Navigation installation and method for extracting information transmitted in encrypted form

• US 7,496,448 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2006
• Issued: 02/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: BURY Spzoo
• Original Assignee: BURY Spzoo
• Inventors: Piekarz, Roman
• Primary Examiner(s): Hellner; Mark
• Application Number:
  US11/425,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20070027611A1
• Time in Patent Office: 978 Days
• Field of Search: 701/210, 701/200, 713/193, 713/183
• US Class Current: 701/210
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/55 for traffic information

Abstract

A navigation unit having a data decryption algorithm is connected to a data storage and reading unit having a storage medium storing map data, the data storage and reading unit having a nonalterable access number, and the navigation unit connects to a broadcast radio receiver. The navigation unit receives, through the broadcast radio receiver, broadcast radio signals having encrypted information. The navigation unit reads the nonalterable access number, processes the number through a hash algorithm, and compares the processed access number to another access number to decrypt the encrypted information.

Claims

1. A method for extracting traffic information data from traffic information in encrypted form in_broadcast radio signals, comprising:

providing a storage medium, having a writable portion for storing data, and having a structure unalterably storing a storage medium serial number formed in the manufacture of the storage medium;

providing a navigation unit having a radio receiver for receiving the broadcast radio signals and a reader for reading the writable portion of the storage medium and for reading the structure unalterably storing a storage medium serial number formed in the manufacture of the storage medium;

arranging said storage medium with said navigational unit;

reading said storage medium serial number from said storage medium, at the navigational unit;

inputting a given license number data to the navigational unit;

generating an access code, at the navigational unit, based on said reads storage medium number and said input license number;

determining whether or not said generated access code meets a given access code admissibility criterion; and

extracting the traffic information data from the encrypted traffic information if said determining determines the access code admissibility criterion is met, else not extracting the traffic information data.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing a license number and a confirming access code on the writable portion of the storage medium, and

wherein said determining whether or not said generated access code meets a given access code criterion includes comparing said generated access code to_the stored confirming access code to enable extraction of the traffic information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the navigation unit is provided with a readable serial code and wherein the navigation device is arranged to_read said serial code and to extract information from said radio signal on the basis of said serial code. device comprising:

a receiver for receiving information that is transmitted in encrypted form;

a reader for reading data from a storage medium;

a storage medium, which stores a decryption code, which allows decrypting at least a portion of received information that is in encrypted form and

wherein the navigation device is provided for reading out the decryption code from the storage medium and to encrypt received information from a broadcast radio signal by use of the decryption key.