Extended park mode

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10798154-B2
Application number	US-201816036338-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 16, 2018
Priority date	Sep 19, 2014
Publication date	Oct 6, 2020
Grant date	Oct 6, 2020

Abstract

A vehicle may include a control module and a plurality of vehicle control modules in networked communication with the control module. The control module may be configured to receive an indication from a user interface to transition the vehicle into an extended park mode, and responsive to the indication, instruct the plurality of vehicle control modules to perform operations to reduce their respective key-off loads on the vehicle. A cloud service may be configured to receive, over a wide-area network responsive to user input to a mobile device, an indication to transition a vehicle associated with the mobile device into an extended park mode, and responsive to the indication, provide a message over the network to the vehicle to instruct the vehicle to perform operations to reduce key-off loads of a plurality of vehicle control modules of the vehicle.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a cloud service configured to
receive, over a wide-area network responsive to user input to a mobile device, an indication to transition a vehicle associated with the mobile device from a normal mode, in which a plurality of vehicle control modules of the vehicle are enabled to perform operations during key-off that incur key-off load on the vehicle, into an extended park mode, in which the plurality of vehicle control modules reduce their key-off loads on the vehicle compared to the normal mode by refraining from performing the operations, and
responsive to the indication, provide a message over the network to the vehicle configured to instruct operations to reduce the key-off loads of the plurality of vehicle control modules by transitioning from the normal mode to the extended park mode.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the cloud service is further configured to determine which vehicle is associated with the mobile device according to a login session of the mobile device with the cloud service.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the cloud service is further configured to determine which vehicle is associated with the mobile device according to a vehicle identifier number (VIN) provided by the mobile device to the cloud service.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the cloud service is further configured to maintain state information indicative of whether the vehicle is in the extended park mode.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the cloud service is further configured to:
receive, over a wide-area network responsive to user input to a vehicle user interface, an indication to transition the vehicle associated with the mobile device out of the extended park mode, and
update the state information indicative of whether the vehicle is in the extended park mode to indicate that the vehicle is no longer in the extended park mode, responsive to the indication to transition the vehicle out of the extended park mode.

6. The system of claim 4 , wherein the cloud service is further configured to filter messages provided to the vehicle from the cloud service based on the state information indicative of whether the vehicle is in the extended park mode.

7. A method comprising:
receiving, by a cloud service over a wide-area network responsive to user input to a mobile device, an indication to transition a vehicle associated with the mobile device from a normal mode, in which a plurality of vehicle control modules of the vehicle are enabled to perform operations during key-off that incur key-off load on the vehicle, into an extended park mode, in which the plurality of vehicle control modules reduce their key-off loads on the vehicle compared to the normal mode by refraining from performing the operations; and
responsive to the indication, providing a message by the cloud service over the network to the vehicle configured to instruct operations to reduce the key-off loads of the plurality of vehicle control modules by transitioning from the normal mode to the extended park mode.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising determining which vehicle is associated with the mobile device according to a login session of the mobile device with the cloud service.

9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising determining which vehicle is associated with the mobile device according to a vehicle identifier number (VIN) provided by the mobile device to the cloud service.

10. The method of claim 7 , further comprising maintaining state information indicative of whether the vehicle is in the extended park mode.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
receiving, over a wide-area network responsive to user input to a vehicle user interface, an indication to transition the vehicle associated with the mobile device out of the extended park mode; and
updating the state information indicative of whether the vehicle is in the extended park mode to indicate that the vehicle is no longer in the extended park mode, responsive to the indication to transition the vehicle out of the extended park mode.

12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising filtering messages provided to the vehicle from the cloud service based on the state information indicative of whether the vehicle is in the extended park mode.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor of a cloud service, cause the cloud service to:
receive, over a wide-area network responsive to user input to a mobile device, an indication to transition a vehicle associated with the mobile device from a normal mode, in which a plurality of vehicle control modules of the vehicle are enabled to perform operations during key-off that incur key-off load on the vehicle, into an extended park mode, in which the plurality of vehicle control modules reduce their key-off loads on the vehicle compared to the normal mode by refraining from performing the operations, and
responsive to the indication, provide a message over the network to the vehicle configured to instruct operations to reduce the key-off loads of the plurality of vehicle control modules by transitioning from the normal mode to the extended park mode.

14. The medium of claim 13 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor of the cloud service, cause the cloud service to determine which vehicle is associated with the mobile device according to a login session of the mobile device with the cloud service.

15. The medium of claim 13 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor of the cloud service, cause the cloud service to determine which vehicle is associated with the mobile device according to a vehicle identifier number (VIN) provided by the mobile device to the cloud service.

16. The medium of claim 13 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor of the cloud service, cause the cloud service to maintain state information indicative of whether the vehicle is in the extended park mode.

17. The medium of claim 16 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor of the cloud service, cause the cloud service to:
receive, over a wide-area network responsive to user input to a vehicle user interface, an indication to transition the vehicle associated with the mobile device out of the extended park mode, and
update the state information indicative of whether the vehicle is in the extended park mode to indicate that the vehicle is no longer in the extended park mode, responsive to the indication to transition the vehicle out of the extended park mode.

18. The medium of claim 16 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor of the cloud service, cause the cloud service to filter messages provided to the vehicle from the cloud service based on the state information indicative of whether the vehicle is in the extended park mode.

Assignees

• Ford Global Tech Llc

Inventors

• Lovett Karin
• Burt Andrew Eugene
• Weinfurther James Michael
• Deljevic Zeljko

Classifications

• H04L67/125

  involving control of end-device applications over a network · CPC title

• B60R16/03 Primary

  for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems {or for (circuit arrangements for charging batteries H02J7/00)} · CPC title

• H04L67/10 Primary

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04W4/40

  for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P] · CPC title

• B60W10/30

  including control of auxiliary equipment, e.g. air-conditioning compressors or oil pumps · CPC title