James Andrew Lujan

Address:

7008 Casa Elena Dr NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113

Phone:

5052399207

VIN:

JTHCF5C23B5045914

Make:

LEXUS

Model:

IS

Year:

2011

US Patent:

60616148, May 9, 2000

Filed:

Oct 17, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/954339

Inventors:

Curtis L. Carrender - Placitas NM
John Henry Linn - Albuquerque NM
James Lujan - Albuquerque NM
Frank Kenneth Wunderlin - Placitas NM

Assignee:

Amtech Systems Corporation - Dallas TX

International Classification:

G01S 1300
G06F 1500

US Classification:

701 33

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for communicating between a host and a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle including an on board computer system having a bus for communicating with a plurality of motor vehicle systems. The apparatus includes an electronic tag having a transceiver for transmitting data to and receiving data from the host, a memory for storing bus requests and bus response data, a decoder for decoding requests from the host, a bus interface for reading data from and writing data to the bus and a conroller. The bus interface for extracting responses from the bus responsive to requests from the host. The responses may be stored in the memory. The controller is responsive to write requests from the host to transfer data to the bus interface and responsive to read requests from the host to transfer data stored in memory back to the host.