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US 2022/0169204 A1Published application
Secure layered autonomous vehicle access
AssigneeGM Cruise Holdings LLC
InventorsRajat Basu, Jeffrey Brandon, Chase Kaufman
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Abstract
A vehicle having at least one vehicle access secured by a first lock and at least one secure area secured by a second lock. The vehicle may also have a receiver configured to receive a command from a remote computing system to unlock the vehicle access or the secure area.
Claims20
A vehicle comprising:
- a set of vehicle areas secured by a set of locks, each vehicle area of the set of vehicle areas comprising a lock configured to unlock that vehicle area based on a corresponding electronic key and a profile of a user requesting access to that vehicle area;
- and
- a computing system of the vehicle, the computing system being configured to:
- validate or authenticate requests to unlock the set of vehicle areas received from one or more applications on one or more mobile devices, each request of the requests to unlock the set of vehicle areas being validated or authenticated based on an electronic key included in the request;
- determine, for each request of the requests to unlock the set of vehicle areas, one or more levels of access of a user profile associated with the request to the set of vehicle areas, the one or more levels of access being determined based on the user profile associated with the request, wherein two or more user profiles are configured to have different levels of access to the set of vehicle areas;
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- in response to validating or authenticating the request, provide, to a user associated with the user profile, a particular level of access from the one or more levels of access to a particular vehicle area associated with the request.
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A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- receive, from an application on a mobile device associated with a user, a request to unlock a vehicle area from a set of vehicle areas of a vehicle that are secured by a set of locks, the request comprising an electronic key associated with a lock of the vehicle area;
- validate or authenticate the request to unlock the vehicle area, the request to unlock the vehicle area being validated or authenticated based on the electronic key included in the request;
- determine one or more levels of access of a user profile associated with the user to the set of vehicle areas, the one or more levels of access being determined based on the user profile, wherein two or more user profiles are configured to have different levels of access to the set of vehicle areas;
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- in response to validating or authenticating the request, provide, to the user associated with the user profile, a particular level of access from the one or more levels of access to the vehicle area associated with the request.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, from an application on a mobile device associated with a user, a request to unlock a vehicle area from a set of vehicle areas of a vehicle that are secured by a set of locks, the request comprising an electronic key associated with a lock of the vehicle area;
- validating or authenticating the request to unlock the vehicle area, the request to unlock the vehicle area being validated or authenticated based on the electronic key included in the request;
- determining one or more levels of access of a user profile associated with the user to the set of vehicle areas, the one or more levels of access being determined based on the user profile, wherein two or more user profiles are configured to have different levels of access to the set of vehicle areas;
- and
- in response to validating or authenticating the request, providing, to the user associated with the user profile, a particular level of access from the one or more levels of access to the vehicle area associated with the request.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.