Patent ID: 7860621

Claim:
A method for operating a motor vehicle having multiple functional systems, in which a set of profile specifications is stored in a storage medium of the motor vehicle, and at least one functional system is configured corresponding to the set of profile specifications, wherein a set of rule specifications is stored in a storage medium of the motor vehicle, the set of profile specifications is fed to a rule analysis unit as input data, the rule analysis unit analyzing the profile specifications based on the set of rule specifications, configuration of the at least one functional system, including a warning system, a driving assist system and a driver comfort system, is performed based on a result of the analyzing; behavior of a user of the motor vehicle is recorded by a recording unit and evaluated by the rule analysis unit during operation of the at least one functional system; the at least one functional system is continuously adapted to the behavior of the user, including changing at least one of content and visual type of a graphic display of information and settings of an audio/video system; the set of profile specifications and the set of rule specifications are stored in a generic format and data about their structure is stored in an assigned document type definition file; and controls for essential functional systems are made available in a display to a user and controls for non-essential functional systems are made available in the display to the user only when the motor vehicle is below a predetermined vehicle speed.