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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2013
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Commerce Township, MI (US);
Reates Curry, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Louis Tijerina, Dearborn, MI (US);
Dimitar Petrov Filev, Novi, MI (US);
Yifan Chen, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Jeffrey Allen Greenberg, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Gary Steven Strumolo, Canton, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle includes at least one processor that receives an in-coming communication for a driver, routes the in-coming communication to a mail system in response to a driver workload exceeding a predefined value, and after a predetermined period of time following routing the in-coming communication to the mail system, generates a notification for the driver indicating that a communication was received in response to the driver workload being less than the predefined value at an expiration of the predetermined period of time.