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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Yimin Liu, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Perry Robinson MacNeille, Lathrup Village, MI (US);
Joe Phillip Pierucci, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Erica Klampfl, Canton, MI (US);
Edward K. Krause, Saline, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A survey system enabling one or more processors to output a survey in a vehicle while allowing a vehicle occupant to engage in the survey. The survey system may communicate with a vehicle computing system enabling one or more processors to receive input representing one or more occupants in a vehicle. They survey system may receive an input representing a current location. The system may determine a workload value for the one or more vehicle occupants and output a survey to the one or more vehicle occupants when the workload value is below a predefined threshold. The system may output a survey related to the one or more occupants and current location. The system may collect survey results and relay the survey results to a remote server for processing. The system may provide a digital reward to the one or more occupants participating in the survey.