US 11,720,830 B2
Method, device and system for authorizing access to a shared vehicle
Bertrand Venzal, Toulouse (FR); Benjamin Dalbies, Toulouse (FR); and Rania Ben Kahla, Toulouse (FR)
Assigned to Continental Automotive GmbH
Filed by Continental Automotive GmbH, Hannover (DE)
Filed on Aug. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/889,840.
Claims priority of application No. 2108747 (FR), filed on Aug. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0059362 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01); B60R 25/24 (2013.01)
CPC G06Q 10/02 (2013.01) [B60R 25/24 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for managing authorization to access a shared vehicle, the vehicle being provided with a memory dimensioned to simultaneously store a maximum number of reservations, the method comprising, which are implemented on reception by a server of a request to reserve the vehicle, the server comprising a local representation of the memory of the vehicle:
obtaining a first reservation of the vehicle, a reservation being associated with at least a reservation start date, a reservation end date and with an identifier of a mobile terminal to be used to access the vehicle; and
when the number of reservations stored in the local representation of the memory of the vehicle reaches the maximum number of reservations that it is possible to simultaneously store in the memory of the vehicle:
selecting, from the reservations stored in the local representation of the memory of the vehicle, a second reservation such that the start date of the second reservation is after the start date of the first reservation,
replacing, in the local representation of the memory of the vehicle, the second reservation with the first reservation, and
transmitting, to the vehicle, a memory synchronization command comprising at least:
a command to delete the second reservation, and
a command to add the first reservation.