System for providing Internet access to an automotive vehicle having a multimedia device

• US 9,439,051 B2
• Filed: 07/27/2012
• Issued: 09/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems Incorporated (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems Incorporated (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.), Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Incorporated (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: King, Charles Joseph II, Werner, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Figueroa, Marisol
• Application Number:
  US13/560,503
• Publication Number:
  US 20130059571A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,502 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• 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 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

A system for accessing the Internet from an automotive vehicle having a multimedia device is provided. The system includes a mobile phone equipped with a wireless transceiver. The wireless transceiver has a data-only channel operable to transmit data between the mobile phone and the multimedia device. A first application is disposed within the mobile phone. The first application is operable to access an Internet website. A data processor is operable to transmit the Internet website to the multimedia device in data form through the data-only channel. A second application is disposed within the multimedia device and is operable to process the data received through the data-only channel so as to display the website onto the multimedia device.

Claims

1. A system for accessing the internet from an automotive vehicle, the automotive vehicle having a multimedia device, the system comprising:

a mobile phone configured to access the internet, the mobile phone equipped with a wireless transceiver, the wireless transceiver configured to transmit data over a short-wavelength UHF radio waves and includes a plurality of channels, wherein one of the plurality of the channels is a data over data channel, the data over data channel is configured to monitor data accessed from the internet and another one of the plurality of channels is a data-only channel, the data-only channel is configured to wirelessly transmit data between the mobile phone and the multimedia device, wherein data transmitted over the data-only channel is not monitored; and

a first application disposed within the mobile phone, the first application operable to access an internet website through the data over data channel;

a data processor operable to encode the internet website from the data over data channel to a data form and transmit to the multimedia device in data form through the data-only channel; and

a second application disposed within the multimedia device, the second application operable to process the data form received through the data-only channel so as to display the website onto the multimedia device, wherein costs associated with accessing data from the internet are reduced as such data is not monitored.

2. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the data-only channel is a Serial Port Profile.

3. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the wireless transceiver is configured to transmit data over a short-wavelength UHF radio waves in the ISM band from 2.4 to 2.485 GHz.

4. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the first application includes a list of predetermined numbers of websites.

5. The system as set forth in claim 3, further including an input operable to select one of predetermined websites.

6. The system as set forth in claim 4, wherein the first application is operable to gather the user'"'"'s personal information stored on the user'"'"'s mobile phone, the data processor operable to transmit the user'"'"'s personal information to the selected website so as to verify the user'"'"'s identity.

7. The system as set forth in claim 5, wherein each of the plurality of websites are operable to cache a user'"'"'s personal data for validation.

8. The system as set forth in claim 5, further including a database, the database having a user'"'"'s personal information, the first application operable to transmit the user'"'"'s personal data to the selected website so as to validate the user'"'"'s identification and actuate the website in accordance with the user'"'"'s cached information.

9. The system as set forth in claim 4, wherein the input is disposed on one of either the mobile phone, or the multimedia device.

10. The system as set forth in claim 5, further including a host, the host operable to store a user'"'"'s personal information, the mobile phone in communication with the host, the host operable to actuate the selected website and transmit the website through the mobile phone onto the multimedia device via the data-only channel.