Temporary bluetooth pairing

• US 10,111,272 B1
• Filed: 08/01/2017
• Issued: 10/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Corp.
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Withers, Kim, Harten, Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Thanh
• Application Number:
  US15/665,983
• Time in Patent Office: 448 Days
• 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: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/143 Termination or inactivation of sessions, e.g. event-controlled end of session
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/38 triggered by timers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

The concepts and technologies disclosed herein provide a vehicle system that can prompt a user to select a BLUETOOTH pairing type—normal or temporary. In response to receiving selection of a temporary BLUETOOTH pairing type, the vehicle system can prompt the user to select a trigger for terminating a temporary pairing period during which the user device and the vehicle system are to be temporarily paired, and the vehicle system can receive selection of the trigger. The user device and the vehicle system can be paired. The vehicle system can receive data associated with the user and can store the data in a vehicle memory. The vehicle system can monitor for activation of the trigger. In response to the trigger being activated, the vehicle system can terminate the temporary pairing period thereby unpairing the user device and the vehicle system and can delete the data from the vehicle memory.

Claims

1. A vehicle system comprising:

a processor; and

memory having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising

prompting a user to select a normal BLUETOOTH pairing option or a temporary BLUETOOTH pairing option for pairing a user device with the vehicle system via BLUETOOTH,

receiving, from the user, selection of the temporary BLUETOOTH pairing option,

in response to receiving the selection of the temporary BLUETOOTH pairing option, prompting the user to select a trigger for terminating a temporary pairing period during which the user device and the vehicle system are to be temporarily paired,

receiving, from the user, selection of the trigger for terminating the temporary pairing period,

pairing the user device and the vehicle system,

receiving, from the user device, data associated with the user,

storing, in the memory, the data associated with the user,

monitoring for activation of the trigger,

in response to the trigger being activated,

terminating the temporary pairing period thereby unpairing the user device and the vehicle system, and

deleting, from the memory, the data associated with the user.

2. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the trigger comprises a temporary pairing time.

3. The vehicle system of claim 2, wherein the temporary pairing time is selected from a number of pre-set times.

4. The vehicle system of claim 2, wherein the temporary pairing time is a custom time specified by the user.

5. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the trigger comprises a temporary pairing time that automatically expires when a vehicle associated with the vehicle system is powered off.

6. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the trigger comprises a scan by a vehicle scanning device associated with an entity other than the user.

7. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

setting an idle-time backup trigger that specifies a maximum idle time between BLUETOOTH connections among the user device and the vehicle system; and

upon expiration of the maximum idle time, deleting, from the memory, the data associated with the user.

8. The vehicle system of claim 1, further comprising an operating system, executable by the processor, wherein the operating system comprises APPLE IOS or LINUX.

9. A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor of a vehicle system, cause the vehicle system to perform operations comprising:

prompting a user to select a normal BLUETOOTH pairing option or a temporary BLUETOOTH pairing option for pairing a user device with the vehicle system via BLUETOOTH;

receiving, from the user, selection of the temporary BLUETOOTH pairing option;

in response to receiving the selection of the temporary BLUETOOTH pairing option, prompting the user to select a trigger for terminating a temporary pairing period during which the user device and the vehicle system are to be temporarily paired;

receiving, from the user, selection of the trigger for terminating the temporary pairing period;

pairing the user device and the vehicle system;

receiving, from the user device, data associated with the user;

storing, in a vehicle memory, the data associated with the user;

monitoring for activation of the trigger;

in response to the trigger being activated,

terminating the temporary pairing period thereby unpairing the user device and the vehicle system, and

deleting, from the vehicle memory, the data associated with the user.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the trigger comprises a temporary pairing time.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the temporary pairing time is selected from a number of pre-set times.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the temporary pairing time is a custom time specified by the user.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the trigger comprises a temporary pairing time that automatically expires when a vehicle associated with the vehicle system is powered off.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the trigger comprises a scan by a vehicle scanning device associated with an entity other than the user.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

setting an idle-time backup trigger that specifies a maximum idle time between BLUETOOTH connections among the user device and the vehicle system; and

upon expiration of the maximum idle time, deleting, from the memory, the data associated with the user.

16. A method comprising:

prompting, by a vehicle system, a user to select a normal BLUETOOTH pairing option or a temporary BLUETOOTH pairing option for pairing a user device with the vehicle system via BLUETOOTH;

receiving, by the vehicle system, from a user, a selection of the temporary BLUETOOTH pairing option;

in response to receiving the selection of the temporary BLUETOOTH pairing option, prompting, by the vehicle system, the user to select a trigger for terminating a temporary pairing period during which the user device and the vehicle system are to be temporarily paired,

receiving, by the vehicle system, from the user, selection of the trigger for terminating the temporary pairing period;

pairing the user device and the vehicle system;

receiving, by the vehicle system, from the user device, data associated with the user;

storing, by the vehicle system in a vehicle memory, the data associated with the user;

monitoring, by the vehicle system, for activation of the trigger;

in response to the trigger being activated,

terminating, by the vehicle system, the temporary pairing period thereby unpairing the user device and the vehicle system, and

deleting, by the vehicle system, from the vehicle memory, the data associated with the user.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the trigger comprises a temporary pairing time.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the temporary pairing time is selected from a number of pre-set times or is a custom time specified by the user.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the trigger comprises a temporary pairing time that automatically expires when a vehicle associated with the vehicle system is powered off.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the trigger comprises a scan by a vehicle scanning device associated with an entity other than the user.

21. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

setting an idle-time backup trigger that specifies a maximum idle time between BLUETOOTH connections among the user device and the vehicle system; and

upon expiration of the maximum idle time, deleting, from the vehicle memory, the data associated with the user.