PARENTAL CONTROL OVER VEHICLE FEATURES AND CHILD ALERT SYSTEM
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Abstract
A system to access one or more user profiles that govern one or more vehicle functions. The system cooperates with a processor and verification module which are adapted to verify, using one or more of biometric information, gesture recognition, facial recognition and device identification information, that a user has authority to access the one or more user profiles, where the one or more profiles are stored in one or more of a vehicle, a cloud and a communications device. An edit module is further provided and adapted to allow the user to make one or more edits to the one or more user profiles.
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40 Claims
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21. A parental control system for a vehicle comprising:
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an identification module adapted to identify a user associated with the vehicle; a parental control module adapted to determine whether the user is subject to parental control based on the identification and information stored in a user profile, activate a parental control mode of the vehicle in response to determining the user is subject to the parental control, the parental control mode limiting one or more vehicle functions based on one or more rules including whether the user is a driver or a passenger of the vehicle; and a context module adapted to determine a context associated with the user based on the information in the user profile, a location of the vehicle, and a time, wherein the parental control module is further adapted to control a function of the vehicle based on the determined context. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A parental control method for a vehicle comprising:
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identifying a user associated with the vehicle; determining whether the user is subject to parental control based on the identification and information stored in a user profile; activating a parental control mode of the vehicle in response to determining the user is subject to the parental control, the parental control mode limiting one or more vehicle functions based on one or more rules including whether the user is a driver or a passenger of the vehicle; determining a context associated with the user based on the information in the user profile, a location of the vehicle, and a time; and controlling a function of the vehicle based on the determined context. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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