Systems for Learning User Preferences and Generating Recommendations to make Settings at Connected Vehicles and Interfacing with Cloud Systems

• US 20160080500A1
• Filed: 11/25/2015
• Published: 03/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Emerging Automotive, LLC
• Original Assignee: Albert S. Penilla, Angel A. Penilla
• Inventors: Penilla, Angel A., Penilla, Albert S.
• Granted Patent: US 9,288,270 B1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/70 Interactions with external data bases, e.g. traffic centres
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/12 by confirmation, e.g. of the input
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/16 by display
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/20 by driver identification
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/665 Methods related to measuring, billing or payment
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/80 Exchanging energy storage elements, e.g. removable batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/12 responding to state of charge [SoC]
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/0075 Automatic parameter input, automatic initialising or calibrating means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/10 Historical data
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/0098 Details of control systems ensuring comfort, safety or stability not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/10 Interpretation of driver requests or demands
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3641 Personalized guidance, e.g. limited guidance on previously travelled routes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/20 Administration of product repair or maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/18 involving self-service terminals [SST], vending machines, kiosks or multimedia terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/308 using the Internet of Things
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0645 Rental transactions; Leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 : Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 15/005 : dispensed for the electrical charging of vehicles electrical charging as such, B60L50/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3822 : specially adapted for use in vehicles H04B1/3827 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 : in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 : involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 : Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 : User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 : Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 : for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 : Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 : Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 : Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 : Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 : Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 : Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 : Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/167 : Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/14 : Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing

Abstract

A cloud system that includes one or more servers for communicating with vehicles and processing information received from a vehicle and processing information sent to the vehicle is provided. The system enables establishing a communication link between a computing device associated with the vehicle and a server of the cloud system. The communication link is over a wireless network, and the communication link is established in association with a user account that is managed by the cloud system. The communication link is configured to be established for one or more sessions. Then, receiving, at the server, a plurality of actions associated with inputs made at the vehicle while the vehicle is associated with the user account, the plurality of actions being received during the one or more sessions. The server updates data associated with the user account to identify the plurality of actions at the vehicle and then generates a recommendation to apply a setting at the vehicle. One or more of the plurality of actions for the vehicle made during the one or more sessions are analyzed to identify a pattern that is indicative of a preference for a setting by a user of the vehicle that used the vehicle via the user account. Generating the recommendation to apply the setting occurs upon reaching or exceeding a predefined threshold. The system sends to the user account the recommendation to apply the setting for the vehicle. The computing device enables access to the user account to view and accept the recommendation. The computing device associated with the vehicle enables acceptance of the recommendation, such that acceptance of the recommendations causes an instruction to the vehicle to apply the setting.

Claims

1. A cloud system that includes one or more servers for communicating with vehicles and processing information received from a vehicle and processing information sent to the vehicle, comprising,

establishing a communication link between a computing device associated with the vehicle and a server of the cloud system, the communication link being over a wireless network, the communication link being established in association with a user account that is managed by the cloud system, the communication link configured to be established for one or more sessions;

receiving, at the server, a plurality of actions associated with inputs made at the vehicle while the vehicle is associated with the user account, the plurality of actions being received during the one or more sessions;

updating, by the server, data associated with the user account to identify the plurality of actions at the vehicle;

generating, by the server, a recommendation to apply a setting at the vehicle, wherein one or more of the plurality of actions for the vehicle made during the one or more sessions are analyzed to identify a pattern that is indicative of a preference for a setting by a user of the vehicle that used the vehicle via the user account, wherein generating the recommendation to apply the setting occurs upon reaching or exceeding a predefined threshold; and

sending, by the server, to the user account the recommendation to apply the setting for the vehicle, the computing device enabling access to the user account to view and accept the recommendation;

the commuting device associated with the vehicle enables acceptance of the recommendation, such that acceptance of the recommendations causes an instruction to the vehicle to apply the setting.

2. The cloud system of claim 1,

wherein particular ones of the plurality of actions that show a repeating of the pattern will cause an increase to a confidence score, wherein the predefined threshold is associated with the confidence score being of a particular level.

3. The cloud system of claim 2, wherein the confidence score increases in response to detecting that particular ones of actions occur at about a similar time or day of a week.

4. The cloud system of claim 1, wherein the actions input at the vehicle or settings recommended are related to or associated with one or more of a temperature of the vehicle, a window defrost mode in the vehicle, heating a seat or seats of the vehicle, an emergency signal of the vehicle, an emergency signal for help, a radio station, an application, retrieving data from an application, setting a restriction or enabling a feature for the vehicle, disabling the vehicle, selecting an audio setting, making a reservation for service, reporting an error in the vehicle, setting a position of mirrors of the vehicle, setting to open or crack windows upon reaching a temperature, setting notifications for recharging a battery if the vehicle is an electric vehicle, setting reminders to charge upon reaching a predefined battery state if an electric vehicle, setting parameters to identify nearby charge stations if the vehicle is an electric vehicle, setting advertisement settings allowed to be displayed via a screen of the electric vehicle, setting maps data, setting communications data, setting navigation data, setting display settings data, setting customization of display applications on the screen of the vehicle, setting suspension parameters for the vehicle, setting auto lock/unlock controls of the vehicle, activating an alarm, setting instructions to receive video feedback from the vehicle upon detection of alarm conditions, setting to call for help when an accident is detected, setting time of day on vehicle clocks based on local time;

setting navigation parameters in the vehicle, setting preferred radio stations, setting sensitivity of collision detection sensors, setting sensor programming, or combinations of two or more thereof.

5. The cloud system of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving sensor data from the vehicle, the sensor data being associated or related to particular ones of the plurality of actions, the sensor data or data indicative of the sensor data being related to respective actions that are associated to the user account.

6. The cloud system of claim 1, further comprising,

receiving sensor data from the vehicle, wherein the sensor data includes one or more of a sensed temperature, a geo-location, a speed, a vehicle condition, a proximity of surrounding vehicles or obstacles, voice data, image data, video data, touch data, gesture data, biometric data, surrounding vehicle shared sensor data, or a combination of two or more thereof.

7. The cloud system claim 1, further comprising,

sending, by the server, data to at least partially populate a user interface of a display device with a control icon to accept or decline the recommendation, the data sent is via the wireless network to the computing device;

wherein the computing device is one of a vehicle computing device, or a mobile computer device, or a tablet computing device, or a smart phone computing device, or an internet terminal computing device, or a non-portable computing device.

8. The cloud system of claim 2, further comprising,

processing, by the server, weather information associated with a geo-location location of the vehicle;

adjusting the confidence score of the recommendation based on the weather information;

wherein the recommendation is for a temperature setting of the vehicle.

9. The cloud system of claim 2, further comprising,

accessing third-party user accounts;

examining the third-party user accounts to identify similar actions or patterns to those of the user account;

adjusting the confidence score of the recommendation based on the examining, the adjusting being weighted to provide more significance to the user account than third-party user accounts.

10. The cloud system of claim 2, wherein the confidence score changes over time based on changes in patterns detected.

11. The cloud system of claim 1, wherein the recommendation being adjusted to change a type of the setting that is recommended;

wherein the setting is a first type when only a driver is occupying the vehicle, and the setting is a second type when a passenger is occupying the vehicle along with the driver, wherein the driver is associated with the user account.

12. The cloud system of claim 11, wherein the user account enables identification of preferences of the driver, wherein the preferences are at least partially used to select the first or second type of setting.

14. The cloud system of claim 12, wherein sensor data is sensed or obtained, the sensor data includes one or more of an actual sensed temperature, a geo-location of the vehicle, camera images, biometric data, a time of day and/or a week day, data from an online calendar, a speed, a vehicle condition, occupant identification, biometric detection data of occupants in the vehicle, proximity of surrounding vehicles or obstacles, voice data, video data, touch data, gesture data, surrounding vehicle shared sensor data, or a combination of two or more thereof.

13. The cloud system of claim 13, further comprising,

detecting an identity of the passenger or the driver, wherein the detected identify is at least partially used in making selection of the first or second type of setting.