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US 11,445,059 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for an adaptive mobile device vehicle control application
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorSandeep Sasidharan
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Abstract
A system includes a mobile device that requests a control file, defining a plurality of available vehicle controls. The mobile device also receives the control set file and populate a mobile device interface based on the available vehicle controls. The mobile device then receives selection of one of the vehicle controls via the mobile device interface. The mobile device then configures a vehicle function call, defined in accordance with the vehicle-control in the control file and transmits the configured vehicle function call to a vehicle.
Claims17
A system comprising:
- a processor of a mobile device, configured to
- wirelessly request a control file, from a server, defining a plurality of available vehicle controls, in response to requesting a hailed vehicle via the mobile device;
- receive the control file from the server and populate a mobile device interface based on the available vehicle controls;
- receive selection of one of the vehicle controls via the mobile device interface;
- configure a vehicle function call, defined in accordance with the vehicle control in the control file;
- and
- transmit the configured vehicle function call to a vehicle.
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A method comprising:
- populating an interface of a mobile device with a plurality of vehicle controls obtained from a control file received by the mobile device from a server, in response to requesting the vehicle as a hailed vehicle;
- accessing the control file to obtain a vehicle command for one of the vehicle controls selected from the interface;
- and
- sending the obtained command from the mobile device to a vehicle for which the vehicle command is predefined.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.