Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Astrid Schroeder

Thomas Stauner

Andreas Heider

Christian Suess

Alexandre Saad

Martin E Thiede

A computerized operation of a vehicle rental system is provided, wherein a number of vehicles is made available to a defined user group for a temporary use period. The vehicles are placed at one or more locations accessible only to the user group, with one or multiple parking spaces reserved for the vehicles in each case. Based on a user input which includes at least one item of data regarding a rental period start and a rental period end of a vehicle, as well as a user ID, a reservation of the vehicle is carried out in a computerized reservation system. A sensor device, which monitors the parking spaces, verifies the presence of the vehicle. The reservation system shows a vehicle, the same being detected by the sensor device as parked in one of the reserved parking spaces prior to the expiration of the rental period end and saved in the reservation system, as available for rental in the reservation system.

Vehicle rental system and method

An at least partly autonomous vehicle includes a communication interface configured for vehicle-external communication, a memory configured to store at least one piece of authentication information, and a control unit configured to control the communication interface and to output the authentication information from the memory via the communication interface when the control unit receives an instruction for outputting the authentication information.

Authentication system for an at least partly autonomous vehicle

A configuration system of a vehicle has at least one functional unit, a control unit pertaining to the functional unit, and a parametrizing unit provided in the vehicle, which is operatively connected with the control unit. The configuring system includes a storage device which can be read out by the parametrizing unit and which contains configuration information for the control unit, by which configuration information a parametrizing of the control unit can be carried out. The storage device additionally contains configuration information for the vehicle, in which case the storage device contains evaluation rules by which the parametrizing unit can determine configuration information for the configuration of the control unit from the configuration information for the vehicle and the configuration information for the control unit and can configure the control unit.

Configuration system of a vehicle and process for the configuration of at least one control unit of the configuration system

A method and a device for monitoring an unauthorized memory access to a predetermined memory area in a computing device are described, in which a monitoring medium is provided, having at least one sensor medium, which is set up for the purpose of recognizing an event of the computing device, and at least one recognition medium, which is set up for the purpose of tracking the behavior of the event recognized by the sensor medium, the monitoring medium being integrated into a sequence pattern on the computing device, and the monitoring medium being set up for the purpose of monitoring the sequence pattern at its runtime, in that memory accesses to a memory address or an address range are detected by the monitoring medium as events.

Method and device for monitoring an unauthorized memory access of a computing device, in particular in a motor vehicle

A method is provided for transferring at least a first personal setting of a first vehicle to a second vehicle, especially for a driver, who changes the vehicle. To transfer the vehicle settings that are known to the driver as true to the original as possible from a first vehicle to a second vehicle, thus without falsifying the subjective impression, first personalization data indicating the personal first setting is exported from the first vehicle in the original form or in a modified form in a first step and is imported into the second vehicle in a second step. The second personalization data are formed based on the imported data; and a personal setting is carried out with the second personalization data in the second vehicle, wherein the model and/or the accessories of the first and second vehicle may be identical or different.

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Munich, Germany

Astrid Schroeder