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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2020
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Ahmed Benmimoun, Aachen/NRW, DE;
Chenhao Ma, Canton, MI (US);
Tony Tae-Jin Pak, Garden City, MI (US);
Thomas Gerlitz, Aachen/NRW, DE;
Hamid M. Golgiri, Livonia, MI (US);
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
While a vehicle is in an off state, expiration of a timer and receipt of a first message from a user device are monitored. Upon determining that at least one of the timer has expired or that the first message is received from the user device, a communication network onboard the vehicle is then monitored for a specified set of fault conditions. Upon detecting, on the onboard vehicle communication network, a fault condition included in the set of fault conditions, the fault condition is then identified as one of transient or persistent. A user assist feature of the vehicle is disabled upon identifying that the fault condition is transient and that a second message was received from the user device after the fault condition was detected.