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Vehicle access and security based on biometrics

  • US 9,082,237 B2
  • Filed: 01/24/2014
  • Issued: 07/14/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for interacting with a vehicle from which status messages are sent at a first rate from the vehicle using a communications system or whose use is monitored at a first, set frequency by a monitoring system, comprising:

  • receiving biometric data from a biometric sensor of a portable communications device proximate the vehicle, the portable communications device being configured to use a communications network for voice and data communications between the portable communications device and other remotely situated communications devices;

    causing a vehicle control signal to be generated when the biometric data received at the portable communications device is from a person authorized to interact with the vehicle;

    causing the generated vehicle control signal to be provided to a signal-receiving component on the vehicle such that interaction with the vehicle is controlled based on the received biometric data; and

    changing the rate at which the messages are sent from the vehicle using the communications system from the first rate to a second, different rate dependent on analysis of the received biometric data relative to known biometric data or the frequency at which use of the vehicle is monitored by the monitoring system from the first frequency to a second, different frequency dependent on analysis of the received biometric data relative to known biometric data such that different received biometric data causes different changes in the rate at which messages are sent or different frequencies at which use of the vehicle is monitored.

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