Method and Device for Vehicle Communication

• US 20150249541A1
• Filed: 09/17/2013
• Published: 09/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Sthln, Ulrich
• Granted Patent: US 9,735,976 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/189 in combination with wireless systems selective distribution or broadcast in wireless communication networks H04W4/06
• 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: H04W 4/046 involving vehicles, e.g. floating traffic data [FTD] or vehicle traffic prediction
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]

Abstract

In a method for vehicle communication, a first vehicle provides first data for communication with a server. The first data is transmitted to a server by radio using a first communication protocol. The server transmits second data to a second vehicle by radio using the first communication protocol, the second data being determined depending on the first data. Depending on the second data, third data is transmitted by the second vehicle to a third vehicle by radio using a second communication protocol.

Claims

1-8. -8. (canceled)

9. A method for vehicle communication, comprising:

a first vehicle (FZG_1) providing first data (DATA_1) for communicating with a server (BE);

the first vehicle (FZG_1) transmitting the first data (DATA_1) to the server (BE) by radio using a first communication protocol;

the server (BE) transmitting second data (DATA_2) to a second vehicle (FZG_2) by radio using the first communication protocol, the second data (DATA_2) being determined on the basis of the first data (DATA_1); and

the second vehicle (FZG_2) transmitting third data (DATA_3) to a third vehicle (FZG_3) by radio using a second communication protocol, the third data (DATA_3) being determined on the basis of the second data (DATA_2).

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the second data (DATA_2) are transmitted from the server (BE) to the second vehicle (FZG_2) on the basis of stored vehicle data relating to the first vehicle (FZG_1).

11. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the second data (DATA_2) are transmitted from the server (BE) to the second vehicle (FZG_2) on the basis of the first data (DATA_1).

12. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the first data (DATA_1) are provided on the basis of a traffic accident involving the first vehicle (FZG_1).

13. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein

the first vehicle (FZG_1) has an environment sensor configured to sense the environment around the first vehicle (FZG_1),

it is determined, on the basis of the sensor data from the environment sensor, whether there is a hazardous area in the environment of the first vehicle (FZG_1), and

the first data (DATA_1) are provided, if it is determined that there is a hazardous area in the environment of the first vehicle (FZG_1),.

14. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the first data (DATA_1) include the current position of the first vehicle (FZG_1).

15. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the first data (DATA_1) have information relating to the vehicle state of the first vehicle (FZG_1).

16. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the first data (DATA_1) have information relating to the environment of the first vehicle (FZG_1).

17. A method for vehicle communication, comprising:

a second vehicle (FZG_2) receiving second data (DATA_2) from a server (BE) by radio using a first communication protocol, the second data (DATA_2) being determined on the basis of first data (DATA_1) previously provided to the server (BE) by a first vehicle (FZG_1); and

the second vehicle (FZG_2) transmitting third data (DATA_3) to a third vehicle (FZG_3) by radio using a second communication protocol, the third data (DATA_3) being determined on the basis of the second data (DATA_2).

18. A system for communication between vehicles, the system comprising:

a server (BE) configured to;

communicate with a first vehicle (FZG_1) having a first communication apparatus (KOM_1) by radio using a first communication protocol and to receive from the first vehicle (FZG_1) first data (DATA_1); and

communicate with a second vehicle (FZG_2) having a second communication apparatus (KOM_2) by radio using the first communication protocol and to transmit to the second vehicle (FZG_2) second data (DATA_2) determined on the basis of the first data (DATA_1), the second vehicle (FZG_2) being configured to transmit third data (DATA_3) to a third vehicle (FZG_3) by radio using a second communication protocol, the third data (DATA_3) being determined on the basis of the second data (DATA_2).