Method and system for launching an application

• US 9,326,092 B2
• Filed: 05/23/2014
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Hatton, David Anthony, Nasrallah, Hussein F., Nelson, Thomas, Hass, William Donald
• Primary Examiner(s): Sarwar, Babar
• Application Number:
  US14/286,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20150341767A1
• Time in Patent Office: 704 Days
• Field of Search: 4554041-4042, 455/569.1, 455/420, 455 411- 412, 455/418, 455/550.1, 455/567, 455/569.2, 455/557, 455/3.03, 455/566, 455/414.1, 455/456.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

A mobile device comprising at least one controller in communication with one or more transceivers. The one or more transceivers are capable of communication with a vehicle computing system (VCS) and a server. The at least one controller configured to establish a communication link with the server based on an accident notification received from the VCS. The controller further configured to receive a push notification from the server. The controller further configured to search for a mobile application based on the push notification and enable the mobile application that matches the push notification. The controller further configured to communicate a post-crash message to a predefined contact via the mobile application.

Claims

1. A call center system comprising:

a server having one or more transceivers to communicate with a wireless device, the server configured to;

establish communication with a wireless device via the one or more transceivers;

receive accident data from the wireless device; and

transmit a push notification to the wireless device to launch a crash alert application based on the accident data.

2. The call center system of claim 1, wherein the accident data is latitude and longitude coordinates.

3. The call center system of claim 1, wherein the push notification is used to search for a specific application at the wireless device configured to communicate with the server.

4. The call center system of claim 1, wherein the crash alert application comprises instructions to transmit, in response to the push notification, a message via a network outside the server via communication with a cellular tower.

5. The call center system of claim 1, wherein the crash alert application comprises instructions to transmit one or more messages to at least one of the server and a predefined contact.

6. The call center system of claim 5, wherein the crash alert application comprises instructions to transmit the one or more messages by at least one of a text message, email, and SMS.

7. The call center system of claim 5, wherein the one or more messages is at least one of a status update of a passenger.

8. A mobile device comprising:

a controller in communication with a vehicle computing system (VCS) and a server via a transceiver, and configured to;

transmit a VCS accident notification to the server;

receive a push notification from the server based on the VCS accident notification;

search for a mobile application based on the push notification;

launch the mobile application matching the push notification; and

communicate a post-crash message to a predefined contact via the mobile application.

9. The mobile device of claim 8, wherein the push notification is a unique identifier associated with the mobile application.

10. The mobile device of claim 8, wherein the VCS accident notification is at least one of a request to establish a communication line for an occupant to speak with an operator, and a request for latitude and longitude coordinates.

11. The mobile device of claim 8, wherein the server is associated with a call center.

12. The mobile device of claim 11, wherein the mobile application comprises instructions to generate a message for transmission to at least one of the call center or a predefined contact based on the VCS accident notification.

13. The mobile device of claim 12, wherein the mobile application may transmit the message via at least one of text, email, SMS, and a social media network.

14. The mobile device of claim 13, wherein the mobile application comprises instructions to, in response to a communication link being disconnected with the server, transmit the message via communication with a cellular tower.

15. A computer-program product embodied in a non-transitory computer read-able medium having stored instructions for programming a processor, comprising instructions for:

establishing communication with a server based on an accident notification received from a vehicle computing system;

receiving a push notification from the server;

searching for a mobile application based on the push notification;

launching the mobile application that matches the push notification; and

communicating a post-crash message to a predefined contact via the mobile application.

16. The computer-program product of claim 15, wherein the accident notification is at least one of requesting a communication line for an occupant to speak with an operator, and requesting for latitude and longitude coordinates.

17. The computer-program product of claim 15, wherein the server is a call center.

18. The computer-program product of claim 17, wherein the mobile application comprises instructions for generating a message for transmission to at least one of the call center or a predefined contact based on the accident notification.

19. The computer-program product of claim 18, wherein the mobile application comprises instructions for transmitting the message via at least one of text, email, SMS, and a social media network.

20. The computer-program product of claim 15, wherein the mobile application comprises instructions for, in response to the communication with the server being disconnected, transmitting the message via communication with a cellular tower.