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Vehicle customization and personalization activities

  • US 9,824,383 B2
  • Filed: 12/24/2014
  • Issued: 11/21/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of customizing a vehicle driving experience, the method comprising:

  • receiving, from a data center, a set of travel related services that are specific to an individual, where the set of travel related services include trip information for a trip and are received into a control and interconnection system associated with a vehicle, the control and interconnection system having;

    a vehicle interface that interfaces with vehicle subsystems;

    an operator interface that interfaces with an operator of the vehicle; and

    a system controller that communicates with vehicle subsystems using the vehicle interface, and which interacts with the operator using the operator interface;

    loading the set of travel related services into the system controller of the control and interconnection system of the vehicle operated by the individual;

    identifying, by the control and interconnection system, operational characteristics of the vehicle based upon the loaded set of travel related services and at least one vehicle sensor;

    communicating the operational characteristics of the vehicle extracted by the control and interconnection system to the data center;

    receiving personalized information from the data center in response to communicating the operational characteristics; and

    performing, periodically, an operation to modify at least one vehicle subsystem, by the control and interconnection system, in response to receiving the personalized information, while the vehicle is active during the trip.

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