Method for the use of a mobile appliance using a motor vehicle

• US 9,420,458 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2010
• Issued: 08/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG), Volkswagen AG
• Original Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Inventors: Putze, Markus
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Tae
• Assistant Examiner(s): KU, SHIUH-HUEI P
• Application Number:
  US12/966,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20120151214A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,073 Days
• Field of Search: 713156-157, 713/173, 713175-176, 380/247, 380/258, 380/277, 726/10
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/069 using certificates or pre-shared keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for the use of a mobile appliance which is not associated with a motor vehicle using a motor vehicle, wherein a program which can be executed on the mobile appliance and a digital certificate associated with the program are stored in the mobile appliance, wherein the digital certificate is transmitted from the mobile appliance to the motor vehicle, wherein the digital certificate is verified in the motor vehicle, wherein—if verification of the digital certificate is successful—information associated with the program which can be executed on the mobile appliance is presented using a display in the motor vehicle, and wherein the program which can be executed on the mobile appliance is used using a user arrangement, associated with the display, in the motor vehicle.

Claims

1. A method for the use of a mobile appliance that is not associated with a motor vehicle but uses a motor vehicle, the method comprising:

storing a program to be executed on the mobile appliance and a public key certificate associated with the program in the mobile appliance, wherein the public key certificate has been issued by a certification server, wherein the public key certificate associates a public key with an identity and a scope of the public key and the public key certificate includes the public key itself;

transmitting the public key of the public key certificate from the mobile appliance to the motor vehicle via a communication link;

verifying the public key in the motor vehicle using a private key which is stored in the motor vehicle; and

only if verification is successful;

using the communication link to perform a handshake between the mobile appliance and the motor vehicle,

presenting information associated with the program executed on the mobile appliance using a display in the motor vehicle, and

controlling use of the program executed on the mobile appliance using a user arrangement included in the motor vehicle and associated with the motor vehicle display, wherein the user arrangement is configured to be used to actuate vehicle specific functions, wherein the method results in control of the functionality of the program executed on the mobile appliance, and display of data associated with the program executed on the mobile appliance on the motor vehicle display,

detecting when the data associated with the program executed on the mobile appliance is being presented using the motor vehicle display;

when it is determined that the data associated with the program executed on the mobile appliance is being presented using the motor vehicle display, interpreting user input received via the user arrangement included in the motor vehicle as a command to control the program executed on the mobile appliance rather than a command to actuate vehicle specific functions; and

transferring the command to the program executed on the mobile appliance to control the program.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the private key is stored in one of a telephone interface included in the motor vehicle, in the display or the user arrangement.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising associating the public key certificate with the program using the certification server.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising transmitting the program and transmitting the public key certificate associated with the program using the certification server to the mobile appliance.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising associating the public key certificate with the program.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising transmitting the program and transmitting the public key certificate associated with the program to the mobile appliance.

7. The method of claim 2, further comprising transmitting the program to the certification server prior to transmitting the program from the certification server to the mobile appliance.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising transferring data for the presentation of the information associated with the program from the mobile appliance to the motor vehicle.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising controlling the program based on the command.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication link is a Bluetooth link.

10. A method for presenting information in a motor vehicle, the method comprising:

storing a program to be executed on the mobile appliance and a public key certificate associated with the program in the mobile appliance, wherein the public key certificate has been issued by a certification server, wherein the public key certificate associates a public key with an identity and a scope of the public key and the public key certificate includes the public key itself;

transmitting the public key of the public key certificate from the mobile appliance to the motor vehicle via a communication link;

verifying the public key in the motor vehicle using a private key which is stored in the motor vehicle; and

only if verification of the public key is successful;

using the communication link to perform a handshake between the mobile appliance and the motor vehicle,

presenting information associated with the program executed on the mobile appliance using a display in the motor vehicle, and

receiving at least one control command for control of the program executed on the mobile appliance via a user arrangement included in the motor vehicle and associated with the motor vehicle display, wherein the user arrangement is configured to be used to actuate vehicle specific functions, wherein the method results in control of the functionality of the program executed on the mobile appliance, and display of data associated with the program executed on the mobile appliance on the motor vehicle display,

detecting when the data associated with the program executed on the mobile appliance is being presented using the motor vehicle display;

when it is determined that the data associated with the program executed on the mobile appliance is being presented using the motor vehicle display, interpreting user input received via the user arrangement included in the motor vehicle as a command to control the program executed on the mobile appliance rather than a command to actuate vehicle specific functions; and

transferring the command to the program executed on the mobile appliance to control the program.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the private key is stored in one of a telephone interface included in the motor vehicle, in the display or the user arrangement.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising associating the public key certificate with the program using the certification server.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising transmitting the program and transmitting the public key certificate associated with the program using the certification server.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising associating the public key certificate with the program.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising transmitting the program and transmitting the public key certificate associated with the program.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising transmitting the program to the certification server prior to storing the program on the mobile appliance.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising transferring data for the presentation of the information associated by the program from the mobile appliance to the motor vehicle.

24. The method of claim 10, wherein the communication link is a Bluetooth link.

18. Equipment for utilizing a mobile appliance that is not associated with a motor vehicle, the equipment comprising:

means for verifying a public key in the motor vehicle using a private key which is stored in the motor vehicle, wherein the public key certificate has been issued by a certification server that issues public key certificates and associates the public key certificate with programs to be executed by mobile appliances, wherein the public key certificate associates a public key with an identity and a scope of the public key and the public key certificate includes the public key itself, wherein the certification server has transmitted the public key certificate and the associated program to the mobile appliance, wherein the program and the public key certificate associated with the program are stored in the mobile appliance, and wherein the public key is received from the mobile appliance at the motor vehicle via a communication link, and only if verification of the public key of the public key certificate is successful, using the Bluetooth link to perform a handshake between the mobile appliance and the motor vehicle;

a display included in the motor vehicle that presents information associated with the program executed on the mobile appliance only if the verification of the digital certificate is successful, and

a user arrangement installed in the motor vehicle and associated with the display, wherein the user arrangement is configured to be used to actuate vehicle specific functions,

wherein the motor vehicle installed user arrangement also controls use of the program executed on the mobile appliance program executed on the mobile appliance, and display of data associated with the program executed on the mobile appliance on the motor vehicle display, and

wherein if it is determined that the data associated with the program executed on the mobile appliance is being presented using the motor vehicle display, user input received via the user arrangement included in the motor vehicle is interpreted as a command to control the program executed on the mobile appliance rather than a command to actuate vehicle specific functions and the received command is transferred to the program executed on the mobile appliance to control the program.

19. The equipment of claim 18, wherein the private key is stored in one of a telephone interface included in the motor vehicle, in the display or the user arrangement.

20. The equipment of claim 19, wherein the public key certificate is associated with the program using the certification server.

21. The equipment of claim 18, further comprising means for transmitting the program and transmitting the public key certificate associated with the program to the mobile appliance.

22. The equipment of claim 18, further comprising means for receiving data transferred from the mobile appliance for the presentation of the information associated by the program at the motor vehicle.

25. The equipment of claim 18, wherein the communication link is a Bluetooth link.