Patent ID: 8368508

Claim:
A system for controlling the functions of a vehicle wherein said vehicle includes a plurality of functions, the operation of each of which is controlled by a function controller wherein each said function controller responds to an associated one of a plurality of controlling members wherein each of said associated controlling members issues a message having an identification portion and an instruction portion and wherein each said function controller responds only to a message having an identification portion identifying its associated controlling member as the source of the message, an improvement comprising one of said controlling members having a code reader for reading a code wherein said one of said controlling members will adopt said code as its identification code for said identification portion of its message, one of said function controllers having a code reader for reading a code wherein said one of said function controllers will adopt said code as the identification code identifying a message as having been sent by its associated controlling member, and a library of unique codes readable by—a—code reader of said one of said controlling member and readable by said code reader of said one of said function controller wherein on insertion of one of said unique codes in said code reader of said one of said function controllers and into said code reader of said one of said controlling members said one of said controlling members will issue said one of said unique codes as its identification portion of its messages and said one of said function controllers will recognize said one of said unique codes as part of a message from its said controlling member.