US 12,408,216 B2
Managing communication between a user device and a vehicle
Fai Yeung, Palo Alto, CA (US); Zhenxiang Kui, Langley (CA); Leonid Kokhnovych, Burnaby (CA); and Erhun Arkan, Vancouver (CA)
Assigned to Rivian IP Holdings, LLC, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by Rivian IP Holdings, LLC, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/852,042.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/255,264, filed on Oct. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0114701 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 12/30 (2021.01); H04W 12/08 (2021.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 76/14 (2018.02) [H04W 12/08 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
determining that a user device is authorized to communicate with a vehicle;
determining, by the user device, a first signal strength of a first signal transmitted by the vehicle and received at the user device at a first time;
determining, by the user device, whether the first signal strength of the first signal received at the user device from the vehicle exceeds a threshold signal strength;
in response to determining, by the user device, that the first signal strength of the first signal received at the user device from the vehicle does not exceed the threshold signal strength, prohibiting, by the user device, transmission of a first communication command from the user device to the vehicle; and
in response to determining that a second signal strength of a second signal, received at the user device from the vehicle at a second time, exceeds the threshold signal strength, enabling a vehicle application implemented on the user device to transmit a second communication command to the vehicle.