US 11,938,948 B1
Customized vehicle operator workflows
Joel Davis, San Francisco, CA (US); Sean McGee, San Francisco, CA (US); Joy Chen, San Francisco, CA (US); Tonia Hsia, San Francisco, CA (US); and Oliver Song, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Samsara Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Samsara Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/720,037.
Application 17/720,037 is a continuation of application No. 17/301,505, filed on Apr. 5, 2021, granted, now 11,352,012.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/141,471, filed on Jan. 25, 2021.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60W 40/08 (2012.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01)
CPC B60W 40/08 (2013.01) [G06F 9/3005 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); B60W 2040/0809 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
determining, based on sensor data describing a current location of a vehicle, that the vehicle is within a geofence encompassing a geographic location;
accessing a vehicle operator workflow that corresponds with the vehicle responsive to the determining the current location of the vehicle, the vehicle operator workflow defining a task to be performed by an operator of the vehicle based on the geofence that encompasses the geographic location, the task being to submit a document;
causing display of a presentation of the task to submit the document at a display of a client device associated with the operator of the vehicle;
in response to detecting an input selecting the task presented on the display of the client device, executing a deep link to a third-party application on the client device, wherein executing the deep link facilitates transferring operation to the third-party application to complete the task, wherein the deep link configures the third-party application to initiate a state in which the vehicle operator may enter required data to complete the task;
detecting that the task has been completed by the operator of the vehicle through use of the third-party application; and
causing display of a confirmation that the task has been completed.