MOBILE DEVICE INTERMEDIARY FOR VEHICLE ADAPTATION

• US 20180041583A1
• Filed: 10/19/2017
• Published: 02/08/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Fan, James W., Lam, Jennifer K.
• Granted Patent: US 11,146,638 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 17/016 characterised by their responsiveness, when the vehicle is travelling, to specific motion, a specific condition, or driver input B60G17/017 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 17/0195 characterised by the regulation being combined with other vehicle control systems conjoint control of vehicle sub-units including control of suspension systems B60W10/22
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 17/02 Spring characteristics , e.g. mechanical springs and mechanical adjusting meansB60G17/005, B60G17/015 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 17/06 Characteristics of dampers , e.g. mechanical dampersB60G17/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 2400/60 Load
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 2600/202 using a remote, e.g. cordless, transmitter or receiver unit
• 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: B60W 2050/0075 Automatic parameter input, automatic initialising or calibrating means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/0083 Setting, resetting, calibration
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/45 External transmission of data to or from the vehicle
• 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: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• 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 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

A mobile device intermediary for vehicle adaptation is disclosed. A mobile device intermediary can access driver profile information and vehicle profile information from a remotely located device, determine vehicle adaptation information based on the driver profile information and vehicle profile information, and facilitate access to the vehicle adaptation information to facilitate adapting an aspect of a first vehicle. The mobile device intermediary can further receive other vehicle profile information related to a second vehicle associated with a driver profile and include the other vehicle profile information in determining the vehicle adaptation information. The vehicle adaptation information can be related to adapting a performance aspect of the first vehicle. The vehicle adaptation information can also be related to adapting an amenity aspect of the first vehicle. Vehicle adaption information can provide improved safety and driver comfort as a driver uses different vehicles, can be portable, and can be device independent.

Claims

1. A mobile device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

receiving vehicle occupant information, wherein the vehicle occupant information comprises a selectable characteristic for a first adjustable aspect of a first vehicle model of a first vehicle;

in response to determining a second vehicle model of a second vehicle, enabling access to vehicle adaptation information by a device of the second vehicle, wherein the vehicle adaptation information is based on the vehicle occupant information and vehicle profile information for the second vehicle to enable adjustment of a second adjustable aspect of the second vehicle.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the device of the second vehicle is a first device, and wherein the enabling the access to the vehicle adaptation information by the first device of the second vehicle comprises the first device of the second vehicle receiving the vehicle adaptation information, via the mobile device, from a second device located remotely from the mobile device.

3. The mobile device of claim 2, wherein the second device is selected from a group comprising a server device and a radio access network device of a wireless telecommunications network.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the vehicle occupant information further comprises historical vehicular use information for a vehicle occupant of the vehicle occupant information.

5. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is a wearable mobile device.

6. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the receiving the vehicle occupant information comprises receiving driver information associated with a driver of the second vehicle.

7. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the receiving the vehicle occupant information comprises receiving passenger information associated with a passenger of the second vehicle.

8. The mobile device of claim 7, wherein the enabling access to vehicle adaptation information by the device of the second vehicle is further based on a proximity of the mobile device to the second vehicle.

9. The mobile device of claim 8, wherein the proximity of the mobile device to the second vehicle corresponds to the mobile device being inside the second vehicle.

10. The mobile device of claim 8, wherein the proximity of the mobile device to the second vehicle corresponds to the mobile device being proximate to and outside the second vehicle.

11. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a mobile device comprising a processor, user information, wherein the user information comprises a user setting corresponding to a first adaptable aspect of a first vehicle model of a first vehicle; and

in response to determining a second vehicle model of a second vehicle, enabling, by the mobile device, access to feature modification information by a device of the second vehicle, wherein the feature modification information is based on the user information and vehicle profile information for the second vehicle to facilitate adaptation of a second adaptable aspect of the second vehicle.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the mobile device is a wearable mobile device.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the receiving the user information comprises receiving driver information for a driver of the second vehicle.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the receiving the user information comprises receiving, by the mobile device, occupant information for an occupant of the second vehicle.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the user information comprises historical user information.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the historical user information corresponds to historical information selected from a group comprising driving record information, driving habit information, seatbelt use information, radio use information, and mobile phone use information.

17. A machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a mobile device, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

receiving rider information, wherein the rider information comprises a value corresponding to a first modifiable aspect of a first vehicle model of a first vehicle;

in response to determining a second vehicle model of a second vehicle, facilitating access to aspect modification information by a device of the second vehicle, wherein the aspect modification information is determined from the rider information and vehicle profile information for the second vehicle to enable modification of a second modifiable aspect of the second vehicle.

18. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the mobile device is a wearable device.

19. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein rider information comprises historical information corresponding to a rider affiliated with the rider information.

20. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the rider does not actively control locomotion of the second vehicle.