Method for locking and/or unlocking a vehicle
AssigneeDaimler AG
InventorsVerena Lutterbeck, Benjamin Burger
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Abstract
A method for locking and/or unlocking a vehicle having an input device for a code on the vehicle, via which the vehicle can be locked and/or unlocked, involves requesting the code via a mobile device having a mobile number registered to the respective vehicle with a data server. After the request, the data server generates a current code and send this to the mobile device and to the vehicle. The code can then be input via the input device and compared to the code sent to the vehicle and, should they match, locking and/or unlocking of the vehicle is enabled.
Claims9
A method for locking or unlocking a vehicle, the method comprising:
- requesting, via a mobile device having a mobile number registered to the vehicle, a code from a data server, wherein the requesting of the code includes parameters related the locking or unlocking the vehicle, and wherein the parameters include at least a number of times the code is valid for locking or unlocking the vehicle and which doors are locked or unlocked by the code, and wherein the mobile device is outside of the vehicle;
- generating, by the data server, a current code;
- sending, by the data server, the current code to the mobile device and the vehicle, wherein the current code is sent to the vehicle along with the parameters;
- inputting, via an input device of the vehicle, the current code;
- comparing, by the vehicle, the inputted current code with the current code sent by the data server to the vehicle;
- determining, by the vehicle, whether the code is valid for locking and unlocking the vehicle based on at least the parameters and a number of previous times the code has been input via the input device of the vehicle;
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- locking or unlocking the vehicle responsive to a match between the inputted current code and the current code sent by the data server to the vehicle and responsive to the determination that the code is valid for locking or unlocking the vehicle,
- wherein the current code has a one-time validity and expires after the current code is input via the input device of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.