Patents by Inventor Ulrich Weinmann

Ulrich Weinmann 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).

  • Patent number: 8793050
    Abstract: A communication system of a motor vehicle is provided. The communication system includes a vehicle operating unit, a vehicle output unit, and an interface computer. The interface computer is connected to the vehicle operating unit and the vehicle output unit. The interface computer is implemented for the purpose of connecting a mobile terminal to the vehicle operating unit and the vehicle output unit such that information from the mobile terminal is displayable on the vehicle output unit and the mobile terminal is operable via the vehicle operating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Weinmann, Jens-Peter Weiss, Thomas Stauner, Wolfram Manthey
  • Patent number: 7840321
    Abstract: A system of control devices communicate by way of one or more databuses of a motor vehicle. The system exhibits at least two diagnostics access points, by way of which the state of at least one of the control devices is diagnose˜ on the basis of a diagnostics request message; in particular, an error memory entry of a control device is requested by way of one of the diagnostics access points and is transmitted to the outside. A diagnostics request message, which is fed to the system by way of the first diagnostics access point, is recognized as such by an identification and forwarding system and is transmitted to a checking system. The checking system checks at least the authenticity of the diagnostics request messages and, optionally, forwards it to that control device, for which the diagnostics request message is intended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marc Torlo, Ulrich Weinmann
  • Publication number: 20100191410
    Abstract: A system of control devices are provided in a motor vehicle, which control devices communicate by way of one or more databuses of the motor vehicle. The system exhibits at least two diagnostics access points, by way of which the state of at least one of the control devices is diagnosed on the basis of a diagnostics request message; in particular, an error memory entry of a control device is requested by way of one of the diagnostics access points and is transmitted to the outside. In order to make the known system of control devices in a motor vehicle with at least one diagnostics access point more cost effective, a diagnostics request message, which is fed to the system by way of the first diagnostics access point, is recognized as such by an identification and forwarding system and is transmitted to a checking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marc Torlo, Ulrich Weinmann
  • Publication number: 20080133084
    Abstract: A communication system of a motor vehicle is provided. The communication system includes a vehicle operating unit, a vehicle output unit, and an interface computer. The interface computer is connected to the vehicle operating unit and the vehicle output unit. The interface computer is implemented for the purpose of connecting a mobile terminal to the vehicle operating unit and the vehicle output unit such that information from the mobile terminal is displayable on the vehicle output unit and the mobile terminal is operable via the vehicle operating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Weinmann, Jens-Peter Weiss, Thomas Stauner, Wolfram Manthey
  • Patent number: 7243067
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for wireless transmission of messages between a vehicle-internal communication system and a vehicle-external central computer, the vehicle-internal communication system has acoustic output unit for the playback of a received message. In the vehicle-external central computer, the message, which is at first present in text form and is to be sent to the vehicle-internal communication system, is transformed into a phonetic transcription; the phonetic transcription, is then transmitted to the vehicle-internal communication system. In the vehicle internal communication system, the phonetic transcription is transformed to speech and is emitted via the acoustic output unit. Spoken messages from a vehicle occupant are recorded via an acoustic input unit, processed and transmitted to the central computer by reversal of the same process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Weinmann, Mike Peters