System for controlling operations of a vehicle using mobile devices and related methods thereof

US11345313B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Jochen Schubert · Farmington Hills, US
• Tom Nelson · Cloquet, US
• Michael Andrew Simons · Redford Township, US
• Ali Hassani · Ann Arbor, US
• Hamid M. Golgiri · Westland, US
• John Robert Van Wiemeersch · Harper Woods, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 23, 2020
• Grant date: May 31, 2022
• Expiry date: Apr 23, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07C2009/00865
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to aspects of authenticating a mobile device and providing a vehicle access key thereto when a previously registered mobile device is not accessible. In one aspect of the present disclosure, a method includes requesting at a first mobile device, access to a profile associated with controlling operations of a vehicle, the profile having stored thereon an access key for operating the vehicle, the access key having been previously installed on a second mobile device. The method further includes upon successful authorization, receiving the access key at the first device and operating the vehicle using the access key on the first mobile device.