Patent ID: 9595142
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: B60D,G07C

Claim:
1. A method for pairing between a tow vehicle and a trailer, the method comprising: receiving a tow vehicle event indication and a trailer event indication; determining, in response to a relationship between the tow vehicle event indication and the trailer event indication, whether the tow vehicle event indication and the trailer event indication are associated with a same event; and pairing the trailer and the tow vehicle if it is determined that the tow vehicle event indication and the trailer event indication are associated with the same event; and wherein the method comprises determining that the trailer event indication and the tow vehicle indication are associated with the same event if (a) both trailer event indication and the tow vehicle indication are associated with a same type of event, and if (b) timings of the trailer event indication and the tow vehicle indication are proximate to each other.