Mobile device registration system

• US 7,328,044 B2
• Filed: 04/01/2005
• Issued: 02/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Sugimoto, Takashi, Hata, Toshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Anderson; Matthew
• Assistant Examiner(s): DAO, MINH D
• Application Number:
  US11/095,570
• Publication Number:
  US 20060111046A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,040 Days
• Field of Search: 455/558, 455/569.2, 455/575.9, 455/99, 455/297, 701/117, 701/1, 340/995.1
• US Class Current: 455/558
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user

Abstract

To provide a mobile device registration system, with which it is impossible to register from a third party'"'"'s mobile device which is already registered with respect to one vehicle, a mobile device ID with respect to another vehicle to improve security. The system of the present invention includes: a smart unit mounted in a vehicle that has a unique smart ID corresponding to the vehicle and allows registration a mobile device ID; and a mobile device having a unique mobile device ID and allowing registration of the smart ID. In the system, when the smart unit registers the mobile device ID of one mobile device, the smart unit registers its own smart ID into the one mobile device, and unlocking or locking of the vehicle is performed only when the smart unit detects the mobile device having the mobile device ID that is registered in the smart unit.

Claims

1. A mobile device registration system, comprising:

a smart unit mounted in a vehicle that has a unique smart ID corresponding to the vehicle and allows registration of a mobile device ID; and

a mobile device having a unique mobile device ID and allowing registration of the smart ID,

wherein when the smart unit registers the mobile device ID of one mobile device, the smart unit registers its own smart ID into the one mobile device, and unlocking or locking of the vehicle is performed only when the smart unit detects the mobile device having the mobile device ID that is registered in the smart unit,

wherein when the smart unit registers the mobile device ID of the one mobile device, in a case where no registered smart ID exists in the one mobile device, the smart unit registers the mobile device ID of the one mobile device, and

in a case where a registered smart ID exists in the one mobile device, the smart unit registers the mobile device ID of the one mobile device only when the registered smart ID matches its own smart ID.

2. A mobile device registration system according to claim 1, wherein when the smart unit registers the mobile device ID of the one mobile device, the smart unit sends a registration request signal containing its own smart ID to the one mobile device,

in a case where the smart ID is not yet registered in a memory of the one smart device, or in a case where the smart ID contained in the registration request signal matches the registered smart ID, the one mobile device responds to the registration request signal by sending a registration permission signal containing the mobile device'"'"'s own mobile device ID to the smart unit, and

the smart unit registers the mobile device ID contained in the registration permission signal into the smart unit'"'"'s own memory.

3. A mobile device registration system according to claim 2, wherein the one mobile device prohibits sending of the registration permission signal in a case where the smart ID contained in the registration request signal does not match the registered smart ID, and

in a case where the smart unit does not receive the registration permission signal during a predetermined period of time after the smart unit sends the registration request signal, the smart unit determines that the registration request was rejected, and does not register the mobile device ID of the one mobile device.

4. A mobile device registration system, comprising;

a smart unit mounted in a vehicle that has a unique smart ID corresponding to the vehicle and allows registration of a mobile device ID; and

a mobile device having a unique mobile device ID and allowing registration of the smart ID,

wherein when the smart unit registers the mobile device ID of one mobile device, the smart unit registers its own smart ID into the one mobile device, and unlocking or locking of the vehicle is performed only when the smart unit detects the mobile device having the mobile device ID that is registered in the smart unit,

wherein when the smart unit registers the mobile device ID of the one mobile device, the smart unit registers the mobile device ID of the one mobile device only in a case where a smart ID programmed at a shipping time that is registered upon shipment of the one mobile device matches its own smart ID.

5. A mobile device registration system according to claim 4, wherein when the smart unit registers the mobile device ID of the one mobile device, the smart unit sends a registration request signal containing the smart unit'"'"'s own smart ID to the one mobile device,

in a case where the smart ID contained in the registration request signal matches the smart ID programmed at the shipping time, the one mobile device responds to the registration request signal by sending a registration permission signal containing the mobile device'"'"'s own mobile device ID to the smart unit, and

the smart unit registers the mobile device ID contained in the registration permission signal into the smart unit'"'"'s own memory.

6. A mobile device registration system according to claim 5, wherein the one mobile device prohibits sending of the registration permission signal in a case where the smart ID contained in the registration request signal does not match the smart ID programmed at the shipping time, and

in a case where the smart unit does not receive the registration permission signal during a predetermined period of time after the smart unit sends the registration request signal, the smart unit determines that the registration request was rejected, and does not register the mobile device ID of the one mobile device.