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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2021
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Yifan Chen, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Commerce Township, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to, in response to a mobile device synchronizing with a vehicle, identify a first profile from a plurality of profiles stored in the memory as associated with the mobile device by extracting a predetermined set of information from data storing contact information for a plurality of contacts on the mobile device and determining that the predetermined set of information matches data in the first profile; determine that a person associated with the first profile is an operator of the vehicle; and then perform an operation in accordance with at least one setting stored in the first profile.