Patents by Inventor James M. Kortge
James M. Kortge has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9349290Abstract: A trip plan is received at an in-vehicle application on a memory of an in-vehicle infotainment unit or at an application on a mobile device memory. The trip plan includes an expected trip duration and/or an expected trip return. An in-vehicle bus facilitates monitoring for a return event, or a mobile device monitoring system facilitates monitoring for a return event. In an example, a notification that the return event has been recognized is received at one of the applications. The return event is identified as having occurred prior to or at the expiration of the expected trip duration and/or return. In another example, one of the applications recognizes that the expected trip duration and/or the return has expired and that no notification of the return event has been received, and a pending alert notification is transmitted to another party.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignees: General Motors LLC, GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Jing Zhang, James M. Kortge
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Publication number: 20160019785Abstract: A trip plan is received at an in-vehicle application on a memory of an in-vehicle infotainment unit or at an application on a mobile device memory. The trip plan includes an expected trip duration and/or an expected trip return. An in-vehicle bus facilitates monitoring for a return event, or a mobile device monitoring system facilitates monitoring for a return event. In an example, a notification that the return event has been recognized is received at one of the applications. The return event is identified as having occurred prior to or at the expiration of the expected trip duration and/or return. In another example, one of the applications recognizes that the expected trip duration and/or the return has expired and that no notification of the return event has been received, and a pending alert notification is transmitted to another party.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2014Publication date: January 21, 2016Inventors: Jing Zhang, James M. Kortge
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Patent number: 8213967Abstract: A method and system for preventing replay-type attacks on a vehicle communications system that sends short message service (SMS) messages between a call center and a fleet of vehicles. The method uses separate sequence counters maintained at the call center and at each of the vehicles in the fleet to help prevent or at least minimize the effects of unauthorized third party interference; such as replay-type attacks. Each wireless message is embedded with a sequence counter that is provided by the sender and is compared by the recipient with a separate sequence counter for purposes of validation. Some optional features that can be used in conjunction with the sequence counters include a tolerance window feature, a consecutive message feature, and a proximity feature, to name but a few.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2007Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: James M. Kortge, Ansaf I. Alrabady
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Patent number: 7949375Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for using a proxy communication module within a vehicle telematics unit to provide external data connectivity for vehicle applications. The method comprises receiving a request from one or more vehicle applications to retrieve data from a server on an external network. In response to the request, a wireless proxy data communication channel is established between the proxy communication module in the vehicle telematics system and the server. The requested data is received from the server via the wireless proxy data communication channel and communicated from the proxy communication module to the one or more vehicle applications.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2005Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventor: James M. Kortge
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Patent number: 7885926Abstract: Apparatus is provided for an electronic vehicle storage system. The apparatus includes a data storage device configured to store multimedia files, a wireless transceiver configured to transfer multimedia files, and a controller coupled to the wireless transceiver, data storage device, and a vehicle electrical infrastructure. The data storage device has an embedded database containing a first list of multimedia files. The controller is configured to communicate with an external computing device via the wireless transceiver. The external computing device has a second list of multimedia files. The controller is further configured to synchronize the first list of multimedia files with the second list of multimedia files.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2005Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: James R. Grace, Robert M. Riley, Jr., James M. Kortge, Scott A. Rush, Michael S. Schwartz
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Patent number: 7650513Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a multimedia storage and transfer. The system includes a first data storage device in a first vehicle, a wireless transceiver configured to communicate with a second data storage device in a second vehicle, and a controller coupled to the wireless transceiver and first data storage device. The first data storage device has an embedded database configured to store multimedia files. The embedded database has a list of multimedia file content. The controller is configured to remove the list of multimedia file content from the first data storage device and transfer the list of multimedia file content to the second data storage device via the wireless transceiver.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.Inventors: James R. Grace, Robert M. Riley, Jr., James M. Kortge, Scott A. Rush, Brian V. Sychta, Michael S. Schwartz
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Publication number: 20090170539Abstract: A method and system for preventing replay-type attacks on a vehicle communications system that sends short message service (SMS) messages between a call center and a fleet of vehicles. The method uses separate sequence counters maintained at the call center and at each of the vehicles in the fleet to help prevent or at least minimize the effects of unauthorized third party interference; such as replay-type attacks. Each wireless message is embedded with a sequence counter that is provided by the sender and is compared by the recipient with a separate sequence counter for purposes of validation. Some optional features that can be used in conjunction with the sequence counters include a tolerance window feature, a consecutive message feature, and a proximity feature, to name but a few.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2007Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: James M. Kortge, Ansaf I. Alrabady
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Patent number: 7472001Abstract: Apparatus is provided for an electronic vehicle storage system. The apparatus includes a vehicle electrical infrastructure, a vehicle communications network coupled to the vehicle electrical infrastructure, a controller coupled to the vehicle electrical infrastructure via the vehicle communications network, and a data storage device coupled to the controller and configured to store multimedia files. The controller is configured to communicate with the vehicle electrical infrastructure. The data storage device includes an embedded database containing a list of multimedia file content. The controller is further configured to access the embedded database and associate a recognized multimedia file with a multimedia file content from the list of multimedia file content.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.Inventors: James R. Grace, Robert M. Riley, Jr., James M. Kortge, Scott A. Rush, Axel Nix, Andrew W. Gellatly, Brian V. Sychta, Michael S. Schwartz
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Patent number: 7450603Abstract: System, methods, and apparatus are provided for wireless vehicle-to-vehicle sharing of multimedia data. The system includes a data storage device configured to store multimedia data packets transmitted by a system broadcast, a processor coupled to the data storage device and configured to determine a non-received group of multimedia data packets based on the stored multimedia data packets of the system broadcast, and a transceiver coupled to the processor. The transceiver is configured to receive multimedia data packets transmitted from the system broadcast and multimedia data packets transmitted from a system vehicle in response to the request signal. The method includes the steps of determining non-received multimedia data packets based on a system broadcast in a first wireless protocol, and requesting multimedia data packets of the non-received multimedia data packets in a second wireless protocol from system vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2004Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Axel Nix, Robert M. Riley, Jr., James R Grace, James M. Kortge
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Patent number: 7139660Abstract: A method and control system enable at least one adjustable setting of an apparatus in a vehicle to be changed in response to a selection made by a user of the vehicle either from the vehicle or from a location remote to the vehicle. The system has a user actuated input device that provides a control signal in response to a setting selection by the user. A server system stores a program for operating the method and system. A vehicle control system is provided onboard the vehicle. A communication network couples the server system to the vehicle control system so that so that the user can control the setting for the apparatus by operating the input device. The computer system records the vehicle settings in a database.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2004Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Susanta P. Sarkar, James M. Kortge