Communicating an alert notification to a particular vehicle

• US 9,561,750 B1
• Filed: 08/31/2016
• Issued: 02/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated (Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Childress, Rhonda L., McNair, Ryan D., Eckert, Kim A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tai
• Application Number:
  US15/253,457
• Time in Patent Office: 160 Days
• Field of Search: 340/902, 340/903, 340/988, 340/932.2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 9/00 Arrangement or adaptation of signal devices not provided for in one of main groups B60Q1/00 - B60Q7/00 , e.g. haptic signalling
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/017 identifying vehicles G08G1/015, G08G1/054 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096791 where the origin of the information is another vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication

Abstract

Communicating a notification to a particular vehicle is provided. A processor: identifies, one or more vehicles within a particular radius to a first vehicle based on one of: WiFi network visibility, a geo-fenced radius with known geo-tags of the one or more vehicles, or scanning for visible Bluetooth devices; receives a selection for a particular vehicle of the one or more vehicles identified based on descriptive wireless tags or line-of-sight selection from a first device in the first vehicle; establishes a connection between the first device in the first vehicle and a second device in the particular vehicle; receives a selection for a predetermined message; receives an image of a problem associated with the particular vehicle; and sends the predetermined message and the image from the first device to the second device.

Claims

1. A method for communicating a notification to a particular vehicle, the method comprising:

identifying, by a processor in the first vehicle, one or more vehicles within a particular radius to the first vehicle based on one of;

WiFi network visibility, a geo-fenced radius with known geo-tags of the one or more vehicles, or scanning for visible Bluetooth devices;

receiving, by the processor, a selection for a particular vehicle of the one or more vehicles identified based on descriptive wireless tags or line-of-sight selection from a first device in the first vehicle;

establishing, by the processor, a connection between the first device in the first vehicle and a second device in the particular vehicle;

receiving, by the processor, a selection for a predetermined message;

receiving, by the processor, an image of a problem associated with the particular vehicle; and

sending, by the processor, the predetermined message and the image from the first device to the second device.