In-car communication between devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8995982-B2
Application number	US-201213679887-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 16, 2012
Priority date	Nov 16, 2011
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to generate a vehicle communication system. The vehicle communication system can determine which devices are within the vehicle. From this determination, the vehicle communication system may create a universal bus and hotspot where applications, data, multimedia information, and resources can be shared both with the vehicle and with the other devices in the vehicle.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
receiving a signal at a vehicle communication system from a device;
automatically determining if the signal originates from inside the vehicle;
if the signal does not originate from inside the vehicle, rejecting the signal;
if the signal originates from inside the vehicle, communicatively connecting the vehicle communication system to the device;
receiving a message from a first device;
verifying that the message originated fr…

Assignees

• Flextronics Ap Llc

Inventors

• Ricci Christopher P

Classifications

• B60W2540/221

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B60W2540/043

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B60W2555/60

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• G08G1/012

  Physics · mapped topic

• G08G1/143

  Physics · mapped topic