Motor vehicle engine start control employing geofencing
AssigneeOCC Technologies, LLC
InventorsBrian Mulshine, Sean Slyman
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Abstract
Remote starting of engines of motor vehicles in a fleet is allowed when the motor vehicles are within an area bounded by a geofence and certain mandatory vehicle-specific data parameters are satisfied, but is disallowed when any motor vehicle is outside the geofenced area or any of its mandatory vehicle-specific is non-compliant for engine starting.
Claims19
A system for selectively allowing and disallowing starting of an engine which propels a motor vehicle, the system comprising:
- geofence data defining geographic co-ordinates data for an outdoor area;
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- a processing system for processing data, the processing system being operable to process the geofence data, geographic co-ordinate data for the location of a motor vehicle, and mandatory vehicle-specific data for the motor vehicle and allow starting of an engine of the motor vehicle when A) the processing of the geofence data and the geographic co-ordinates data for the location of the motor vehicle discloses that the motor vehicle is within the outdoor area and B) the processing of the mandatory vehicle-specific data for the motor vehicle discloses that the mandatory vehicle-specific data is compliant with allowing engine starting, and the processing system being operable to disallow starting of the engine when C) the processing of the geofence data and the geographic co-ordinates data for the location of the motor vehicle discloses that the motor vehicle is not within the outdoor area or D) the processing of the mandatory vehicle-specific data for the motor vehicle discloses that any mandatory vehicle-specific data is non-compliant with allowing engine starting.
A system for selectively locking an engine starting system of an engine in a motor vehicle to prevent engine starting after the engine has been shut off, the system comprising:
- geofence data defining geographic co-ordinates data for an outdoor area;
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- a processing system for processing data, the processing system being operable to process the geofence data and geographic co-ordinate data for the location of a motor vehicle, and when the processing of the geofence data, the geographic co-ordinates data for the location of the motor vehicle, and other data discloses that the motor vehicle is within the outdoor area and the engine is not running, enables a control to selectively lock an engine starting system to disallow engine starting and unlocking the engine starting system to allow engine starting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.