James M Kortge, 54Rochester, MI

7139660, Nov 21, 2006

Jul 14, 2004

10/891473

Susanta P. Sarkar - Rochester Hills MI, US
James M. Kortge - Ferndale MI, US

General Motors Corporation - Detroit MI

G01C 21/00

701200, 701 35, 370401, 709203, 34042636, 340438

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.

7450603, Nov 11, 2008

Aug 31, 2004

10/931135

Axel Nix - Birmingham MI, US
James R Grace - Royal Oak MI, US
James M. Kortge - Ferndale MI, US

General Motors Corporation - Detroit MI

H04J 3/26

370432, 4554143, 4554144, 4555692

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.

7472001, Dec 30, 2008

Jun 30, 2005

11/172619

James R. Grace - Royal Oak MI, US
James M. Kortge - Ferndale MI, US
Scott A. Rush - Plymouth MI, US
Axel Nix - Birmingham MI, US
Andrew W. Gellatly - Macomb MI, US
Brian V. Sychta - Lake Orion MI, US
Michael S. Schwartz - Molnlycke, SE

GM Global Technology Operations, Inc. - Detroit MI

G06F 7/10

701 36, 707 1

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.

7650513, Jan 19, 2010

Jun 30, 2005

11/172380

James R. Grace - Royal Oak MI, US
James M. Kortge - Ferndale MI, US
Scott A. Rush - Plymouth MI, US
Brian V. Sychta - Lake Orion MI, US
Michael S. Schwartz - Molnlycke, SE

GM Global Technology Operations, Inc. - Detroit MI

G06F 11/30

713193, 7071041

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.

7885926, Feb 8, 2011

Jan 14, 2005

11/036213

James R. Grace - Royal Oak MI, US
James M. Kortge - Ferndale MI, US
Scott A. Rush - Plymouth MI, US
Michael S. Schwartz - Mölnlycke, SE

GM Global Technology Operations LLC - Detroit MI

G06F 7/14

707624, 701 36, 713340

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.

7949375, May 24, 2011

Jun 24, 2005

11/166746

James M. Kortge - Ferndale MI, US

GM Global Technology Operations LLC - Detroit MI

H04M 1/00

4555692, 455418, 455419, 455425, 4554352, 4554353

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.

8213967, Jul 3, 2012

Dec 31, 2007

11/968068

James M. Kortge - Ferndale MI, US
Ansaf I. Alrabady - Livonia MI, US

GM Global Technology Operations LLC - Detroit MI

H04W 4/00

455466, 4554121, 4554122, 4554143, 4555692, 4555759, 380279, 380281, 380283, 380285

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.

2005015, Jul 14, 2005

Jan 13, 2004

10/756664

Scott Rush - Livonia MI, US
Andrew Gellatly - Macomb MI, US
James Kortge - Ferndale MI, US

H04M011/00

379101010

Methods and apparatus are provided for organizing pre-recorded digital compressed audio files for convenient playback on a device installed in a moving vehicle. The apparatus comprises a scanning function that orders the files into categories, such as “Artist” and “Album”, which are each linked to an index of their associated tracks. The indexing scheme provides a user, such as the driver of an automobile, an intuitive method of finding a desired track with minimal distraction.