Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Alexander Federlin

Tim Lauterbach

Branko Djordjevic

Frank Sell

Ozgul Unal Karakas

Thomas Weidenfeller

Carl Anders Fagerholt

The invention relates to a method to process data packets of a vehicle message received by a privacy gateway () from a vehicle () via a mobile communications network (). The method comprises the following steps: The vehicle message transmitted by the vehicle () is received. A source IP address in the data packets of the vehicle message is identified. The source IP address in the data packets of the vehicle message is replaced by an IP address of a location collecting entity () of the mobile communications network (). Said mobile communications network collects location information of a plurality of vehicles () resulting in an adapted vehicle message with adapted data packets containing the IP address of the location collecting entity as source IP address. Then, the adapted vehicle message is transmitted to a service providing entity () which is configured to provide location dependent services for the plurality of vehicles.

Privacy protection gateway for vehicles

Spatial information associated with a terminal connected to a network via a radio link is monitored. Depending on the spatial information and further depending on spatially-resolved quality of a data transmission, it is selected between operation of the data transmission in the first mode and in a second mode.

Spatially-resolved quality of data transmission

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Korschenbroich, Germany

Alexander Federlin