Method and apparatus for condition triggered vehicle setting configuration

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10632945-B2
Application number	US-201715639568-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 30, 2017
Priority date	Jun 30, 2017
Publication date	Apr 28, 2020
Grant date	Apr 28, 2020

Abstract

A system includes a processor configured to receive a user-selected vehicle-detectable state and corresponding user-defined state-variable value. The processor is also configured to receive a user-defined vehicle-enactable action. The processor is further configured to save the state-variable value as a condition for enacting the vehicle-enactable action saved in conjunction with the state-variable value. The processor is additionally configured to monitor the vehicle-detectable state and enact the vehicle-enactable action upon determining via the monitoring that the vehicle-detectable state corresponds to the user-defined state-variable value saved in conjunction with the state-variable value.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: connecting to a vehicle computer via a mobile device;
wirelessly requesting, via the mobile device, vehicle system data corresponding to a plurality of vehicle system states, the vehicle system data saved on the mobile device in conjunction with a user-defined vehicle-enactable action;
comparing, via the mobile device, the state data for each of the plurality of vehicle system states to user-defined system state parameters, the parameters saved as a trigger for enacting the vehicle-enactable action;
wirelessly instructing, from the mobile device, the vehicle computer to enact the vehicle-enactable action when the state data matches the parameters for all of vehicle system states based on the comparing;
receiving an error message responsive to the requesting, indicating that vehicle system state data is unavailable for at least one of the plurality of vehicle system states; and
modifying the trigger to exclude the parameters corresponding to the unavailable data.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the vehicle system data includes at least a time of day.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the vehicle system data include at least a current temperature.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the vehicle system data includes a specific series of vehicle input button interactions.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the vehicle system data includes a location-related state value.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the modifying further includes modifying the trigger responsive to a user-instruction to modify the trigger.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the vehicle-enactable action includes changing a vehicle system setting to match a user-defined system setting saved on the mobile device.

Assignees

• Ford Global Tech Llc

Inventors

• Lin Steven
• Chen Yifan

Classifications

• G06F9/44505

  Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files · CPC title

• B60R16/037 Primary

  for occupant comfort {, e.g. for automatic adjustment of appliances according to personal settings, e.g. seats, mirrors, steering wheel} · CPC title

• G06F9/4451

  User profiles; Roaming · CPC title

• H04W4/44

  for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H] · CPC title

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title