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Granted Patent B2
US 9,524,514 · App. 14/746,021 · Granted Dec 20, 2016

Method and system for selecting driver preferences

Inventors: Perry Robinson MacNeille (Lathrup Village, MI); Yimin Liu (Ann Arbor, MI); Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin (West Bloomfield, MI); Gary Steven Strumolo (Canton, MI)
Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
G06Q30/0265B60K35/00B60R16/037G01S19/13G06F17/00G06Q30/0255B60K2350/1056B60K2350/1076
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,524,514
App. No.
14/746,021
Filed
Jun 22, 2015
Granted
Dec 20, 2016
Kind
B2
Examiner
KAN, YURI
Art Unit
3662
USPC
701/36
Abstract

A vehicle computing system enables one or more processors to control a plurality of vehicle features. The vehicle computing system may control a plurality of vehicle features while determining and selecting occupant preferences for those features. The vehicle computing system may receive input including occupant selections of an application requesting user control. The vehicle computing system may receive context variables at the time of occupant selections. The vehicle computing system may store in memory the occupant selections of the vehicle feature settings and/or controls with the associated context variables. The vehicle computing system may determine an occupant preference to an input request using an associative rule filter based on the occupant selections stored in memory. The vehicle computing system may assign a predetermined amount of time after the application input is requested to allow control of the vehicle feature based on an associative rule filter output.

Claims (16)

1. A system comprising: a processor configured to,

identify present vehicle-related context variables and corresponding values;

in response to the context variables, generate a ranked list of possible advertisements using an associative rule filter that weights advertisements based on predefined category associations with identified context variables and corresponding context variable values; and

in response output an advertisement to a device according to an advertisement order defined by the ranked list.

2. The vehicle system of claim 1 , wherein the context variables include one or more of GPS coordinates, time of day, day of week, and month.

3. A computer-program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium for a vehicle processor comprising instructions for:

in response to a request received to output an advertisement, outputting the advertisement to a vehicle display according to an order of a plurality of advertisements on a ranked list generated by an associative rule filter that identifies present vehicle-related context variables and corresponding values and ranks the list by weighting advertisements based on predefined category associations with identified context variables and corresponding context variable values.

4. The computer-program product of claim 3 , the non-transitory computer readable medium further comprising instructions for:

establishing communication with a wireless device executing an application requesting the advertisement.

5. The computer-program product of claim 3 , wherein the plurality of advertisements on the ranked list includes one or more advertisements available to the occupant based on a vehicle GPS location.

6. The computer-program product of claim 3 , wherein the context variables include one or more of a GPS location, environmental conditions, and occupant cognitive load as determined by the vehicle processor.

7. An advertising method comprising:

identifying, via a vehicle processor, present vehicle-related context variables and corresponding values;

in response to the context variables, generate a ranked list of possible advertisements using an associative rule filter that weights advertisements based on predefined category associations with identified context variables and corresponding context variable values; and

in response to a request for an advertisement received from an application, outputting an advertisement based on an advertisement order defined by the ranked list.

8. The advertising method of claim 7 , wherein the context variables include one or more of GPS coordinates, time of day, day of week, and month.

Continuity (2)
Continuation 13767501 · Feb 14, 2013
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