Method and apparatus for secure processing of fuel delivery requests

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9886708-B2
Application number	US-201615011998-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 1, 2016
Priority date	Feb 1, 2016
Publication date	Feb 6, 2018
Grant date	Feb 6, 2018

Abstract

A system includes a processor configured to wirelessly instruct fuel dispensation initiation over a direct wireless connection between a vehicle and a refueling truck, responsive to a wireless request made by the refueling truck, the request including a valid token and a refueling truck MAC ID with which the wireless connection is established.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a processor configured to:
detect insertion of a fuel nozzle into a vehicle refueling port;
wake-up a vehicle telematics system responsive to the detection;
receive a fuel truck MAC ID and a token from a remote source, at the telematics system, following wake-up;
validate the token; and
establish a wireless connection with the received MAC ID once the token has been validated.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to send refueling control commands over the wireless connection.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to receive dispensed fuel reporting over the wireless connection.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the processor is further configured to report dispensed fuel received with the reporting, dispensed fuel measured by the vehicle, and a truck ID, to a remote device.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to report fuel dispensation completion to a user wireless device.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to instruct wireless payment for dispensed fuel upon fuel dispensation completion.

Assignees

• Ford Global Tech Llc

Inventors

• Makke Omar
• Wisniewski Joseph
• Helpingstine Kevin Lee
• Macneille Perry Robinson
• Colella Nicholas
• Hamilton David
• Blackburn Matthew S
• Kolisetty Aiswarya

Classifications

• G05B15/02

  electric · CPC title

• G06Q20/327

  Short range or proximity payments by means of M-devices · 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

• B67D7/145

  by wireless communication means, e.g. RF, transponders or the like · CPC title

• G06Q20/20

  Point-of-sale [POS] network systems · CPC title