Apparatus and method for controlling outgoing calls in vehicle

• US 9,820,308 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2016
• Issued: 11/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Kim, Tae Myoung, Jung, Sang Yong
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Dung
• Application Number:
  US15/169,977
• Publication Number:
  US 20170188395A1
• Time in Patent Office: 531 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication
• 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 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/36 for reassigning the resources associated with the released connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

A method for controlling an outgoing call in a vehicle includes: when a communication terminal connected to a multimedia device through car mirroring has not been registered in a pairing list of the multimedia device, deleting at least one device among a plurality of devices registered in the pairing list, and registering the communication terminal in the pairing list; and attempting to make a call through the communication terminal when it has been registered in the pairing list.

Claims

1. A method for controlling an outgoing call in a vehicle, comprising:

when a communication terminal connected to a multimedia device through car mirroring has not been registered in a pairing list of the multimedia device, deleting at least one device among a plurality of devices registered in the pairing list, and registering the communication terminal in the pairing list;

attempting to make a call through the communication terminal when it has been registered in the pairing list, and

deleting the at least one device among the plurality of devices registered in the pairing list when the pairing list includes no area in which the communication terminal can be registered,

wherein the at least one deleted device includes at least one of a device having a smallest number of call connections among the plurality of devices registered in the pairing list and a device with which a last call connection has been established at an earliest time among the plurality of devices registered in the pairing list.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the deleting of the at least one device among the plurality of devices registered in the pairing list comprises deleting a device that was last registered among the plurality of devices registered in the pairing list.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the deleting of the at least one device among the plurality of devices registered in the pairing list comprises deleting a device having a lowest priority among the plurality of devices registered in the pairing list.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the call is an automatic outgoing call for automatically dialing a predetermined telephone number when the vehicle encounters a traffic accident.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, when the communication terminal was already registered in the pairing list of the multimedia device, attempting to make a call through the communication terminal.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, when the pairing list includes an area in which the communication terminal can be registered, registering the communication terminal in the pairing list, and attempting to make the call through the communication terminal.

7. An apparatus for making a call in a vehicle, comprising:

a multimedia device including a controller; and

a communication terminal connected to the multimedia device through car mirroring, wherein

when the communication terminal has not been registered in a pairing list of the multimedia device, the controller of the multimedia device deletes at least one device among a plurality of devices registered in the pairing list, registers the communication terminal in the pairing list, and attempts to make a call through the communication terminal when it has been registered in the pairing list,

when the pairing list includes no area in which the communication terminal can be registered, the controller deletes the at least one device among the plurality of devices registered in the pairing list, and

the at least one deleted device includes at least one of a device having a smallest number of call connections among the plurality of devices registered in the pairing list and a device with which a last call connection has been established at an earliest time among the plurality of devices registered in the pairing list.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the controller deletes a device that was last registered among the plurality of devices registered in the pairing list.

9. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the controller deletes a device having a lowest priority among the plurality of devices registered in the pairing list.

10. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the call is an automatic outgoing call for automatically dialing a predetermined telephone number when the vehicle encounters a traffic accident.

11. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein when the communication terminal was already registered in the pairing list of the multimedia device, the controller attempts to make a call through the communication terminal.

12. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein when the pairing list includes an area in which the communication terminal can be registered, the controller registers the communication terminal in the pairing list, and attempts to make the call through the communication terminal.

13. A method for controlling an outgoing call in a vehicle, comprising:

when a communication terminal is connected to a multimedia device through car mirroring, determining whether a pairing list of the multimedia device includes an area in which the communication terminal can be registered;

when the pairing list includes no area in which the communication terminal can be registered, and the communication terminal has already been registered in the pairing list, attempting to make a call through the communication terminal;

when the pairing list includes the area in which the communication terminal can be registered, registering the communication terminal in the area of the pairing list, and attempting to make a call through the communication terminal; and

when the pairing list includes no area in which the communication terminal can be registered, and the communication terminal has not been registered in the pairing list, deleting at least one device among a plurality of devices registered in the pairing list to create an area in the pairing list in which the communication terminal can be registered, registering the communication terminal in the created area of the pairing list, and attempting to make a call through the communication terminal,

wherein the at least one deleted device includes at least one of a device having a smallest number of call connections among the plurality of devices registered in the pairing list and a device with which a last call connection has been established at an earliest time among the plurality of devices registered in the pairing list.