Patent ID: 9326100
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G07C,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of detecting a home location in a motor vehicle having a mobile wireless station configured to communicate with a predetermined wireless access point, and activating an indicator for a wireless device controller, said motor vehicle having a multi-button wireless control device, the method comprising: determining a location of the vehicle using a navigation system; determining a distance between the vehicle's location and the home location, using said navigation system; determining whether the distance between the vehicle's location and the home location is less than a transmission range of the multi-button wireless device controller, which is coupled to the vehicle, the multi-button wireless device controller capable of being configured to wirelessly control a device at the home location; determining whether a particular button of the multi-button wireless control device has been assigned to open a garage door at the home location; if the distance between the location of vehicle and the home location is less than the transmission range of the multi-button wireless device controller, and if no particular button of the multi-button wireless control device has been assigned to open a garage door at the home location, illuminating all of the buttons of the multi-button wireless control device and, displaying a message on a display device notifying occupants of the vehicle to set a particular button of the multi-button wireless control device as a default button for the garage door at the home location; receiving a selection of a particular button to thereafter be the default button; and activating an indicator for the selected default button, responsive to a determination by the processor that the distance between the location of vehicle and the home location is less than the transmission range of the wireless device controller.