Systems and methods for user device interaction

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9608952-B2
Application number	US-201213714908-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 14, 2012
Priority date	Dec 14, 2012
Publication date	Mar 28, 2017
Grant date	Mar 28, 2017

Abstract

Systems and methods for receiving a communication on one or more user devices within a vehicle and redirecting the communications based at least in part on one or more user profiles associated with occupants of the vehicle is disclosed. The redirection of the communication may further be based at least in part on one or more sensor signals or a drive characteristic associated with the vehicle.

First claim

The claimed invention is:

1. A method, comprising: identifying, by one or more processors associated with a vehicle, one or more user devices; determining, by the one or more processors, at least one of the one or more user devices as a driver's user device; identifying, by the one or more processors, a user profile associated with the driver's user device; identifying, by the one or more processors, a communication received from the driver's user device; receiving, by the one or more processor, one or more sensor signals; determining, by the one or more processors, a drive characteristic based at least in a part on the one or more sensor signals; and causing to send, by the one or more processors, the communication to a second user device identified from the one or more user devices based at least in part on the drive characteristic and the user profile, further comprising: identifying, by the one or more processors, one or more received second sensor signals; and determining, by the one or more processors, a user characteristic based at least in part on the one or more received second sensor signals.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the one or more user devices comprises receiving, by the one or more processors, one or more messages corresponding to each of the one or more user devices.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining at least one of the one or more user devices as the driver's user device comprises receiving, by the one or more processors, a message from the driver's user device.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the user profile associated with the driver's user device comprises receiving the user profile from a profile server.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the drive characteristic comprises at least one of: (i) velocity of the vehicle; (ii) acceleration of the vehicle; (iii) deceleration of the vehicle; (iv) roll of the vehicle; (v) yaw rate of the vehicle; (vi) angular acceleration of the vehicle; (vii) indication of an accident; (viii) indication of deployment of an airbag of the vehicle; (ix) visibility conditions; (x) road conditions; (xi) current velocity; or (xii) current position.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein sending the communication comprises sending the communication based at least in part on the user characteristic.

7. A system, comprising: one or more sensors; and one or more processors configured to: identify, one or more user devices; determine at least one of the one or more user devices as a first user device; identify a user profile associated with the first user device; determine a drive characteristic based at least in part on one or more signals received from the one or more sensors; identify, a communication received from the first user device; and cause to send the communication to a second user device identified from the one or more user devices or to a non-transitory memory associated with the driver's user device based at least in part on the user profile and the drive characteristic, further comprising: identifying, by the one or more processors, one or more received second sensor signals; and determining, by the one or more processors, a user characteristic based at least in part on the one or more received second sensor signals.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to generate the user profile associated with the first user device.

9. The system of claim 7 , wherein the drive characteristic comprises at least one of: (i) velocity of a vehicle; (ii) acceleration of the vehicle; (iii) deceleration of the vehicle; (iv) roll &the vehicle; (v) yaw rate &the vehicle; i) angular acceleration of the vehicle; (vii) indication of an accident; or (viii) indication of deployment of an airbag of the vehicle; (ix) visibility conditions; (x) road conditions; (xi) current velocity; or (xii) current position.

10. The system of claim 7 , wherein the communication is at least one of: (i) a voice call; (ii) a text message; (iii) an SMS message; or (iv) a social networking message.

11. The system of claim 7 , wherein the one or more processors configured to cause to send the communication comprises the one or more processors configured to cause to send the communication to at least one of: (i) a speaker of a vehicle; (ii) a voice mail system associated with the first user device; or (iii) a second user devices.

12. A non-transitory computer readable media comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to: identify at least one user device as a driver's user device; determining at least one of the one or more user devices as a driver's user device; identify a received user profile associated with the driver's user device; determine a drive characteristic based at least in part on one or more signals received from the one or more sensors; identify a communication received from the driver's user device; receiving, by the one or more processors, one or more sensor signals; identify, one or more received second sensor signals; and determine a user characteristic based at least in part, on the received one or more second sensor signals; and cause to send the communication to a second user device based at least in part on the user profile, the drive characteristic, and the user characteristic.

13. The computer readable media of claim 12 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to generate the user profile associated with the driver's user device.

14. The computer readable media of claim 12 , wherein the communication is at least one of: (i) a voice call; (ii) a text message; (iii) an SMS message; or (iv) a social networking message.

15. The computer readable media of claim 12 , wherein the user characteristic comprises one or more parameters that indicate the activity of one or more users.

16. The computer readable media of claim 12 , wherein one or more processors configured to cause to send the communication comprises the one or more processors configured to cause to send the communication to at least one of: (i) a speaker of a vehicle; or (ii) a voice mail system associated with the driver's user device.

17. The computer readable media of claim 16 , wherein the one or more processors configured to cause to send the communication comprises the one or more processors configured to cause to receive one or more second communications from the at least one user devices.

Assignees

• Wan Chieh-Yih
• Sharma Sangita
• Raffa Giuseppe
• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Wan Chieh-Yih
• Sharma Sangita
• Raffa Giuseppe

Classifications

• H04L51/14 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/046

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/046

  Interoperability with other network applications or services · CPC title

• H04W4/025 Primary

  using location based information parameters · CPC title

• H04W4/14

  Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD] · CPC title