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US 8,558,690 B2Granted
Vehicle system passive notification using remote device
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsRobert Bruce Kleve, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Thomas Lee Miller, Steven Yellin Schondorf, Karl Douglas Vandivier, Paul Aldighieri
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Abstract
A method of vehicle monitoring includes monitoring one or more vehicle safety systems while a vehicle is in operation to detect an unsafe condition. The method also includes sending an alert to a handheld device if an unsafe condition is detected.
Claims22
A method of monitoring vehicle systems comprising:
- determining if a vehicle system to be monitored is in an alert state;
- determining if a vehicle is occupied;
- and
- based at least in part on the vehicle system alert state determination and a determination that the vehicle is no longer occupied, sending a vehicle system alert based at least in part on a determined alert state to a user's wireless device.
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A method comprising:
- monitoring one or more vehicle safety systems while a vehicle is in operation to detect an unsafe condition;
- sending an alert to a handheld device upon detection of the unsafe condition;
- determining whether or not to include additional information related to correction of the unsafe condition in the alert;
- and
- based on the determining, including additional information related to the correction of the unsafe condition with the alert sent by the sending,
- wherein the unsafe condition includes a vehicle component in need of repair and the additional information includes at least a location of a business where the vehicle component can be repaired.
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A method of vehicle monitoring comprising:
- determining if a specific driver class is present in a vehicle;
- determining one or more class specific predefined systems to monitor based at least in part on a determined driver class;
- monitoring the one or more class specific predefined systems while a vehicle is in operation to detect a predefined condition;
- and
- sending an alert to a handheld device if a predefined condition is detected.
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A method for monitoring a vehicle sensor comprising:
- activating one or more monitoring systems;
- monitoring the one or more activated monitoring systems;
- checking a power source providing power to the one or more monitoring systems to determine if the power source is below a certain threshold;
- sending a low power alert to a user on a remote device if the power source determined to be below the threshold;
- ceasing monitoring of the one or more systems being monitored if the power source is below the threshold;
- detecting a change in the state of the one or more systems being monitored;
- and
- sending an alert to the user on the remote device if at least one of the one or more monitoring systems have changed state to a state in which an alert is to be sent.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.