A method for authorizing access to a motor vehicle involves monitoring a decrease in the signal strength of the second communication connection, while the identification transmitter is moved away from the motor vehicle, such that the spacing between the motor vehicle and the identification…
A system and method are provided for determining location information of a vehicle keyfob relative to an object. The system and method may include communicating with a primary device (e.g., a smartphone) having primary device authentication information with respect to the object, and receiving…
Disclosed is a vehicle-mounted ranging system and method. The vehicle-mounted ranging system has a communication transceiver configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one external communication transceiver and a plurality of ultra-wideband (UWB) transceivers configured to transmit and…
A computing system is described that obtains, based at least in part on information included in at least one previous communication associated with a user of a computing device, an indication of a future location and a future time and event information associated with the future location and the…
A method of monitoring the proximity of two or more monitoring devices. The method includes defining a series of subspaces within the space containing the devices and determining the subspace containing the location of each device. The method also includes subscribing each device to one or more…
Methods and devices are provided for allowing a mobile device (e.g., a key fob or a consumer electronic device, such as a mobile phone, watch, or other wearable device) to interact with a vehicle such that a location of the mobile device can be determined by the vehicle, thereby enabling certain…
Systems, devices, media and methods are presented for retrieving a current location of client device, accessing geographic data based on the current location of the client device, analyzing the geographic data to identify a plurality of geographic features, for each geographic feature of the…
Disclosed is a vehicle-mounted ranging system having a communication transceiver configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one external communication transceiver and a plurality of ultra-wideband (UWB) transceivers configured to transmit and receive ranging pulses to and from at least one…
A system and method are provided for determining location information of a vehicle keyfob relative to an object. The system and method may include communicating with a primary device (e.g., a smartphone) having primary device authentication information with respect to the object, and receiving…
Disclosed is a vehicle-mounted ranging system having a communication transceiver configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one external communication transceiver and a plurality of ultra-wideband (UWB) transceivers configured to transmit and receive ranging pulses to and from at least one…
Methods and devices are provided for allowing a mobile device (e.g., a key fob or a consumer electronic device, such as a mobile phone, watch, or other wearable device) to interact with a vehicle such that a location of the mobile device can be determined by the vehicle, thereby enabling certain…
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a second UE, a first control signal indicating a range value corresponding to a threshold distance for triggering feedback reporting from the first UE for transmissions from the…
The vehicle control system includes a first position measuring unit measuring a position of a mobile terminal with respect to a vehicle by performing first position measuring processing, a second position measuring unit measuring a position of the mobile terminal with respect to the vehicle by…
The vehicle control system includes a first position measuring unit measuring a position of a mobile terminal by performing first position measuring processing, a second position measuring unit measuring a position of the mobile terminal by performing second position measuring processing having…
Described herein are various methods of electronically managing connections between different people. In one example, a user send a request to a possible connection that identifies a distance range. The distance range represents a proposed distance at which the user and the connection will receive…
Disclosed is an image-based approach for device localization. In particular, a mobile device may capture image(s) of a vehicle that is substantially proximate to the mobile device. Based on the image(s), the mobile device may (i) determine parameter(s) associated with the vehicle, and (ii)…
A user equipment in a vehicle (V-UE) may transmit ranging signals, for example positioning reference signals (PRS), via inter-vehicle messages. The broadcast parameters for the ranging signals, such as the timing of transmission, the bandwidth, or a combination thereof, may be adjusted based on one…
A location-based and preference-based system and method for matching media content about persons, places and things with the expressed preferences of mobile users to notify users about and provide users with access to media content about persons, places and things that match the user's expressed…
Described herein are various methods of electronically managing connections between different people. In one example, a user send a request to a possible connection that identifies a distance range. The distance range represents a proposed distance at which the user and the connection will receive…
A safety platform may receive travel information associated with a first cellular device. The safety platform may identify, based on the travel information associated with the first cellular device, one or more other cellular devices that are located within a distance threshold from the first…
A method disclosed herein for allows users to avoid such undesirable encounters by determining whether an undesirable contact of the user has opted for sharing location information, in response to determining that the undesirable contact has opted for sharing location information, collecting…
A micro point address is detected in response to an audio trigger. Audio data is detected at a mobile device and compared to at least one predetermined audio sample. In response to the comparison, location data is collected or a location stamp including the location data is made. A grid location…
An information processing method performed at a terminal includes: starting a location service of a first application; obtaining place-of-departure information and destination information in a display based on an operation of a user, and generating route indication information according to the…
An information processing device provides information regarding a specific place only in a case where it is highly likely that a user needs the information. A positional relationship information generating section () presents information indicating a positional relationship between a current…
Selection of offers, locations or merchants based on their distances from a portion of a user's route and their affinity for the user is disclosed. A route employed by a user for travelling to a destination is obtained and segmented at identified vertices. Locations that are proximate to the route…
A method for passive access control including a mobile device serving as key and an interaction unit, the mobile device and the interaction unit having in each case at least one data communication facility for exchanging authorization information. Operations are provided for carrying out an…
Selection of offers, locations or merchants based on their distances from a portion of a user's route and their affinity for the user is disclosed. A route employed by a user for travelling to a destination is obtained and segmented at identified vertices. Locations that are proximate to the route…