Adaptive plug-in reminder via smart phone application
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsAlexander Bartlett, Dylan Erb, Bikram Singh, Jacob Wiles
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a controller programmed to recognize a park event at a parking location, learn charging intention associated with the parking location, and, responsive to predicting an intention to charge the vehicle at the parking location and recognizing that a user has left a vicinity of the vehicle without connecting a charger, cause a device associated with the user to issue a charge reminder. The controller predicts the intention to charge based on contextual data from previous park events.
Claims13
A vehicle comprising:
- a controller programmed to
- wirelessly communicate with a device external to the vehicle and associated with a user of the vehicle,
- recognize a park event at a location,
- learn charging intention for a user associated with the location,
- estimate a confidence level associated with the charging intention,
- responsive to the confidence level being greater than a threshold and recognizing that the user has left a vicinity of the vehicle without connecting a charger to the vehicle, wirelessly communicate with the device to cause the device to issue a charge reminder, and
- responsive to the confidence level being less than the threshold and recognizing that the user has left the vicinity of the vehicle without connecting the charger to the vehicle, cause the device to issue the charge reminder according to a default reminder strategy, otherwise do not cause the device to issue the charge reminder.
A charge reminder system for an electrified vehicle comprising:
- a controller programmed to
- learn user charging intention associated with parking locations based on contextual data and charge behavior corresponding to previous parking events,
- estimate a confidence level associated with the user charging intention,
- responsive to the confidence level being greater than a threshold and recognizing that the user has left a vicinity of the electrified vehicle without initiating charging, send a reminder via wireless communication to a remote device that is separate from the vehicle and associated with the user, and
- responsive to the confidence level being less than the threshold and recognizing that the user has left the vicinity of the electrified vehicle without initiating charging, send the reminder according to a default reminder strategy that is not based on the contextual data, otherwise do not send the reminder.
A method comprising:
- by a controller,
- learning a charging intention of a user for a vehicle at a parking location based on charge behavior and contextual data from previous parking events;
- causing a remote device that is separate from the vehicle and associated with the user to issue a reminder responsive to contextual data from a present parking event corresponding to an intention to charge and the user leaving a vicinity of the vehicle without connecting a charger to the vehicle;
- estimating a confidence level associated with the charging intention;
- and
- responsive to the confidence level being less than a threshold, causing the remote device to issue a reminder according to a default reminder strategy.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.