Patent ID: 9592795
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: B60R,G01S

Claim:
1. A theft deterrence, prevention, and recovery system for use in monitoring a theft status of a vehicle having an interior cabin and a vehicle computer, said system comprising: a cabin module positioned inside the interior cabin of the vehicle, comprising: wherein said input device includes a biosensor configured to received biometric input data from the user; said memory includes predetermined biometric data indicative of authorized users of said cabin module; programming in said memory that, when executed by said cabin processor, causes said cabin processor to compare the received biometric input data to said predetermined biometric data to determine said user is an authorized user, if a match is found, to actuate said cabin module to be accessible; programming in said memory that, when executed by said cabin processor after determining said authorized user, causes said cabin processor to determine if said user input data indicative of said emergency event has been received from said input device and, if so, to cause real time video data to be recorded by said cabin camera and to cause real time audio data to be recorded from said cabin microphone; programming in said memory that, when executed by said processor and only if said emergency event is indicated, causes said cabin processor to transmit said real time video data, said real time audio data, real time global position data, and input data via said cabin transmitter to said law enforcement agency and to said mobile application; wherein said input data comprises at least one of vehicle identification data and personal information about said authorized user; wherein said mobile application is configured to receive said GPS data transmitted by said cabin transmitter and to display said received GPS data on the mobile computing device; wherein said received signal from the at least one of the law enforcement agency and the mobile application is one of an audio message, a text message, or a vehicle instruction; programming in said memory that, when executed by said cabin processor, causes said cabin processor to emit said audio message through a cabin speaker of the vehicle, publish said text message on said input device, and cause the vehicle computer to actuate a vehicle component according to said vehicle instruction, respectively; wherein said memory comprises programming that, when executed by said cabin processor, causes said cabin processor to determine if said fire event sensor or said auxiliary fire event sensor has detected the fire event and, if so, to: