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AssigneeBlue Dot Solutions, LLC
InventorsMick Milnark, Randy M. Starr, Daniel McShan
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A device, system and method for providing an exclusive wireless data transfer service between one or more authorized mobile applications (apps) and one or more remote servers through an in-vehicle telematics device is shown and described. The invention includes establishing a wireless network connection between the WWAN communications electronics of the vehicle telematics device and one or more remote servers and a wireless network connection between the WPAN communications electronics of the vehicle telematics device and a mobile device hosting one or more authorized apps. The invention further includes using specialized application programming interfaces (APIs) that exclusively grant certain authorized apps the ability to use the two wireless network connections to transfer data back and forth between the remote server and apps on the mobile device while prohibiting all other apps and services from doing the same. The resulting communications system enables the authorized apps on a mobile device to interact with remote servers in situations where the mobile device does not have WWAN capability or without using the WWAN data plan of the mobile device. The invention will exclude all other apps and services on the mobile device from using the WPAN and WWAN connections of the vehicle telematics device.
A communications system comprising:
A method for communicating using an in-vehicle telematics device connected to a vehicle diagnostic port, comprising the steps of:
A communications system allowing restricted transfer of data between a mobile device and a remote server using a vehicle's diagnostic port, comprising:
An in-vehicle telematics device for use in providing secure communications between a mobile device and a remote server, whereby the in-vehicle telematics device comprises:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.