System and method for selectively securing wireless vehicle communications
AssigneeTransportation IP Holdings, LLC
InventorsJustin Taylor Norris, Mark Elliott Loch
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Abstract
A method is disclosed that includes receiving information from an information source and determining whether the received information has information of a type to be encrypted before transmitting the received information to a second communication device. Based at least in part on the determination, the method may include either encrypting the information of the type to be encrypted, generating encrypted information, and transmitting the received information including the encrypted information from the first communication device to the second communication device; or transmitting the received information from the first communication device to the second communication device unencrypted.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving a first data type and a second data type relating to operation of a vehicle;
- encrypting the second data type;
- and
- transmitting both the first data type and the encrypted second data type from the vehicle to a receiver.
A communication system, comprising:
- a control circuit that is configured to receive information relating to operation of a
- vehicle, sort the received information into a first data type and a second data type, and
- encrypt the second data type;
- and
- a transmitter that is controlled by the control circuit and is configured to transmit
- both the first data type and the encrypted second data type to a receiver.
A method, comprising:
- sorting information into a first data type and a second data type relating to operation of a vehicle;
- encrypting the second data type;
- transmitting both the first data type and the encrypted second data type to a receiver;
- and
- arming an end of vehicle device having a transmitter that transmits both the first data type and the encrypted second data type to couple the transmitter to the receiver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.