Patent ID: 9701281
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: B60R,G01S,G06F,G06Q,G08C,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: sensing a machine-sensible item that is proximate to a vehicle to generate data indicative of the proximate item; comparing the generated data with an authorization record for the vehicle; determining a current GPS position for a global positioning system (GPS) position-tracking enabled smart phone associated with the authorization record; determining a current GPS position for the vehicle; comparing the determined current GPS position for the smart phone associated with the authorization record with the determined current GPS position for the vehicle; determining a proximity for the smart phone with respect to the vehicle based on GPS position comparing; and in response to (1) the generated data comparing indicating that a user associated with the item is authorized to access the vehicle, and (2) a determination that the smart phone associated with the authorization record is near the vehicle based on the determined proximity, emulating a smart key for the vehicle to permit the user to keylessly start the vehicle without requiring the user to possess a smart key for the vehicle.