Vehicles and vehicle systems for providing access to vehicle controls, functions, environment and applications to guests/passengers via mobile devices

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9778831
SERIAL NO

14677341

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A vehicle including one or more computers to interface with electronics of the vehicle to access status data for systems of the vehicle and to make input settings to one or more of the systems. The vehicle includes wireless communication circuitry for providing connection to the Internet and to one or more wireless devices when paired with the vehicle. An occupancy sensor of the vehicle is configured to interface with the one or more computers of the vehicle to identify occupancy of seats of the vehicle. A processor of the one or more computers of the vehicle is configured to execute instructions to receive data from a wireless device that is paired with the vehicle. The data is used to identify a seat in the vehicle that is associated with a passenger. The processor executes instructions to provide data to a user interface accessed by the wireless device to expose a plurality of systems of the vehicle. The plurality of systems include systems that relate to an environment zone in which the seat is located in the vehicle. The user interface further includes controls to enable input of settings to one or more of the plurality of vehicle systems to make changes to the one or more of the plurality of vehicle systems. The changes made relate to one or more of the plurality of systems that relate to the environment zone of the seat.

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EMERGING AUTOMOTIVE LLC1780 MORTON AVE LOS ALTOS CA 94024

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Penilla, Albert S Sunnyvale, US 170 6124
Penilla, Angel A Sacramento, US 119 4777

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