Patent ID: 6957207

Claim:
A computer-assisted user information inferring system for a vehicle occupied by a user, comprising: inputting means for inputting various data, including data input by the user; a processor cooperatively operable with the inputting means, the processor being configured to facilitate, responsive to the various data, inferring information representative of the user; storing the information as at least one item in at least one data set of a plurality of data sets, by defining the information as corresponding to the at least one data set, the at least one data set including a plurality of data lists including a first data list and at least one second data list, a data list including a plurality of items including the at least one item, wherein the items in the at least one second data list are a subset of the items in the first data list, and expressing the information as the at least one item written in at least one data list included in the at least one data set; changing values for at least a part of the items in each data set, responsive to temporal-spatial elements; wherein the inferring further includes determining the information responsive to items of the data sets other than the at least one data set; calculating at least one of a temporal characteristic that a temporal element imparts to a value of the at least one item and a spatial characteristic that a spatial element imparts to the value; and generating an output representative of the value; output means for using the value, responsive to the output, in the vehicle used by the user.