Mobile device intermediary for vehicle adaptation

• US 9,807,172 B2
• Filed: 10/18/2013
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• 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.
• Primary Examiner(s): Amin, Bhavesh V
• Application Number:
  US14/057,708
• Publication Number:
  US 20150112512A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,474 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 driver profile information associated with a driver profile that is associated with the mobile device, wherein the driver profile information comprises a selectable characteristic for an adjustable aspect of a first vehicle model;

receiving vehicle profile information related to a first vehicle, wherein the vehicle profile information comprises model identification information corresponding to a model of the first vehicle;

in response to determining that the first vehicle model is a same model as the model of the first vehicle, determining vehicle adaptation information related to adapting an aspect of the first vehicle, corresponding to the adjustable aspect of the first vehicle model, based on the selectable characteristic of the driver profile information and the vehicle profile information; and

facilitating access to the vehicle adaptation information for a device of the first vehicle to enable adaptation of the aspect of the first vehicle.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the device of the first vehicle is a first device, and wherein the receiving the driver profile information comprises receiving the driver profile information from a second device located remotely from the mobile device.

3. The mobile device of claim 2, wherein the second device is a server device that communicates with the mobile device via a wireless telecommunications network device, and wherein the first device of the first vehicle communicates with the mobile device via a wireless network interface device.

4. The mobile device of claim 2, wherein the second device is a radio access network device of a wireless telecommunications network.

5. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the vehicle information is first vehicle information, and wherein the operations further comprise receiving second vehicle profile information related to a second vehicle associated with the driver profile, and wherein the determining is further based on the second vehicle profile information.

6. The mobile device of claim 5, wherein the device of the first vehicle is a first device, and wherein the second vehicle profile information is received from a second device located remotely from the mobile device.

7. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the vehicle adaptation information relates to adapting a performance aspect of the first vehicle.

8. The mobile device of claim 7, wherein the selectable characteristic relates to an acceleration curve of the first vehicle model and wherein the performance aspect comprises an acceleration aspect of the first vehicle.

9. The mobile device of claim 7, wherein the selectable characteristic relates to an suspension configuration of the first vehicle model and wherein the performance aspect comprises a suspension aspect of the first vehicle.

10. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the selectable characteristic relates to a line of sight for an operator position of the first vehicle model and wherein the vehicle adaptation information relates to adapting a seat position of the first vehicle corresponding the line of sight.

11. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a mobile device comprising a processor, driver profile information associated with the mobile device from a server device located remotely from the mobile device, wherein the driver profile information comprises a selectable value for a feature of a vehicle model;

receiving, by the mobile device, vehicle profile information related to a first vehicle, wherein the vehicle profile information comprises a model of the first vehicle;

in response to determining that the model of the first vehicle corresponds to the vehicle model, determining, by the mobile device, vehicle adaptation information related to adapting an aspect of the first vehicle and based on the driver profile information and the vehicle profile information; and

facilitating, by the mobile device, access to the vehicle adaptation information for a first device of the first vehicle to initiate adaptation of the aspect of the first vehicle.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the receiving the vehicle profile information comprises receiving the vehicle profile information from a wireless telecommunications network device.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the vehicle profile information is first vehicle profile information, and further comprising receiving, by the mobile device, second vehicle profile information related to a second vehicle associated with the driver profile information and wherein the determining is further based on the second vehicle profile information.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the determining the adaptation information relates to adapting a performance aspect of the first vehicle.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the determining the adaptation information relates to adapting an acceleration transfer function of the first vehicle.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the determining the adaptation information relates to adapting a suspension aspect of the first vehicle.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the mobile device is a mobile phone device coupled to the server device via a wireless telecommunications network device.

18. A server device, comprising:

a processor; and

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

receiving driver profile information associated with a driver profile that is associated with a mobile device;

receiving first vehicle profile information related to a first vehicle via the mobile device;

receiving second vehicle profile information related to a second vehicle associated with the driver profile;

based on the driver profile information, the first vehicle profile information, and the second vehicle profile information, determining vehicle adaptation information related to adapting an aspect of the first vehicle; and

in response to determining, based on the first vehicle profile information and driver profile information, that a model of the first vehicle corresponds to a selectable setting of the driver profile for the model of the first vehicle, enabling access, via the mobile device, to the vehicle adaptation information for a device of the first vehicle to facilitate adaptation of the aspect of the first vehicle.

19. The server device of claim 18, wherein the vehicle adaptation information relates to adapting a performance aspect of the first vehicle.

20. The server device of claim 19, wherein the performance aspect comprises a vehicle acceleration response aspect of the first vehicle.