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US 12,654,682 B2Granted
Personalization of a vehicle based on user settings
OwnerFederico Tizianiinventor
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Abstract
A vehicle is personalized to perform at least one action (e.g., control of acceleration or navigation of the vehicle) based on configuration data for a user of the vehicle. For example, when a car is rented by a user that is a driver, the car recognizes the driver and sets itself up accordingly. In some cases, an application on a mobile device of a user communicates the settings to the car when the user rents and/or hails the car. In one example, the mobile device may carry preference settings that can be downloaded to a ride-sharing vehicle or a rented vehicle to adjust controls relevant to the role of the driver.
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An apparatus comprising:
- memory storing public user settings and private user settings to configure a vehicle for a user, wherein the private user settings are not sent to the vehicle until after the user is physically located in the vehicle;
- and
- a server configured to:
- communicate, over a network, with a mobile device of the user;
- receive, from the mobile device, permission to manage the public user settings, wherein the user specifies how to apply the public user settings to the vehicle prior to the user being physically located in the vehicle, wherein configuring the vehicle based on the public user settings comprises causing loading of the public user settings into the memory of the vehicle;
- in response to receiving the permission to manage the public user settings, send the public user settings over the network to the vehicle for configuring the vehicle;
- determine that the user is physically located in the vehicle;
- identify the user;
- in response to and after determining that the user is physically located in the vehicle and based on identification of the user, retrieve the private user settings from the mobile device of the user;
- and
- in response to and after retrieving the private user settings from the mobile device of the user, send the private user settings over the network to the vehicle for configuring the vehicle.
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An apparatus comprising:
- memory storing public user settings and private user settings for a user, wherein the private user settings are not sent to a vehicle until after the user is physically located in the vehicle;
- and
- a server configured to:
- receive permission from the user to manage the public user settings;
- in response to receiving the permission to manage the public user settings, configure the vehicle using the public user settings, wherein configuring the vehicle based on the public user settings comprises loading of the public user settings into the memory of the vehicle;
- after configuring the vehicle using the public user settings, determine that the user is physically located in the vehicle;
- in response to and after determining that the user is physically located in the vehicle and based on identification of the user, retrieve the private user settings from a mobile device of the user;
- and
- in response to and after retrieving the private user settings from the mobile device of the user, send the private user settings to the vehicle to configure the vehicle using the private user settings.
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A non-transitory computer storage medium storing instructions which, when executed on a computing device, cause the computing device to:
- communicate, over a network, with a mobile device of a user;
- receive, from the mobile device, permission to manage public user settings of the user;
- in response to receiving the permission to manage the public user settings, send the public user settings to a vehicle for the user to configure the vehicle, wherein configuring the vehicle based on the public user settings comprises loading of the public user settings into a memory of the vehicle;
- determine that the user is physically located in the vehicle;
- in response to and after determining that the user is physically located in the vehicle and based on identification of the user, retrieve private user settings from the mobile device of the user;
- receive the private user settings of the user;
- and
- in response to and after retrieving the private user settings from the mobile device of the user, send the private user settings to the vehicle to configure the vehicle, wherein access to the private user settings are not sent to the vehicle until after the user is physically located in the vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.