Patent ID: 11874129
Assignee: KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. A method for providing personalized information based on user interest, the method comprising:
determining, by a vehicle terminal, at least one user operation of a vehicle in response to a detection of sensors and electronic control units (ECUs) mounted in the vehicle during travel of the vehicle;
determining, by the vehicle terminal, whether a current time corresponds to a time of interest when a user of the vehicle has an interest in a specific object, based on the at least one user operation of the vehicle during the travel of the vehicle;
when the current time corresponds to the time of interest when the user has the interest in the specific object, determining, by the vehicle terminal, context information relating to the specific object in response to a detection of the sensors and the ECUs at the current time;
receiving, by a processor, the context information transmitted from the vehicle terminal using a communication device;
extracting, by the processor, a field of interest of the user based on a similarity obtained by matching the received context information from the vehicle terminal and context information for respective fields of interest that is stored in a storage;
generating interest information based on feature information of a user group having same field of interest as the extracted field of interest;
providing, by the processor, the generated interest information to the vehicle terminal using the communication device; and
outputting, by the vehicle terminal, the generated interest information received from the processor to an output device,
wherein the at least one user operation of the vehicle includes at least one of window operation information of the vehicle, departure information of the vehicle from a lane, acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle, volume adjustment information of a media device in the vehicle, or engine stop information.