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Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 06, 2011
Applicants:

Elizabeth Profitt-brown, Plymouth, MI (US);

Joseph Paul Rork, Canton, MI (US);

Brian Petersen, Ferndale, MI (US);

Edward Andrew Pleet, Livonia, MI (US);

Kelly Lee Zechel, Plymouth, MI (US);

Yevgeniya Sosonkina, Birmingham, MI (US);

Susan Curry, Allen Park, MI (US);

Mary Smith, Canton, MI (US);

Ryan Skaff, Farmington Hills, MI (US);

Inventors:

Elizabeth Profitt-Brown, Plymouth, MI (US);

Joseph Paul Rork, Canton, MI (US);

Brian Petersen, Ferndale, MI (US);

Edward Andrew Pleet, Livonia, MI (US);

Kelly Lee Zechel, Plymouth, MI (US);

Yevgeniya Sosonkina, Birmingham, MI (US);

Susan Curry, Allen Park, MI (US);

Mary Smith, Canton, MI (US);

Ryan Skaff, Farmington Hills, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 25/10 (2013.01); B60L 11/18 (2006.01); B60K 35/00 (2006.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 11/1809 (2013.01); Y02T 90/128 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7044 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7088 (2013.01); B60L 11/1838 (2013.01); B60L 2230/40 (2013.01); B60K 35/00 (2013.01); B60K 2350/357 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7005 (2013.01); Y04S 30/14 (2013.01); B60K 2350/1092 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01); Y02T 90/168 (2013.01); Y02T 90/169 (2013.01); Y02T 90/14 (2013.01); B60L 11/1861 (2013.01); Y02T 10/705 (2013.01); Y04S 30/12 (2013.01); Y02T 90/163 (2013.01); B60W 2510/244 (2013.01);
Abstract

One or more embodiments may include a method for remotely obtaining information about an energy source of a vehicle. Information identifying one or more vehicles and one or more drivers of the vehicles may be received at one or more computing devices remote from a vehicle. Instructions from the one or more remote computing devices may be transmitted requesting information from the identified vehicle(s) about a status of an energy source for the identified vehicle(s). The status information may be received at the remote computing device(s). Based on the energy source status information and the driver identifying information, a vehicle energy source status with respect to one or more attributes of the vehicle drivers may be calculated. Additionally, the vehicle energy source status may be displayed at the one or more devices.


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