M2md Technologies, Inc.

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation

At&t Mobility Ii LLC

Hti Ip, LLC

Bellsouth Corporation

Hti, Ip, L.l.c.

Verizon Telematics Inc.

Cingular Wireless Ii, LLC

At&t Intellectual Property I,l.p.

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

At&t Delaware Intellectual Property Corporation, Inc.

At&t Bls Intellectual Property, Inc

Numerex Corporation

Jasper Wireless, Inc.

Charles Martin Link, Ii

Donald Michael Cardina

Vernon Meadows

Greg Griffith

Stephen Thomas Hardin

Megan Klenzak

Matthew J Banet

Bruce Davis Lightner

Thomas W Bonner

Eric C Berkobin

Larkin Hill Lowrey

Diego Borrego

Paul Washicko

Max Faulkner

Alan Wettig

Jeffrey Mikan

John Ervin Lewis

Edward Irby Comer

John Bonning

Peter O Roach, Jr

Marc Gordan

Maurice S Laster

Kevin W Link

Paul Kirsch

Gregory Clyde Griffith

Deep Kalinadhabhotla

Daniel P Norman

Michael Peterson

Timothy P Tatem

Austin Ross

Michael Alton Smith

Reginald Squirrell

Ursula White

Donna M Post

Donald Lee Batson, Jr

Mark Feidler

Robert J Oglesbee

Dane Dickie

A vehicle processing device authenticates that an authorized user has requested an action by the vehicle and generates an authentication acknowledgement message. At least two security devices being present within the cabin of, or close to, the vehicle during a predetermined period following an authentication trigger event that occurs while the user performs a predetermined sequence of authentication activities (i.e., button presses, operating the vehicle or a part of it, etc.) provides a basis for the authentication acknowledgement message. Typically, information unique to each security device has been associated with the vehicle at a service provider's server. The authentication acknowledgement may include an activation code that results from processing the information, unique to each security device, received from the security devices and other random information, such as date. A service provider's server, or a user device, provides services to, or can access, respectively, the vehicle upon receiving the authentication acknowledgement.

Method and system for establishing wireless communication services

A wireless mobile device in a public communication network receives network-initiated signaling or messaging, while operating in a battery-conserving mode, or modes that, keep(s) minimal baseband processing functions awake. The baseband processing functions process incoming signaling or data in a received message to determine whether to act further on information in the incoming message by enabling additional processing capability in the mobile device. The mobile device may have permanent template criteria values, either coded in firmware or implemented in hardware, or temporary template criteria values, stored in RAM or processor registers, that are compared to values of an incoming message or datagram from the mobile network to determine whether to perform additional actions, such as awakening an application processor. Multiple templates may co-exist to allow different incoming datagrams to cause the device to take some additional action, respond, or even ignore information in an incoming datagram or message.

Method and system for low power internetwork communication with machine devices

Method and system for securely authenticating an electronic device to a vehicle

A network platform manages the provisioning of a UE with a dominant identity profile and a recessive identity profile. The dominant profile is associated with a user's existing wireless data plan and the recessive profile corresponds to a data plan of a provider of device, or machine-to-machine, services to the UE. The UE uses the two profiles to transmit separate data contexts on separate respective bearers. When managing two separate bearers, the UE always uses the dominant profile first for managing a handoff to a stronger cell. The UE reports that the new cell that now serves the dominant context is the only cell that has enough strength to support the recessive context, even if other cells near the UE have signals strong enough. This necessarily causes the recessive context to always be handed off to the same cell to which the dominant context has already been handed off.

Method and system for providing low bandwidth and high bandwidth communications services using different user equipment profiles

A computer device, having at least two long-range wireless profiles and coupled with a communication bus of a vehicle, receives a notice that a vehicle-centric download for the computer device, or for a vehicle device coupled to the communication bus, is pending from a remote server. The vehicle computer device determines the size and security requirement associated with the pending download, and a current operational state of the vehicle. If the size or security requirement is low, a consumer-centric profile may be used for the download even if the vehicle is currently being used. If the download file size is large or requires very high security, or if a user is currently using the computer device according to the consumer-centric profile, the computer device may schedule the download to occur after receiving a trigger event occurrence message.

Method and system for securely providing vehicle services data to a vehicle

An application running on a UE receives a command through a user interface or from a server to initiate the locating of a tracking device. The tracking device determines one or more hot spots it is close to. A server determines whether to instruct the tracking device to use its GNSS circuitry to determine its location based on a comparison of location information corresponding to the hot spot(s) and user selectable accuracy criteria. The UE may detect a beacon signal and determine an initial value corresponding to an initial signal strength of the beacon. The beacon may only broadcast for a predetermined period based on location scenario. The application produces a default initial indication, based on the initial signal strength and uses updated beacon signal strength values to adjust the indication relative to the default indication based on the updated signal strength value relative to the initial signal strength value.

Method and system for determining the location of a tracking device

Method and system for establishing wireless communications services to a vehicle

A computer device associated with a vehicle pairs during an initial/setup pairing process with a UE device according to a wireless protocol. The devices exchange and store cryptographic information during pairing. Later, either device may detect/discover that the other is currently in its presence. Presence discovery may trigger the vehicle device to generate and broadcast an operational request message based on the cryptographic information, such as a public key of the UE, stored in the vehicle device. The UE receives the request, and transmits in response a vehicle operation permission message that it generates based on user input and cryptographic information, such as a public key of the vehicle device, stored by the UE during initial/setup pairing. The operational request message may be transmitted as an audio signal and received by a microphone of the UE. The vehicle device receives the permission message and generates an operation instruction based thereon.

Method and system for using a wireless mobile device as a smart key

A platform in a wireless public land mobile network environment associates a mobile device's unique identifier with a provider of services to the mobile device as well as with the device's anchor network. When the mobile device wirelessly accesses services from a local wireless network while roaming outside of its anchor network's wireless coverage via an APN of the local network, the platform receives electronic data session transaction information records from the local network and replaces the mobile device's unique identifier with a pseudo/replacement unique device identifier that is associated in the platform with the local network and returns the transaction record to the local network instead of to the anchor network.

Method and system for managing the providing of different classes of wireless communications services from different mobile networks

A wireless mobile device ('UE') operating in a battery-conserving low-power state processes incoming signaling or data in a received message to determine whether to act further on information in the message by enabling additional processing capability in the UE. A server may generate awaken information derived from a stored secret value that only the UE device and a server that manages the UE can obtain. The awaken information may also be based on a shared value shared between the server and the UE. The UE may separately derive the awaken information and may exit a low power state when awaken information received from the server in an awaken message in a first protocol matches the separately derived awaken information. The server may transmit a fall-back second awaken message in a different protocol than the first protocol if no confirmation is received that the UE received the first awaken message.

Method and system for for low power internetwork communication with machine devices

Method and system for securely authenticating an electronic user device to a vehicle

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Charles Martin Link, Ii