Patent ID: 7965170

Claim:
A method of folding a vehicle seat, the method comprising: receiving a remotely transmitted request for seat folding from a key fob; determining a proximity of the key fob to the vehicle; permitting unsupervised seat folding if the key fob is within a first proximity to the vehicle; requiring supervised seat folding if the key fob is within a second proximity to the vehicle; requiring one-touch seat actuation if unsupervised seating folding is permitted and requiring continuous seat actuation if supervised seating folding is permitted; requiring continuous manual depression of an electrical switch used in supervised seat folding if continuous seat actuation is required; overriding unsupervised seat folding in response to determining an override event such that supervised seat folding is required in order to fold the vehicle seat between the first and second positions; and defining the override event according to stability logic associated with preventing successive seat foldings within a predefined period of time.