Duplicated wireless transceivers associated with a vehicle to receive and send sensitive information
AssigneeNIO USA, Inc.
InventorChristopher P. Ricci
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Abstract
A vehicle is provided that comprises two or more radio frequency (RF) antennas and two or more RF transceivers to communicate wirelessly sensitive information associated with a user of the vehicle (the two or more RF antennas being at different physical locations on an exterior of the vehicle). The vehicle determines which one of the two or more RF antennas is receiving a strongest signal from a common signal source, selects a first RF transceiver associated with the RF antenna with the strongest signal to send the sensitive information associated with the user to the common signal source, and sends the sensitive information associated with the user to the first RF transceiver for transmission to the common signal source.
Claims21
A vehicle, comprising:
- two or more radio frequency (RF) antennas to communicate wirelessly sensitive information associated with a user of the vehicle, the two or more RF antennas being at different physical locations on an exterior of the vehicle;
- two or more RF transceivers, each RF transceiver associated with one of the two or more RF antennas, the two or more RF transceivers to communicate wirelessly sensitive information associated with the user of the vehicle;
- a processor in communication with the two or more RF transceivers, the processor to:
- determine which one of the two or more RF antennas is receiving a strongest signal from a common signal source;
- select a first RF transceiver associated with the RF antenna with the strongest signal to send the sensitive information associated with the user to the common signal source;
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- send the sensitive information associated with the user to the first RF transceiver for transmission to the common signal source, wherein the vehicle uses different communication protocols to send the sensitive information to the common signal source.
A method for communicating information with a vehicle, comprising:
- receiving a signal at one of two or more radio frequency (RF) antennas, the two or more RF antennas being at different physical locations on an exterior of the vehicle, and one of two or more RF transceivers, wherein each RF transceiver is associated with one of the two or more RF antennas, to communicate wirelessly sensitive information associated with a user of the vehicle;
- determining which one of the two or more RF antennas is receiving a strongest signal from a common signal source;
- selecting a first RF transceiver associated with the RF antenna with the strongest signal to send the sensitive information associated with the user to the common signal source;
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- sending the sensitive information associated with the user through the first RF transceiver for transmission to the common signal source, wherein the vehicle uses different communication protocols to send the sensitive information to the common signal source.
A vehicle, comprising:
- two or more radio frequency (RF) antennas to communicate wirelessly sensitive information associated with a user of the vehicle, the two or more RF antennas being at different physical locations on an exterior of the vehicle;
- two or more RF transceivers, each RF transceiver associated with one of the two or more RF antennas, the two or more RF transceivers to communicate wirelessly sensitive information associated with a user of the vehicle;
- a processor in communication with the two or more RF transceivers, the processor to:
- determine which one of the two or more RF antennas is receiving a strongest signal from a common signal source;
- select a first RF transceiver associated with the RF antenna with the strongest signal to send the sensitive information associated with the user to the common signal source;
- and
- send the sensitive information associated with the user to the first RF transceiver for transmission to the common signal source, wherein the vehicle uses different communication protocols to provide the sensitive information to the common signal source, and wherein a first of the different communication protocols is one or more of a near field communications (NFC), BLUETOOTH™, Low Energy (BLE), and radio frequency identification (RFID) protocol and a second of the different communication protocols is a cellular network communication protocol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.