Remote activated garage door opener functions via a graphical user interface in a vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8970352-B2
Application number	US-201213658274-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 23, 2012
Priority date	Oct 23, 2012
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

Implementing remote garage door opener functions includes providing, via a computer processor, a graphical user interface on a display device and prompting a user via the graphical user interface to program a garage door opener unit that is in communicative range of a transceiver. The functions also include receiving a response, from the user via an input control of the display device, indicating an acceptance by the user to program the garage door opener unit. Upon determining via the transceiver that the garage door opener unit is in programming mode, the functions include transmitting a request to the transceiver over a vehicle network to initiate synchronization between the vehicle and the garage door opener unit and receiving, from the garage door opener unit upon completion of the synchronization, an acknowledgement of successful synchronization.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
a computer processor embedded in a vehicle;
a transceiver;
a display device;
a vehicle network communicatively coupling the computer processor to the transceiver and to the display device; and
logic executable by the computer processor, the logic configured to implement a method, the method comprising:
providing a graphical user interface on the display device and prompting a user via the graphical user interface to program a…

Assignees

• Gm Global Tech Operations Inc

Inventors

• Holt Timothy H
• Swartz Kenneth M
• Willey Mark R

Classifications

• G07C2009/00825

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07C9/00309 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G08C17/02

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07C2009/00928

  Physics · mapped topic