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US 11,908,302 B1Granted
Vehicle as a beacon
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsStephanie Gage, Raymond Theodore Gage
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Abstract
A vehicle determines that a trigger state designated for user assistance for a user traveling away from a vehicle has occurred. The vehicle determines that an alert action to be taken, defined in conjunction with the trigger state and determines that a user has not returned to a vehicle based on a failure to detect a user wireless device. The vehicle automatically executes the alert action responsive to the trigger state occurrence and failure to detect the user device.
Claims20
A vehicle comprising:
- one or more processors configured to:
- determine that a trigger state designated for user assistance for a user traveling away from a vehicle has occurred;
- determine that a user has not returned to the vehicle based on a failure to detect a designated user device;
- determine an alert action to be taken, defined in conjunction with the trigger state;
- and
- automatically execute the alert action responsive to the trigger state occurrence and the failure to detect the user device.
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A method comprising:
- determining that a trigger state designated for user assistance for a user traveling away from a vehicle has occurred;
- determining an alert action to be taken, defined in conjunction with the trigger state;
- and
- determining that a user has not returned to the vehicle based on a failure to detect a designated user device;
- automatically executing the alert action responsive to the trigger state occurrence and the failure to detect the user device.
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A vehicle comprising:
- one or more processors configured to:
- determine that a time threshold, designated by a user in advance of a journey away from a vehicle, has lapsed;
- responsive to the lapsed threshold, scanning for wireless signals associated with a device correlated to the user;
- and
- responsive to a failure to detect the device, engage in at least one predefined alert action.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.