-vehicle message disseminating method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a memory device of the first one of said vehicles provides said disseminating information during step (B).

8. The inter-vehicle message disseminating method as claimed in claim 7, wherein said memory device comprises an IC memory card.

9. An on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus carried on a vehicle, comprising:

a specific wireless communication module adapted to actively log in a plurality of specific wireless communication modules of other vehicles by means of a common authorization key so as to make a wireless connection for transmitting voice and/or data information mutually, to passively accept log-in request from the specific wireless communication modules of said other vehicles by means of said common authorization key so as to make a wireless connection for transmitting voice and/or data information mutually, and to passively receive a disseminating information from an external wireless communication module wirelessly; and

a processor adapted to control said specific wireless communication module to wirelessly transmit said disseminating information to the specific wireless communication modules of said other vehicles wirelessly connected.

10. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said specific wireless communication module of said vehicle is a blue-tooth module having a communication radius reaching to a predetermined distance outside said vehicle.

11. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said external wireless communication module is a blue-tooth module.

12. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 9, further comprising a memory device;

said disseminating information is comprised of a series number and disseminating content;

said memory device has stored therein the series number and disseminating content of a previous-received disseminating, information.

13. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein said processor controls the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle to wirelessly transmit the series number and disseminating content of the previous received disseminating information stored in the memory device of said vehicle to the specific wireless communication modules of said other connected vehicles when compared the series number of a currently received disseminating information to be older than the series number of the previous received disseminating information.

14. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein said processor further controls at least one electronic vehicle component of said vehicle to operate subject to the disseminating content of a currently received disseminating information when compared the series number of the currently received disseminating information to be newer than the series number of the previous received disseminating information.

15. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein said disseminating information is an update information, and said disseminating content is an update content corresponding to at least one electronic vehicle component of said vehicle, so that said processor can update the computer software and/or data used by the at least one electronic vehicle component of said vehicle subject to said update content.

16. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 15, wherein said memory device has further stored therein the type of said vehicle, and the update content further containing a type of vehicle to be updated, so that said processor runs data updating only when compared the type of vehicle of the update content to be in conformity with the type of said vehicle stored in said memory device.

17. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein said disseminating information is an advertising/promoting information, and said disseminating content is an advertising/promoting content, so that said processor can control an audio and/or video device of said vehicle to play said advertising/promoting content.

18. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein said memory device has further stored therein a condition to accept advertising/promoting, and said advertising/promoting content further containing an advertising/promoting classification, so that said processor enables said advertising/promoting content to be played only when compared the classification of said advertising/promoting content to be in conformity with said condition to accept advertising/promoting stored in said memory device.

19. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein said memory device has further stored therein an identification code of said vehicle, said disseminating information is a searching information, and said disseminating content is a searching content comprising a search listing containing at least one identification code of vehicle to be searched, so that said processor drives at least one electronic vehicle component of said vehicle to operate when compared the identification code of said vehicle stored in said memory device to be in conformity with one of the identification code of vehicles listed in said search listing.

20. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 19, wherein said search listing is a stolen vehicle listing.

21. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 19, wherein said search listing is a listing of identification code of searching vehicle requested by customer.

22. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 19, wherein said identification code of vehicle is a license plate number of the vehicle.

23. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 19, wherein said at least one electronic vehicle component includes a burglar-alarm.

24. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein said memory device has further stored therein a condition for setting the termination of operation of at least one electronic vehicle component of said vehicle.

25. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said disseminating information includes a condition for setting the termination of operation of at least one electronic vehicle component of said vehicle.

26. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said vehicle further carries a mobile telephone adapted to wirelessly receive an external instruction for terminating the operation of at least one electronic vehicle component of said vehicle.

27. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein said memory device has further stored therein a condition for setting the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle to terminate the transmitting of said disseminating information.

28. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said disseminating information includes a condition for setting the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle to terminate the transmitting of said disseminating information.

29. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said vehicle further carries a mobile telephone adapted to wirelessly receive an external instruction for terminating the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle from transmitting said disseminating information.

30. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said vehicle further carries a GPS (global positioning system) module adapted to compute the current position data of said vehicle;

said processor further controls the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle to wirelessly transmit the current position data of said vehicle when disseminating said disseminating information.

31. An on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus carried on a vehicle, comprising:

a specific wireless communication module adapted to actively log in a plurality of specific wireless communication modules of other vehicles by means of a common authorization key so as to make a wireless connection for transmitting voice and/or data information mutually, and to passively accept log-in request from the specific wireless communication modules of said other vehicles by means of said common authorization key so as to make a wireless connection for transmitting voice and/or data information mutually;

a memory device, said memory device having stored therein a disseminating content; and

a processor adapted to control the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle to wirelessly transmit a disseminating information containing said disseminating content to the specific wireless communication modules of said other vehicles wirelessly connected.

32. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 31, wherein said specific wireless communication module of said vehicle is a blue-tooth module having a communication radius reaching to a predetermined distance outside said vehicle.

33. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 31, wherein each specific wireless communication module of said other vehicles is a blue-tooth module.

34. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 31, wherein said disseminating information is a rescuing information, and said disseminating content contains an identification code of said vehicle and a rescuing message, so that said other vehicles actively come to rescue when received said rescuing message.

35. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 34, wherein the identification code of said vehicle is a license plate number of the vehicle.

36. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 34, wherein said rescuing message is a hijack message.

37. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 34, wherein said rescuing message is a message of out of gasoline.

38. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 31, wherein said memory device has further stored therein a condition for setting the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle to terminate the transmitting of said disseminating information.

39. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 31, wherein said vehicle further carries a mobile telephone adapted to wirelessly receive an external instruction o for terminating the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle from transmitting said disseminating information.

40. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 31, wherein said vehicle further carries a GPS (global positioning system) module adapted to compute the current position data of said vehicle;

said disseminating content of said disseminating information further contains said current position data of said vehicle.

41. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 31, wherein said disseminating information is a socializing information, and said disseminating content contains a matching limitation;

said other vehicles each have a matching limitation thereof, so that said other vehicles actively make a socializing contact with said vehicle when compared the matching limitation of the respective other vehicle matched to the matching limitation of said vehicle after receipt of said socializing information.