Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Yamen Taleb

Elena Ilieva

Simon John William Hurr

John Robert Van Wiemeersch

Abraham Mezaael

Hussam Makkiya

Wassim Mahmoud Nahle

Ricardo Walker

Mohammed Akhoirshida

An approach to managing mismatched controller alerts is disclosed. The approach includes storing, to a component database of a cloud system having one or more hardware computing devices, mismatched controller alerts received from a plurality of vehicles, each of the mismatched controller alerts indicating an identifier of a current vehicle that the mismatched controller is installed into, and a location of current vehicle. The approach further includes performing clustering of the mismatched controller alerts by the cloud system to correlate the mismatched controller alerts by location. The approach further includes indicating clustered locations of the mismatched controller alerts by the cloud system.

TCU replacement snitch mode

A vehicle system receives a search request, such as from a remote server or other vehicle. The system, responsive to the search request, searches for one or more device signals using one or more sensors of the vehicle. Further, the system records any device signatures associated with any device signals detected by the search and transmits the device signatures to a remote server. The remote server may take further action, such as, but not limited to, alerting the authorities, disabling a vehicle or vehicle system, and/or notifying a vehicle owner, based on processing the received signatures.

Proximate device detection, monitoring and reporting

A vehicle system may include a memory of a vehicle configured to maintain at least one smart contract between a manufacturer of the vehicle and a supplier of components to the manufacturer, and a processor of the vehicle configured to receive at least one diagnostic code from the vehicle, the diagnostic code being associated with at least one vehicle component, in response to the code being identified by the processor as being associated with the at least one smart contract, update the at least one smart contract within the memory with the code, and transmit the smart contract, as updated, to a third party associated with the vehicle component.

System and method for smart contract management using DTCs

The disclosure describes systems and methods for controlling a geo-fence. Through the use of the geo-fence and through monitoring of connections between mobile devices and the vehicle, a geo-fence is dynamically enabled and disabled for a user of a vehicle and the geo-fence control system provides notifications to users of the vehicle.

Systems and methods for controlling a geo-fence

A computer-implemented method includes determining a connection status of a first attempted connection between a mobile device comprising a Phone-as-a-Key (PaaK) controller and a first Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) module of a target vehicle. The mobile device selects, based on the connection status, a relay vehicle associated with the PaaK controller and the target vehicle. The relay vehicle includes a second BLE module. The mobile device may establish a second connection between the mobile device and a second BLE module of the relay vehicle, and transmit a power mode instruction to the target vehicle via the second connection between the mobile device and the second BLE installed in the relay vehicle. The second connection enables the second BLE module to relay the power mode instruction to the target vehicle, and the power mode instruction enables the target vehicle to execute a key-on operation.

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Dearborn Heights, MI, United States of America

Yamen Taleb