Vehicle battery reporting and auto-charge
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorMohammed Khonizi
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Abstract
A storage maintains charge times for vehicles. A processor of a server is programmed to periodically determine a time interval since each of the vehicles has been started according to the charge times. The server sends a message over a wide-area network requesting remote start of one of the vehicles responsive to the time interval for the one of the vehicles indicating no engine restart for at least a predefined time period. A processor of a vehicle restarts the vehicle according to receipt of a restart request sent responsive to a periodic process performed by a remote server to identify that a most recent vehicle start time sent from the vehicle to the remote server is at least a predefined time interval from a current time identified by the remote server.
Claims19
A system comprising:
- a storage maintaining restart times for vehicles;
- and
- a processor of a server, programmed to periodically determine a time interval since each of the vehicles has been started according to the restart times and send a message over a wide-area network requesting remote start of one of the vehicles responsive to the time interval for the one of the vehicles indicating a lack of restart for at least a predefined time period, wherein the predefined time period is a time interval programmed to the vehicles to automatically shut down responsive to lack of completion of a remote start sequence activated from a key fob.
A method comprising:
- sending a vehicle start time to a remote server responsive to an engine event of a vehicle;
- and
- restarting the vehicle according to receipt of a restart request received from the remote server responsive to a periodic process performed by the remote server identifying that the engine event occurred at least a predefined period of time ago, wherein the predefined period of time is a time interval programmed to the vehicle to automatically shut down responsive to lack of completion of a remote start sequence activated from a key fob.
A system comprising:
- a processor of a vehicle programmed to restart the vehicle according to receipt of a restart request sent responsive to a periodic process performed by a remote server to identify that a most recent vehicle start time sent from the vehicle to the remote server is at least a predefined time interval from a current time identified by the remote server,
- wherein the predefined time interval is a time interval programed to the vehicle to automatically shut down responsive to lack of completion of a remote start sequence activated from a key fob.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.