Method for Operating a Motor Vehicle with a Large Number of Function Systems

• US 20080125937A1
• Filed: 11/09/2007
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Original Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Inventors: Althoff, Frank, Strenzl, Karl, Ries, Klaus, Decke, Ralf
• Granted Patent: US 7,860,621 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/037 for occupant comfort , e.g. for automatic adjustment of appliances according to personal settings, e.g. seats, mirrors, steering wheel
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/2081 combined with personal settings of other vehicle devices, e.g. mirrors, seats, steering wheels
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/0005 Processor details or data handling, e.g. memory registers or chip architecture
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/0045 using databus protocols
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/065 by reducing the computational load on the digital processor of the control computer
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/00 Details of control systems for road vehicle drive control not related to the control of a particular sub-unit , e.g. process diagnostic or vehicle driver interfaces

Abstract

A method for operating a motor vehicle having multiple functional systems is provided, in which a set of profile specifications is stored in a storage medium of the motor vehicle, and the at least one functional system is configured in accordance with this set of profile specifications. A set of rule specifications is stored in a storage medium of the motor vehicle. The set of profile specifications is fed to a rule analysis unit as input data, the rule analysis unit analyzing the profile specifications on the basis of the set of rule specifications. The configuration of the at least one functional system is performed on the basis of the result of the analysis.

Claims

1. A method for operating a motor vehicle having multiple functional systems, in which a set of profile specifications is stored in a storage medium of the motor vehicle, and at least one functional system is configured corresponding to the set of profile specifications,

wherein

a set of rule specifications is stored in a storage medium of the motor vehicle,

the set of profile specifications is fed to a rule analysis unit as input data, the rule analysis unit analyzing the profile specifications based on the set of rule specifications, and

configuration of the at least one functional system is performed based on a result of the analyzing.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the set of profile specifications and the set of rule specifications are stored in a generic format and data about their structure is stored in an assigned document type definition file.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the set of profile specifications comprises first and second profile specifications, information about the functional systems being contained in the first profile specifications and user-specific data in regard to the at least one functional system of the motor vehicle being contained in the second profile specifications, and the configuration of the at least one functional system being performed in consideration of the first and second profile specifications.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the first profile specifications contain information about at least one of settings, states, and state changes the at least one functional system may assume in an operation.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the second profile specifications contain information about at least one of preferred settings and states of the at least one functional system.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the set of profile specifications is tailored adaptively to the behavior of a user.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein at least one of the settings, states, and state changes of the at least one functional system performed by the user are recorded by a recording component for the adaptive tailoring of the profile specifications.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the adaptive tailoring of the profile specifications is performed by the rule analysis unit, such that the data recorded by the recording component is fed to the rule analysis unit as input data, the rule analysis unit analyzing the data on the basis of the set of rule specifications.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least one set of rule specifications and one set of profile specifications are assigned to each functional system.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of input medium, output medium, and input/output process are configured by a dialogue component in accordance with the analysis of the profile specifications.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the profile specifications are tailored on the basis of detected environmental parameters.

12. A method for operating a motor vehicle having multiple functional systems, in which a set of profile specifications is stored in a storage medium of the motor vehicle, and at least one functional system is configured corresponding to the set of profile specifications, comprising the acts of:

storing a set of rule specifications in a storage medium of the motor vehicle;

inputting the set of profile specifications to a rule analysis unit;

analyzing, in the rule analysis unit, the profile specifications, based on the set of rule specifications; and

configuring the at least one functional system, based on a result of the analyzing act.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the set of profile specifications and the set of rule specifications are stored in a generic format and data about their structure is stored in an assigned document type definition file.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein the set of profile specifications comprises first and second profile specifications, information about the functional systems being contained in the first profile specifications and user-specific data in regard to the at least one functional system of the motor vehicle being contained in the second profile specifications, and the configuration of the at least one functional system being performed in consideration of the first and second profile specifications.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the first profile specifications contain information about at least one of settings, states, and state changes the at least one functional system may assume in an operation.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein the second profile specifications contain information about at least one of preferred settings and states of the at least one functional system.

17. The method according to claim 12, wherein the set of profile specifications is tailored adaptively to the behavior of a user.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein at least one of the settings, states, and state changes of the at least one functional system performed by the user are recorded by a recording component for the adaptive tailoring of the profile specifications.

19. The method according to claim 13, wherein the set of profile specifications comprises first and second profile specifications, information about the functional systems being contained in the first profile specifications and user-specific data in regard to the at least one functional system of the motor vehicle being contained in the second profile specifications, and the configuration of the at least one functional system being performed in consideration of the first and second profile specifications.

20. The method according to claim 15, wherein the second profile specifications contain information about at least one of preferred settings and states of the at least one functional system.