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Volvo Truck Corporation

Anders Hultstein

Ta-Chien Lin

The invention relates to a method for establishing a wireless communication channel between a vehicle and a vehicle accessory. The method comprises, in the vehicle: detecting a wired communication channel between the vehicle and the accessory; transmitting a vehicle identifier from the vehicle to the accessory via the wired communication channel; receiving an accessory identifier; deriving a unique code based on the vehicle identifier and the accessory identifier using a predetermined function; broadcasting the unique code by a vehicle wireless transceiver. In the vehicle accessory: deriving the unique code based on the vehicle identifier and the accessory identifier using the same predetermined function as used in the vehicle; receiving the broadcast unique code; determining that the received code corresponds to the determined unique code; finding a network broadcasting the unique code; and establishing a wireless connection between the wireless transceiver of the vehicle and the wireless transceiver of the accessory using the network characterized by the unique code.

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Västra Frölunda, Sweden

Anders Hultstein