Method and device for a vehicle-related telematics service

• US 7,519,455 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2003
• Issued: 04/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Fischer, Joerg, Weiss, Cornelia
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Cuong H
• Application Number:
  US10/517,040
• Publication Number:
  US 20060235580A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,156 Days
• Field of Search: 701/2, 701/24, 701/211, 701/213, 701/29, 455/436, 340/438, 340/425.5, 370/466, 700/17
• US Class Current: 701/2
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/02 electric constitutive elements
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0234 related to maintenance or repairing of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2325/101 Bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2325/205 Mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]

Abstract

A method and a device for a vehicle-related telematics service are provided, the same application protocol being utilized for the telematics service both for the air interface and for the communication in the vehicle and possibly in the service center.

Claims

1. A device for a vehicle-related telematics service, comprising:

a data terminal arranged in a vehicle, the data terminal configured to communicate wirelessly with a service center and via an interface with at least one control unit arranged in the vehicle;

wherein the data terminal is configured to receive and transmit messages via the wireless communication and transmit and receive messages via the interface within a framework of carrying out the telematics service, a same application protocol being used both for the transmission via the wireless communication and for communication in the vehicle.

2. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein a transport protocol is provided between the at least one control unit in the vehicle and the data terminal, and wherein to ensure the communication, the transport protocol prescribes timing conditions that, using an arrangement of the data terminal, are considerably shorter than are able to be realized via the wireless communication.

3. The device as recited in claim 2, wherein time-correct signals are transmitted to comply with the timing conditions.

4. The device as recited in claim 3, wherein a complete message is received or transmitted via the wireless communication, and wherein the complete message is fragmented or defragmented in the data terminal for in-vehicle communication.

5. The device as recited in claim 2, wherein the data terminal is used to implement a message received via the wireless communication or a message to be transmitted via the wireless communication onto the vehicle transport protocol.

6. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein the vehicle-related telematics service is a remote diagnosis, and a diagnosis protocol KWP2000 is used as an application protocol.

7. The device as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

data terminal programs for the vehicle-related telematics service, which include a table for configuration of the at least one control unit in the vehicle, and which implement received messages onto a vehicle subsystem to which the at least one control unit is connected.

8. A device for a vehicle-related telematics service, comprising:

a gateway part of a service center being connected to a vehicle via wireless communication;

an interface to connect a tester;

wherein the gateway includes a transport protocol layer which implements data arriving or transmitted via the wireless communication onto the transport protocol for communication with the tester, and

wherein a data terminal is configured to receive and transmit messages via the wireless communication and to transmit and receive messages via the interface within a framework of carrying out the telematics service, a same application protocol being used both for the transmission via the wireless communication and for communication in the vehicle.

9. The device as recited in claim 8, wherein a transport protocol is provided between the at least one control unit in the vehicle and the data terminal, and wherein to ensure the communication, the transport protocol prescribes timing conditions that, using an arrangement of the data terminal, are considerably shorter than are able to be realized via the wireless communication.

10. The device as recited in claim 9, wherein time-correct signals are transmitted to comply with the timing conditions.

11. The device as recited in claim 10, wherein a complete message is received or transmitted via the wireless communication, and wherein the complete message is fragmented or defragmented in the data terminal for in-vehicle communication.

12. The device as recited in claim 9, wherein the data terminal is used to implement a message received via the wireless communication or a message to be transmitted via the wireless communication onto the vehicle transport protocol.

13. The device as recited in claim 8, wherein the vehicle-related telematics service is a remote diagnosis, and a diagnosis protocol KWP2000 is used as an application protocol.

14. The device as recited in claim 8, further comprising:

data terminal programs for the vehicle-related telematics service, which include a table for configuration of the at least one control unit in the vehicle, and which implement received messages onto a vehicle subsystem to which the at least one control unit is connected.