SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPONTANEOUS P2P COMMUNICATION BETWEEN IDENTIFIED VEHICLES

• US 20120038489A1
• Filed: 08/12/2010
• Published: 02/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ehud Goldshmidt
• Original Assignee: Ehud Goldshmidt
• Inventors: GOLDSHMIDT, Ehud
• Application Number:
  US12/855,453
• Publication Number:
  US 20120038489A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/903
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/163 involving continuous checking
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/166 for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes

Abstract

System and method are presented which allow a user of a vehicle to initiate a spontaneous call to a nearby vehicle without knowing the phone number, or any other specific contacting details of the nearby vehicle, based on identification signs of the nearby vehicle which are visible to the user of the first vehicle, such as the color of the nearby vehicle, the model and the manufacturer of the vehicle. The system comprising communication means for establishing ad-hoc network communication with the nearby vehicle and display for displaying indications of the visible identification signs to that user.

Claims

1. A system installed on a vehicle comprising:

a processor comprising;

a memory unit to store a set of visible identification signs associated with said vehicle and calling details for calling said vehicle;

a short range communication unit to enable participation in ad-hoc communication network;

a display unit; and

input means,

wherein said communication unit is adapted to transmit indication of said visible identification signs to other participants in said ad-hoc communication network.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising mobile phone interface unit to communicate said system with a mobile phone installed in said vehicle.

3. The system of claim 1 further adapted to receive at least one of a list comprising indication of distance of said vehicle from at least one other vehicle and direction from said vehicle to said at least one other vehicle, said direction is relative to the direction of the movement of said vehicle.

4. The system of claim 2 wherein said display unit is adapted to graphically present representation of said vehicle and at least one other vehicle being engaged to said ad-hoc communication network.

5. The system of claim 3 wherein said display unit is adapted to present said at least one other vehicle relatively to said vehicle based on said received distance and/or direction.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising presenting on said display of said first vehicle a line indicative of a border which if a second vehicle crosses to the side other than that of said first vehicle, said second vehicle is about to be disconnected from said ad-hoc communication network.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising activating a warning signal when said first vehicle is too close and approaching said nearby vehicle too fast.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving indication of distance of said vehicle from at least said nearby vehicle and direction from vehicle to said nearby vehicle, said direction is relative to the direction of the movement of said vehicle.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising presenting on said screen an icon of said first vehicle and of said nearby vehicle so that the distance between said vehicles and the direction between said vehicles on said display is relative to said distance and said direction.

6. A method for establishing, by a first vehicle, a spontaneous communication with a nearby second vehicle, comprising:

identifying said nearby second vehicle based on visible identification signs of said nearby second vehicle;

establishing a vehicle-to-vehicle communication with said nearby vehicle via a ad-hoc communication network;

identifying on a display in said first vehicle an icon of a vehicle having indications of same visible identification signs;

initiating a call to said nearby second vehicle by activating a call request by touching said icon on said screen.