Method for displaying information from an ID transmitter

• US 9,134,727 B2
• Filed: 04/09/2010
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huf Hulsbeck & Furst GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: Huf Hulsbeck & Furst GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Mnig, Stefan, Schumacher, Helmut, Simon, Jrg, Schroter, Veit
• Primary Examiner(s): CAI, WAYNE HUU
• Application Number:
  US13/254,038
• Publication Number:
  US 20120015636A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,985 Days
• Field of Search: 340/500, 340/506, 340/541, 340/542, 34053911-53919, 340/521, 340/531, 455/418, 455/419, 455/414.1, 455/41.1, 455/41.2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0218 characterised by the fault detection method dealing with either existing or incipient faults
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00769 with data transmission performed by wireless means
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for displaying a piece of information, using a mobile ID transmitter (10) and a cellular telephone (20) having a display (21), wherein the mobile ID transmitter (10) is used to activate a security system of a motor vehicle, the mobile ID transmitter (10) has an electronics unit (11), the electronics unit (11) is used for data communication (30) with a vehicle-side device, a vehicle-side piece of information is transmitted from the vehicle-side device to the electronics unit (11) by means of the data communication (30), the vehicle-side piece of information is stored in a data memory (12), the electronics unit (11) communicates with the cellular telephone (20) by means of a communication connection (40), and the vehicle-side piece of information is transferred to the cellular telephone (20) by means of the communication connection (40) and displayed there by means of the display (21). Furthermore, the invention is also directed at a system for displaying a vehicle-side piece of information on a cellular telephone (20) by means of a mobile ID transmitter (10) and also only at an ID transmitter.

Claims

1. Method for display of information, with a mobile ID transmitter and a cellular phone with a display, the method comprising:

using the mobile ID transmitter for activation of a security system of a vehicle, wherein the mobile ID transmitter comprises an electronic unit;

using the electronic unit for data communication with a vehicle-side device;

transmitting vehicle-side information data communication from the vehicle to the electronic unit, storing the vehicle-side information in a data memory;

communicating the electronic unit with the cellular phone via a communication connection; and

transmitting the vehicle-side information via the communication connection to the cellular phone and displaying on the display,

wherein the cellular phone transmits an information sequence to the mobile ID transmitter,

wherein the information sequence is transmitted from the mobile ID transmitter to a data processing system of the vehicle,

wherein that the mobile ID transmitter transmits a query sequence, in which the cellular phone receives the query sequence and sends a response sequence to make the communication connection, and wherein a transmission format for the vehicle-side information is transmitted in the response sequence.

2. Methods according to claim 1, wherein after sending the query sequence, the method further comprises:

a number of types of cellular phone receiving the query sequence and sender response sequence, the mobile ID transmitter receiving the number of response sequences, the mobile ID transmitter selecting, by means of a priority list, a cellular phone, and the mobile ID transmitter transmitting to the selected cellular phone the vehicle-side information.

3. Method according to claim 1, wherein the cellular phone sends a query sequence, in which the mobile ID transmitter receives the query sequence and sends the response sequence.

4. Method according to claim 1, wherein a state of the vehicle is displayed on the display of the cellular phone, wherein the state comprises a mileage of the vehicle, a tank content, a maintenance interval, navigation data or a content of an error memory or similar and displayed on the display, wherein this information is forwarded to a wireless telecommunication network for further processing with the help of a cellular phone.

5. Method according to claim 1, wherein a variety of vehicle-side information is transmitted via the data communication to the electronic unit from a number of vehicle-side devices, and wherein the mobile ID transmitter transmits different vehicle-side information by means of the communication connection, to the cellular phone.

6. Method according to claim 1, wherein by triggering an activation element on the mobile ID transmitter, a query sequence is sent.

7. Method according to claim 1, wherein the cellular phone stores vehicle-side information and/or processes said vehicle-side information, wherein the cellular phone compares the vehicle-side information with a reference value, comprising a reference interval, wherein the cellular phone displays a warning signal when vehicle-side information lies outside the reference interval.

8. Method according to claim 1, wherein the information sequence is processed in the electronic unit.

9. Method according to claim 8, wherein the information sequence executes processing of the vehicle-side information in the data processing system of the vehicle before transmission to the mobile ID transmitter.

10. A non-transitory computer program product for execution of the method according to claim 1, wherein the method steps are integrated in a program stored in the computer program product.

11. System for display of information, comprising:

a mobile ID transmitter, and

a cellular phone with a display,

wherein the mobile ID transmitter is used to activate a security system of a vehicle, the mobile ID transmitter has an electronic unit and said electronic unit is used for data communication with a vehicle-side device, vehicle-side information can be transmitted via data communication from the vehicle-side device to the electronic unit, and said vehicle-side information can be stored in a data memory, the electronic unit communicates with the cellular phone via a communication connection, and the vehicle-side information can be transmitted via the communication connection to the cellular phone and displayed on the display,

wherein the cellular phone transmits an information sequence to the mobile ID transmitter,

wherein the information sequence is transmitted from the mobile ID transmitter to a data processing system of the vehicle,

wherein that the mobile ID transmitter transmits a query sequence, in which the cellular phone receives the query sequence and sends a response sequence to make the communication connection, and wherein a transmission format for the vehicle-side information is transmitted in the response sequence.

12. System according to claim 11, wherein the cellular phone comprises a part of the following:

a personal digital assistant with radio, a notebook with a radio unit, a personal computer with a radio unit, or a navigation system with radio unit.

13. System according to claim 11, wherein the mobile ID transmitter has a communication device, by means of which the mobile ID transmitter makes the communication connection to the cellular phone.

14. System according to claim 11, wherein the communication device is a transponder, and wherein the transponder also serves to activate a security system of the vehicle.

15. System according to claim 11, wherein the cellular phone has a communication element, in which the communication element serves to make the communication connection to the mobile ID transmitter, and the communication element makes a wireless communication connection with the communication device.

16. System according to claim 15, wherein the communication device or the communication element comprises at least one of:

Bluetooth, Infrared Data Association (IrDA), ZigBee, Near Field Communication, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN;

IEEE 802.11), WiMax, Wibree, FireWire (IEEE

     1394), USB (Universal Serial Bus), HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface), Unilink, ATA/ATAPI (Advanced Technology Attachment with Packet Interface), IEEE 488, IEEE 1284, a standard according to IEEE 802, and capacitive data transmission.

17. System for the display of information according to claim 11, is configured to:

use the mobile ID transmitter for activation of the security system of the vehicle;

use the electronic unit for data communication with the vehicle-side device;

enable a transmitting of the vehicle-side information data communication from the vehicle to the electronic unit;

store the vehicle-side information in the data memory;

enable communications between the electronic unit and the cellular phone via the communication connection; and

enable a transmitting of the vehicle-side information via the communication connection to the cellular phone.

18. Mobile ID transmitter for a vehicle security system, comprising:

an electronic unit and a data memory, wherein the electronic unit is used for data communication with a vehicle-side device, the vehicle-side information can be transmitted via data communication from the vehicle-side device to the electronic unit, the vehicle-side information can be stored in the data memory, the electronic unit communicates with a cellular phone with display via a communication connection, and whereby the vehicle-side information can be transmitted via the communication connection to the cellular phone and displayed on the display,

wherein that the mobile ID transmitter transmits a query sequence, in which the cellular phone receives the query sequence and sends a response sequence to make the communication connection, and wherein a transmission format for the vehicle-side information is transmitted in the response sequence.