Patent ID: 9303442
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: E05F,E05Y,G07C

Claim Text:
1. A system, comprising: a vehicle electronic control unit including a computer processor; and logic for passive verification a presence of an operator of a vehicle, the logic stored executable by the computer processor, the logic configured to cause the system to perform: initiating an operation of a power-operated vehicle component in response to a request from an operator-controlled device and subsequent to authentication of the operator-controlled device with the vehicle, wherein the operation of the power-operated vehicle component is subject to a supervised control mechanism that requires continuous operator input to the operator-controlled device; verifying a presence of the operator-controlled device indicative of the presence of the operator of the vehicle; overriding the supervised control mechanism in response to verifying the operator-controlled device is present; operating the power-operated vehicle component absent the continuous operator input to the operator-controlled device based on the overriding of the supervised control mechanism; transmitting a plurality of intermittent signals to the operator-controlled device during the operation of the power-operated vehicle component; monitoring response signals received in response to the intermittent signals; and continuing the operation of the power-operated vehicle component until the activation is complete so long as the response signals are received responsive to the monitoring.