METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN WIRELESS ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND VEHICLES

• US 20150100782A1
• Filed: 10/07/2013
• Published: 04/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Inventors: GAUTAMA, NEERAJ R., CHAU, JARVIS, WEIGERT, NORMAN J., MACINNES, RODDI L.
• Granted Patent: US 9,560,138 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/168
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/24 Key scheduling, i.e. generating round keys or sub-keys for block encryption
• 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 9/32 including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system or for message authentication, e.g. authorization, entity authentication, data integrity or data verification, non-repudiation, key authentication or verification of credentials
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/50 Secure pairing of devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/71 Hardware identity
• 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 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

Methods and systems are provided for communicating with a vehicle. In one embodiment, a portable communication device for communicating with a vehicle is provided. The portable communication device includes memory that stores vehicle specific information. The portable communication device further includes at least one processor that executes instructions that cause the portable communication device to enable a secure communication between a wireless end device and the vehicle based on the vehicle specific information.

Claims

1. A portable communication device for communicating with a vehicle, comprising:

memory that stores vehicle specific information, and

at least one processor that executes instructions that cause the portable communication device to enable a secure communication between a wireless end device and the vehicle based on the vehicle specific information.

2. The portable communication device of claim 1 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to enable a secure communicate between the wireless end device and the vehicle by communicating directly with the vehicle.

3. The portable communication device of claim 1 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to enable a secure communication between the wireless end device and the vehicle by communicating indirectly with the vehicle through a remote server.

4. The portable communication device of claim 3 wherein the instructions case the portable communication device to enable a secure communication between the wireless end device and the vehicle by communicating indirectly with the vehicle through the wireless end device communicating with the remote server.

5. The portable communication device of claim 1 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to enable a secure communication between the wireless end device and the vehicle by communicating directly with the wireless end device.

6. The portable communication device of claim 1 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to enable a secure communication between the wireless end device and the vehicle by communicating directly with the wireless end device and directly with the vehicle.

7. The portable communication device of claim 1 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to receive the vehicle specific information from the vehicle.

8. The portable communication device of claim 7 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to receive the vehicle specific information from the vehicle using a connected communication.

9. The portable communication device of claim 7 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to receive the vehicle specific information from the vehicle based on a proximity of the portable communication device to the vehicle.

10. The portable communication device of claim 7 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to receive the vehicle specific information from the vehicle based on a proximity of the portable communication device and the wireless end device to the vehicle.

11. The portable communication device of claim 1 wherein the vehicle specific information comprises encryption information.

12. The portable communication device of claim 11 wherein the encryption information comprises an encryption key.

13. The portable communication device of claim 1 wherein the vehicle specific information comprises encryption information and a vehicle identification number.

14. The portable communication device of claim 1 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to send information about the portable communication device to the vehicle.

15. The portable communication device of claim 1 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to receive information about the wireless end device.

16. The portable communication device of claim 15 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to send the information about the wireless end device to the vehicle.

17. The portable communication device of claim 1 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to receive data from the vehicle using a connectionless communication.

18. The portable communication device of claim 1 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to receive data from the vehicle and to encrypt the data from the vehicles using the vehicle specific information.

19. The portable communication device of claim 18 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to send the encrypted data to the vehicle using a connectionless communication.

20. The portable communication device of claim 18 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to send the encrypted data to the wireless end device using a connected communication.

21. The portable communication device of claim 1 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to receive data from the wireless end device using a connected communication.

22. The portable communication device of claim 1 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to receive data from the wireless end device and to encrypt the data from the wireless end device using the vehicle specific information.

23. The portable communication device of claim 22 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to send the encrypted data to the wireless end device using a connected communication.

24. The portable communication device of claim 22 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to send the encrypted data to the vehicle using a connectionless communication.

25. The portable communication device of claim 1 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to receive data from the wireless end device, to encrypt the data from the wireless end device using the vehicle specific information, to receive the data from the vehicle, and to encrypt the data from the vehicle using the vehicle specific information.

26. The portable communication device of claim 25 wherein the instructions cause the portable communication device to send the encrypted data from the vehicle to the vehicle using a connectionless communication, and to send the encrypted data from the wireless end device to the wireless end device using a connected communication.