Patent ID: 9686294
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for communicating with a linked vehicle, comprising: receiving a packet, over a communications network, by a terrestrial-based security service remotely located from the vehicle, the packet being addressed to a vehicle component on an intravehicular network fully retained in the vehicle and linked to the communications network; determining if the received packet is suspected to be part of a cyber-attack; analyzing the received packet to determine a handling of the received packet in response to the received packet being suspected to be part of the cyber-attack; should the analyzing determine the handling of the received packet to be transmission of the received packet, encrypting a portion of the received packet and encapsulating the encrypted packet to alter the destination address of the encrypted packet from the vehicle component to a security service located inside the vehicle and linked with the intravehicular network encapsulating being based in part on the encrypting; and forwarding the encapsulated packet to the security service module for security processing.