Communication systems and methods for flexible telematics at a vehicle

• US 9,549,425 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2015
• Issued: 01/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sirius XM Connected Vehicle Services Inc. (Liberty Media Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sirius XM Connected Vehicle Services Inc. (Liberty Media Corporation)
• Inventors: Farrell, Tod, Ellingson, Robert Orson, Halimi, Sammy, Copland, Craig George Kenneth
• Primary Examiner(s): Gonzalez, Amancio
• Application Number:
  US14/698,710
• Publication Number:
  US 20150237661A1
• Time in Patent Office: 630 Days
• Field of Search: 455/426.1, 455/41.2, 455/569.2, 707/104.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/205 Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental
• 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: H04M 1/6091 including a wireless interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• 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 72/51 based on terminal or device properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/11 Allocation or use of connection identifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A system for allocating communications resources for telematics communications is provided. The system includes a service provider, a gateway, and a telematics device. The telematics device: initiates a telematics communication between the telematics device and the service provider via a network; determines whether a network resource allocation for the telematics communication is still required based upon user intent information; and sends a notification of a change in the network resource allocation via a secondary communication channel. The secondary communication channel can be one of a first link coupled to the gateway and a second link coupled to the telematics device.

Claims

1. A system for allocating communications resources for telematics communications, comprising:

a service provider;

a gateway; and

a telematics device, the telematics device;

initiating a telematics communication between the telematics device and the service provider via a network;

determining whether a network resource allocation for the telematics communication is still required based upon user intent information; and

sending a notification of a change in the network resource allocation via a secondary communication channel, the secondary communication channel comprising one of a first link coupled to the gateway and a second link coupled to the telematics device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is attributable to a cancellation.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is attributable to an upgrade.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is attributable to a request alteration.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call redirection due to an upgrade where there is no network acknowledgement.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call cancellation where a dual-tone multi-frequency call is used to communicate the call cancellation after a failure of voice and Short Message Service (SMS) messages.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call cancellation where a dual-tone multi-frequency call is used to communicate the call cancellation after a failure of voice and Short Message Service (SMS) messages and prior to any data transfer.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call cancellation where all connections measures fail.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call termination of a voice connection between the device and the service provider.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call cancellation before a voice connection is established between the device and the service provider.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call cancellation before a voice connection is established between the device and the service provider and after a call action device is actuated.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the change in the network resource allocation is a call redirection due to an upgrade.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the secondary communication channel supports out-of-band data.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the out-of-band data comprises short message service (SMS) data.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the out-of-band data comprises dual channel packet data.