Vehicle control system
AssigneeHarman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH
InventorChristian Bruelle-Drews
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Abstract
A vehicle control system of a vehicle configured to communicate with an external device, such as a portable digital assistant or mobile phone for the purpose of sending and receiving external data regarding a user's personal settings for vehicle components. As an example, the user data may correspond to the position of the driver's seat. The user data may be retrieved from the external device and transferred to the vehicle control system of a second vehicle to configure the second vehicle to the user's personal settings. The user data may be, as and example, transferred using the vCard data format for personal data interchange.
Claims1
A vehicle control system for communicating user-settings to at least one vehicle component, the control system comprising:
- a controller;
- an internal data communication device for communicating data corresponding to a value of a user-programmable setting with at least one vehicle component;
- and
- an external interface for communicating with an external device;
- where the controller is configured to send user data to an external device via the external interface, the user data including information corresponding to a current value of the user-programmable setting;
- where the controller is configured to receive user data from the external device via the external interface, the user data including information corresponding to a desired user-programmable setting;
- and
- where the controller is configured to communicate data corresponding to the user-programmable setting to the vehicle component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.