US 6,049,269 AGranted

Wide area wireless system for access into vehicles and fleets for control, security, messaging, reporting and tracking

AssigneeTelectronics N.V.

InventorsJoseph E. Byrd, Kaspar A. Kasparian

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Abstract

A new add-on vehicular system is capable of responding to large area or nation-wide commands over paging networks, to remotely foil the unauthorized use or theft of a vehicle or a fleet automobile or a group of fleet vehicles, as well as to help the recovery of stolen vehicles. The preferred embodiment of the system comprises a paging receiver and decoder, a microcontroller with embedded programmable software and memory and a vehicular systems control interface. The system does not require central monitoring systems, or portable controls or vehicular user set controls or portable key chain controls or keypads or cellular phones or separation of vehicular transceivers from owner carried transceivers to activate the system. In a second embodiment, a two-way radio paging approach is employed in the system to expand its capabilities and to additionally provide remotely controlled transmission of data from vehicles, including data pertaining to the position coordinates of the vehicle.

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Dependent claims

A vehicular communication and control system for providing communication, security and theft getaway foiling capabilities for individual vehicles and fleets, said system operating over radio paging and messaging networks accessible to the general public and government, and employing the addressing and messaging routines, paging data signals and coverage range of said radio networks, said system comprising:

(a) a communication portion of said communication and control system including a radio frequency unit with a receiver for receiving paging data signals over said radio paging networks and a decoder with auxiliary memory for decoding said paging data signals received by said receiver, said receiver receiving the data signals including a pager address and message employing said addressing and messaging routines, and said message containing a personal identification portion and an action mode portion, said decoder decoding and verifying said pager address and affecting storage of said message containing personal identification and action mode portions of said message in said auxiliary memory;
(b) a program and data processing portion including a microcontroller with non-volatile memory and programmable software including programmed personal identification information and preprogrammed action modes, each action mode corresponding to a plurality of coordinated and interactive preprogrammed instructions, including a plurality of instructions for communicating, security and theft getaway foiling, said microcontroller having means for interacting with said communication portion, with said programmable software, and with said non-volatile memory, to provide processing and verification of said personal identification and action mode message portions and if said personal identification message portion is identical to said programmed personal identification information and if said action mode is identical to a preprogrammed action mode to then provide said plurality of corresponding preprogrammed instructions to said vehicular communication and control system, including instructions for communication, security and theft getaway foiling;
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(c) a control portion of said vehicular communication and control system including a multi-controller assembly for controlling multiple vehicular systems, said multicontroller assembly directly interacting with said multiple vehicular systems independently of the vehicle serial bus, body computer and multiplexers, and said control portion interacting with said program and data processing portion to enable security and theft getaway foiling per said preprogrammed instructions.

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A vehicular communication and control system for providing communication, security and theft getaway foiling capabilities for individual vehicles and fleets, said system operating over two-way radio paging and messaging networks accessible to the general public and government, and employing the addressing and messaging routines, paging data signals, messaging and coverage range of said radio networks, said system comprising:

(a) a communication portion of said vehicular communication and control system including a radio frequency unit with a paging and messaging transceiver having a receiver, transmitter and a decoder with auxiliary memory, said receiver for receiving paging and messaging data signals and said transmitter for transmitting paging and messaging data signals over the radio paging and messaging networks;
said paging and messaging transceiver interacting with addressing and messaging routines to receive and transmit said data signals including messaging said data signals upon reception including address data and message data, said data containing a personal identification portion and an action mode portion, said decoder decoding and verifying said address data and affecting storage of said data signals containing said personal identification and action mode portions in said auxiliary memory, and upon transmission transmitting messages and data;
(b) a program and data processing portion including a microcontroller with non-volatile memory and programmable software including programmed personal identification information and a plurality of preprogrammed action modes, each action mode corresponding to a plurality of coordinated and interactive preprogrammed instructions, including a plurality of instructions for communicating, security and theft getaway foiling, said microcontroller having means for acquiring data from additional data sources, processing said data from additional data sources according to preprogrammed software instructions and interacting with said communication portion to control and communicate said data from additional data sources, with said microcontroller further interacting with said programmable software, and with said non-volatile memory, to provide processing and verification of received personal identification and action mode message portions and if said personal identification message portion is identical to said programmed personal identification information and if said action mode is identical to a preprogrammed action mode to then provide said plurality of corresponding preprogrammed instructions to said vehicular communication and control system, including instructions for communicating, security and theft getaway foiling;
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(c) a control portion of said vehicular communication and control system including a multicontroller assembly for controlling multiple vehicular systems, said multi-controller assembly directly interacting with multiple vehicular systems independently of the vehicles serial bus, computer and multiplex systems, and said control portion interacting with said program and data processing portion to enable security and theft getaway foiling in accordance with said preprogrammed instructions.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/626,809Filed 3 Apr 1996
Granted: 11 Apr 2000
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

B60R 25/102
Actuating a signalling device: a signal being sent to a remote location, e.g. a radio signal being transmitted to a police station, a security…
B60R 25/04
Operating on vehicle systems or fittings, e.g. on doors, seats or windscreens: operating on the propulsion system, e.g. engine or drive motor
B60R 25/33
Detection related to theft or to other events relevant to anti-theft systems: of global position, e.g. by providing GPS coordinates
B60R 2325/205
Communication devices for vehicle anti-theft devices: mobile phones