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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 03, 2012
Applicants:

Gee N. Chia, Morrisville, NC (US);

Christopher M. Laffoon, Durham, NC (US);

Viswanath Srikanth, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Inventors:

Gee N. Chia, Morrisville, NC (US);

Christopher M. Laffoon, Durham, NC (US);

Viswanath Srikanth, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 5/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method, system or computer usable program product for porting driver preferences between vehicles including initiating a first communication session between a computer in the first vehicle and an external device, receiving a driver profile from the first vehicle in the external device, wherein the driver profile was used to configure warnings and other driver settings in the first vehicle, initiating a second communication session between the external device and a computer in a second vehicle, transferring the driver profile from the external device to a second memory in the second vehicle, and using the driver profile to configure warning and other driver settings in the second vehicle.


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