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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2017
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Tobias Geier, Dachau, DE;
Erik Friebe, Oberdolling, DE;
AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, DE;
Abstract
A method for operating a start and entry system of a motor vehicle, including the steps of: detecting whether an authorization of the starting of the motor vehicle is carried out on the basis of a key signal received on the vehicle side, which has been sent from a transmitting and receiving unit of a vehicle key, or whether the authorization of the starting of the vehicle is carried out on the basis of a near-field signal received on the vehicle side, which has been sent by a near-field communication system of a mobile communication device. If the authorization of the vehicle start is carried out on the basis of the key signal received on the vehicle side: the start and entry system is operated in a key operating mode, in which, following the starting of the vehicle, only the availability of the vehicle key in a vehicle interior of the motor vehicle is monitored.