CAR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20170186251A1
• Filed: 08/03/2016
• Published: 06/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Lee, Hyun-woo
• Granted Patent: US 9,911,255 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00769 with data transmission performed by wireless means
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00793 by Hertzian waves
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00865 remotely by wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2209/04 Access control involving a hierarchy in access rights
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00571 operated by interacting with a central unit
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/20 involving the use of a pass
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/27 with central registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources

Abstract

A car management system includes, for example, a second terminal generating first and second tokens in response to a request from a first terminal to use a vehicle, and sending the first token to the first terminal; and a third terminal authorizing the first terminal to use the vehicle by generating an access key that provides authority to use the vehicle using the first token and the second token in response to a request from the first terminal for the access key, and providing the generated access key to the first terminal.

Claims

1. A car management system comprising:

a second terminal generating first and second tokens in response to a request from a first terminal to use a vehicle, and sending the first token to the first terminal; and

a third terminal authorizing the first terminal to use the vehicle by generating an access key that provides authority to use the vehicle using the first token and the second token in response to a request from the first terminal for the access key, and providing the generated access key to the first terminal.

2. The car management system of claim 1, wherein the third terminal generates the access key when a result of combining the first token and the second token under a predetermined rule meets a predetermined access key generation condition.

3. The car management system of claim 1, wherein the first and second terminals, respectively, are mobile devices capable of wireless communication.

4. The car management system of claim 3, wherein the first terminal is a mobile device of a user that uses the vehicle, and the second terminal is a mobile device of a manager who has a right to manage the vehicle.

5. The car management system of claim 1, wherein the third terminal is an unmanned terminal installed in a location where the vehicle for which authority is to be issued is standing by.

6. The car management system of claim 1, wherein the first terminal generates and sends a remote control command to the vehicle through a remote server so as to control the vehicle.

7. The car management system of claim 6, wherein the server is a server of a telematics center.

8. The car management system of claim 6, wherein the server checks a validity of the access key provided to the first terminal before sending the remote control command to the vehicle.

9. The car management system of claim 1, wherein the first terminal generates and sends a remote control command to the vehicle through short range wireless communication so as to control the vehicle.

10. The car management system of claim 1, wherein the request from the first terminal to use the vehicle includes user information of a user that will use the vehicle, and validity of the user information is determined when the first and second tokens are generated by the second terminal.

11. The car management system of claim 1, wherein:

the second terminal generates an approval token in response to the request from the first terminal to use the vehicle and sends the approval token to the third terminal, and

the third terminal receives the approval token from the second terminal and stores the approval token, enabling the first terminal to be authorized to use the vehicle by providing the approval token to the first terminal in response to a request from the first terminal to download the approval token.

12. A car management system comprising:

a second terminal generating a second token and belonging to a manager who has a right to manage a vehicle; and

a third terminal generating an access key that provides authority to use the vehicle using a first token generated by a first terminal of a user and the second token generated by the second terminal, and authorizing the first terminal to use the vehicle by providing the generated access key to the first terminal,

wherein the third terminal is installed in a location where the vehicle for which authority is to be issued is standing by, in the form of an unmanned terminal.

13. A car management system comprising:

a third terminal generating an access key that provides authority to use a vehicle using a first token generated by a first terminal of a first user and a second token generated by a second terminal of a second user, and authorizing the first terminal to use the vehicle by providing the generated access key to the first terminal,

wherein the third terminal is installed in a location shared by the first user of the first terminal and the second user of the second terminal, in the form of an Internet of Things (IoT) device.