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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2023
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Michael John Harmon, Northville, MI (US);
Rowell Dizon, Irvine, CA (US);
Justin Yang, Boise, ID (US);
Bradford Zercoe, San Jose, CA (US);
Eryu Shi, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Daniel Smith, Rolling Hills Estates, CA (US);
Shane Patton, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A physical toggle button located in a cabin of a vehicle receives input indicating a change in state of the physical toggle button from a first mode in which a plurality of functions of smart home devices are set to a first state to a second mode in which the plurality of functions of the smart home devices are set to a second state. Using a telematics control module of the vehicle, a state change request is sent indicating the change in state to a cloud service maintaining a function mapping including information for setting the plurality of functions between the first state and the second state.