Patent ID: 8299895
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: G08C

Abstract:
1. A vehicle with wireless entry capability, comprising: a communication system, which communicates with a first key in a vehicle, by communicating with the first key in the vehicle and allowing access to the vehicle including entry into the vehicle and operating the vehicle based on said communicating with the first key in the vehicle, said communication system also including a wireless module that wirelessly communicates with at least one cellular phone, only while said communication system is communicating with the first key in the vehicle, allowing a user to pair a cellular phone with the vehicle, where said cellular phone is paired to the vehicle only while said vehicle is communicating with the first key in the vehicle and where said cellular phone cannot be paired to the vehicle while the vehicle is not communicating with the first key in the vehicle; said communication system storing information indicative of said cellular phone that has been properly paired to the vehicle and subsequently detecting a proximity of said cellular phone and allowing said access to the vehicle based on detecting said cellular phone within range of said vehicle without communicating with said first key, wherein said communication system carries out said pairing by transferring information that represents a time of a request for access that was indicated by said cellular phone, using a clock running in the vehicle to determine whether the time indicated by said cellular phone matches to the time indicated by the clock in the vehicle, and allowing access only when the cellular phone has been previously paired to the vehicle, and the clock in the vehicle indicates the same time as the information from the request for access from the cellular phone.