Portable and personal vehicle presets

• US 8,498,757 B2
• Filed: 10/09/2009
• Issued: 07/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies Incorporated (Visteon Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies Incorporated (Visteon Corporation)
• Inventors: Bowden, Upton Beall, Wingrove, Theodore Charles, Ciatti, Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): MARC-COLEMAN, MARTHE Y
• Application Number:
  US12/576,322
• Publication Number:
  US 20110087385A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,390 Days
• Field of Search: 701/36, 701/24, 701/200, 701/211, 701/33.4, 701/2, 701/33.3, 715/765, 340/5.61, 340/5.64, 340/426.36, 340/426.13, 340/426.14, 340/426.35, 340/5.25, 340/5.81, 340/5.22, 455/414.4, 341/175, 307/10.1, 700/18, 700/86
• US Class Current: 701/2
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/043 Identity of occupants
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/085 Changing the parameters of the control units, e.g. changing limit values, working points by control input

Abstract

An interface system including a vehicle system having an operational data representing a setting of the associated vehicle system and an interface module in communication with the vehicle system to directly modify the operational data of the vehicle system based upon a personalized data, wherein the personalized data is in a platform independent format.

Claims

1. An interface system for a vehicle comprising:

a vehicle system having an operational data representing a setting of the associated vehicle system; and

an interface module in data communication with the vehicle system to directly modify the operational data of the vehicle system based upon a personalized data, wherein the personalized data is in a platform independent format for transfer to another vehicle, and stored on a storage system integrated with the vehicle and in data communication with the interface module, and wherein the interface module is configured for data communication with a location that is remote to the vehicle to permit a user at the location to at least one of directly create and modify the personalized data stored on the storage system.

2. The interface system according to claim 1, wherein the interface module is an infotainment module.

3. The interface system according to claim 1, wherein the interface module includes an open source operating system.

4. The interface system according to claim 1, wherein the personalized data is a representative value which approximates the setting of the vehicle system.

5. The interface system according to claim 1, wherein the personalized data is stored on a user device and extracted by the interface module to modify the operational data of the vehicle system.

6. An interface system comprising:

a first vehicle system for a first vehicle, the first vehicle system having an operational data representing a setting of the first vehicle system;

an interface module in data communication with the first vehicle system to directly modify the operational data of the first vehicle system based upon a personalized data, wherein the personalized data is in a platform independent format for transfer to a second vehicle, and stored on a storage system integrated with the first vehicle and in data communication with the interface module, and wherein the interface module is configured for data communication with a location that is remote to the first vehicle to permit a user at the location to at least one of directly create and modify the personalized data stored on the storage system; and

a user device in data communication with the interface module, wherein the personalized data is extracted from the interface module and stored on the user device to be transferred and imported to the second vehicle, the second vehicle including a second vehicle system having an operational data representing a setting of the second vehicle system, wherein the setting of the second vehicle system is modified based upon the personalized data to be substantially similar to the setting of the first vehicle system.

7. The interface system according to claim 6, wherein the interface module is an infotainment module.

8. The interface system according to claim 6, wherein the interface module includes an open source operating system.

9. The interface system according to claim 6, wherein the personalized data is a representative value which approximates the setting of the first vehicle system.

10. The interface system according to claim 6, wherein the personalized data is modified from a location that is remote to the second vehicle.

11. A method for personalizing a vehicle system, the method comprising the steps of:

a) receiving an operational data representing a setting of a first vehicle system for a first vehicle;

b) modifying the setting of the first vehicle system and thereby the operational data thereof;

c) extracting, using a processor, the operational data from the first vehicle system of the first vehicle;

d) storing the operational data as a personalized data on a storage system integrated with the first vehicle and in data communication with an interface module of the first vehicle in a platform independent format for transfer to a second vehicle, wherein the interface module of the first vehicle is configured for data communication with a location that is remote to the first vehicle to permit a user at the location to at least one of directly create and modify the personalized data stored on the storage system; and

e) transmitting the personalized data directly into the second vehicle, wherein an operational data representing a setting of a second vehicle system of the second vehicle is modified based upon the personalized data.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein at least one of steps of b), c) and d) is performed by the interface module.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the interface module is an infotainment module.

14. The method according to claim 11, wherein the personalized data is a representative value which approximates the setting of the first vehicle system.

15. The method according to claim 11, wherein the personalized data is stored on a user device.

16. The method according to claim 11, wherein the personalized data is modified from a location that is remote to the second vehicle.

17. The method according to claim 11, wherein the setting of the second vehicle system of the second vehicle is modified to be substantially similar to the setting of the first vehicle system of the first vehicle.