Vehicle information transmission apparatus

• US 8,942,885 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2012
• Issued: 01/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Lee, So-Yeon, Park, Sang-Joon, Yun, Hyun-Jeong
• Primary Examiner(s): Amin, Bhavesh V
• Application Number:
  US13/562,482
• Publication Number:
  US 20130166138A1
• Time in Patent Office: 910 Days
• Field of Search: 701/1, 701/32.6, 701/32.7, 701/31.5, 701/29.6, 701/29.3, 701/31.7
• US Class Current: 701/32.6
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0841 Registering performance data recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a vehicle information transmission apparatus. The vehicle information transmission apparatus includes a storage unit for storing pieces of collected vehicle information, transmission grades of the pieces of vehicle information, and grades of user terminals. A control unit performs control such that relevant collected vehicle information is transmitted to a user terminal having a grade corresponding to a transmission grade of the collected vehicle information. A transmission unit transmits the vehicle information to the user terminal in compliance with a control command output from the control unit.

Claims

1. A vehicle information transmission apparatus comprising:

a storage unit for storing pieces of collected vehicle information, transmission grades of the pieces of vehicle information, and grades of user terminals;

a control unit for performing control such that each piece of collected vehicle information is transmitted to a user terminal having a grade corresponding to a transmission grade of the collected vehicle information; and

a transmission unit for transmitting the vehicle information to the user terminal in compliance with a control command output from the control unit, wherein the control unit is configured

to so perform the control that, if communication with the user terminal having the grade corresponding to the transmission grade of the vehicle information has failed, the vehicle information is transmitted to another user terminal having a lower priority grade than the user terminal, and

to periodically transmit, when the user terminal sets vehicle information that is to be periodically received and periods thereof, the set vehicle information to the user terminal at the set periods.

2. The vehicle information transmission apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit performs control such that a specific part of the collected vehicle information is transmitted to all user terminals.

3. The vehicle information transmission apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit performs control such that a notification of a failure in communication with the user terminal having the grade corresponding to the transmission grade of the vehicle information is provided to the another user terminal having the lower priority grade.

4. The vehicle information transmission apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to, when a vehicle information request is received from the user terminal, determine whether a grade of requested vehicle information corresponds to the transmission grade of the user terminal, and transmit the vehicle information to the user terminal if the grade of the requested vehicle information corresponds to the transmission grade.

5. The vehicle information transmission apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to, when the user terminal sets event occurrence conditions, receive the vehicle information, determine whether the received vehicle information meets the event occurrence conditions, and send an event occurrence message indicating that an event has occurred to the user terminal if the received vehicle information meets the event occurrence conditions.

6. A vehicle information transmission apparatus comprising:

a storage unit for storing pieces of collected vehicle information, transmission modes of the pieces of vehicle information, and passwords for the respective transmission modes, the transmission modes including any one of a driver mode, a passenger mode and a diagnostic tool mode;

a control unit for extracting a transmission mode corresponding to a password input from a user terminal, and performing control such that each piece of vehicle information is transmitted to a user terminal having the extracted transmission mode; and

a transmission unit for transmitting the vehicle information to the user terminal in compliance with a control command output from the control unit.

7. The vehicle information transmission apparatus of claim 6, wherein in respective transmission modes, different algorithms are set to be used.

8. A vehicle information transmission apparatus comprising:

a storage unit for storing pieces of collected vehicle information, transmission modes of the pieces of collected vehicle information, and modes of user terminals, the transmission modes including any one of a driver mode, a passenger mode and a diagnostic tool mode, and having priorities;

a control unit for performing control such that each piece of collected vehicle information is transmitted to a user terminal having a mode corresponding to a transmission mode of the collected vehicle information; and

a transmission unit for transmitting the vehicle information to the user terminal in compliance with a control command output from the control unit.

9. The vehicle information transmission apparatus of claim 8, wherein a user terminal that receives vehicle information in the driver mode receives vehicle information transmitted in the passenger mode.