Systems and methods for vehicle lock/unlock alerts
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsMahmoud Yousef Ghannam, Brian Bennie
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Abstract
Method and apparatus are disclosed for providing discrete alerts to a user of the lock status of a vehicle. An example vehicle includes sensors, a communication system, and a processor. The processor is processor configured to receive a lock request from a remote device, responsive to determining that the remote device is within a threshold range, transmit a first alert to the remote device, and responsive to determining that the remote device is outside the threshold range (i) determine that a vehicle situational criteria is met, and (ii) transmit a second alert to the remote device.
Claims17
A vehicle comprising:
- sensors;
- a communication system;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- receive a lock request from a first device;
- responsive to determining that the first device is within a threshold range, transmit a first alert to a second device;
- and
- responsive to determining that the first device is outside the threshold range (i) determine that a vehicle situational criteria is met, and (ii) transmit a second alert to the second device,
- wherein determining that the vehicle situational criteria is met comprises:
- determining one or more remote server conditions corresponding to the vehicle;
- receiving data corresponding to the one or more remote server conditions from a remote server;
- and
- determining that vehicle situational criteria is met based on the one or more remote server conditions and the received data.
A vehicle comprising:
- sensors;
- a communication system;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- receive a lock request from a remote device;
- responsive to determining that the remote device is within a threshold range, transmit a first alert to the remote device;
- responsive to determining that the remote device is outside the threshold range:
- determine that a vehicle situational criteria is met, and responsively transmit a second alert to the remote device;
- determine that the vehicle situational criteria is not met, and responsively transmit a third alert to the remote device, wherein the third alert indicates that a honk will occur when the vehicle is locked;
- receive an instruction to prevent the honk from occurring from the remote device in response to transmitting the third alert;
- and
- prevent the honk from occurring when the vehicle is locked.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a vehicle processor, a lock request from a remote device;
- responsive to determining that the remote device is within a threshold range, transmitting a first alert;
- and
- responsive to determining that the remote device is outside the threshold range:
- determining that a vehicle situational criteria is met, and responsively transmitting a second alert;
- determining that the vehicle situational criteria is not met, and responsively transmitting a third alert, wherein the third alert indicates that a honk will occur when a vehicle is locked;
- receiving an instruction to prevent the honk from occurring in response to transmitting the third alert;
- and
- preventing the honk from occurring when the vehicle is locked.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.