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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2016
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);
Jeffrey A. Wallace, Walled Lake, MI (US);
Stuart C. Salter, White Lake, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle component may operate in a plurality of connectionless functional states including a watchdog state in which the component broadcasts advertisements indicating presence of the vehicle component to personal devices; a notify state in which the component broadcasts cycles of advertisements indicating available features of the component; and a process command state in which the component broadcasts current feature state advertisements responsive to command advertisements received from the personal devices. A personal device may operate in a plurality of connectionless functional states including an acquire interface state in which the personal device collects information indicative of component functions based on non-connectable advertisements from in-vehicle components; a display interface state in which the personal device provides a user interface of controls based on information collected during the acquire interface state; and a process command state in which the device broadcasts command advertisements responsive to operator input to the user interface.