Patents by Inventor Kevin KONRADT

Kevin KONRADT has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11985197
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for communicating with a motor vehicle. The method comprises providing a social media interface for the motor vehicle on a specified vehicle fleet server, wherein a communication is provided via a social media application through the social media interface, receiving a message from a mobile terminal through the social media interface, ascertaining a vehicle function call from the message by an interpretation program, wherein semantics of the message are interpreted by in order to ascertain the vehicle function call, carrying out the ascertained vehicle function call in the motor vehicle, and sending a response message from the vehicle fleet server to the mobile terminal if, as a response to the vehicle function call, the vehicle fleet server obtains a vehicle parameter from the motor vehicle, wherein the response message is generated depending on the obtained vehicle parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Christoph Franke, Kevin Konradt
  • Publication number: 20240031440
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for communicating with a motor vehicle. The method comprises providing a social media interface for the motor vehicle on a specified vehicle fleet server, wherein a communication is provided via a social media application through the social media interface, receiving a message from a mobile terminal through the social media interface, ascertaining a vehicle function call from the message by an interpretation program, wherein semantics of the message are interpreted by in order to ascertain the vehicle function call, carrying out the ascertained vehicle function call in the motor vehicle, and sending a response message from the vehicle fleet server to the mobile terminal if, as a response to the vehicle function call, the vehicle fleet server obtains a vehicle parameter from the motor vehicle, wherein the response message is generated depending on the obtained vehicle parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventors: Christoph FRANKE, Kevin KONRADT
  • Publication number: 20230073268
    Abstract: The invention relates to a server device and a to method for providing a vehicle function via a vehicle-external communication device, wherein the server device is used to detect user interactions with a motor vehicle, wherein a user behavior profile is learned by a learning function of the server device by means of the detected user interactions, and one or more vehicle functions from a predetermined function pool of the motor vehicle are determined via the learning function by means of the user behavior profile, wherein, if an event criterion is present for one of the determined vehicle functions, a communication function of the server device is offered for performing the corresponding vehicle function via the vehicle-external communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Christoph FRANKE, Kevin KONRADT
  • Patent number: 10910777
    Abstract: A charging connection for a motor vehicle for connecting the motor vehicle to a connection element of a motor vehicle-side charging device in order to charge a motor vehicle-side energy storage device by the charging device. The charging device is provided with at least one current line for a current contact which is connected to the charging current, and with at least one signal line for communication between the motor vehicle and the signal contact connected to the charging device. The charging device is provided with a switching device which disconnects the signal contact from the signal line upon an actuation of the switching device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Kevin Konradt, Sami Robert Zaki, Thomas Jobst, Florian Auberger
  • Publication number: 20180175563
    Abstract: A charging connection for a motor vehicle for connecting the motor vehicle to a connection element of a motor vehicle-side charging device in order to charge a motor vehicle-side energy storage device by the charging device. The charging device is provided with at least one current line for a current contact which is connected to the charging current, and with at least one signal line for communication between the motor vehicle and the signal contact connected to the charging device. The charging device is provided with a switching device which disconnects the signal contact from the signal line upon an actuation of the switching device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Kevin KONRADT, Sami Robert ZAKI, Thomas JOBST, Florian AUBERGER