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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019
Filed:
May. 26, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Daniel C. Gross, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrick L. Coffman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard R. Dellinger, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher P. Foss, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jason J. Gauci, Cupertino, CA (US);
Aria D. Haghighi, Seattle, WA (US);
Cyrus D. Irani, Los Altos, CA (US);
Bronwyn A. Jones, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gaurav Kapoor, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stephen O. Lemay, San Francisco, CA (US);
Colin C. Morris, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael R. Siracusa, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lawrence Y. Yang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Brent D. Ramerth, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jerome R. Bellegarda, Saratoga, CA (US);
Jannes G.A. Dolfing, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Giulia P. Pagallo, Cupertino, CA (US);
Xin Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Jun Hatori, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexandre R. Moha, Los Altos, CA (US);
Kevin D. Clark, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karl Christian Kohlschuetter, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Jesper S. Andersen, Portland, OR (US);
Hafid Arras, Paris, FR;
Alexandre Carlhian, Paris, FR;
Thomas Deniau, Paris, FR;
Mathieu J. Martel, Paris, FR;
Sofiane Toudji, San Francisco, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for proactively assisting users with accurately locating a parked vehicle are disclosed herein. An example method includes: automatically, and without instructions from a user: determining that a user of the electronic device is in a vehicle that has come to rest at a geographic location. Upon determining that the user has left the vehicle at the geographic location, the method includes automatically, and without instructions from a user: determining whether positioning information, retrieved from the location sensor to identify the geographic location, satisfies accuracy criteria. Upon determining that the positioning information does not satisfy the accuracy criteria, the method includes: providing a prompt to the user to input information about the geographic location. In response to providing the prompt, the method includes receiving information from the user about the geographic location and storing the information as vehicle location information.