Method for communicating between a first motor vehicle and at least one second motor vehicle

US9998451B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Marc Menzel · Weimar, DE
• Ulrich Stählin · Eschborn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 10, 2010
• Grant date: Jun 12, 2018
• Expiry date: Feb 7, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/52
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method for communicating between a first motor vehicle and at least one second motor vehicle, belonging to a mobile communication network including at least two motor vehicles. In a first step only one identifying piece of information is exchanged between the vehicles by each driver for forming a communication network by a radio communication unit via radio connection in order to initiate the internal communication of the vehicles present in a column formation, said piece of information being entered in a second step into a network communication unit of each vehicle, in order to join the communication network after acknowledgement by a network communication unit of at least one of the other vehicles belonging to the communication network. The identifying piece of information is an authentication, and the authentication takes place for each vehicle by a randomly generated password.