PAIRING OF BLUETOOTH DEVICES

• US 20160050699A1
• Filed: 08/15/2014
• Published: 02/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Boss, Gregory Jensen, Jones, Andrew R., McConnell, Kevin C., Moore, John Elbert Jr.
• Application Number:
  US14/461,142
• Publication Number:
  US 20160050699A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/062 Pre-authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/50 Secure pairing of devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/71 Hardware identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• 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

Abstract

A method includes a computer device receiving at least one vehicle ID of at least one vehicle; the computer device receiving at least one mobile device ID of at least one mobile device; and the computer device conducting two-way authentication between the at least one mobile device and the at least one vehicle using the at least one vehicle ID and the mobile device ID prior to the at least one mobile device being in direct communication with the at least vehicle.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

a computer device receiving at least one vehicle ID of at least one vehicle;

the computer device receiving at least one mobile device ID of at least one mobile device; and

the computer device conducting two-way authentication between the at least one mobile device and the at least one vehicle using the at least one vehicle ID and the mobile device ID prior to the at least one mobile device being in direct communication with the at least vehicle.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one vehicle ID and the at least one mobile device ID are Bluetooth IDs.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the authentication is conducted using the Bluetooth IDs.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the computer device uses geo-location functions of the at least one mobile device.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the authentication is done remotely from the at least one vehicle and the at least one mobile device.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the remote authentication is handled off to the at least one vehicle and the at least one mobile device when the at least one mobile device is within direct communication range of the at least one vehicle.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the computer device is a Bluetooth pairing simulator.

8. A system comprising:

one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories and one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices;

a receiving module operatively coupled to at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, configured to receive at least one vehicle ID of at least one vehicle;

the receiving module operatively coupled to at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, configured to receive at least one mobile device ID of at least one mobile device; and

an authentication module operatively coupled to at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, configured to conduct two-way authentication between the at least one mobile device and the at least one vehicle using the at least one vehicle ID and the mobile device ID prior to the at least one mobile device being in direct communication with the at least vehicle.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the at least one vehicle ID and the at least one mobile device ID are Bluetooth IDs.

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein the authentication is conducted using the Bluetooth IDs.

11. The system according to claim 8, wherein the authentication module uses geo-location functions of the at least one mobile device.

12. The system according to claim 8, wherein the authentication is done remotely from the at least one vehicle and the at least one mobile device.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the remote authentication is handled off to the at least one vehicle and the at least one mobile device when the at least one mobile device is within direct communication range of the at least one vehicle.

14. The system according to claim 8, wherein the receiving and authentication modules are part of a Bluetooth pairing simulator.

15. A computer program product comprising:

one or more computer-readable, tangible storage medium;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage medium, to receive at least one vehicle ID of at least one vehicle;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage medium, to receive at least one mobile device ID of at least one mobile device; and

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage medium, to conduct two-way authentication between the at least one mobile device and the at least one vehicle using the at least one vehicle ID and the mobile device ID prior to the at least one mobile device being in direct communication with the at least vehicle.

16. The computer program product according to claim 15, wherein the at least one vehicle ID and the at least one mobile device ID are Bluetooth IDs.

17. The computer program product according to claim 16, wherein the authentication is conducted using the Bluetooth IDs.

18. The computer program product according to claim 15, further comprises program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage medium, to use geo-location functions of the at least one mobile device.

19. The computer program product according to claim 15, wherein the authentication is done remotely from the at least one vehicle and the at least one mobile device.

20. The computer program product according to claim 19, wherein the remote authentication is handled off to the at least one vehicle and the at least one mobile device when the at least one mobile device is within direct communication range of the at least one vehicle.