Vehicle contents inventory system interface

• US 9,255,810 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2014
• Issued: 02/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Van Wiemeersch, John Robert, Hermann, Thomas Joseph, Kleve, Robert Bruce, Holub, Patrick Kevin, Hrecznyj, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): FREJD, RUSSELL WARREN
• Application Number:
  US14/151,299
• Publication Number:
  US 20150192423A1
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 701/408, 701/516, 701/579, 701/538, 701/540, 701/300, 455/41.2, 455/500, 705/28, 705/29, 340/5.92, 340/10.1, 340/572.1, 340/572.4
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/343 Calculating itineraries, i.e. routes leading from a starting point to a series of categorical destinations using a global route restraint, round trips, touristic trips travelling salesman problem G06Q10/04; optimisation of routes G06Q10/047
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/44 Program or device authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10089 the interrogation device using at least one directional antenna or directional interrogation field to resolve the collision direction or location finding, such as triangulation techniques, G01S13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10099 the directional field being used for pinpointing the location of the record carrier, e.g. for finding or locating an RFID tag amongst a plurality of RFID tags, each RFID tag being associated with an object, e.g. for physically locating the RFID tagged object in a warehouse
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10108 interrogating only those RFIDs that fulfill a predetermined requirement, e.g. selecting all RFIDs having the same speed and moving in a cloud like fashion, e.g. on the same train; interrogating only RFIDs having a certain predetermined temperature, e.g. in the same fridge, another possibility being the active ignoring of a group of tags that fulfill a predetermined requirement, equivalent to the Boolean NOT operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10316 using at least one antenna particularly designed for interrogating the wireless record carriers antennas in general H01Q1/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10336 the antenna being of the near field type, inductive coil
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10366 the interrogation device being adapted for miscellaneous applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10376 the interrogation device being adapted for being moveable
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10386 the interrogation device being of the portable or hand-handheld type, e.g. incorporated in ubiquitous hand-held devices such as PDA or mobile phone, or in the form of a portable dedicated RFID reader
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10405 the interrogation device including an arrangement for sensing environmental parameters, such as a temperature or acceleration sensor, e.g. used as an on/off trigger or as a warning means
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/77 for interrogation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/00 Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field H04B10/00, H04B15/00 take precedence

Abstract

A vehicle inventory interface system may include a user interface configured to present a plurality of vehicle icons each representing a vehicle in a fleet, present at least one list icon associated with each vehicle icon, receive a selection of one of the list icons, and display, in response to the selection, an inventory list associated with the selected list icon and indicating whether items specified by the inventory list are present within the vehicle.

Claims

1. A vehicle inventory interface system comprising:

a passive entry system including at least one controller configured to authenticate a key fob in a vicinity of the vehicle and to cause an interface to

present a plurality of points of interest and driving routes defined there between,

present a rule icon associated with each driving route, and

present, in response to a selection of the rule icon, a list of items corresponding to the driving route associated with the selected icon, and at least one option block for modifying the list in response to user selections.

2. The interface system of claim 1, wherein presenting the at least one option block includes presenting at least one alert option associated with a violation of the list.

3. The interface system of claim 2, wherein the at least one alert option includes a list of selectable alert types.

4. The interface system of claim 1, wherein the list of items includes a list of excluded items.

5. The interface system of claim 4, wherein the at least one option block includes an alert option associated with each of an excluded item within the list of excluded items.

6. A vehicle inventory interface system comprising:

a passive entry system configured to cause an interface to

present a plurality of points of interest and driving routes defined there between,

present an inventory list icon for each route that upon selection, presents rules specific to the respective route, the rules including a list of items to be included in and excluded from a vehicle during the respective route and an alert associated with each item.

7. The inventory system of claim 6, wherein the interface is further configured to display an alert in response to one of the items to be excluded from the vehicle being present in the vehicle for the respective route.

8. The inventory system of claim 7, wherein the alert includes a textual representation of a violation of the respective rule.

9. The inventory system of claim 6, wherein the passive entry system is further configured to cause the interface to highlight a point of interest associated with a current location of the vehicle.

10. The inventory system of claim 6, wherein the passive entry system is further configured to cause the interface to highlight the current route of the vehicle.

11. The inventory system of claim 6, wherein the alert includes a selectable alert type associated with the respective item.

12. An interface system comprising:

a user interface arrangement configured to

present a plurality of points of interest and driving routes defined there between,

present a list icon associated with each of the routes, and

display, in response to a selection of the list icon, an inventory list associated with the respective route indicating whether items specified by the inventory list are present within the vehicle.

13. The interface system of claim 12, wherein the user interface arrangement is further configured to display a rule list including at least one option block for modifying the rule list in response to user selections, the rule list associated with the respective driving route.

14. The interface system of claim 12, wherein selection of each list icon for each route presents a rule list specific to the respective route and distinct from a rule list associated with other routes.