METHOD FOR PREVENTING DEACTIVATION OF ONLINE SERVICES IN A VEHICLE

• US 20170180381A1
• Filed: 12/16/2016
• Published: 06/22/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Original Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Inventors: GERLACH, Matthias
• Granted Patent: US 10,623,412 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/01 operating on vehicle systems or fittings, e.g. on doors, seats or windscreens
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• 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 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/06 based on traffic conditions

Abstract

A method for preventing deactivation of online services in a vehicle. The method includes generating a configuration message that contains details of what online services that are active in the vehicle cannot be deactivated, wherein the generation takes place on a computer unit that is at least temporarily connected to the vehicle; transmitting the configuration message to the vehicle; reading the configuration message in the vehicle; and disabling the option of deactivating online services in the vehicle in accordance with the configuration message.

Claims

1. A method for preventing the deactivation of online services in a vehicle, the method comprising:

generating a configuration message that contains details of what online services that are active in the vehicle cannot be deactivated, wherein the generation takes place on a computer unit that is at least temporarily connected to the vehicle;

transmitting the configuration message to the vehicle;

reading the configuration message in the vehicle; and

disabling the option of deactivating online services in the vehicle in accordance with the configuration message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration message is part of a list of services that shows services performable by the vehicle.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration message is used to prevent the performance of a flight mode and/or of a transport mode of the vehicle.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the disabling prevents online services from being deactivated locally in the vehicle.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the disabling prevents online services from being made unavailable.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the disabling prevents a radio module of the vehicle, which the online services use communicate, from being switched off.

7. A vehicle having at least one controller and a radio module that online services use to communicate, wherein the at least one controller performs a method for preventing the deactivation of online services in a vehicle, the method comprising:

generating a configuration message that contains details of what online services that are active in the vehicle cannot be deactivated, wherein the generation takes place on a computer unit that is at least temporarily connected to the vehicle;

transmitting the configuration message to the vehicle;

reading the configuration message in the vehicle; and

disabling the option of deactivating online services in the vehicle in accordance with the configuration message.

8. The vehicle of claim 7, wherein the configuration message is part of a list of services that shows services performable by the vehicle.

9. The vehicle of claim 7, wherein the configuration message is used to prevent the performance of a flight mode and/or of a transport mode of the vehicle.

10. The vehicle of claim 7, wherein the disabling prevents online services from being deactivated locally in the vehicle.

11. The vehicle of claim 7, wherein the disabling prevents online services from being made unavailable.

12. The vehicle of claim 7, wherein the disabling prevents a radio module of the vehicle, which the online services use communicate, from being switched off.