Method for setting an internet protocol address using a vehicle identification number

• US 20050273505A1
• Filed: 11/29/2004
• Published: 12/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Byeong-Woo
• Granted Patent: US 7,917,603 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/604 Address structures or formats
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5092 by self-assignment, e.g. picking addresses at random and testing if they are already in use
• 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

Abstract

A method for setting an IP (Internet Protocol) address for accessing a specified network is disclosed. The method includes detecting values that indicate inherent information of a vehicle from a vehicle identification number that includes specified vehicle information, setting a specified bit value for reporting that the IP address is a unique address, and creating the IP address by combining the specified bit value with the values that indicate the inherent information of the vehicle. According to the present method, the inherent IP address can be set for each vehicle by setting an interface identifier (ID) of the IP address using the vehicle identification number. Also, diverse vehicle information can be obtained through the interface ID of the IP address set using the vehicle identification number. Because, the IP address is set by the invention composed of the interface ID of 64 bits, it is compatible with the existing Extended Unique Identifier EUI-64 format.

Claims

1. A method for setting an Internet Protocol (IP) address for accessing a network, the method comprising the steps of:

detecting values that indicate inherent vehicle information from a vehicle identification number (VIN), wherein each vehicle includes the VIN;

setting a specified bit value for reporting that the IP address is a unique address; and

combining the set specified bit value with the values that indicate the inherent vehicle information to create the IP address.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the values that indicate the inherent vehicle information include a nationality of a manufacturer, a name of a manufacturer, a vehicle classification, a kind of a vehicle, particulars of vehicle kind, a manufacturing date and a serial number of manufacture, which are expressed by alphabetical characters or Arabic numerals.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

reducing by at least one bit the values that indicate the inherent vehicle information of a specified size; and

mapping the detected values that indicate the inherent vehicle information onto the set specified bit value.