Vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11528622-B2
Application number	US-202117484639-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 24, 2021
Priority date	Sep 29, 2020
Publication date	Dec 13, 2022
Grant date	Dec 13, 2022

Abstract

A vehicle includes a vehicle-mounted communication unit capable of wirelessly communicating telematics information to and from an external server, a monitoring unit that monitors whether an abnormality has occurred in the vehicle-mounted communication unit because of a security incident, and a control unit that controls a vehicle-mounted device. When detecting occurrence of an abnormality in the vehicle-mounted communication unit, the monitoring unit disconnects communication between the vehicle-mounted communication unit and the monitoring unit and notifies the control unit of the abnormality. The control unit can wirelessly communicate with a mobile communication terminal in accordance with a certain profile of a short-range wireless communication standard for a function of the vehicle-mounted device. The control unit instructs, when being notified of the abnormality, the mobile communication terminal to perform an operation in accordance with the certain profile so as to report the abnormality to the external server via the mobile communication terminal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle comprising:
a vehicle-mounted communication unit installed in the vehicle and capable of wirelessly communicating information for a telematics service to and from an external server;
a monitoring unit configured to monitor whether an abnormality has occurred in the vehicle-mounted communication unit because of a security incident; and
a control unit configured to control a vehicle-mounted device installed in the vehicle,
wherein in response to detecting occurrence of an abnormality in the vehicle-mounted communication unit, the monitoring unit disconnects communication between the vehicle-mounted communication unit and the monitoring unit and notifies the control unit of the abnormality in the vehicle-mounted communication unit, and
wherein the control unit is
capable of wirelessly communicating with a mobile communication terminal in accordance with a certain profile corresponding to a function of the vehicle-mounted device among a plurality of profiles of a short-range wireless communication standard, and
configured to instruct, when being notified of the abnormality in the vehicle-mounted communication unit from the monitoring unit, the mobile communication terminal to perform an operation for reporting the abnormality in the vehicle-mounted communication unit in accordance with the certain profile of the short-range wireless communication standard, so as to report the abnormality in the vehicle-mounted communication unit to the external server via the mobile communication terminal while the communication via the vehicle-mounted communication unit is disconnected.

2. The vehicle according to claim 1 ,
wherein the certain profile comprises a Hands-Free Profile (HFP) that is a profile for a hands-free call function of the vehicle-mounted device, and
wherein the control unit instructs, when being notified of the abnormality in the vehicle-mounted communication unit from the monitoring unit, the mobile communication terminal to perform an operation for making a call to a dedicated phone number for reporting the abnormality in the vehicle-mounted communication unit in accordance with the HFP and causes the mobile communication terminal to make the call to the dedicated phone number, so as to report the abnormality in the vehicle-mounted communication unit to the external server via the mobile communication terminal while the communication via the vehicle-mounted communication unit is disconnected.

3. The vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the short-range wireless communication standard comprises Bluetooth.

4. The vehicle according to claim 1 ,
wherein the certain profile comprises a Dial-up Networking Profile (DUN) that is a profile for dial-up connection for the vehicle-mounted device, and
wherein the control unit instructs, when being notified of the abnormality in the vehicle-mounted communication unit from the monitoring unit, the mobile communication terminal to perform an operation for establishing a dial-up connection to a network in accordance with the DUN and uploads incident information indicating the abnormality in the vehicle-mounted communication unit to the external server via the mobile communication terminal that is connected to the network by dialing up.

5. The vehicle according to claim 4 , wherein the short-range wireless communication standard comprises Bluetooth.

6. The vehicle according to claim 1 ,
wherein the certain profile comprises a File Transfer Profile (FTP) that is a profile for data file transfer for the vehicle-mounted device, and
wherein the control unit generates, when being notified of the abnormality in the vehicle-mounted communication unit from the monitoring unit, a data file including incident information indicating the abnormality in the vehicle-mounted communication unit, instructs the mobile communication terminal to perform an operation for uploading the data file via a network in accordance with the FTP, and transmits the data file to the mobile communication terminal, so as to cause the mobile communication terminal to upload the data file to the external server via the network.

7. The vehicle according to claim 6 , wherein the short-range wireless communication standard comprises Bluetooth.

8. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the short-range wireless communication standard comprises Bluetooth.

9. A vehicle comprising:
circuitry installed in the vehicle, having a communication capability of wirelessly communicating information for a telematics service to and from an external server, configured to monitor whether an abnormality has occurred in the communication capability because of a security incident, and configured to control a vehicle-mounted device installed in the vehicle,
wherein in response to detecting occurrence of an abnormality in the communication capability, the circuitry disables the communication capability, and
wherein the circuitry is
capable of wirelessly communicating with a mobile communication terminal in accordance with a certain profile corresponding to a function of the vehicle-mounted device among a plurality of profiles of a short-range wireless communication standard, and
configured to instruct, in response to detecting the abnormality in the communication capability, the mobile communication terminal to perform an operation for reporting the abnormality in the communication capability in accordance with the certain profile of the short-range wireless communication standard, so as to report the abnormality in the communication capability to the external server via the mobile communication terminal while the communication capability is disabled.

Assignees

• Subaru Corp

Inventors

• Komatsu Yusuke
• Oe Masaru
• Kinoshita Takahiro

Classifications

• H04W4/40 Primary

  for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P] · CPC title

• H04L63/1425

  Traffic logging, e.g. anomaly detection · CPC title

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• H04W24/04 Primary

  Arrangements for maintaining operational condition · CPC title

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title