FILTERING A DSRC BROADCAST BASED ON USER-DEFINED PREFERENCES

• US 20190098462A1
• Filed: 03/01/2016
• Published: 03/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: NEUBECKER, Cynthia M., RAO, Jayanthi, KING, Anthony Gerald, MILOSER, James Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 10,587,992 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/23 for mobile advertising
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A broadcast filtering system for a vehicle includes a controller programmed to, in response to receiving a commercial offering from a broadcasting business via a dedicated short-range network broadcast and identifying a match between a classification associated with the business and a user-defined preferred classification associated with the vehicle, display the offering, and, in response to identifying no match between the respective classifications, prevent the display.

Claims

1. A broadcast filtering system for a vehicle comprising:

a controller programmed to,

in response to receiving a commercial offering from a broadcasting business via a dedicated short-range network broadcast and identifying a match between a classification associated with the business and a user-defined preferred classification associated with the vehicle, display the offering, and,

in response to identifying no match between the respective classifications, prevent the display.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller is further programmed to display the offering in response to identifying the classification as non-restricted among user-defined restriction classifications.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the user-defined restriction classifications comprise at least two of age, location, cost, or rating.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein in response to identifying the match, the controller is further programmed to supplement the offering according to at least one user-specific attribute and to display the supplemented offering.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the applicable user-specific attribute defines a prior transaction with the broadcasting business and the supplemented offering includes details associated with the prior transaction.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the applicable user-specific attribute is stored on an external memory device accessible to the controller.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the classification comprises a business category, a business type, or a business service.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the business service defines making a purchase related to the broadcasted offering and the controller is further programmed to display a list of commands for completing the purchase.

9. A method for a vehicle comprising:

in response to receiving by a controller a commercial offering and a classification from a broadcasting business via a dedicated short-range network broadcast and identifying a match between the classification and a user-defined preferred classification associated with the vehicle, displaying the offering; and

in response to identifying no match between the respective classifications, preventing the displaying.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising displaying the offering in response to identifying the classification as non-restricted among user-defined restriction classifications.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the user-defined restriction classifications comprise at least two of age, location, cost, or rating.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising, in response to identifying the match, supplementing the offering according to at least one user-specific attribute and displaying the supplemented offering.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the applicable user-specific attribute defines a prior transaction with the broadcasting business and the supplemented offering includes details associated with the prior transaction.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the applicable user-specific attribute is stored on an external memory device accessible to the controller.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the classification comprises a business category, a business type, or a business service.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the business service defines making a purchase related to the broadcasted offering and further comprising displaying a list of commands for completing the purchase.

17. A vehicle controller comprising:

input channels configured to receive a commercial offering and a classification from a broadcasting business via a dedicated short-range network broadcast;

output channels configured to provide signals to display the offering; and

control logic configured to, in response to identifying a match between the classification and a user-defined preferred classification associated with the vehicle, generate the signals.