Apparatus and system for generating vehicle usage model

• US 9,773,251 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2014
• Issued: 09/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Liu, Yimin, MacNeille, Perry Robinson, Gusikhin, Oleg Yurievitch, Cateriano, Alfredo, Wang, Fei
• Primary Examiner(s): PAIGE, TYLER D
• Application Number:
  US14/294,333
• Publication Number:
  US 20150348058A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,211 Days
• Field of Search: 701 314, 705 4
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005

Abstract

A vehicle computer system configured to communicate with a mobile device, comprising a wireless transceiver configured to communicate with the mobile device. The vehicle computer system also includes a processor in communication with the wireless transceiver. The processor is configured to receive information from one or more vehicle sensors regarding vehicle usage, send the information to an off-board server via the wireless transceiver, wherein the information is utilized in a damages-model regarding the vehicle, and output the information concerning the damages-model to a user display.

Claims

1. A vehicle computer system, comprising:

a processor in communication with a wireless transceiver and configured to;

1.) receive vehicle usage and performance data from one or more vehicle sensors;

2.) transmit, using the wireless transceiver, the vehicle usage and performance data to an off-board server configured to determine a vehicle depreciation in response to the usage and performance data;

3.) output the vehicle depreciation received from the server to a user display.

2. The vehicle computer system of claim 1, wherein the one or more vehicle sensors includes an engine control unit.

3. The vehicle computer system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to receive vehicle environment data from a remote server via a mobile device in a communication with the wireless transceiver.

4. The vehicle computer system of claim 1, wherein vehicle environment data is utilized in determining the vehicle depreciation.

5. The vehicle computer system of claim 1, wherein vehicle information concerning the vehicle depreciation is sent to the user display via an e-mail or text message.

6. The vehicle computer system of claim 1, wherein the user display includes a mobile phone in the vehicle.

7. A server in communication with a vehicle, comprising:

a wireless transceiver at the server in communication with a vehicle configured to exchange data;

a processor at the server in communication with the wireless transceiver, the processor configured to;

1.) receive from the vehicle, vehicle data indicating vehicle usage and performance;

2.) receive vehicle environment data from a remote server;

3.) in response to the vehicle data and the vehicle environment data, transmit a depreciation value of the vehicle to a device to be output on a display.

8. The server of claim 7, wherein the processor is further configured to transmit a promotion to be output on a display based on the vehicle data.

9. The server of claim 7, wherein the wireless transceiver is further configured to exchange data via an application program interface in communication with a mobile device in the vehicle.

10. The server of claim 7, wherein the vehicle data includes vehicle data from an engine control unit.

11. The server of claim 7, wherein the processor is further configured to receive vehicle environment data from the remote server via a mobile device located in the vehicle in communication with the server in communication with the vehicle.

12. The server of claim 7, wherein vehicle environment data is utilized in a damages-model regarding the vehicle.

13. The server of claim 12, wherein the damages-model is utilized to assess a vehicle'"'"'s depreciation value using at least the vehicle data and vehicle environment data.

14. The server of claim 7, wherein the vehicle includes one or more vehicle sensors that include an engine control unit.

15. The server of claim 7, wherein information concerning vehicle depreciation is sent to a third-party agency.

16. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

communicating with a mobile device located in a vehicle via a wireless transceiver;

receiving, via the mobile device communicating with an off-board server, vehicle usage and performance data from one or more vehicle sensors;

in response to the vehicle usage and performance data, outputting a depreciation value to a user device.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, wherein the depreciation value is sent to a third-party agency.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, wherein the method further includes the step of:

outputting, via the wireless transceiver, a recommended insurance offering to the user device in response to the depreciation value.