Method and system for implementing vehicle personalization

• US 7,840,322 B2
• Filed: 09/03/2003
• Issued: 11/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Motors LLC (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: General Motors LLC (General Motors Company)
• Inventors: Habermas, Stephen C., Ross, Steven J., Oesterling, Christopher L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Cuong H
• Application Number:
  US10/654,301
• Publication Number:
  US 20040044454A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,638 Days
• Field of Search: 701/49, 701/36, 701209-213, 701/20, 701/24, 701/45, 701/54, 715/788, 340/988, 455/152.1, 455/41, 455/152, 455/151.1
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0231 Circuits relating to the driving or the functioning of the vehicle monitoring tyres B60C23/00; indicating overspeed B60K31/00; for dash boards B60K37/00, B60Q3/10; for indicating emergencies B60Q1/52; brake control systems B60T; registering or indicating the working of vehicles G07C5/00; measuring distance G01C, e.g. combinations of speed and distance G01C23/00; engine indicators G01L; measuring speed or acceleration G01P

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for providing vehicle settings to a telematics unit in a mobile vehicle that includes receiving a vehicle settings update signal at a call center from the telematics unit and sending vehicle settings from the call center to the telematics unit. The method may additionally include implementing the vehicle settings in the mobile vehicle. The method may further include sending an update flag signal from the call center to the telematics unit. The method may additionally include receiving at least one user preference at the call center via a web portal interface. The step of receiving at least one user preference may further include sending an update flag signal from the call center to the telematics unit responsive to receiving the at least one user preference at the call center via the web portal interface.

Claims

1. A system for providing vehicle settings for a telematics unit in a mobile vehicle, the system comprising:

a call center configured to receive a vehicle settings update signal from the telematics unit;

a voice portal configured to provide interaction between the mobile vehicle and an application operating within an application server at the call center to determine a download status of the telematics unit and associated components, wherein the download status is a fixed status requiring the mobile vehicle to maintain a stationary period for a predetermined fixed time period;

a database for storing the vehicle settings when the download status of the telematics unit and associated components is negative; and

a modem bank for transmitting the vehicle settings from the call center to the telematics unit when the download status of the telematics unit and associated components is positive, wherein if the download status is positive, the mobile vehicle has maintained the stationary position for the predetermined fixed time period, and wherein the transmitted vehicle settings are selected from modifying power train behavior, modifying seat behavior, modifying mirror behavior, and combinations thereof.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the telematics unit comprises:

a vehicle bus configured to implement the vehicle settings in the mobile vehicle; and

a vehicle communications services applications configured to receive the vehicle settings from the call center and to pass the vehicle settings to the vehicle bus.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a web portal interface configured to transmit at least one user preference to the call center prior to the call center receiving the vehicle settings update signal.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the telematics unit determines whether the associated components are in a modifiable state.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the

voice portal is further configured to provide the interaction between the mobile vehicle and the application operating within the application server at the call center to determine a store status for the vehicle settings when the download status of the telematics unit and associated components is negative.