Automatic connected vehicle subsequent owner enrollment process
AssigneeAeris Communications, Inc.
InventorsMichelle Lynne Avary, Henry Plager
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Abstract
The present invention is directed toward an automatic connected vehicle subsequent owner method and system for automatically wiping personal data from the vehicle, transitioning remote services access to a subsequent owner, and delinking the vehicle from their smartphone or other interactive communication link. In one more embodiments, a computer implemented method provides for delinking customers and deregistering vehicles from original owners where those vehicles have been subsequently sold, discontinued, or otherwise transferred for the customer's ownership.
Claims26
A computer implemented method for deactivating a registered vehicle and delinking a customer associated with the registered vehicle to be deactivated via a secure vehicle registration network, the method comprising:
- selecting, by an interactive interface, deactivation of a registered vehicle from a registered account;
- transmitting, by the interactive interface, a deactivation request for a registered vehicle to an authentication engine;
- in response to verification of ownership of the registered vehicle with the registered account by the authentication engine:
- deactivating, by the interactive interface, the registered vehicle from the registered account, and
- commanding, by the interactive interface, a wipe of customer data at the registered vehicle;
- and
- transferring a predetermined level of subscription services with the vehicle to a subsequent owner after deactivation of the registration of the vehicle from an original owner,
- wherein the predetermined level of subscription services include at least one of:
- remote services of the vehicle or performance services of the vehicle,
- wherein the remote services include at least one of:
- door lock/unlock, engine start, horn honk, flash lights, trunk open, cabin pre-conditioning, geofencing and speed alerts, or window control, and
- wherein the performances services include Over-the-Air (OTA) updates and upgrades.
A system for use in an automotive sales network for deactivating a registered vehicle and delinking a customer associated with the registered vehicle to be deactivated via a secure vehicle registration network, comprising:
- an interactive interface engine that provides an interactive interface to:
- deactivate a registered vehicle, and
- delink a registered customer account, wherein the interactive interface engine is capable of receiving and transmitting messages;
- an authentication engine configured to:
- receive a request from the interactive interface engine to deactivate the registered vehicle from the registered customer account,
- verify ownership of the registered vehicle with the registered customer account from one or more authorized databases,
- transmit verification of ownership of the registered vehicle with the registered customer account,
- transfer a predetermined level of subscription services with the vehicle to a subsequent owner after deactivation of the registration of the vehicle from an original owner,
- wherein the predetermined level of subscription services include at least one of:
- remote services of the vehicle or performance services of the vehicle,
- wherein the remote services include at least one of:
- door lock/unlock, engine start, horn honk, flash lights, trunk open, cabin pre-conditioning, geofencing and speed alerts, or window control, and
- wherein the performances services include Over-the-Air (OTA) updates and upgrades;
- a secure communication system to facilitate communications with the one or more authorized databases, the vehicle, and the registered customer account;
- a deactivation engine that in response to receiving the verification of ownership of the registered vehicle with the registered customer account from the authentication engine, deactivates the registered vehicle from the registered customer account including wiping customer data from the registered vehicle;
- and
- a reporting engine that generates one or more reports in response to receiving data from the authentication engine upon deactivation of the registered vehicle from the registered customer account by the deactivation engine.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for deactivating a registered vehicle and delinking a customer associated with the registered vehicle to be deactivated via a secure vehicle registration network, the instructions, in response to execution, cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, via an interactive interface, an instruction to deactivate the registered vehicle from the registered account;
- transmitting a deactivation request for the registered vehicle to an authentication engine;
- receiving verification of ownership of the registered vehicle with the registered account from the authentication engine;
- in response to receiving verification of ownership of the registered vehicle with the registered account from the authentication engine:
- wiping the customer information associated with the ownership from the registered vehicle to be deactivated;
- and
- deactivating the registered vehicle from the registered account;
- and
- transferring a predetermined level of subscription services with the vehicle to a subsequent owner after deactivation of the registration of the vehicle from an original owner,
- wherein the predetermined level of subscription services include at least one of:
- remote services of the vehicle or performance services of the vehicle,
- wherein the remote services include at least one of:
- door lock/unlock, engine start, horn honk, flash lights, trunk open, cabin pre-conditioning, geofencing and speed alerts, or window control, and
- wherein the performances services include Over-the-Air (OTA) updates and upgrades.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.