Vehicle Occupant Settings Transfer With Conditional Personalization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicle settings systems fail to adequately personalize and adapt to individual occupants based on their identity and environmental conditions, leading to suboptimal comfort, safety, and enjoyment.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that identifies vehicle occupants using facial recognition or associated devices, applies personalized vehicle settings based on conditional modifiers such as seated location, environmental conditions, and occupant identity, and allows for conditional application of settings across zones within the vehicle.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If vehicle settings are manually transferred between devices, then user customization is maintained, but the process is time-consuming and cumbersome

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime to transfer settingsVSAvoidease of settings transfer
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a digital copy of vehicle settings data and stores it in the cloud. When a user switches devices, the new device automatically retrieves and applies the settings copy, eliminating manual reconfiguration and reducing transfer time to near-zero.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically backing up vehicle settings to the cloud immediately when changes are made. This pre-positioning of settings data ensures that when device switching occurs, the settings are already prepared and ready for instant retrieval and application.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If settings are stored locally on each device, then data security is maintained, but settings cannot be accessed across multiple devices

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecross-device settings accessVSAvoidsettings data security
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a cloud-based server as an intermediary between the user's devices and vehicle settings data. The server securely stores encrypted settings data and provides controlled access to authorized devices, enabling cross-device accessibility while maintaining security through centralized management and authentication protocols.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The cloud-based settings storage system serves multiple functions: it acts as a secure repository, an automatic backup system, a cross-device synchronization service, and a retrieval mechanism. This universal approach allows the same settings to be securely accessed across multiple devices without requiring separate local storage on each device.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Ease of operation

If complete vehicle settings are transferred, then full customization is achieved, but data transmission time and bandwidth are increased

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesettings configuration completenessVSAvoidsettings transfer time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and identifies only the essential vehicle settings data that needs to be transferred when a user switches devices. By filtering out redundant or non-critical settings, the system reduces the volume of data transmitted while still maintaining complete functional customization, thereby decreasing transfer time and bandwidth consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of the user's settings profile to pre-identify and prioritize critical settings that must be transferred. This preliminary action allows the system to focus transmission resources on essential data, reducing overall transfer time while ensuring that the most important customization parameters are immediately restored on the new device.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP4402022B1System and method for applying vehicle settings
Publication Date: 2026.05.06 BLACKBERRY LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure provides, in an aspect, a computer-implemented method for modifying vehicle settings for a vehicle, the method comprising identifying a vehicle occupant having a personalized set of vehicle settings for the vehicle, identifying a condition modifier associated with the vehicle occupant and the personalized set of vehicle settings, and applying a vehicle setting from the set of vehicle settings based on the condition modifier.