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Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 18, 2013
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

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);

Assignee:

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

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/08 (2012.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2013.01); B60W 50/087 (2013.01); G01C 21/3697 (2013.01);
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.


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