Method and system for controlling car service

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9975520-B1
Application number	US-201715640030-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Jun 30, 2017
Priority date	Nov 23, 2016
Publication date	May 22, 2018
Grant date	May 22, 2018

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and a system for controlling a vehicle service, which are designed to simply set or unset a service even when a service license-authorized vehicle is halted and then a driver and/or occupants are changed, whereby the service licensee can promptly take necessary measures without trouble in response to a changing situation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling a vehicle service, comprising:
searching, by a communication device, for a license-authorized terminal among terminals located in a vehicle;
starting, by a control device or an external server, the vehicle service when no license-authorized terminals are detected;
checking, by the control device, whether or not the vehicle is halted and whether or not a vehicle door is opened and subsequently closed;
searching, by the communication device, again for the license-authorized terminal among the terminals located in the vehicle when the vehicle door is opened and subsequently closed; and
maintaining, by the control device or an external server, the vehicle service when no license-authorized terminals are detected.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein an examination is made to see whether or not the vehicle is granted a service license in the step of searching for the license-authorized terminal among the terminals located in the vehicle.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the license-authorized terminal is detected by comparing the terminals located in the vehicle with a list provided for the vehicle in the step of searching for the license-authorized terminal among the terminals located in the vehicle.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of starting the vehicle service is conducted when an intention of a licensee to use the vehicle service is checked through the license-authorized terminal after the license-authorized terminal is detected.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of starting the vehicle service is conducted when an intention of a licensee to use the vehicle service is checked through an interface of the vehicle after the license-authorized terminal is detected.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of checking whether or not the vehicle is halted is carried out by determining whether or not a gear lever is in a P or N position while the vehicle is moving at a speed of 0 km.

7. The method of claim 1 , further including stopping, by the control device or an external server, the vehicle service when the license-authorized terminal is detected after the step of searching for the license-authorized terminal among the terminals located in the vehicle when the vehicle is halted and the vehicle door is opened or closed.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the step of stopping the vehicle service is carried out when an intention of a licensee to stop the service is checked after the license-authorized terminal is detected.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the vehicle service provides an alarm when the vehicle escapes from a pre-established permitted area or enters a pre-established prohibited area.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the vehicle service sends an alarm to the license-authorized terminal when the vehicle runs more than a predetermined speed.

11. A system for controlling a vehicle service, comprising:
a communication device for detecting a license-authorized terminal among terminals located in a vehicle; and
a control device or an external server for ordering initiation of the vehicle service when no license-authorized terminals are detected by the communication device, for checking whether or not the vehicle is halted and whether or not a vehicle door is opened or closed, for ordering the communication device to search for the license-authorized terminal among terminals located in the vehicle when the vehicle is halted and the vehicle door is opened and subsequently closed, and for maintaining the vehicle service when no license-authorized terminals are detected.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Chun In Sik

Classifications

• B60R2325/205

  Mobile phones · CPC title

• H04W4/50

  Service provisioning or reconfiguring · CPC title

• H04W4/40

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

• H04W4/027 Primary

  using movement velocity, acceleration information · CPC title

• G07C9/00

  Individual registration on entry or exit · CPC title