METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FINDING A LOST VEHICLE

摘要

When a driver leaves a vehicle as indicated by a separation event such as the driver's portable wireless communication device (WCD) losing Bluetooth connectivity with the vehicle, the WCD uploads to a cloud server its GPS location before the driver has been able to walk away from the vehicle an appreciable distance. The location is recorded and the driver subsequently can use its WCD to communicate with the server to obtain map information showing the current location of the WCD and the location recorded at the separation event, so that the driver knows the location of her vehicle relative to her current location.

主权项

1. Apparatus comprising:
at least one computer readable storage medium that is not a carrier wave and that is accessible to a client processor of a client device and bearing instructions which when executed by the client processor configure the processor to execute logic to execute a method comprising: establishing communication with a vehicle processor different from the client processor; recording a location representative of a location of the vehicle responsive to a separation event between the client processor and vehicle processor; responsive to a user command to present location information of the vehicle, presenting on the client device associated with the client processor a map and/or instructions indicating a location of the vehicle relative to a location of the client device based on the location of the vehicle that was recorded responsive to the separation event.