Ride-share vehicle connectivity to passenger devices

• Main Authors: OMAR MAKKE, JEFFREY YEUNG, OLEG YURIEVITCH GUSIKHIN
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 09.10.2018
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

The invention relates to ride-share vehicle connectivity to passenger devices. A ride-share server communicates with both a primary-connected device and a secondary-connected device over a wide-area network. The ride-share server is programmed to receive a request from the secondary-connected device to apply a setting change to a vehicle, and responsive to verifying the secondary-connected deviceis authorized to command the vehicle, send another request to the primary-connected device to direct the primary-connected device to command the vehicle to implement the setting change. The secondary-connected device is in communication with a ride-share server over a wide-area network and is configured to send a request to the ride-share server to change a vehicle setting. The primary-connected device is in communication with a computing platform via a device link interface over a local-area connection and with the ride-share server over the wide-area network, and is configured to request thecomputing platform to cha