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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2015
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Pietro Buttolo, Dearborn Heights, MI (US);
James Stewart Rankin, II, Novi, MI (US);
Stephen Ronald Tokish, Sylvania, OH (US);
Stuart C. Salter, White Lake, MI (US);
Gary Steven Strumolo, Canton, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A system may include a wireless transceiver configured to scan for advertised services; and a processor programmed to receive a service identifier of a service from the wireless transceiver, verify a name included in the service identifier indicates that the service identifier is an in-vehicle component, and decode, from the service identifier, a relative location within the vehicle, a zone controlled by the in-vehicle component, and a category of functionality of the in-vehicle component. A method may include enumerating characteristics of a service of an in-vehicle component describing configurable functions of the in-vehicle component; retrieving a control state of the in-vehicle component using a read characteristic of the service; generating a user interface of the in-vehicle component indicating the configurable functions and the control state; and updating the control state of the in-vehicle component using a write characteristic of the service responsive to user input to the user interface.