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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2012
Christopher Lee Rovik, Canton, MI (US);
Charan S. Lota, Canton, MI (US);
Donald Anthony Restauri, Iii, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Christopher Lee Rovik, Canton, MI (US);
Charan S. Lota, Canton, MI (US);
Donald Anthony Restauri, III, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A vehicle may communicate with a vendor interaction system of a vendor. The vehicle includes network interface hardware, a processor communicatively coupled to the network interface hardware, and at least one display communicatively coupled to the at least one processor. The processor executes logic to establish a communication link with the vendor interaction system, receive, with the network interface hardware, a vendor data signal from the vendor interaction system, the vendor data signal indicative of vendor information, receive, with the network interface hardware, a user preference data signal indicative of user order preferences for the vendor, display at least one of the user order preferences and the vendor information on the at least one display, and display an order prompt requesting a user to make an order selection from at least one of the vendor information or the user order preferences displayed on the at least one display.