Systems and Methods for Radio Access Interfaces

• US 20180103355A1
• Filed: 02/10/2017
• Published: 04/12/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CalAmp Corporation
• Original Assignee: CalAmp Corporation
• Inventors: Hergesheimer, Peter, Nornberg, Thomas M.
• Granted Patent: US 10,219,117 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0202 Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6075 adapted for handsfree use in a vehicle H04M1/6058 takes precedence; arrangements for holding telephones in a vehicle B60R11/0241
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• 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 4/48 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 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

Systems and methods for radio access interfaces in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiments, a vehicle telematics device includes a processor, a communications device, and a memory, wherein the vehicle telematics device communicates with a mobile communications device using the communications device, wherein the mobile communications device is in communication with a remote server system via a mobile network connection, and wherein the vehicle telematics device provides data to the mobile communications device, where the data is to be transmitted to the remote server system, provides command data to the mobile communications device, where the command data instructs the mobile communication device to transmit the data to the remote server system using at least one communication protocol, and causes the mobile communications device to transmit the data to the remote server system using the at least one communication protocol based on the command data.

Claims

1. A vehicle telematics device, comprising:

a processor;

a communications device; and

a memory connected to the processor;

wherein the vehicle telematics device communicates with a mobile communications device using the communications device;

wherein the mobile communications device is in communication with a remote server system via a mobile network connection; and

wherein the vehicle telematics device;

provides data to the mobile communications device using the communications device, where the data is to be transmitted to the remote server system; and

provides command data to the mobile communications device, where the command data instructs the mobile communication device to transmit the data to the remote server system using at least one communication protocol; and

wherein the mobile communications device;

processes the provided data to generate formatted data based on the command data; and

transmits the processed data to the remote server system using the at least one communication protocol based on the command data.

2. The vehicle telematics device of claim 1, wherein the mobile communications device comprises a smart phone.

3. The vehicle telematics device of claim 2, wherein:

the smart phone comprises an application executing within an operating system installed on the smart phone;

the application provides access to a file system provided by the operating system; and

the application provides access to cellular data services via the operating system.

4. The vehicle telematics device of claim 1, wherein the mobile communications device is integrated into a vehicle.

5. The vehicle telematics device of claim 4, wherein:

the mobile communications device is accessible via a vehicle data bus installed in the vehicle;

the vehicle telematics device is connected to a diagnostic port within the vehicle, where the diagnostic port provides access to the vehicle data bus; and

the vehicle telematics device communicates with the mobile communications device using the vehicle data bus.

6. The vehicle telematics device of claim 1, wherein the communications device comprises a Bluetooth radio.

7. The vehicle telematics device of claim 1, wherein the communications device comprises a wired connection.

8. The vehicle telematics device of claim 1, wherein the communications device comprises an 802.11 wireless network device.

9. The vehicle telematics device of claim 1, wherein the command data further comprises metadata describing when the mobile communications device is to transmit the data to the remote server system.

10. (canceled)

11. A method for transmitting data using a radio access interface, comprising:

providing data to a mobile communications device using a vehicle telematics device, wherein;

the vehicle telematics device comprises a processor, a communications device, and a memory connected to the processor;

the vehicle telematics device communicates with the mobile communications device using the communications device;

the data is to be transmitted to a remote server system; and

the mobile communications device is in communication with a remote server system via a mobile network connection;

providing command data to the mobile communications device using the vehicle telematics device, where the command data instructs the mobile communication device to transmit the data to the remote server system using at least one communication protocol;

processing the received data to generate formatted data based on the command data using the mobile communications device; and

transmitting the formatted data to the remote server system using the mobile communications device using the at least one communication protocol based on the command data.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the mobile communications device comprises a smart phone.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein:

the smart phone comprises an application executing within an operating system installed on the smart phone;

the application provides access to a file system provided by the operating system; and

the application provides access to cellular data services via the operating system.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the mobile communications device is integrated into a vehicle.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein:

the mobile communications device is accessible via a vehicle data bus installed in the vehicle;

the vehicle telematics device is connected to a diagnostic port within the vehicle, where the diagnostic port provides access to the vehicle data bus; and

the vehicle telematics device communicates with the mobile communications device using the vehicle data bus.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the communications device comprises a Bluetooth radio.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the communications device comprises a wired connection.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the communications device comprises an 802.11 wireless network device.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the command data further comprises metadata describing when the mobile communications device is to transmit the data to the remote server system.

20. (canceled)