US 2015/0105971 A1 · WIRELESS AUTOMOTIVE INTERFACE DEVICE

Abstract

A method of automatically establishing a data connection between a wireless automotive interface component and a mobile communication device, comprising: providing a wireless automotive interface component connected to a vehicle's On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) port, the interface component comprising: a short range communication module; and a vehicle network protocol interface; providing a mobile communication device running a gateway module; representing an automatically recognizable Bluetooth profile and a Serial Port Profile (SPP) by the wireless interface component; detecting the automatically recognizable profile by the mobile communication device; searching for the SPP profile by the mobile communication device; and automatically establishing a data connection between the wireless interface component and the mobile communication device via the SPP profile.

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Dependent claims

A wireless automotive system comprising an interface component connected to a vehicle's On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) port, said interface component comprising:

a short range communication module;
and
a vehicle network protocol interface;
said short range communication module configured to automatically establish a data connection with a mobile communication device running a gateway module;
said vehicle network protocol interface configured to communicate bi-directionally with said short range communication module to receive requests from said gateway module and to send vehicle data to said gateway module;
said vehicle network protocol interface further configured to communicate bi-directionally with said OBD port to send said requests to the vehicle's networks and to derive vehicle data therefrom.

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Wireless automotive interface device

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Abstract

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