Establishing a wireless connection to a vehicle
AssigneeWABCO GmbH
InventorsThomas DIECKMANN, Heiner MERTEN, Thomas WOLF
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Abstract
A method for establishing a wireless connection between a mobile communication device and a communication module (14) of a vehicle (10) with an identifier (17) is disclosed. According to the method, access rights, namely links between vehicle identifiers (17) and user identifiers, as well as data required for establishing the wireless connection, are stored in a database server (16) outside of the mobile communication device. A control unit (11, 12) for carrying out the method is also disclosed.
Claims11
A method for establishing a wireless connection between a mobile communication device and a communication module of a vehicle with an identifier, comprising:
- a) providing a server outside the mobile communication device, the server including access rights between vehicle identifiers and user identifiers, and data required for establishing the wireless connection,
- b) recording with the mobile communication device the identifier of the vehicle,
- c) wherein the user identifier is present in the mobile communication device,
- d) transmitting by the mobile communication device to the server the vehicle identifier and the user identifier,
- e) checking by the server whether access rights exist for the transmitted combination of identifiers,
- f) if access rights exist, transmitting by the server the data required for establishing the wireless connection to the mobile communication unit, and
- g) establishing a wireless connection to the communication module from the mobile communications device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.