Patent ID: 9717012
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. An automotive Internet of Things (loT) device to be configured within a car comprising: a wireless communication interface to take signal strength measurements to a mobile device, the signal strength measurements comprising signal strength values; and a signal strength analysis and notification module to analyze the signal strength values from the mobile device to determine when the car is being operated without the mobile device present and to responsively generate a notification to the user; wherein the notification is transmitted to an app or browser installed on the user's mobile device, wherein the app or browser responsively generates an audible and/or visual notification; and wherein the app or browser provides one or more graphical user interface (GUI) elements to allow the user to disable the car in the event that the car has been stolen; and an automotive system interface to communicatively couple the IoT device to an automotive control system in the car, wherein upon the user selecting a GUI element to disable the car, the mobile device transmits a disable command to the IoT device, which provides the disable command or a translated version of the disable command to the automotive control system to disable the car.