Communications between a mobile device and vehicle based computer

• US 9,326,119 B2
• Filed: 11/27/2013
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fleet Connect Solutions LLC (Empire IP LLC)
• Original Assignee: Tamiras Per Pte Ltd LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Himmelstein, Richard B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Figueroa, Marisol
• Application Number:
  US14/092,279
• Publication Number:
  US 20140088798A1
• Time in Patent Office: 881 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/569.1, 455/569.2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40 Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0265 Vehicular advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/063 using wireless information transmission between the vehicle and a fixed station identification of vehicles G08G
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3805 with built-in auxiliary receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/03 Protecting confidentiality, e.g. by encryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 : Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 : Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 : adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

Communications between a mobile phone and a vehicle based computer in a vehicle is disclosed. Contact information and a text message, received over a cellular network, may be provided by the mobile phone to the vehicle based computer. The text message may be subsequently displayed on a display in the vehicle.

Claims

1. A mobile computer comprising:

a processor configured to send a poll to a vehicle based computer in proximity to the mobile computer, the processor further configured to send the poll to the vehicle based computer via a Bluetooth link;

a transceiver configured to receive a text message via a cellular network;

circuitry configured to send the received text message to the vehicle based computer via the Bluetooth link, the sent text message configured to affect a radio volume associated with the vehicle based computer; and

wherein the Bluetooth link between the mobile computer and the vehicle based computer is arranged in relation to the poll sent to the vehicle based computer from the mobile computer.

2. The mobile computer of claim 1 further comprising:

the processor configured to control, remotely by the mobile computer via the cellular network, locks, lights, or a horn of a vehicle of the vehicle based computer.

3. The mobile computer of claim 1, wherein the text message is subsequently displayed on a display electrically coupled to the vehicle based computer.

4. A method performed by a mobile computer, the method comprising:

sending, by the mobile computer, a poll to a vehicle based computer in proximity to the mobile computer, wherein the poll to the vehicle based computer is sent via a Bluetooth link;

receiving, by the mobile computer, a text message via a cellular network;

sending, by the mobile computer, the received text message to the vehicle based computer via the Bluetooth link, the sent text message configured to affect a radio volume associated with the vehicle based computer; and

wherein the Bluetooth link between the mobile computer and the vehicle based computer is arranged in relation to the poll sent to the vehicle based computer from the mobile computer.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

controlling, remotely by the mobile computer via the cellular network, locks, lights, or a horn of a vehicle of the vehicle based computer.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the text message is subsequently displayed on a display electrically coupled to the vehicle based computer.

7. A vehicle based computer comprising:

a transceiver configured to receive, from a mobile computer, a poll, wherein a Bluetooth link between the mobile computer and the vehicle based computer is arranged in relation to the poll;

the transceiver further configured to receive, from the mobile computer using the Bluetooth link, contact information;

a processor configured to receive, from the mobile computer using the Bluetooth link, a cellular based text message, wherein the reception of the text message causes a change to a radio volume associated with the vehicle based computer;

wherein the contact information includes a phone number; and

wherein the mobile computer is in physical proximity to the vehicle based computer.

8. The vehicle based computer of claim 7 further comprising:

the processor further configured to receive, remotely from the mobile computer via a cellular network, an instruction to control locks, lights, or a horn of a vehicle of the vehicle based computer.

9. The vehicle based computer of claim 7, wherein the text message is displayed on a display electrically coupled to the vehicle based computer.

10. A method performed by a vehicle based computer, the method comprising:

receiving, by the vehicle based computer from a mobile computer, a poll, wherein a Bluetooth link between the mobile computer and the vehicle based computer is arranged in relation to the poll;

receiving, by the vehicle based computer from the mobile computer using the Bluetooth link, contact information;

receiving, from the mobile computer using the Bluetooth link, a cellular based text message, wherein the reception of the text message causes a change to a radio volume associated with the vehicle based computer;

wherein the contact information includes a phone number; and

wherein the mobile computer is in physical proximity to the vehicle based computer.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

receiving, by a processor of the vehicle based computer remotely from the mobile computer via a cellular network, an instruction to control locks, lights, or a horn of a vehicle of the vehicle based computer.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the text message is displayed on a display electrically coupled to the vehicle based computer.