Inter-vehicle message disseminating method and apparatus for the application of the method

• US 7,027,772 B2
• Filed: 01/27/2003
• Issued: 04/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: SIN ETKE Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: SIN ETKE Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Chen, Kuo-Rong, Lee, Chun-Chung, Huang, Cheng-Hung
• Primary Examiner(s): Gesesse, Tilahun
• Application Number:
  US10/351,329
• Publication Number:
  US 20040082350A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,170 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 455/96, 455/99, 455/569.2, 455/569.1, 455/90.2, 455/90.1, 455/41.1, 455/41.3, 455/426.1, 455/404.1, 455/517
• US Class Current: 455/41.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/126 Anti-theft arrangements, e.g. protection against subscriber identity module [SIM] cloning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• 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 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

An inter-vehicle message disseminating method in which every vehicle carries a blue-tooth device (or 802.11 device) to actively login to or to passively accept a login from the respective blue-tooth device (or 802.11 devices) of other vehicles with a common authorization key to make a wireless connection for mutual transmitting message. When a message provided to one first vehicle, the first vehicle transmits the message to a number of second vehicles through the respective blue-tooth device, and then the second vehicles again transmit the message with their respective blue-tooth devices to another third vehicles. To transmit the message generation to generation repeatedly within these vehicles, forming a virus infectious frame to wirelessly disseminate kinds of message of update, advertising/promoting, searching, rescuing, socializing information to everywhere without geographic limitations.

Claims

1. An on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus carried on a vehicle, comprising:

a specific wireless communication module adapted to actively log in a plurality of specific wireless communication modules of other vehicles by means of a common authorization key so as to make a wireless connection for transmitting voice and/or data information mutually, to passively accept log-in requests from the specific wireless communication modules of said other vehicles by means of said common authorization key so as to make a wireless connection for transmitting voice and/or data information mutually, and to passively receive a disseminating information from an external wireless communication module wirelessly;

a processor adapted to control said specific wireless communication module to wirelessly transmit said disseminating information to the specific wireless communication modules of said other vehicles wirelessly connected; and

a memory device,

wherein said disseminating information is comprised of a series number and disseminating content; and

said memory device has stored therein the series number and disseminating content of a previously received disseminating information, and

wherein said processor controls the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle to wirelessly transmit the series number and disseminating content of the previously received disseminating information stored in the memory device of said vehicle to the specific wireless communication modules of said other connected vehicles when the series number of a currently received disseminating information is compared with and found to be older than the series number of the previously received disseminating information.

2. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said specific wireless communication module of said vehicle is a blue-tooth module having a communication radius reaching to a predetermined distance outside said vehicle.

3. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said external wireless communication module is a blue-tooth module.

4. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said processor further controls at least one electronic vehicle component of said vehicle to operate subject to the disseminating content of a currently received disseminating information when the series number of the currently received disseminating information is compared with and found to be newer than the series number of the previously received disseminating information.

5. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said disseminating information is an update information, and said disseminating content is an update content corresponding to at least one electronic vehicle component of said vehicle, so that said processor can update the computer software and/or data used by the at least one electronic vehicle component of said vehicle subject to said update content.

6. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein said memory device has further stored therein the type of said vehicle, and the update content further contains a type of vehicle to be updated, so that said processor runs data updating only when the type of vehicle of the update content is compared and found to be in conformity with the type of said vehicle stored in said memory device.

7. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said disseminating information is an advertising/promoting information, and said disseminating content is an advertising/promoting content, so that said processor can control an audio and/or video device of said vehicle to play said advertising/promoting content.

8. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein said memory device has further stored therein a condition to accept advertising/promoting, and said advertising/promoting content further contains an advertising/promoting classification, so that said processor enables said advertising/promoting content to be played only when the classification of said advertising/promoting content is compared and found to be in conformity with said condition to accept advertising/promoting stored in said memory device.

9. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said memory device has further stored therein an identification code of said vehicle, said disseminating information is a searching information, and said disseminating content is a searching content comprising a search listing containing at least one identification code of said vehicle to be searched, so that said processor drives at least one electronic vehicle component of said vehicle to operate when identification code of said vehicle stored in said memory device is compared and found to be in conformity with one of the identification codes of vehicles listed in said search listing.

10. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said search listing is a stolen vehicle listing.

11. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said search listing is a listing of an identification code of a searching vehicle requested by a customer.

12. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said identification code of the vehicle is a license plate number of the vehicle.

13. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said at least one electronic vehicle component includes a burglar-alarm.

14. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said memory device has further stored therein a condition for setting the termination of operation of at least one electronic vehicle component of said vehicle.

15. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said memory device has further stored therein a condition for setting the termination of operation of at least one electronic vehicle component of said vehicle.

16. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said vehicle further carries a mobile telephone adapted to wirelessly receive an external instruction for terminating the operation of at least one electronic vehicle component of said vehicle.

17. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said memory device has further stored therein a condition for setting the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle to terminate the transmitting of said disseminating information.

18. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said disseminating information includes a condition for setting the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle to terminate the transmitting of said disseminating information.

19. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said vehicle further carries a mobile telephone adapted to wirelessly receive an external instruction for terminating the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle from transmitting said disseminating information.

20. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said vehicle further carries a GPS (global positioning system) module adapted to compute the current position data of said vehicle;

and said processor further controls the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle to wirelessly transmit the current position data of said vehicle when disseminating said disseminating information.

21. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said external wireless communication module of said other vehicles is a bluetooth module.

22. An on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus carried on a vehicle, comprising:

a specific wireless communication module adapted to actively log in a plurality of specific wireless communication modules of other vehicles by means of a common authorization key so as to make a wireless connection for transmitting voice and/or data information mutually, and to passively accept log-in requests from the specific wireless communication modules of said other vehicles by means of said common authorization key so as to make a wireless connection for transmitting voice and/or data information mutually;

a processor adapted to control said specific wireless communication module to wirelessly transmit said disseminating information to the specific wireless communication modules of said other vehicles wirelessly connected;

a memory device, said memory device having stored therein a disseminating content; and

a processor adapted to control the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle to wirelessly transmit a disseminating information containing said disseminating content to the specific wireless communication modules of said other vehicles wirelessly connected,

wherein said disseminating information is a socializing information, and said disseminating content contains a matching limitation;

said other vehicles each having a matching limitation thereof, so that said other vehicles actively make a socializing contact with said vehicle when the matching limitation of the respective other vehicle is compared and matched to the matching limitation of said vehicle after receipt of said socializing information.

23. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 22, wherein said specific wireless communication module of said vehicle is a blue-tooth module having a communication radius reaching to a predetermined distance outside said vehicle.

24. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 22, wherein said disseminating information is a rescuing information, and said disseminating content contains an identification code of said vehicle and a rescuing message, so that said other vehicles actively come to rescue when said rescue message is received.

25. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 24, wherein said identification code of said vehicle is a license plate number of the vehicle.

26. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 24, wherein said rescuing message is a hijack message.

27. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 24, wherein said rescuing message is a message of out of gasoline.

28. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 22, wherein said memory device has further stored therein a condition for setting the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle to terminate the transmitting of said disseminating information.

29. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 22, wherein said vehicle further carries a mobile telephone adapted to wirelessly receive an external instruction for terminating the specific wireless communication module of said vehicle from transmitting said disseminating information.

30. The on-vehicle wireless communication apparatus as claimed in claim 22, wherein said vehicle further carries a GPS (global positioning system) module adapted to compute the current position data of said vehicle;

and said disseminating content of said disseminating information further contains said current position of said vehicle.