Patent ID: 9563998
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: B60R,G07C,H04L,H04W,H05K

Claim:
1. A method for authorizing a user to access a vehicle, the method comprising: accessing, by a computing device, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, wherein the computing device is a remote server computing device, and wherein information stored in the computer readable storage medium includes: receiving, by the computing device over a network from the user's personal mobile device, an authorization request comprising: identification information associated with the user, and access information identifying a vehicle; authorizing, by the computing device based on the received authorization request, the user access to the vehicle, wherein the authorizing step comprises: creating, by the computing device in the storage, an access record concerning the authorized access; and transmitting, based on the authorization, by the computing device over a communications network to a remote computing device associated with the vehicle, an authorization notification that facilitates the user access to the vehicle.