VEHICLE USER IDENTIFICATION USING USER PATTERN DATA

• US 20160129916A1
• Filed: 10/27/2015
• Published: 05/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2014
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation (AB Volvo)
• Original Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation (AB Volvo)
• Inventors: OLSEN, Kee
• Granted Patent: US 10,286,917 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 25/00 Fittings or systems for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles locks for vehicles E05B77/00-E05B85/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/043 Identity of occupants
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/30 Auxiliary equipments
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 40/08 related to drivers or passengers
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/0098 Details of control systems ensuring comfort, safety or stability not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information

Abstract

A method performed by a vehicle user identification node is described for enabling configuration of vehicle user settings of a vehicle. The method includes receiving first user pattern data, requesting user identification data based on first user pattern data, receiving the user identification data, and transmitting the user identification data to a vehicle settings node for configuration of vehicle user settings of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A method performed by a vehicle user identification node for enabling configuration of vehicle user settings of a vehicle, the method comprising:

receiving first user pattern data;

requesting user identification data based on the first user pattern data;

receiving the user identification data; and

transmitting the user identification data to a vehicle settings node for configuration of vehicle user settings of the vehicle.

2. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

determining configuration settings for the vehicle based on the user identification data.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the first user pattern data comprises walking pattern data.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein the first user pattern data comprises first user 3D accelerometer data.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein user identification data comprises at least one of specific personal ID data, anonymous ID data, preference data concerning the vehicle settings, first user pattern data, and second user pattern data.

6. The method according to claim 1 wherein the first user pattern data further comprises first user gyroscopic sensor data and/or first user barometric height data.

7. The method according to claim 1 wherein the first user pattern data is received from a remote node.

8. The method according to claim 7 wherein the remote node is a hand-held device such as a smartphone, car key or tablet computer.

9. The method according to claim 1 wherein the user identification data is received from a remote node storing second user pattern data and the user identification data.

10. The method according claim 1 wherein user identification data is received from an internal database of the vehicle identification node storing second user pattern data and user identification data.

11. A vehicle user identification node for enabling configuration of vehicle user settings of a vehicle, the node configured to

receive first user pattern data by an external remote node communication unit;

request user identification data based on the first user pattern by a controller;

receive the user identification data from an internal database by a vehicle communication unit or a remote node by an external remote node communication unit; and

transmit the user identification data to a vehicle setting node for configuration of vehicle user settings of the vehicle.

12. The vehicle driver identification node according to claim 11 further configured to determine configuration settings for the vehicle based on the user identification data.

14. A vehicle comprising a vehicle user identification node according to claim 11.

15. A vessel comprising a vehicle user identification node according to claim 11.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored computer executable instructions which, when executed in a connected vehicle driver identification node arranged to enable configuration of vehicle user settings of a vehicle, cause the connected vehicle driver identification node to:

receive first user pattern data by an external remote node communication unit;

request user identification data based on the first user pattern by a controller;

receive the user identification data from an internal database by a vehicle communication unit or a remote node by an external remote node communication unit; and

transmit the user identification data to a vehicle setting node for configuration of vehicle user settings of the vehicle.