Wireless gateway node
OwnerYi Luo, Tom Tang +4inventors
InventorsYi Luo, Tom Tang, John Nantz, Ron King, Riad Ghabra, Tom LeMense
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Abstract
A wireless gateway node (12) for an automotive vehicle (10) includes a transceiver (22), digital processing circuit (26), and an interface (28) that is used to receive wireless gateway signals and couple the signals to control system (16) of automotive vehicle (10). Wireless gateway node (12) allows two-way communication between various wireless communication devices such as personal digital assistants and laptop computers. The transceiver (22) may be reconfigurable to allow communication with several different types of devices using different communication protocols.
Claims20
A wireless gateway node comprising:
- a transceiver for transmitting and receiving wireless communication signals;
- a signal processing circuit for digitally processing the wireless communication signals to and from digital communication signals in a predetermined format;
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- a wired interface for coupling the digital communication signals between the signal processing circuit a controller.
A communication system for communicating between a wireless communication device and a control system of an automotive vehicle comprising:
- a transceiver receiving received wireless communication signals from the wireless communication device and transmitting vehicle wireless communication signals to the wireless communication device;
- a signal processing circuit for digitally processing the received wireless communication signals into received digital communication signals and processing the vehicle communication signals into the vehicle wireless communication signals using a predetermined format;
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- a wired interface for coupling the received digital communication signals and the vehicle communication signals between the signal processing circuit a controller.
A method for communicating between a wireless device and a vehicle controller comprising:
- receiving wireless communication signals in a predetermined format;
- processing the wireless communication signals into digital signals corresponding to the communication signals;
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- coupling the digital signals into a vehicle controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.