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.
Claims20
A vehicle, comprising:
- 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.
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 at least one of:
- business membership of the vehicle user, or business customer credits/rewards of the vehicle user;
- sending the vehicle user information to one or more of the business candidates via a cloud;
- and
- responsive to receiving a customized promotion from the one or more of the business candidates, outputting the customized promotion to the vehicle user.
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;
- responsive to receiving a customized promotion from one or more of the business candidates, output the customized promotion;
- and
- responsive to receiving a user input;
- place a reservation to one of the business candidates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.