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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11324054 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 23, 2019

In-vehicle wireless communication

Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Daniel R. Borges, San Francisco, CA (US);

Sriram Hariharan, San Jose, CA (US);

Matthew L. Semersky, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael J. Giles, San Jose, CA (US);

Andre M. Boule, San Jose, CA (US);

Brian D. Pietsch, Foster City, CA (US);

Artiom Shamis, San Jose, CA (US);

Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Bata, San Jose, CA (US);

Christopher R. Whitney, Mountain View, CA (US);

Tanya G. Kancheva, Mountain View, CA (US);

Friedrich W. Drees, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:

Dickinson Wright RLLP

Primary Examiner:

Walli Z Butt

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 4/48 (2018.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01); H04W 12/0431 (2021.01); H04W 4/44 (2018.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01); H04W 48/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/10 (2018.02); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 4/44 (2018.02); H04W 4/48 (2018.02); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 12/0431 (2021.01); H04W 48/08 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

The embodiments set forth herein disclose techniques for enabling a user device to seamlessly establish a secure, high-bandwidth wireless connection with a vehicle accessory system to enable the user device to wirelessly stream user interface (UI) information to the vehicle accessory system. To implement this technique, a lower-bandwidth wireless technology (e.g., Bluetooth) is used as an initial means for establishing a Wi-Fi pairing between the user device and the vehicle accessory system. Wi-Fi parameters associated with a Wi-Fi network provided by the vehicle accessory system can be communicated to the user device using the lower-bandwidth wireless technology. A secure Wi-Fi connection can then be established between the user device and the vehicle accessory system using the provided Wi-Fi parameters. The embodiments also disclose a technique for enabling the user device to automatically reconnect with the vehicle accessory system in a seamless manner (e.g., when returning to a vehicle).

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