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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1997
Shrirang Nilkanth Jambhekar, Palatine, IL (US);
Jacques Hara, Glen Ellyn, IL (US);
John Robert Barr, Barrington, IL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schuamburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A device (100) and method (200, 300) authenticate and secure control event data for a vehicle, wherein the device includes: A) a microcontroller (104), coupled to receive control event information, for attaching a first time stamp and vehicle identification number VIN to the control event information to provide first information and sending the first information to memory (106) in time overlap fashion; B) the memory (106), coupled to the microcontroller (104) and a microprocessor (108), for storing first information and second information in time overlap fashion; and C) the microprocessor (108), coupled to the memory (106) and a plurality of transducers (110), for determining whether received impact data varies from previous impact data, and where received impact data varies, adding a second time stamp and VIN to the received impact data to form second information.