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US 2024/0403989 A1Published application
Reactive vehicle communication and assistance system
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsBrendan F. Diamond, Anthony Maraldo, Keith Weston, Michael Alan McNees
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Abstract
A system determines a location of a specific vehicle in a dealer lot, responsive to a request for the specific vehicle received from a device of a user. The system also determines a current location of the user and, responsive to the user location being within a predefined proximity of the location of the specific vehicle, wirelessly instructs the specific vehicle to utilize a first vehicle external output to signal the user.
Claims20
A vehicle comprising:
- at least one wireless transceiver;
- and
- one or more processors in communication with the wireless transceiver, configured to:
- detect the presence of a signal from a wireless device of a user via the transceiver;
- determine that the signal has remained within a predefined proximity of the vehicle for more than a predefined threshold period of time;
- responsive to the signal remaining within the predefined proximity of the vehicle, communicate with an application installed on the wireless device to offer the user access to the vehicle;
- responsive to the user accepting the offer via the wireless device, create an obtainment schedule, customized to the user based on a user profile;
- and
- output the obtainment schedule to a display of the vehicle.
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A vehicle comprising:
- at least one wireless transceiver;
- at least one external output;
- and
- one or more processors in communication with the transceiver and the output, configured to:
- receive a request from a remote device to locate the vehicle;
- determine whether a user location, determinable from the request, is within a predefined proximity of the vehicle;
- and
- responsive to the user location being within the predefined proximity, utilize the at least one external output in a predefined manner to signal the user.
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A system comprising:
- one or more processors configured to:
- determine a location of a specific vehicle in a dealer lot, responsive to a request for the specific vehicle received from a device of a user;
- determine a current location of the user;
- and
- responsive to the user location being within a predefined proximity of the location of the specific vehicle, wirelessly instruct the specific vehicle to utilize a first vehicle external output to signal the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.