US 11,909,903 B2
System and method of managing contact information of a terminal recognized by a vehicle
Hyun-Woo Lee, Seoul (KR); Seo-Hwan Choi, Seoul (KR); Seong-Soo Yae, Hwaseong-si (KR); and Paul Choo, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed by HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Aug. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/406,941.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0186270 (KR), filed on Dec. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0210258 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. H04M 1/2757 (2020.01); H04M 1/72409 (2021.01); B60K 35/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01)
CPC H04M 1/2757 (2020.01) [B60K 35/00 (2013.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); H04M 1/72409 (2021.01); B60K 2370/592 (2019.05); B60K 2370/5911 (2019.05)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for managing contact information of a terminal recognized by a vehicle, the system comprising:
a communication unit, which communicates with one or more terminals located in a vehicle and recognizes the terminal, and receives information stored in the recognized terminal;
a connection confirming unit, which confirms a function, to which the terminal recognized through the communication unit is connected through communication, among the functions provided by an Audio, Video, and Navigation (AVN) system of the vehicle;
a priority calculating unit, which calculates a priority of the corresponding terminal with respect to other terminals according to the connection between the terminal confirmed by the connection confirming unit and the function provided by the AVN system and generates priority list information for maintaining contact information stored in the terminal; and
a contact information renewing unit, which downloads and stores the contact information stored in the terminal in a linked database according to the priority list information generated by the priority calculating unit or deletes the contact information stored in the database.