Communication Systems and Methods for Flexible Telematics at a Vehicle

• US 20120252475A1
• Filed: 06/15/2012
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sirius XM Connected Vehicle Services Inc. (Liberty Media Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sirius XM Connected Vehicle Services Inc. (Liberty Media Corporation)
• Inventors: Farrell, Tod, Ellingson, Robert Orson, Halimi, Sammy, Copland, Craig George Kenneth
• Granted Patent: US 9,047,783 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/450
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental
• 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: H04M 1/6091 including a wireless interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• 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 72/51 based on terminal or device properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/11 Allocation or use of connection identifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A method for providing telematics to a vehicle includes the step of providing a user-removable telematics component with a Global Positioning System (GPS) device, a data pump, and a short range wireless personal area network transceiver. The telematics component is communicatively connected to an integrated communication device of the vehicle. The integrated communication device has a short range wireless personal area network transceiver and a memory storing a list that includes at least a phone number of at least one currently paired mobile communication device. At least a portion of the list is periodically received at the data pump, the portion of the list including the phone number of the at least one currently paired mobile communication device. The portion of the list is periodically transmitted out from the telematics component to an off-site telematics provider utilizing a communications path of the data pump.

Claims

1. A method for allocating communications resources for telematics communications, comprising:

initiating a telematics communication between a device and a service provider via a network;

determining if a network resource allocation for the telematics communication is required based upon information that infers user intent; and

sending a notification of a change in the network resource allocation via a secondary communication channel.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is attributable to a cancellation.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is attributable to an upgrade.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is attributable to a request alteration.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call redirection due to an upgrade where there is no network acknowledgement.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call cancellation where a dual-tone multi-frequency call is used to communicate the call cancellation after a failure of voice and Short Message Service (SMS) messages.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call cancellation where a dual-tone multi-frequency call is used to communicate the call cancellation after a failure of voice and Short Message Service (SMS) messages and prior to any data transfer.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call cancellation where all connections measures fail.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call termination of a voice connection between the device and the service provider.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call cancellation before a voice connection is established between the device and the service provider.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call cancellation before a voice connection is established between the device and the service provider and after a call action device is actuated.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call redirection due to an upgrade.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the secondary communication channel supports out-of-band data.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the out-of-band data comprises short message service (SMS) data.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the out-of-band data comprises dual channel packet data.

16. A telematics device, comprising:

a processor that;

initiates a telematics communication between a device and a service provider via a network;

determines whether a network resource allocation for the telematics communication is required based on information that infers user intent; and

a transceiver that sends a notification of a change in the network resource allocation via a secondary communication channel.

17. The telematics device of claim 16, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is attributable to a cancellation.

18. The telematics device of claim 16, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is attributable to an upgrade.

19. The telematics device of claim 16, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is attributable to a request alteration.

20. The telematics device of claim 16, wherein the secondary communication channel supports out-of-band data.