Patent ID: 9376090
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: B60R,G07C

Claim Text:
1. Method for authenticating a driver in a motor vehicle, the method using a recognition device assembled in the motor vehicle for the recognition of actual data of the driver which are transmitted to a reviewing device during the authentication, a checking device being assembled in an external station outside the motor vehicle, wherein a) the checking device compares the actual data with target data, the target data having been read into the external station previous to the authentication, there being additional information stored in the external station, the additional information being time frame information, and, upon matching of the actual data with the target data and with the additional information, transmits an enabling signal from the external station to the motor vehicle, whereby an ignition procedure is enabled for the driver, and b) the recognition device is a cell phone which can communicate with the reviewing device via an own communication means.