Local business access using geofence
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsAndrew Brown, Keith Weston, Joshua Sharpe
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Abstract
A vehicle includes one or more controllers, programmed to responsive to detecting a vehicle location within a geofence of a first entity, qualify the first entity as one of business candidates to display to a screen; responsive to receiving a promotion from one or more of the business candidates, output the promotion; and responsive to receiving a user input, place a reservation to one of the business candidates.
Claims16
A vehicle, comprising:
- a sensor, programmed to collect a vehicle occupancy;
- a telematics control unit (TCU) programmed to communicate with a wireless network;
- and
- a computer, programmed to
- responsive to detecting a vehicle location within a geofence of a first entity, qualify the first entity as one of business candidates to display to a screen,
- collect a business membership of a vehicle user from a mobile device wirelessly connected to the vehicle,
- responsive to receiving a user permission, send the vehicle occupancy and the business membership to one or more of the business candidates via the TCU,
- responsive to receiving a promotion from one or more of the business candidates, output the promotion, wherein the promotion is customized to the vehicle occupancy and the business membership, and
- responsive to receiving a user input, place a reservation to one of the business candidates.
A method for a vehicle, comprising:
- responsive to detecting a vehicle location within a geofence of a first business entity, qualifying the first business entity as one of business candidates;
- displaying one or more business candidates on a display;
- collecting a vehicle user information from a mobile device wirelessly connected to the vehicle, the user information includes a business membership of the vehicle user;
- sending the vehicle user information to one or more of the business candidates via a cloud;
- collecting vehicle occupancy information via a sensor;
- responsive to receiving a user permission, sending the vehicle occupancy information to one or more of the business candidates via the cloud;
- responsive to receiving a customized promotion from the one or more of the business candidates, outputting the customized promotion to the vehicle user, wherein the customized promotion is customized to the business membership;
- and
- responsive to receiving a user input place a reservation to one of the business candidates.
A non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions, when executed by a processor of a vehicle, making the vehicle to:
- responsive to detecting a business entity is located within a geofence defined by the vehicle and by a navigation route of the vehicle, qualify the business entity as one of business candidates;
- display one or more business candidates on a display;
- collect a business membership of a vehicle user from a mobile device wirelessly connected to the vehicle;
- send the business membership to one or more of the business candidates;
- collect vehicle occupancy information via a sensor;
- responsive to receiving a user permission, send the vehicle occupancy information to a cloud to share with one or more of the business candidates;
- responsive to receiving a promotion customized to the business membership from one or more of the business candidates, output the promotion;
- and
- responsive to receiving a user input;
- place a reservation to one of the business candidates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.