Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Yihai Zhang

Muhammad Khaledul Islam

Jeffrey William Wirtanen

A vehicle determines the value of at least one predefined variable related to predefined contexts for discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle control during an engine-off state of the vehicle. The vehicle determines how a current DRX cycle should be changed responsive to the value of the at least one predefined variable in accordance with a control strategy associated with the at least one variable and, responsive to the determining how the cycle should be changed, automatically changes the current DRX cycle in accordance with the control strategy while the vehicle remains powered down.

Dynamically controllable and adaptable vehicle paging response

A vehicle includes a processor, programmed to utilize a modem to receive an update request as a short message service (SMS) message, identify a network quality metric for a data connection to a base station of a wide-area network, when the quality metric exceeds a predefined threshold value, download the software update from the wide-area network, and otherwise, send an update response as an SMS deliver report indicating rejection of the update request.

Growing community of inventors

Kanata, Canada

Yihai Zhang