US 11,787,366 B1
Systems for shared vehicle access
Mobaderin Akinsanya, Toronto (CA); Bruno Gomez de Oliveira, Lake Country (CA); Paul Ayooluwa Soladoye, Kitchener (CA); Matthew Frederick Snow, Kitchener (CA); and Gabriel Francklin Yano de Souza, Waterloo (CA)
Assigned to Geotab Inc., Oakville (CA)
Filed by Geotab Inc., Oakville (CA)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/988,347.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/401,807, filed on Aug. 29, 2022.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60R 25/24 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2021.01)
CPC B60R 25/24 (2013.01) [H04W 12/06 (2013.01); B60R 2325/205 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for managing access to a plurality of vehicles where each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles includes a respective vehicle device, the system comprising:
at least one communication interface;
at least one processor; and
at least one non-transitory processor-readable storage medium communicatively coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one non-transitory processor-readable storage medium storing an access configuration which specifies at least one authorization policy, each authorization policy including:
a respective authentication scheme for authenticating an access key to access a vehicle in accordance with the authorization policy;
a respective indication of at least one vehicle operation which is permitted under the authorization policy; and
a respective indication of at least one vehicle access requirement to perform each of the at least one vehicle operation permitted under the authorization policy;
wherein the at least one non-transitory processor-readable storage medium further stores processor-executable instructions which when executed by the at least one processor cause the system to:
send, by the at least one communication interface, the access configuration to be stored at a first vehicle device included in a first vehicle of the plurality of vehicles;
receive, by the at least one communication interface, a first status message from the first vehicle device, the first status message indicating an access configuration stored at the first vehicle device;
determine, by at least one processor, whether there is a mismatch between the access configuration indicated in the first status message and the access configuration stored at the at least one non-transitory processor-readable storage medium; and
if there is a mismatch between the access configuration indicated in the first status message and the access configuration stored at the at least one non-transitory processor-readable storage medium, send, by the at least one communication interface, the access configuration stored at the at least one non-transitory processor-readable storage medium, to be stored at the first vehicle device.