System for parking time management

• US 9,513,133 B2
• Filed: 12/02/2013
• Issued: 12/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Semsey, Akos
• Primary Examiner(s): Trivedi, Atul
• Application Number:
  US14/654,343
• Publication Number:
  US 20150345965A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,100 Days
• Field of Search: 701/537, 370/338
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3438 Rendez-vous, i.e. searching a destination where several users can meet, and the routes to this destination for these users; Ride sharing, i.e. searching a route such that at least two users can share a vehicle for at least part of the route
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/02 taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems G07B15/06 takes precedence; taximeters G07B13/00; parking meters per se G07F17/24; car rental systems per se G07B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/143 inside the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/146 where the parking area is a limited parking space, e.g. parking garage, restricted space
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/147 where the parking area is within an open public zone, e.g. city centre
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/068 using credential vaults, e.g. password manager applications or one time password [OTP] applications
• 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]

Abstract

A system for selective opening of a vehicle includes: a first communications module establishing, via a communications network, a communication link to a service provider of authorization data; a first identification routine for unambiguous identification of the service provider; a second communications module establishing a wireless communication network link to a control device for access arrangement of a vehicle; a second identification routine unambiguously identifying the system by the access arrangement; and a third communications module receiving update request information from the driver and an authorization data update routine. By the second communications module, the control device receives a profiled control signal that causes a selective opening of the vehicle via the control device if valid authorization data is available.

Claims

1. A system for the parking time management of a vehicle, comprising a first communication module that establishes a communication link to a communication terminal of a service provider of authorization data via a communication network;

a first identification module that executes a first identification routine that unambiguously identifies a service provider;

a second communication module that establishes a communication link via a wireless communication network to a communication device of a control device of an access arrangement of a vehicle;

a second identification module that executes a second identification routine that unambiguously identifies the system by the access arrangement;

a third communications module that receives an update request information item from the driver; and

an update module that executes an update routine that updates authorization data in a memory of the system, wherein the communication link to the service provider is established via the second communications module using a navigation device located in the vehicle,

wherein the establishment of the communication link is controlled by the navigation device, and a route plan stored by the driver in the navigation device in the vehicle is transmitted to the service provider via the communication link, and

wherein the system, based on the route plan, adjusts thermal preconditioning of the vehicle by a charging infrastructure of the vehicle, to extend a purely electric range of the vehicle.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein plural navigation devices are integrated in a driver assistance system.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the navigation device is a mobile navigation device, which controls the second communications module via near field communication.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the communication link via the wireless communications network is established by a mobile radio communications network and/or WLAN network.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the route planning, the navigation device determines dwell time in parking spaces in advance by a query routine and, if the dwell time is suitable, activation takes place to establish a communication link.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the communication between the system and the navigation system is encrypted using a shared secret.