Vehicle user identification device

• US 6,535,107 B1
• Filed: 11/12/1999
• Issued: 03/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Original Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Inventors: Bartz, Ruediger
• Primary Examiner(s): Lieu, Julie
• Application Number:
  US09/438,391
• Time in Patent Office: 1,222 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.2, 340/5.6, 340/5.64, 340/5.8, 340/825.69, 340/825.72, 340/825.31, 340/426, 340/5.21, 340/825.22, 455/556, 455/419
• US Class Current: 340/5.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2325/205 Mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user

Abstract

In the case of a vehicle user identification device having a mobile transponder which contains a memory for an authorization code and a transmitting-receiving device for transmitting the authorization code to a vehicle-fixed receiver, the transponder is arranged in a user'"'"'s mobile information and communication device.

Claims

1. A vehicle user identification device, comprising:

a mobile transponder including a memory for storing an authorization code and a transmitting/receiving device for transmitting said authorization code to a vehicle-fixed receiver; and

a mobile information and communication device, wherein said mobile transponder is operably arranged in a removable manner in said mobile information and communication device and operates to identify the vehicle user based on a unique characteristic of the mobile information and communication device.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein said transponder is powered via an electric energy accumulator of said mobile information and communication device.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the mobile information and communication device has an identification code, said identification code being used along with the authorization code to identify a vehicle user.

4. A vehicle user identification device, comprising:

a mobile transponder including a memory for storing an authorization code and a transmitting/receiving device for transmitting said authorization code to a vehicle-fixed receiver; and

a mobile information and communication device, wherein said mobile transponder is arranged in said mobile information and communication device;

wherein said transponder is powered via an electric energy accumulator of said mobile information and communication device; and

wherein said transponder further includes a volatile memory for receiving an identification code of the mobile information and communication device.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein said identification code is transmittable together with the authorization code.

6. The device according to claim 4, wherein said identification code is readable into a vehicle-fixed memory.

7. The device according to claim 5, wherein said identification code is readable into a vehicle-fixed memory.

8. The device according to claim 5, further comprising a blocking mechanism to block the reading-in of the identification code, said blocking mechanism being deactivated only by an authorized user.