Terminal mounted in vehicle, control method thereof, data center and control method thereof

• US 9,773,354 B2
• Filed: 05/05/2015
• Issued: 09/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Moon, Sung Hwan
• Primary Examiner(s): Luu, Le H
• Application Number:
  US14/704,029
• Publication Number:
  US 20160171789A1
• Time in Patent Office: 875 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/161 Decentralised systems, e.g. inter-vehicle communication
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/163 involving continuous checking
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/164 Centralised systems, e.g. external to vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports

Abstract

A control method for a terminal mounted in a vehicle includes: receiving at least one vehicle information message; extracting at least one piece of vehicle data from the at least one vehicle information message; generating a data package to be transmitted to a data center by grouping the at least one extracted piece of vehicle data into a designated unit; and transmitting the generated data package to the data center.

Claims

1. A control method for a terminal mounted in a vehicle comprising:

receiving a plurality of vehicle information messages from a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) mounted in the vehicle;

receiving an indication of desired pieces of vehicle data and an ordering of the desired pieces of vehicle data from a data center;

extracting a plurality of pieces of vehicle data from the plurality of vehicle information messages in accordance with the indicated desired pieces of vehicle data;

generating a data package to be transmitted to the data center by grouping the extracted plurality of pieces of vehicle data into a designated unit in an order corresponding to the indicated ordering of the desired pieces of vehicle data; and

transmitting the generated data package to the data center.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one vehicle information message is received from the plurality of ECUs through in-vehicle communication.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of pieces of vehicle data is extracted from at least some of the plurality of vehicle information messages, when the at least some of the plurality of vehicle information messages includes vehicle data.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data package is generated based on a cycle of transmission of each of the plurality of pieces of vehicle data received from the data center.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data package is generated based on a frequency of transmission of each of the plurality of pieces of vehicle data received from the data center.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the generated data package is transmitted to the data center, when an event message indicating immediate transmission of the data package is received from the data center.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the generated data package includes the event message.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising receiving a user agreement prior to the transmission of the generated data package to the data center.

9. A terminal mounted in a vehicle comprising:

a modem unit configured to receive a plurality of vehicle information messages from a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) mounted in the vehicle and to receive an indication of desired pieces of vehicle data and an ordering of the desired pieces of vehicle data from a data center; and

a controller configured to extract a plurality of pieces of vehicle data from the plurality of vehicle information messages in accordance with the indicated desired pieces of vehicle data, to generate a data package to be transmitted to the data center by grouping the extracted plurality of pieces of vehicle data into a designated unit in an order corresponding to the indicated ordering of the desired pieces of vehicle data, and to transmit, through the modem unit, the generated data package to the data center.

10. The terminal according to claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to receive the plurality of vehicle information messages from the plurality of ECUs through in-vehicle communication.

11. The terminal according to claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to extract the plurality of pieces of vehicle data from at least some of the plurality of vehicle information messages, when the at least some of the plurality of vehicle information messages includes vehicle data.

12. The terminal according to claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to generate the data package based on a cycle of transmission of each of the plurality of pieces of vehicle data received from the data center.

13. The terminal according to claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to generate the data package based on a frequency of transmission of each of the plurality of pieces vehicle data received from the data center.

14. The terminal according to claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to transmit the generated data package to the data center, when an event message indicating immediate transmission of the data package is received from the data center.

15. The terminal according to claim 14, wherein the controller is further configured to include the event message in the generated data package.

16. The terminal according to claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to receive a user agreement prior to the transmission of the generated data package to the data center.

17. A control method for a data center comprising:

transmitting an indication of desired pieces of vehicle data and an ordering of the desired pieces of vehicle data to a terminal mounted in a vehicle, wherein a plurality of pieces of vehicle data are extracted from a plurality of vehicle information messages by the terminal in accordance with the indicated desired pieces of vehicle data; and

receiving a data package generated by grouping the extracted plurality of pieces of vehicle data into a designated unit in an order corresponding to the indicated ordering of the desired pieces of vehicle data,

wherein the plurality of vehicle information messages are generated by a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) mounted in the vehicle.

18. The control method according to claim 17, further comprising collecting the plurality of pieces of vehicle data from the received data package based on kinds of the vehicle data.

19. A data center comprising:

a modem unit configured to communicate with a telematics terminal of a vehicle; and

a controller configured to transmit, through the modern unit, an indication of desired pieces of vehicle data and an ordering of the desired pieces of vehicle data to the telematics terminal, wherein a plurality of pieces of vehicle data are extracted from a plurality of vehicle information messages by the telematics terminal in accordance with the indicated desired pieces of vehicle data, and to receive, through the modem unit, a data package generated by grouping the extracted plurality of pieces of vehicle data into a designated unit in an order corresponding to the indicated ordering of the desired pieces of vehicle data,

wherein the plurality of vehicle information messages are generated by a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) mounted in the vechicle.

20. The data center according to claim 19, wherein the controller is further configured to collect the plurality of pieces of vehicle data from the data package based on kinds of the vehicle data.

21. The data center according to claim 20, wherein the controller is further configured to analyze the collected pieces of vehicle data.

22. The data center according to claim 19, wherein the controller is further configured to additionally transmit an event message indicating immediate transmission of the data package.

23. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having a program to execute a control method for a terminal mounted in a vehicle, wherein the control method includes:

receiving a plurality of vehicle information messages from a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) mounted in the vehicle;

receiving an indication of desired pieces of vehicle data and an ordering of the desired pieces of vehicle data from a data center;

extracting a plurality of pieces of vehicle data from the plurality of vehicle information messages in accordance with the indicated desired pieces of vehicle data;

generating a data package to be transmitted to the data center by grouping the extracted plurality of pieces of vehicle data into a designated unit; and

transmitting the generated data package to the data center in an order corresponding to the indicated ordering of the desired pieces of vehicle data.