US 11,900,309 B2
Item delivery to an unattended vehicle
Aysha Habbaba, Dearborn, MI (US); John Weizhong Luo, Dearborn, MI (US); Lynn Valerie Keiser, Dearborn, MI (US); Hyung Min Baek, Dearborn, MI (US); Sudipto Aich, Dearborn, MI (US); Simon Murtha Smith, Dearborn, MI (US); Alexander Silvio Muller, Dearborn, MI (US); and Jennifer L. Brace, Dearborn, MI (US)
Assigned to Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Appl. No. 16/461,039
Filed by Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 21, 2016, PCT No. PCT/US2016/063158
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 15, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/093396, PCT Pub. Date May 24, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0311327 A1, Oct. 10, 2019
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0835 (2023.01); H04W 4/44 (2018.01); H04W 12/06 (2021.01); G06Q 10/083 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/08355 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/083 (2013.01); H04W 4/44 (2018.02); H04W 12/06 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for delivering packages to an unattended and locked vehicle, the system configured to:
receive an order for delivery of an item to the unattended and locked vehicle;
determine identifying information for the unattended and locked vehicle, the identifying information comprising a wireless identifier of the unattended and locked vehicle and location information based on a signal received from an infrastructure transceiver that includes an identifier for the infrastructure transceiver and a time stamp for when the signal was received;
determine, based on the location information, a delivery location of the unattended and locked vehicle;
transmit a request to dispatch a delivery vehicle to deliver a package to the unattended and locked vehicle, wherein the request comprises the identifying information and the delivery location;
transmit, by the unattended and locked vehicle, at least a portion of the location information directly or through vehicle to anything communication to one or more display devices comprising at least one of an in-dash display of the delivery vehicle and a windshield display of the delivery vehicle; and
generate, by the one or more display devices and responsive to the unattended and locked vehicle transmitting at least the portion of the location information to the one or more display devices, a heads up display comprising a directional on-lay and an augmented reality overlay, wherein the directional on-lay provides directions based on the identifying information and the delivery location, and wherein the augmented reality overlay indicates the delivery location.