A computer-implemented method, system, and computer product for managing an electronic olfactory system in a mobile device configured to accept and deploy olfactory data. The method, system, and computer product identifies an advertising party using a mobile device in response to detecting the advertising party. The method, system, and computer product receives an advertising demand from the advertising party on the mobile device, the advertising demand comprises a first set of olfactory data and a request for emitting the first set of olfactory data and performs the advertising demand based on a user's preferences.

Methods and systems for a driver or impairment assistive on board vehicle display, inactive control surface, and customization of a vehicle interface based on one or more of user impairment, user medical condition, user age, user physical condition, user driving characteristic and driving history are provided.

A system for vehicle to another party communications that includes a vehicle personality module adapted to create a vehicle personality and a communications system that utilizes the created vehicle personality for one or more communications instead of a user's profile. The one or more communications are associated with one or more of an identifier and an icon representing the vehicle personality, with this identifier and/or icon sent with at least one communication and displayable to the recipient of the communication.

Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to recognize the drivers and/or passengers within the automobile. Based on the recognition, the vehicle may change a configuration of the automobile to match predetermined preferences for the driver and/or passenger. The configurations may also include the recognition of a unique set of gestures for the person. Further, the configuration can also include the tracking of health data related to the person.

Methods and systems for a detecting an intruder near or within a vehicle are disclosed. Specifically, a method to detect and identify a person near or within a vehicle as an authorized or an unauthorized user is provided. In the event an unauthorized user is detected within a vehicle, the system may take a number of actions. In one embodiment, the actions comprise providing notice to one or more authorized users of the vehicle, disabling the vehicle, notifying emergency personnel or police, and emitting a visual or audio alarm.

Systems and methods of coordinating the travel to a common destination by a destination coordination module. The destination coordination module can receive locations for one or more people and generate directions to the common location for each person. The destination coordination module can receive updated position information for each person and determine if a person is travelling to an incorrect destination. After determining a person is travelling to an incorrect destination, the destination coordination module can send an alert and updated directions to the common destination.

A device to display vehicle courteous message has been disclosed. The device, vehicle courteous message display is devised to display the driver's response. It includes a frame that has a display, to display courteous messages such as Thank You, connected to an internal electrical circuit within the vehicle, powered on/off using a switch provided at driver's end. The display panel is placed at the rear end of the trailer attached to vehicles or at rear end of vehicles.

A self-driving vehicle with an external advertising platform, such as video display signage, designed to provide on-demand video ever-changing advertising. The audiences of such advertisements would include those individuals that were in proximity to the self-driving vehicle as it traversed a geographic area. A large fleet of such self-driving vehicles could constantly move between targeted areas, including suburban neighborhoods to reach a maximum audience, without the need of a human operator.

A method that includes receiving information indicative of a location of a vehicle. The vehicle has an occupied-vehicle state that includes an occupant state. This occupant state represents the state of one or more occupants within the vehicle. The method further includes receiving information indicative of this occupant state. The information indicative of the occupant state results from an observation by a detector that is in communication with an infotainment system within the vehicle. The method continues with using both the information indicative of the occupant state and the information indicative of the location to select an advertisement from a database of advertisements. This selected advertisement is one that is ultimately for presentation to the occupant.

Technology is described for providing electronic advertisements on an aircraft. A server onboard the aircraft may receive a notification that a public announcement is occurring on the aircraft. The server may identify an announcement tag associated with the public announcement. The server may select an electronic advertisement based in part on the announcement tag associated with the public announcement. The electronic advertisement may be selected from a data store of electronic advertisements. The server may send the electronic advertisement to a client device to be displayed via a graphical user interface on the client device after the public announcement is finished.