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Granted Patent B2
US 10,636,046 · App. 13/799,466 · Granted Apr 28, 2020

System and method for conducting surveys inside vehicles

Inventors: Yimin Liu (Ann Arbor, MI); Perry Robinson MacNeille (Lathrup Village, MI); Joe Phillip Pierucci (West Bloomfield, MI); Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin (West Bloomfield, MI); Erica Klampfl (Canton, MI); Edward K. Krause (Saline, MI)
Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
G06Q30/0203
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,636,046
App. No.
13/799,466
Granted
Apr 28, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A survey system enabling one or more processors to output a survey in a vehicle while allowing a vehicle occupant to engage in the survey. The survey system may communicate with a vehicle computing system enabling one or more processors to receive input representing one or more occupants in a vehicle. They survey system may receive an input representing a current location. The system may determine a workload value for the one or more vehicle occupants and output a survey to the one or more vehicle occupants when the workload value is below a predefined threshold. The system may output a survey related to the one or more occupants and current location. The system may collect survey results and relay the survey results to a remote server for processing. The system may provide a digital reward to the one or more occupants participating in the survey.

Claims (7)

1. A system comprising:

a mobile-device processor configured to:

receive a survey on a mobile device communicably connected to a vehicle computing system (VCS);

instruct the VCS to output the survey using a vehicle output;

receive survey answers from the VCS, input using vehicle inputs;

terminate the survey before completion based on a determination that a driver attention requirement required for driving has risen above a predetermined threshold; and

provide an uncompleted remainder of the survey, for completion, on the mobile device.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 13, 2013
From: LIU, YIMIN; MACNEILLE, PERRY ROBINSON; PIERUCCI, JOE PHILLIP; GUSIKHIN, OLEG YURIEVITCH; KLAMPFL, ERICA; KRAUSE, EDWARD K.
To: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Reel/Frame 029985/0613 →
Continuity (1)
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