US 2013/0281017 A1 · Authentication Using Vehicle Data Pairing

Abstract

Various examples are disclosed of how to leverage technology in a vehicle to provide various services in a convenient manner. For example, the pairing of the portable device with the on-board computer of the vehicle may be utilized as a level of authorization to provide certain services in a more automated and/or convenient way to the vehicle driver or other occupant of the vehicle, such as by authenticating wireless transactions with entities external to the vehicle using device pairing technology, and by modifying vehicle navigation routes to include suggested nearby points of interest that may be determined to be of particular value to a vehicle occupant.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

electronically pairing a portable electronic device with an on-board computer of a vehicle;
wirelessly conducting a transaction between (1) one or both of the on-board computer and the portable electronic device and (2) another computing device, wherein said another computing device is located external to the vehicle;
and
authenticating the transaction by sending the another computing device authentication information associated with the pairing of the portable electronic device with the on-board computer.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/649,361Filed 11 Oct 2012

Priority

20 Apr 2012

Published

24 Oct 2013

Term ends

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Classification9 codes

H04L 63/0884
For authentication of entities: by delegation of authentication, e.g. a proxy authenticates an entity to be authenticated on behalf of this entity…
H04L 67/12
Protocols: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in…
H04W 4/024
Services making use of location information: guidance services
H04W 4/21
Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel: for social networking applications

Authentication Using Vehicle Data Pairing

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Authentication Using Vehicle Data Pairing

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Abstract

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