Patent ID: 8825222
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: B60R,G07C

Abstract:
1. A method of remotely managing vehicle settings, the method comprising: receiving at a remote device, an identification (ID) code-associated with at least one user; corresponding, at the remote device, the ID code to at least one user profile including at least one vehicle setting following verification of the ID code; receiving at the remote device, information related to managing the at least one vehicle setting associated with the at least one user profile; communicating the information related to managing the at least one vehicle setting from the remote device to a vehicle processing system configured to execute the at least one vehicle setting associated with the at least one user profile; communicating the information related to managing the at least one vehicle setting from the remote device to a learning element; wherein the learning element is configured to associate the information related to managing the at least one vehicle setting with at least one condition interior to or exterior to a vehicle including the vehicle processing system; wherein the learning element is configured to modify the at least one user profile based on a pattern of associating the information related to managing the at least one vehicle setting with the at least one condition interior to or exterior to the vehicle; wherein the learning element is configured to create at least one sub-class for the at least one user profile based on at least one condition interior to or exterior to the vehicle; wherein the learning element is configured to allow the at least one user to label the sub-class; and wherein the at least one sub-class includes at least one vehicle setting different than a vehicle setting associated with the at least one user profile.