System and method for guiding result of remote control using mobile device

• US 9,984,560 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2016
• Issued: 05/29/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Inventors: Choi, Min-Seok
• Primary Examiner(s): Kan, Yuri
• Application Number:
  US15/346,011
• Publication Number:
  US 20170372599A1
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/93 Remote control using other portable devices, e.g. mobile phone, PDA, laptop
• 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 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]

Abstract

Provided are a system and a method for guiding a result of remote control using a mobile device, and particularly, a system and a method for guiding a result of remote control, which determines a scheme that feeds back the remote control result of a vehicle to a mobile device app of a user.

Claims

1. A system for remotely controlling a vehicle, the system comprising:

a remote control processing unit configured to;

receive a control signal including a control command generated from an app running on a mobile device; and

transmit the control command to the vehicle based on the control signal;

a communication sensitivity analyzing unit comprising;

a receiving unit configured to;

receive, from the mobile device, a mobile device position information and a communication sensitivity information;

a data unit configured to;

receive the mobile device position information from the receiving unit;

search remote control failure history statistics information representing a remote control history or a customer VOC statistics history during a predetermined period in a region corresponding to the mobile device position information; and

verify whether the remote control failure history statistics information is more than a predetermined history value; and

an analysis unit configured to;

receive the communication sensitivity information from the receiving unit;

analyze whether a communication sensitivity included in the communication sensitivity information is more than a predetermined criterion based on quality of service (QoS) attributes; and

determine a feedback scheme for reporting a remote control result of the vehicle as one of TCP/IP or SMS based on whether the communication sensitivity is greater than the predetermined criterion; and

a remote control result transmitting unit configured to;

receive the remote control result of the vehicle from the remote control processing unit; and

transmit the remote control result to the app running on the mobile device according to the feedback scheme.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the remote control result transmitting unit is configured to transmit the remote control result to the app running on the mobile device through the SMS when the communication sensitivity described by the communication sensitivity information is equal to or less than the predetermined criterion;

and

wherein the remote control result transmitting unit is configured to transmit the remote control result through the TCP/IP when the communication sensitivity is greater than the predetermined criterion.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the remote control result transmitting unit is configured to transmit the control result to the app running on the mobile device through the SMS when the remote control failure history statistic information is equal to or less than the predetermined history value;

and

wherein the remote control result transmitting unit is configured to transmit the remote control result through the TCP/IP when the remote control failure history statistic information is greater than the predetermined history value.

4. A method for remotely controlling a vehicle by a mobile device, the method comprising:

receiving, by a remote control processing unit of the mobile device, a control signal generated by an app running on the mobile device;

transmitting, by the remote control processing unit, a control command identified in the control signal to the vehicle based on the control signal;

receiving, by a receiving unit of a communication sensitivity analyzing unit, mobile device position information and communication sensitivity information from the mobile device;

receiving, by a data unit of the communication sensitivity analyzing unit, the mobile device position information from the receiving unit;

searching, by the data unit, remote control failure history statistics information representing a remote control history or a customer VOC statistics history during a predetermine period in a region corresponding to the mobile device position information;

verifying, by the data unit, whether the remote control failure history statistics information is more than a predetermined history value;

receiving, by a remote control result transmitting unit, a remote control result of the vehicle from the remote control processing unit;

determining, by an analysis unit of the communication sensitivity analyzing unit, a feedback scheme for the remote control result of the vehicle as one of TCP/IP or SMS; and

transmitting, by the remote control result transmitting unit, the remote control result to the app according to the feedback scheme.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein determining the feedback scheme comprises:

analyzing, by the analyzing unit, whether a communication sensitivity included in the communication sensitivity information is more than a predetermined criterion based on quality of service (QoS) attributes.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein transmitting the remote control result to the app comprises:

transmitting the remote control result to the app through the TCP/IP when the communication sensitivity is more than the predetermined criterion; and

transmitting the remote control result to the app through the SMS when the communication sensitivity is equal to or less than the predetermined criterion.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein transmitting the remote control result to the app comprises:

transmitting the remote control result to the app through the TCP/IP when the remote control failure history statistic information or the customer VOC statistics history is greater than the predetermined history value; and

transmitting the remote control result to the app through the SMS when the remote control failure history statistic information or the customer VOC statistics history is equal to or less than the predetermined history value.