Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120233253 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERACTING AND SERVICING USERS BY ORIENTATION - The present disclosure relates to a social networking service based on user orientation, particularly user political beliefs. | 09-13-2012 |
20130134730 | UNIVERSAL CONSOLE CHASSIS FOR THE CAR - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a universal chassis that may be mounted in the head unit of a vehicle. The chassis may accept one or more modules that each have common dimensions. With a common form factor, the universal chassis is configurable as different modules with different functionality may be inserted into the chassis with ease. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135118 | PARKING METER EXPIRED ALERT - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure builds on integrating existing technology with new devices, methods, and systems to provide a complete vehicle ecosystem. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138591 | ETIQUETTE SUGGESTION - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure builds on integrating existing technology with new devices, methods, and systems to provide a complete vehicle ecosystem. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138714 | IN-CLOUD CONNECTION FOR CAR MULTIMEDIA - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to generate a vehicle communication system. The vehicle communication system can determine which devices are within the vehicle. From this determination, the vehicle communication system may create a universal bus and hotspot where applications, data, multimedia information, and resources can be shared both with the vehicle and with the other devices in the vehicle. | 05-30-2013 |
20130141247 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING AND REPORTING VEHICLE OCCUPANT INFORMATION - The present disclosure describes an occupant information module that reports, to a third party, occupant information regarding a vehicle occupant. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141252 | PARKING SPACE FINDER BASED ON PARKING METER DATA - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure builds on integrating existing technology with new devices, methods, and systems to provide a complete vehicle ecosystem. | 06-06-2013 |
20130143495 | MOBILE HOT SPOT/ROUTER/APPLICATION SHARE SITE OR NETWORK - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to generate a vehicle communication system. The vehicle communication system can determine which devices are within the vehicle. From this determination, the vehicle communication system may create a universal bus and hotspot where applications, data, multimedia information, and resources can be shared both with the vehicle and with the other devices in the vehicle. | 06-06-2013 |
20130143546 | SHARING APPLICATIONS/MEDIA BETWEEN CAR AND PHONE (HYDROID) - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to generate a vehicle communication system. The vehicle communication system can determine which devices are within the vehicle. From this determination, the vehicle communication system may create a universal bus and hotspot where applications, data, multimedia information, and resources can be shared both with the vehicle and with the other devices in the vehicle. | 06-06-2013 |
20130143601 | IN-CAR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DEVICES - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to generate a vehicle communication system. The vehicle communication system can determine which devices are within the vehicle. From this determination, the vehicle communication system may create a universal bus and hotspot where applications, data, multimedia information, and resources can be shared both with the vehicle and with the other devices in the vehicle. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144459 | LAW BREAKING/BEHAVIOR SENSOR - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure builds on integrating existing technology with new devices, methods, and systems to provide a complete vehicle ecosystem. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144460 | CAR LOCATION - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure builds on integrating existing technology with new devices, methods, and systems to provide a complete vehicle ecosystem. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144461 | BEHAVIORAL TRACKING AND VEHICLE APPLICATIONS - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure builds on integrating existing technology with new devices, methods, and systems to provide a complete vehicle ecosystem. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144462 | FEATURE RECOGNITION FOR CONFIGURING A VEHICLE CONSOLE AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to recognize the drivers and/or passengers within the automobile. Based on the recognition, the vehicle may change a configuration of the automobile to match predetermined preferences for the driver and/or passenger. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144463 | CONFIGURABLE VEHICLE CONSOLE - Methods and systems for a configurable vehicle console are provided. Specifically, a configurable console may comprise one or more displays that are capable of receiving input from a user. At least one of these displays may be removed from the console of a vehicle and operated as a stand-alone computing platform. Moreover, it is anticipated that each one or more of the displays of the console may be configured to present a plurality of custom applications that, when manipulated by at least one user, are adapted to control functions associated with a vehicle and/or associated peripheral devices. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144469 | LOCATION INFORMATION EXCHANGE BETWEEN VEHICLE AND DEVICE - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure builds on integrating existing technology with new devices, methods, and systems to provide a complete vehicle ecosystem. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144470 | VEHICLE CLIMATE CONTROL - Systems and methods of vehicle climate control are provided. Specifically, a vehicle with climate control includes a number of sensors for sensing climate control information, such as human bodily conditions, e.g., temperature or heart rate, of the human occupants of the vehicle, a processing unit, and a climate control. The processing unit uses the sensed human bodily conditions data from the sensors to activate the climate control the adjust the climate conditions for the human occupants. In another aspect of the disclosure, stress level of the human operator of a vehicle can be detected by sensing the bodily conditions of the human operator, determining the stress level of the human operator based on the sensed bodily conditions, and displaying a warning if the stress level is over a certain limit. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144474 | BRANDING OF ELECTRICALLY PROPELLED VEHICLES VIA THE GENERATION OF SPECIFIC OPERATING OUTPUT - The present disclosure is related to a perceptible output control system for a vehicle that can perform a number of different operations that are particularly useful for electric vehicles. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144486 | STREET SIDE SENSORS - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure builds on integrating existing technology with new devices, methods, and systems to provide a complete vehicle ecosystem. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144520 | OBJECT SENSING (PEDESTRIAN AVOIDANCE/ACCIDENT AVOIDANCE) - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure builds on integrating existing technology with new devices, methods, and systems to provide a complete vehicle ecosystem. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144657 | INSURANCE TRACKING - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure builds on integrating existing technology with new devices, methods, and systems to provide a complete vehicle ecosystem. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145065 | CONTROL OF DEVICE FEATURES BASED ON VEHICLE STATE - Methods and systems for a controlling device features based on vehicle state and device location are provided. Specifically, the device may be any type of electrical device capable of transmitting and/or receiving a signal (such as a phone, tablet, computer, music player, and/or other entertainment device). In some instances, the device may be associated with one or more vehicles. Although the device may be configured to run one or more applications, the functionality of the one or more applications may be controlled by a system associated with the vehicle. In some cases, this control may depend on the device application type, device location (either inside or outside of a vehicle), law, operator state, and/or vehicle state. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145279 | REMOVABLE, CONFIGURABLE VEHICLE CONSOLE - Methods and systems for a removable, configurable vehicle console are provided. Specifically, a configurable console may comprise one or more displays that are capable of receiving input from a user. At least one of these displays may be removed from the console of a vehicle and operated as a stand-alone computing platform. Moreover, it is anticipated that each one or more of the displays of the console may be configured to present a plurality of custom applications that, when manipulated by at least one user, are adapted to control functions associated with a vehicle and/or associated peripheral devices. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145297 | CONFIGURABLE HEADS-UP DASH DISPLAY - Methods and systems for a heads-up configurable vehicle dash display are provided. Specifically, a configurable dash may comprise one or more displays that are capable of receiving input from a user. At least one of these displays may be configured to present a plurality of custom applications that, when manipulated by at least one user, are adapted to control and/or monitor functions associated with a vehicle and/or associated peripheral devices. It is anticipated that the function and appearance of the plurality of custom applications may be altered via user and/or processor input. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145360 | VEHICLE APPLICATION STORE FOR CONSOLE - The present disclosure is directed to an application store on board a vehicle. The application store contains, in one configuration, a plurality of applications for installation on an on board computer of the vehicle, with the applications provided to the vehicle operator being provided to the operator being based on predetermined types of information related to the vehicle, its state, operation, and/or configuration, vehicle location, vehicle type, make, model, and/or year of manufacture, and/or occupant(s) and/or occupant(s) of other vehicles. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145401 | MUSIC STREAMING - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to generate a vehicle communication system. The vehicle communication system can determine which devices are within the vehicle. From this determination, the vehicle communication system may create a universal bus and hotspot where applications, data, multimedia information, and resources can be shared both with the vehicle and with the other devices in the vehicle. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145482 | VEHICLE MIDDLEWARE - The present disclosure describes a vehicle implementing one or more processing modules. These modules are configured to connect and interface with the various buses in the vehicle, where the various buses are connected with the various components of the vehicle to facilitate information transfer among the vehicle components. Each processing module is further modularized with the ability to add and replace other functional modules now or in the future. These functional modules can themselves act as distinct vehicle components. Each processing modules may hand-off processing to other modules depending on its health, processing load, or by third-party control. Thus, the plurality of processing modules helps to implement a middleware point of control to the vehicle with redundancy in processing and safety and security awareness in their applications. | 06-06-2013 |
20130147638 | PROXIMITY WARNING RELATIVE TO OTHER CARS - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure builds on integrating existing technology with new devices, methods, and systems to provide a complete vehicle ecosystem. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151031 | GESTURE RECOGNITION FOR ON-BOARD DISPLAY - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to recognize the drivers and/or passengers within the automobile. Based on the recognition, the vehicle may change a configuration of the automobile to match predetermined preferences for the driver and/or passenger. The configurations may also include the recognition of a unique set of gestures for the person. Further, the configuration can also include the tracking of health data related to the person. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151065 | COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON VEHICLE DIAGNOSTICS AND INDICATIONS - Methods and systems for communicating vehicle conditions based on vehicle component diagnostics and indications are provided. Specifically, various components of a vehicle may provide diagnostic information that can be collected and interpreted by a diagnostics module. The diagnostics module may determine to present the diagnostic information to a third party and/or vehicle occupant according to predetermined settings. Such diagnostic information may be presented in a conversational manner. Moreover, diagnostic information may be automatically evaluated in determining to provide course of action advice and other communications via the diagnostic module. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151088 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE DATA COLLECTION REGARDING TRAFFIC - The present disclosure describes roadway map updating using vehicle performance, route, and/or location information from plural vehicles. | 06-13-2013 |
20130152003 | CONFIGURABLE DASH DISPLAY - Methods and systems for a configurable vehicle dash display are provided. Specifically, a configurable dash may comprise one or more displays that are capable of receiving input from a user. At least one of these displays may be configured to present a plurality of custom applications that, when manipulated by at least one user, are adapted to control and/or monitor functions associated with a vehicle and/or associated peripheral devices. It is anticipated that the function and appearance of the plurality of custom applications may be altered via user and/or processor input. | 06-13-2013 |
20130154298 | CONFIGURABLE HARDWARE UNIT FOR CAR SYSTEMS - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a universal chassis that may be mounted in the head unit of a vehicle. The chassis may accept one or more modules that each have common dimensions. With a common form factor, the universal chassis is configurable as different modules with different functionality may be inserted into the chassis with ease. | 06-20-2013 |
20130158821 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE DATA COLLECTION - The present disclosure describes roadway map updating using vehicle performance and location information from plural vehicles. | 06-20-2013 |
20130165137 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING AUTOMOBILE-RELATED TRAVEL DATA WITH A SMARTPHONE - A technique for collecting automobile-related travel data is disclosed. The technique involves initiating a travel data collection function of a smartphone in response to a stimulus that emanates from an automobile. Once the travel data collection function has been initiated, automobile-related travel data is collected using a location detection function of the smartphone and then the travel data is communicated from the smartphone to a recipient according to a travel distribution function of the smartphone. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166097 | UNIVERSAL BUS IN THE CAR - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to recognize the drivers and/or passengers within the automobile. Based on the recognition, the vehicle may change a configuration of the automobile to match predetermined preferences for the driver and/or passenger. The configurations may also include the recognition of a unique set of gestures for the person. Further, the configuration can also include the tracking of health data related to the person. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167159 | VEHICLE COMPRISING MULTI-OPERATING SYSTEM - A mobile computing device with a mobile operating system and personal computer or vehicle processing module operating system running concurrently and independently on a shared kernel without virtualization. The mobile operating system provides a user experience for the mobile computing device that suits the mobile environment. The personal computer operating system provides a full personal computer user experience when the mobile computing device is docked to a secondary terminal environment. The vehicle processing module operating system provides a full vehicle processing module user experience when the mobile computing device is docked to a secondary terminal environment. The mobile computing device may be a smartphone running the Android mobile OS and a full desktop Linux distribution on a modified Android kernel. | 06-27-2013 |
20130198802 | ON BOARD VEHICLE MEDIA CONTROLLER - The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable media controller operable to receive a media stream from a remote node, the received media stream being for an occupant associated with an on board vehicle input/output system, identify which on board vehicle input/output systems are restricted due to operator command and/or as a result of a governing law, and provide the media stream, in compliance with any restriction, to a selected input/output system associated with the occupant. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198867 | A Docking Station for Portable Devices Providing Authorized Power Transfer and Facility Access - A docking station for docking portable electronic devices is disclosed. The docking station is configured to mechanically accept and operatively interface with the portable electronic device for non-contact charging and data transfer. The docking station can provide security features for providing and/or restricting access to computational facilities such as printers, databases, installed programs, etc. Such security features can include installing applications on such portable devices that limit access. | 08-01-2013 |
20130200991 | ON BOARD VEHICLE MEDIA CONTROLLER - The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable network controller operable to cache media intended for a vehicle occupant in response to a vehicle state change, vehicle function, change in vehicle location, actual or expected change in a signal parameter associated with a selected channel and/or request by the vehicle occupant and/or a signal source. | 08-08-2013 |
20130203400 | ON BOARD VEHICLE PRESENCE REPORTING MODULE - The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable presence reporting module operable to determine, based on one or more of a vehicle occupant context and requirement of law applicable to a current geographic location of the vehicle, whether the vehicle occupant is present and available for receiving an inbound communication and/or by what communication channel and/or modality to contact the vehicle occupant. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204466 | ON BOARD VEHICLE NETWORKING MODULE - The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable remote control module operable to receive, via a remote node, a command from a vehicle owner to configure and/or alter and/or determine a state of a selected vehicle component and, when the vehicle owner is authenticated successfully by the remote control module, to configure and/or alter and/or determine a state of the selected vehicle component. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204484 | ON BOARD VEHICLE DIAGNOSTIC MODULE - The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable diagnostic module operable to receive, from a vehicle component, a signal regarding a warning and/or error and select a destination for the signal from a plurality of destinations, the plurality of destinations comprising one or more of a vehicle input/output system to present the warning and/or error to a vehicle occupant, an emergency service provider, an emergency responder, a manufacturer of the vehicle, a service facility located in proximity to a current vehicle location, and a remotely located diagnostic service to diagnose a cause of the warning and/or error signal. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204493 | DUPLICATED PROCESSING IN VEHICLES - The present disclosure describes a vehicle implementing one or more processing modules. These modules are configured to connect and interface with the various buses in the vehicle, where the various buses are connected with the various components of the vehicle to facilitate information transfer among the vehicle components. Each processing module is further modularized with the ability to add and replace other functional modules now or in the future. These functional modules can themselves act as distinct vehicle components. Each processing module may hand-off processing to other modules depending on its health, processing load, or by third-party control. Thus, the plurality of processing modules helps to implement a middleware point of control to the vehicle with redundancy in processing and safety and security awareness in their applications. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204943 | ON BOARD VEHICLE NETWORKING MODULE - The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable social networking module operable to enable on board processing modules of different privately owned vehicles to wirelessly connect to exchange vehicle-related information. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205026 | MEDIA FILTER IN A VEHICLE INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM - The present disclosure describes a media filter for filtering and/or processing a third party sourced signal received by an onboard component of the vehicle in a manner consistent with one or more rules, the one or more rules pertaining to one or more of a whitelist, blacklist, sensed occupant context, and/or a law and/or regulation. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205412 | ON BOARD VEHICLE MEDIA CONTROLLER - The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable media controller on board a vehicle operable (a) to determine a first spatial location of an external communication device, the external communication device being in wireless communication with the on board media controller and the first spatial location being associated with a first set of restrictions, the first set of restrictions being at least one of a control on connectivity access by the external communication device, a restriction on the connectivity access, and a restriction on one or more functions of the external communication device and (b), in response, to apply the first set of restrictions. | 08-08-2013 |
20130218412 | OCCUPANT SHARING OF DISPLAYED CONTENT IN VEHICLES - The present disclosure describes a displayed object movement module that causes displayed objects or other content to be moved from a first source vehicle display to a second target vehicle display at the request of a source vehicle occupant associated with the first source vehicle display. | 08-22-2013 |
20130219039 | NETWORK SELECTOR IN A VEHICLE INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM - The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable network selector on board a vehicle (a) to select, from among plural communication networks, a network for signal transmission of a selected signal to an on board destination based on one or more of a status of the selected network, a status of a node in the selected network, a signal/noise ratio of the selected network, type, urgency, importance, format, and/or requirement of signal to be transmitted, an available and/or unavailable bandwidth in the selected network and/or node of the selected network, a current performance parameter(s) of the selected network, and a quality of service of the selected network and (b) configure the selected signal for transmission over the selected network to the on board destination. | 08-22-2013 |
20130227648 | ON BOARD VEHICLE NETWORK SECURITY - The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable network controller operable to at least one of (a) isolate at least one other on board computational component in a vehicular wireless network not affected by a security breach event from a computational component affected by the security breach event and (b) isolate an on board computational component in the vehicular wireless network and affected by the security breach event from the at least one other on board computational component not affected by the security breach event. | 08-29-2013 |
20130231800 | VEHICLE OCCUPANT HEALTH DATA GATHERING AND MONITORING - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to recognize the drivers and/or passengers within the automobile. Based on the recognition, the vehicle may change a configuration of the automobile to match predetermined preferences for the driver and/or passenger. The configurations may also include the recognition of a unique set of gestures for the person. Further, the configuration can also include the tracking of health data related to the person. | 09-05-2013 |
20130235573 | LED ARRAY FOR REPLACING FLOURESCENT TUBES - An LED lighting assembly is provided as a drop-in replacement for standard flourescent tubes. An LED lighting assembly and corresponding method for its assembly comprises a substrate having an LED array mounted thereon. The LED array can be mounted in traditional wirebonded or flip chip arrangements. The assembly further includes a heat sink layer, a light diffusion layer, a UV filter layer, and a structural frame for supporting the assembly. The structural frame can be adjusted to replace any length flourescent tube. A voltage controller is provided to filter out voltage spikes from a power source. A microcontroller is provided for receiving any control instructions. | 09-12-2013 |
20130241720 | CONFIGURABLE VEHICLE CONSOLE - Methods and systems for a configurable vehicle console are provided. Specifically, a configurable console may comprise one or more displays that are capable of receiving input from a user. At least one of these displays may be removed from the console of a vehicle and operated as a stand-alone computing platform. Moreover, it is anticipated that each one or more of the displays of the console may be configured to present a plurality of custom applications that, when manipulated by at least one user, are adapted to control functions associated with a vehicle and/or associated peripheral devices. | 09-19-2013 |
20130245882 | REMOVABLE, CONFIGURABLE VEHICLE CONSOLE - Methods and systems for a removable, configurable vehicle console are provided. Specifically, a configurable console may comprise one or more displays that are capable of receiving input from a user. At least one of these displays may be removed from the console of a vehicle and operated as a stand-alone computing platform. Moreover, it is anticipated that each one or more of the displays of the console may be configured to present a plurality of custom applications that, when manipulated by at least one user, are adapted to control functions associated with a vehicle and/or associated peripheral devices. | 09-19-2013 |
20130262291 | UNIVERSAL CREDIT CARD - A method, system and program for providing financing to a user from one or more finance sources are disclosed. Each finance source has financing data associated with that finance source. Purchase information reflecting a purchase transaction including a monetary amount of the purchase transaction is received. One or more of the finance sources are selected using at least a portion of the respective financing data to make the selection. A financing-request transaction is initiated with the one or more selected finance sources on behalf of the user to obtain financing for the user to complete the purchase transaction. A method for selecting a resource is also disclosed. An abstract definition of a resource is received. The abstract definition of the resource is converted into one or more search requests that fall within the abstract definition. The one or more search requests is run against a data repository to produce descriptions of resources. The descriptions of resources are provided. Financing to purchase the selected resource may then be provided. | 10-03-2013 |
20130282238 | MONITORING STATE-OF-HEALTH OF PROCESSING MODULES IN VEHICLES - The present disclosure describes a vehicle implementing one or more processing modules. These modules are configured to connect and interface with the various buses in the vehicle, where the various buses are connected with the various components of the vehicle to facilitate information transfer among the vehicle components. Each processing module is further modularized with the ability to add and replace other functional modules now or in the future. These functional modules can themselves act as distinct vehicle components. Each processing module may hand-off processing to other modules depending on its health, processing load, or by third-party control. Thus, the plurality of processing modules helps to implement a middleware point of control to the vehicle with redundancy in processing and safety and security awareness in their applications. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282946 | CONTROLLER AREA NETWORK BUS - The present disclosure describes a vehicle implementing a processing module for receiving data from a high-speed CAN bus and sending data to a low-speed CAN bus. The processing module shunts into the data from the high-speed CAN bus without affecting the self-contained data flow of the high-speed CAN bus. The processing module analyzes the received data and generates data (by forwarding or other means) to be sent to a low-speed CAN bus according to the received data. The processing module is designed to be replaceable and/or upgradable without affecting other components during the life-cycle of the vehicle. The processing module may further contain expansion modules that perform tasks in response to the received data. | 10-24-2013 |
20130293364 | CONFIGURABLE DASH DISPLAY - Methods and systems for a configurable vehicle dash display are provided. Specifically, a configurable dash may comprise one or more displays that are capable of receiving input from a user. At least one of these displays may be configured to present a plurality of custom applications that, when manipulated by at least one user, are adapted to control and/or monitor functions associated with a vehicle and/or associated peripheral devices. It is anticipated that the function and appearance of the plurality of custom applications may be altered via user and/or processor input. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293452 | CONFIGURABLE HEADS-UP DASH DISPLAY - Methods and systems for a heads-up configurable vehicle dash display are provided. Specifically, a configurable dash may comprise one or more displays that are capable of receiving input from a user. At least one of these displays may be configured to present a plurality of custom applications that, when manipulated by at least one user, are adapted to control and/or monitor functions associated with a vehicle and/or associated peripheral devices. It is anticipated that the function and appearance of the plurality of custom applications may be altered via user and/or processor input. | 11-07-2013 |
20130325557 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MANAGE TRAVEL COSTS - The present disclosure is directed to an enterprise business expense assistant operable to determine a cost savings associated with a business associate selecting a travel and/or enterprise expense option and provide a portion of the cost savings to the associate as a cash payment or other benefit. | 12-05-2013 |
20130339096 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INVENTORY FINANCING AND MANAGEMENT - The present disclosure is directed to various computational systems for structuring, financing, and/or managing inventory transfers. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339192 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LONGTERM INVENTORY DISTRIBUTION FINANCING AND MANAGEMENT - The present disclosure is directed to various computational systems for structuring, financing, and/or managing inventory transfers from an original supplier to a servicing entity. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339193 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INVENTORY SHORT TERM DISTRIBUTION FINANCING AND MANAGEMENT - The present disclosure is directed to various computational systems for structuring, financing, and/or managing inventory transfers from an original supplier to a servicing entity. | 12-19-2013 |
20130339991 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING TELEVISION CONTENT - An intelligent television is provided that can collect viewer information for use by a rating service. | 12-19-2013 |
20140109080 | SELF-CONFIGURING VEHICLE CONSOLE APPLICATION STORE - The present disclosure is directed to an application store on board a vehicle. The application store contains, in one configuration, a plurality of applications for installation on an on board computer of the vehicle, with the applications provided to the vehicle operator being provided to the operator being based on predetermined types of information related to the vehicle, its state, operation, and/or configuration, vehicle location, vehicle type, make, model, and/or year of manufacture, and/or occupant(s) and/or occupant(s) of other vehicles. | 04-17-2014 |
20140143839 | ON BOARD VEHICLE REMOTE CONTROL MODULE - The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable diagnostic module operable to receive, from a vehicle component, a signal regarding a warning and/or error and select a destination for the signal from a plurality of destinations, the plurality of destinations comprising one or more of a vehicle input/output system to present the warning and/or error to a vehicle occupant, an emergency service provider, an emergency responder, a manufacturer of the vehicle, a service facility located in proximity to a current vehicle location, and a remotely located diagnostic service to diagnose a cause of the warning and/or error signal. | 05-22-2014 |
20140219369 | POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS SIGNAL AGGREGATION AND SWITCH - A method, system, and devices are provided that create a network over existing power lines. Two or more modules can establish the network for two or more devices in communication with each other. The modules include components that register device(s) and determine the processing of the data signal being sent over the power line network. | 08-07-2014 |
20140306799 | Vehicle Intruder Alert Detection and Indication - Methods and systems for a detecting an intruder near or within a vehicle are disclosed. Specifically, a method to detect and identify a person near or within a vehicle as an authorized or an unauthorized user is provided. In the event an unauthorized user is detected within a vehicle, the system may take a number of actions. In one embodiment, the actions comprise providing notice to one or more authorized users of the vehicle, disabling the vehicle, notifying emergency personnel or police, and emitting a visual or audio alarm. | 10-16-2014 |
20140306814 | PEDESTRIAN MONITORING APPLICATION - A system for vehicle to another party communications that includes a vehicle personality module adapted to create a vehicle personality and a communications system that utilizes the created vehicle personality for one or more communications instead of a user's profile. The one or more communications are associated with one or more of an identifier and an icon representing the vehicle personality, with this identifier and/or icon sent with at least one communication and displayable to the recipient of the communication. | 10-16-2014 |
20140306817 | Universal Vehicle Notification System - Methods and systems for a vehicle system that include determining whether a vehicle action is necessary and providing a notification to predetermined users. Sensors provide signals to a sensing control system to generate the notification. | 10-16-2014 |
20140306826 | AUTOMATIC COMMUNICATION OF DAMAGE AND HEALTH IN DETECTED VEHICLE INCIDENTS - Methods and systems for automatic communication of vehicle damage and health of users in detected vehicle incidents are disclosed. Specifically, a method to monitor the health of occupants and detect and identify any occupants experiencing a medical anomaly is provided. In the event a medical anomaly is detected within a vehicle, the system may take a number of actions. In one embodiment, the actions comprise notifying health care providers and emergency personnel or police, communicating accident data, and emitting a visual or audio alarm. | 10-16-2014 |
20140306833 | Providing Home Automation Information via Communication with a Vehicle - Methods and systems of providing home automation information via communication with a vehicle. A home automation system can determine a state of the home and determine when occupants enter a home. The home automation system can identify an occupant and monitor the status and location of the occupant in the home and determine a status change for the occupant, such when the occupant leaves or is scheduled to leave the home, the occupant going to sleep, experiencing a health crisis, or entering an area of the home the occupant is not authorized to enter. The home automation system can send alerts and information to a vehicle operation system of a vehicle and to a communication device of a user. The alerts can include information related to the identity and the status of the occupant and information related to the state of the home. | 10-16-2014 |
20140306834 | VEHICLE TO VEHICLE SAFETY AND TRAFFIC COMMUNICATIONS - A system for vehicle to another party communications that includes a vehicle personality module adapted to create a vehicle personality and a communications system that utilizes the created vehicle personality for one or more communications instead of a user's profile. The one or more communications are associated with one or more of an identifier and an icon representing the vehicle personality, with this identifier and/or icon sent with at least one communication and displayable to the recipient of the communication. | 10-16-2014 |
20140306835 | RADAR SENSING AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE VEHICLE DETECTION - A system for vehicle to another party communications that includes a vehicle personality module adapted to create a vehicle personality and a communications system that utilizes the created vehicle personality for one or more communications instead of a user's profile. The one or more communications are associated with one or more of an identifier and an icon representing the vehicle personality, with this identifier and/or icon sent with at least one communication and displayable to the recipient of the communication. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307655 | Automatic Device and Vehicle Pairing Via Detected Emitted Signals - Methods and systems for a vehicle system that includes intercepting signals associated with a device and isolating identifiers associated with the device. The vehicle registers the device with a vehicle control system. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307724 | Multi-Vehicle Shared Communications Network and Bandwidth - Methods and systems for a vehicle system that include accessing the bandwidth of a wireless communication system whose bandwidth may be available for use by a vehicle. The vehicle receives permission from the wireless communication system that has access to bandwidth to utilize the bandwidth. | 10-16-2014 |
20140308902 | VEHICLE TO VEHICLE SOCIAL AND BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS - A system for vehicle to another party communications that includes a vehicle personality module adapted to create a vehicle personality and a communications system that utilizes the created vehicle personality for one or more communications instead of a user's profile. The one or more communications are associated with one or more of an identifier and an icon representing the vehicle personality, with this identifier and/or icon sent with at least one communication and displayable to the recipient of the communication. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309789 | Vehicle Location-Based Home Automation Triggers - Methods and systems of a vehicle control system configuring features of a home automation system. The vehicle control system includes a home automation module that can receive information from the home automation system such as a presence of occupants in a home and a state of features of the home. The home automation module can send commands to activate, deactivate, and/or change settings of one or more features of the home automation system based on user profile information. The commands can be modified based on the information received from the home automation system. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309790 | ADJUSTING HOME AUTOMATION COMFORT BASED ON VEHICLE ASSOCIATED USER PROFILE DATA - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system that provides various outputs based on a user profile and determined context. An output provided by the present disclosure can change a configuration of a vehicle, device, building, and/or a system associated with the user profile. The configurations can include comfort and interface settings that can be adjusted based on the user profile information. Further, the user profiles can track health data related to the user and make adjustments to the configuration to assist the health of the user. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309804 | GLOBAL STANDARD TEMPLATE CREATION, STORAGE, AND MODIFICATION - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to create, modify, and maintain profiles associated with users. The user profiles are generated based on selectively collecting data associated with the users. Although each user profile may include settings, preferences, habits, and content associated with an individual user and/or vehicle, some user profiles may represent multiple users. These user profiles can change a configuration of a vehicle to match settings for a user, such as a driver and/or passenger. The configurations may also include the recognition of a unique set of gestures for a user. Further, the user profiles can be transferred from vehicle-to-vehicle and/or user-to-user. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309805 | VEHICLE DAMAGE DETECTION AND INDICATION - Methods and systems for vehicle damage detection, identification and communication are disclosed. Specifically, a method to detect damage to a vehicle, identify the extent and location of the damage, and communicate the damage event is provided. In the event of damage to a vehicle, the system may take a number of actions. In one embodiment, the actions comprise notifying authorized users of the vehicle, a maintenance provider, an insurance provider and/or an emergency agency, disabling the vehicle, and emitting a visual or audio alarm. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309806 | INTELLIGENT VEHICLE FOR ASSISTING VEHICLE OCCUPANTS - Methods, systems, and a computer readable medium are provided for maintaining a persona of a vehicle occupant and, based on the persona of the vehicle occupant and vehicle-related information, performing an action assisting the vehicle occupant. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309813 | GUEST VEHICLE USER REPORTING - A system to access one or more user profiles that govern one or more vehicle functions. The system cooperates with a processor and verification module which are adapted to verify, using one or more of biometric information, gesture recognition, facial recognition and device identification information, that a user has authority to access the one or more user profiles, where the one or more profiles are stored in one or more of a vehicle, a cloud and a communications device. An edit module is further provided and adapted to allow the user to make one or more edits to the one or more user profiles. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309814 | Central Network for the Automated Control of Vehicular Traffic - Methods and systems for a traffic control system provide arrangements and processes for managing automated vehicles. The traffic control system can register vehicles and then control the operation of the vehicles through a section of roadway. The automated control includes the communication of directions and other messages that ensure the proper function of the vehicle while under the guidance of the traffic control system | 10-16-2014 |
20140309815 | Traffic Consolidation Based on Vehicle Destination - Methods and systems for a traffic control system provide arrangements and processes for managing automated vehicles. The traffic control system can register vehicles and then control the operation of the vehicles through a section of roadway. The automated control includes the communication of directions and other messages that ensure the proper function of the vehicle while under the guidance of the traffic control system | 10-16-2014 |
20140309838 | SHARED NAVIGATIONAL INFORMATION BETWEEN VEHICLES - A system for vehicle to another party communications that includes a vehicle personality module adapted to create a vehicle personality and a communications system that utilizes the created vehicle personality for one or more communications instead of a user's profile. The one or more communications are associated with one or more of an identifier and an icon representing the vehicle personality, with this identifier and/or icon sent with at least one communication and displayable to the recipient of the communication. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309839 | Vehicle Registration to Enter Automated Control of Vehicular Traffic - Methods and systems for a traffic control system provide arrangements and processes for managing automated vehicles. The traffic control system can register vehicles and then control the operation of the vehicles through a section of roadway. The automated control includes the communication of directions and other messages that ensure the proper function of the vehicle while under the guidance of the traffic control system | 10-16-2014 |
20140309847 | VEHICLE DIAGNOSTIC DETECTION THROUGH SENSITIVE VEHICLE SKIN - Methods and systems for vehicle diagnostic detection and identification through vehicle sensitive skin are disclosed. Specifically, a method to monitor the exterior surface skin of a vehicle to enable detection and identification of damage to the vehicle exterior surface is disclosed. In one embodiment, a change in skin condition provides monitoring of vehicle performance and identifies vehicle operating abnormalities. In the event vehicle skin damage is detected, the system may take a number of actions. In one embodiment, the actions comprise notifying authorized users of the vehicle, a maintenance and diagnostics service provider, a security provider, and emitting a visual or audio alarm. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309849 | DRIVER FACTS BEHAVIOR INFORMATION STORAGE SYSTEM - Methods and systems for tracking user behavior, the user behavior including one or more of: one or more user actions and one or more user interactions with a vehicle. A storage system stores the user behavior, where the tracked user behavior is associated with a driver and the storage system is capable of storing the tracked behavior for the driver from a plurality of vehicles. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309852 | AUTOMATIC VEHICLE DIAGNOSTIC DETECTION AND COMMUNICATION - Methods and systems for vehicle diagnostic detection and communication are disclosed. Specifically, a method to monitor the health of vehicle systems and subsystems and diagnose detected anomalies is provided. In the event an anomaly or unhealthy state is detected within a vehicle, subsystem or component, the system may take a number of actions. In one embodiment, the actions comprise notifying a maintenance provider, a regulatory monitor, and original equipment manufacturer. The system may also maintain a vehicle fleet-wide performance database to enable identification and analysis of systemic fleet-wide data. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309853 | VEHICLE DIAGNOSTICS AND ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE - Methods and systems for vehicle diagnostics and roadside assistance are disclosed. Specifically, a method to monitor the health of vehicle systems and subsystems and diagnose detected anomalies is provided. In the event a vehicle anomaly is detected or a vehicle user otherwise requests assistance, the system may take a number of actions. In one embodiment, the actions comprise noticing a maintenance provider, emergency personnel and emitting a visual or audio alarm. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309862 | USER PROFILE EXCHANGE VIA VEHICLE SUPPORTED COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL - A system to access one or more user profiles that govern one or more vehicle functions. The system cooperates with a processor and verification module which are adapted to verify, using one or more of biometric information, gesture recognition, facial recognition and device identification information, that a user has authority to access the one or more user profiles, where the one or more profiles are stored in one or more of a vehicle, a cloud and a communications device. An edit module is further provided and adapted to allow the user to make one or more edits to the one or more user profiles. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309863 | PARENTAL CONTROL OVER VEHICLE FEATURES AND CHILD ALERT SYSTEM - A system to access one or more user profiles that govern one or more vehicle functions. The system cooperates with a processor and verification module which are adapted to verify, using one or more of biometric information, gesture recognition, facial recognition and device identification information, that a user has authority to access the one or more user profiles, where the one or more profiles are stored in one or more of a vehicle, a cloud and a communications device. An edit module is further provided and adapted to allow the user to make one or more edits to the one or more user profiles. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309864 | Configurable Dash Display Based on Detected Location and Preferences - A vehicle control system can determine a location of the vehicle and evaluate laws and rules of the location to determine if changes to an instrument display are required. The vehicle control system can automatically configure the instrument display for the location. The vehicle control system can image and translate traffic signs in the location. The vehicle control system can also determine if the location is associated with an interruption of a communication network, identify an alternate communication network, and automatically transfer to the alternate communication network. An alert may be generated by the vehicle control system that includes information related to traffic rules, languages, and communication networks of the location that are different than a previous location of the vehicle. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309865 | FACIAL RECOGNITION DATABASE CREATED FROM SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to create, modify, and maintain profiles associated with users. The user profiles are generated based on selectively collecting data associated with the users. Although each user profile may include settings, preferences, habits, and content associated with an individual user and/or vehicle, some user profiles may represent multiple users. These user profiles can change a configuration of a vehicle to match settings for a user, such as a driver and/or passenger. The configurations may also include the recognition of a unique set of gestures for a user. Further, the user profiles can be transferred from vehicle-to-vehicle and/or user-to-user. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309866 | BUILDING PROFILES ASSOCIATED WITH VEHICLE USERS - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to create, modify, and maintain profiles associated with users. The user profiles are generated based on selectively collecting data associated with the users. Although each user profile may include settings, preferences, habits, and content associated with an individual user and/or vehicle, some user profiles may represent multiple users. These user profiles can change a configuration of a vehicle to match settings for a user, such as a driver and/or passenger. The configurations may also include the recognition of a unique set of gestures for a user. Further, the user profiles can be transferred from vehicle-to-vehicle and/or user-to-user. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309867 | STORING USER GESTURES IN A USER PROFILE DATA TEMPLATE - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to create, modify, and maintain profiles associated with users. The user profiles are generated based on selectively collecting data associated with the users. Although each user profile may include settings, preferences, habits, and content associated with an individual user and/or vehicle, some user profiles may represent multiple users. These user profiles can change a configuration of a vehicle to match settings for a user, such as a driver and/or passenger. The configurations may also include the recognition of a unique set of gestures for a user. Further, the user profiles can be transferred from vehicle-to-vehicle and/or user-to-user. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309868 | USER INTERFACE AND VIRTUAL PERSONALITY PRESENTATION BASED ON USER PROFILE - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system that provides various outputs based on a user profile and determined context. An output provided by the present disclosure can change a configuration of a vehicle, device, building, and/or a system associated with the user profile. The configurations can include comfort and interface settings that can be adjusted based on the user profile information. Further, the user profiles can track health data related to the user and make adjustments to the configuration to assist the health of the user. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309869 | INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM BASED ON USER PROFILE - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system that provides various outputs based on a user profile and determined context. An output provided by the present disclosure can change a configuration of a vehicle, device, building, and/or a system associated with the user profile. The configurations can include comfort and interface settings that can be adjusted based on the user profile information. Further, the user profiles can track health data related to the user and make adjustments to the configuration to assist the health of the user. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309870 | VEHICLE-BASED MULTIMODE DISCOVERY - Methods and systems for a device discovery daemon that bases access of a communication device to an on board vehicle network on device location are provided. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309871 | USER GESTURE CONTROL OF VEHICLE FEATURES - Methods and systems are presented for accepting inputs into a vehicle or other conveyance to control functions of the conveyance. A vehicle control system can receive gestures and other inputs. The vehicle control system can also obtain information about the user of the vehicle control system and information about the environment in which the conveyance is operating. Based on the input and the other information, the vehicle control system can modify or improve the performance or execution of user interface and functions of the conveyance. The changes make the user interfaces and/or functions user-friendly and intuitive. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309872 | CUSTOMIZATION OF VEHICLE USER INTERFACES BASED ON USER INTELLIGENCE - Methods and systems are presented for accepting inputs into a vehicle or other conveyance to control functions of the conveyance. A vehicle control system can receive gestures and other inputs. The vehicle control system can also obtain information about the user of the vehicle control system and information about the environment in which the conveyance is operating. Based on the input and the other information, the vehicle control system can modify or improve the performance or execution of user interface and functions of the conveyance. The changes make the user interfaces and/or functions user-friendly and intuitive. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309873 | POSITIONAL BASED MOVEMENTS AND ACCESSIBILITY OF FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH A VEHICLE - Methods and systems are presented for accepting inputs into a vehicle or other conveyance to control functions of the conveyance. A vehicle control system can receive gestures and other inputs. The vehicle control system can also obtain information about the user of the vehicle control system and information about the environment in which the conveyance is operating. Based on the input and the other information, the vehicle control system can modify or improve the performance or execution of user interface and functions of the conveyance. The changes make the user interfaces and/or functions user-friendly and intuitive. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309874 | Synchronization Between Vehicle and User Device Calendar - Methods and systems for a vehicle system that includes synchronizing a calendar with a vehicle control system and generating a smart-alarm based on events in the calendar. A vehicle receives authorization from a device to synchronize a calendar associated with the device with the vehicle. The calendar is synchronized with the vehicle and a smart alarm is provided to a user based on an event in the calendar and a supplemental factor. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309875 | Universal vehicle voice command system - Methods and systems are presented for accepting inputs into a vehicle or other conveyance to control functions of the conveyance. A vehicle control system can receive gestures and other inputs. The vehicle control system can also obtain information about the user of the vehicle control system and information about the environment in which the conveyance is operating. Based on the input and the other information, the vehicle control system can modify or improve the performance or execution of user interface and functions of the conveyance. The changes make the user interfaces and/or functions user-friendly and intuitive. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309876 | UNIVERSAL VEHICLE VOICE COMMAND SYSTEM - Methods and systems are presented for accepting inputs into a vehicle or other conveyance to control functions of the conveyance. A vehicle control system can receive gestures and other inputs. The vehicle control system can also obtain information about the user of the vehicle control system and information about the environment in which the conveyance is operating. Based on the input and the other information, the vehicle control system can modify or improve the performance or execution of user interface and functions of the conveyance. The changes make the user interfaces and/or functions user-friendly and intuitive. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309877 | Information Shared Between A Vehicle And User Devices - Methods and systems for a vehicle system that include configuring a vehicle based upon information from devices accessed by a user. The vehicle system may include a vehicle and a configuration unit. The information may be based on a search performed by a user. The information accessed or generated by the user may be automatically sent to the vehicle for configuration of the vehicle. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309878 | PROVIDING GESTURE CONTROL OF ASSOCIATED VEHICLE FUNCTIONS ACROSS VEHICLE ZONES - Methods and systems are presented for accepting inputs into a vehicle or other conveyance to control functions of the conveyance. A vehicle control system can receive gestures and other inputs. The vehicle control system can also obtain information about the user of the vehicle control system and information about the environment in which the conveyance is operating. Based on the input and the other information, the vehicle control system can modify or improve the performance or execution of user interface and functions of the conveyance. The changes make the user interfaces and/or functions user-friendly and intuitive. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309879 | CONTROL OF VEHICLE FEATURES BASED ON USER RECOGNITION AND IDENTIFICATION - Methods and systems are presented for accepting inputs into a vehicle or other conveyance to control functions of the conveyance. A vehicle control system can receive gestures and other inputs. The vehicle control system can also obtain information about the user of the vehicle control system and information about the environment in which the conveyance is operating. Based on the input and the other information, the vehicle control system can modify or improve the performance or execution of user interface and functions of the conveyance. The changes make the user interfaces and/or functions user-friendly and intuitive. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309880 | VEHICLE CRATE FOR BLADE PROCESSORS - Methods, systems, and a computer readable medium are provided for a vehicle containing multiple blade processors for performing vehicle and/or infotainment tasks, functions, and operations. The blade processors can be included in a crate having a first communication zone defining a trusted network within the vehicle to connect with trusted computational devices and/or modules provided or certified by the vehicle manufacturer but not untrusted computational devices and/or modules provided by vehicle occupants, a second communication zone defining an untrusted network to connect with the untrusted computational devices and/or modules, and a third communication zone providing power and data transmission to the blade processors. A master blade processor can assign a component and/or module requiring a blade processor for execution to a selected blade processor. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309885 | Control of Vehicle Features Based on Weather and Location Data - Systems and method of determining an operating environment of a vehicle and controlling vehicle features. A vehicle control system can determine if one or more predetermined environmental conditions exist and determine a severity of the predetermined environmental condition. The vehicle control system can control and/or activate features of the vehicle and provide alerts based on the predetermined environmental condition. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309886 | SPLITTING MISSION CRITICAL SYSTEMS AND INFOTAINMENT BETWEEN OPERATING SYSTEMS - Methods and systems for a using different operating systems executing on a common microprocessor for isolating performance of vehicle infotainment from performance of non-vehicle infotainment tasks, functions, and operations. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309891 | REMOTE CONTROL OF ASSOCIATED VEHICLE DEVICES - Methods and systems for a vehicle control system to control user access to vehicle tasks, functions and/or operations based on rights and privileges set forth in user accounts. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309892 | CUSTOMIZATION OF VEHICLE CONTROLS AND SETTINGS BASED ON USER PROFILE DATA - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system that provides various outputs based on a user profile and determined context. An output provided by the present disclosure can change a configuration of a vehicle, device, building, and/or a system associated with the user profile. The configurations can include comfort and interface settings that can be adjusted based on the user profile information. Further, the user profiles can track health data related to the user and make adjustments to the configuration to assist the health of the user. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309893 | HEALTH STATISTICS AND COMMUNICATIONS OF ASSOCIATED VEHICLE USERS - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system that provides various outputs based on a user profile and determined context. An output provided by the present disclosure can change a configuration of a vehicle, device, building, and/or a system associated with the user profile. The configurations can include comfort and interface settings that can be adjusted based on the user profile information. Further, the user profiles can track health data related to the user and make adjustments to the configuration to assist the health of the user. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309913 | Relay and Exchange Protocol in an Automated Zone-Based Vehicular Traffic Control Environment - Methods and systems for a traffic control system provide arrangements and processes for managing automated vehicles. The traffic control system can register vehicles and then control the operation of the vehicles through a section of roadway. The automated control includes the communication of directions and other messages that ensure the proper function of the vehicle while under the guidance of the traffic control system | 10-16-2014 |
20140309919 | DETECTION AND REPORTING OF INDIVIDUALS OUTSIDE OF A VEHICLE - A system for vehicle to another party communications that includes a vehicle personality module adapted to create a vehicle personality and a communications system that utilizes the created vehicle personality for one or more communications instead of a user's profile. The one or more communications are associated with one or more of an identifier and an icon representing the vehicle personality, with this identifier and/or icon sent with at least one communication and displayable to the recipient of the communication. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309920 | DESTINATION AND TRAVEL INFORMATION APPLICATION - Methods and systems for an improved navigation environment are provided. The navigation system can route users to preferred locations based on user profile data and past experience with the present driver and other drivers. The system provides more cost-effective and time-sensitive routing by incorporating other information about destinations. Further, the navigation system provides enhanced guidance in foreign or unfamiliar locations by incorporating experience from other drivers and other data. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309921 | TRAVEL ROUTE ALTERATION BASED ON USER PROFILE AND BUSINESS - Methods and systems for an improved navigation environment are provided. The navigation system can route users to preferred locations based on user profile data and past experience with the present driver and other drivers. The system provides more cost-effective and time-sensitive routing by incorporating other information about destinations. Further, the navigation system provides enhanced guidance in foreign or unfamiliar locations by incorporating experience from other drivers and other data. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309922 | COMMUNICATION OF AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED SHOPPING LIST TO VEHICLES AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES - Methods and systems for an improved navigation environment are provided. The navigation system can route users to preferred locations based on user profile data and past experience with the present driver and other drivers. The system provides more cost-effective and time-sensitive routing by incorporating other information about destinations. Further, the navigation system provides enhanced guidance in foreign or unfamiliar locations by incorporating experience from other drivers and other data. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309923 | SHOPPING COST AND TRAVEL OPTIMIZATION APPLICATION - Methods and systems for an improved navigation environment are provided. The navigation system can route users to preferred locations based on user profile data and past experience with the present driver and other drivers. The system provides more cost-effective and time-sensitive routing by incorporating other information about destinations. Further, the navigation system provides enhanced guidance in foreign or unfamiliar locations by incorporating experience from other drivers and other data. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309927 | BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION VIA ALTERED MAP ROUTES BASED ON USER PROFILE INFORMATION - Methods and systems for an improved navigation environment are provided. The navigation system can route users to preferred locations based on user profile data and past experience with the present driver and other drivers. The system provides more cost-effective and time-sensitive routing by incorporating other information about destinations. Further, the navigation system provides enhanced guidance in foreign or unfamiliar locations by incorporating experience from other drivers and other data. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309929 | TRAVEL ITINERARY BASED ON USER PROFILE DATA - Methods and systems for an improved navigation environment are provided. The navigation system can route users to preferred locations based on user profile data and past experience with the present driver and other drivers. The system provides more cost-effective and time-sensitive routing by incorporating other information about destinations. Further, the navigation system provides enhanced guidance in foreign or unfamiliar locations by incorporating experience from other drivers and other data. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309930 | AUTOMATIC CAMERA IMAGE RETRIEVAL BASED ON ROUTE TRAFFIC AND CONDITIONS - A system for vehicle to another party communications that includes a vehicle personality module adapted to create a vehicle personality and a communications system that utilizes the created vehicle personality for one or more communications instead of a user's profile. The one or more communications are associated with one or more of an identifier and an icon representing the vehicle personality, with this identifier and/or icon sent with at least one communication and displayable to the recipient of the communication. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309934 | Automatic Alert Sent to User Based on Host Location Information - Systems and methods of coordinating the travel to a common destination by a destination coordination module. The destination coordination module can receive locations for one or more people and generate directions to the common location for each person. The destination coordination module can receive updated position information for each person and determine if a person is travelling to an incorrect destination. After determining a person is travelling to an incorrect destination, the destination coordination module can send an alert and updated directions to the common destination. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309935 | PROACTIVE MACHINE LEARNING IN A VEHICULAR ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for an improved navigation environment are provided. The navigation system can route users to preferred locations based on user profile data and past experience with the present driver and other drivers. The system provides more cost-effective and time-sensitive routing by incorporating other information about destinations. Further, the navigation system provides enhanced guidance in foreign or unfamiliar locations by incorporating experience from other drivers and other data. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309982 | TRAVEL TRANSLATION AND ASSISTANCE BASED ON USER PROFILE DATA - Methods and systems for an improved navigation environment are provided. The navigation system can route users to preferred locations based on user profile data and past experience with the present driver and other drivers. The system provides more cost-effective and time-sensitive routing by incorporating other information about destinations. Further, the navigation system provides enhanced guidance in foreign or unfamiliar locations by incorporating experience from other drivers and other data. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310031 | TRANSFER OF USER PROFILE DATA VIA VEHICLE AGENCY CONTROL - A system to access one or more user profiles that govern one or more vehicle functions. The system cooperates with a processor and verification module which are adapted to verify, using one or more of biometric information, gesture recognition, facial recognition and device identification information, that a user has authority to access the one or more user profiles, where the one or more profiles are stored in one or more of a vehicle, a cloud and a communications device. An edit module is further provided and adapted to allow the user to make one or more edits to the one or more user profiles. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310075 | Automatic Payment of Fees Based on Vehicle Location and User Detection - Systems and methods of determining a presence of a fee area and fees associated therewith. A fee area module can determine if a vehicle is approaching a fee area. The fee area module can determine the fee required to enter or use the fee area and automatically pay the required fee. Alerts can be provided that include information associated with the fee area and alternate routes available. The fee area module can determine if discounts apply to the vehicle based on a status and number of vehicle occupants and a status of the vehicle. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310103 | CREATING TARGETED ADVERTISING PROFILES BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system that provides a user with tailored advertising. A vehicular advertising system through user observation is able to capture advertising information related to the user in a vehicle. The advertising information stored within a user profile can be used by advertisers, retail outlets, restaurants and the like to enhance a user's experience. The retail outlets, restaurants and other service sites can provide a user with menus, inventory and have products ready for the user upon arrival to the location. Similarly, advertisers can use these user preferences to manage marketing and advertising campaigns presented to the user. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310186 | VEHICLE MAINTENANCE AND WARRANTY COMPLIANCE DETECTION - Methods and systems for vehicle maintenance and warranty compliance detection and communication are disclosed. Specifically, a method to monitor the compliance of a user with vehicle maintenance and operating requirements and vehicle warranty terms is provided. In the event a user is not in compliance with a vehicle maintenance item, vehicle operation condition or warranty term, the system may take a number of actions. In one embodiment, the actions comprise notifying a maintenance provider, an insurance provider and a warranty provider. The system may also maintain a historical user compliance database to enable identification and documentation of user compliance for one or more vehicles. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310277 | SUSPENDING USER PROFILE MODIFICATION BASED ON USER CONTEXT - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to create, modify, and maintain profiles associated with users. The user profiles are generated based on selectively collecting data associated with the users. Although each user profile may include settings, preferences, habits, and content associated with an individual user and/or vehicle, some user profiles may represent multiple users. These user profiles can change a configuration of a vehicle to match settings for a user, such as a driver and/or passenger. The configurations may also include the recognition of a unique set of gestures for a user. Further, the user profiles can be transferred from vehicle-to-vehicle and/or user-to-user. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310379 | VEHICLE INITIATED COMMUNICATIONS WITH THIRD PARTIES VIA VIRTUAL PERSONALITY - A system for vehicle to another party communications that includes a vehicle personality module adapted to create a vehicle personality and a communications system that utilizes the created vehicle personality for one or more communications instead of a user's profile. The one or more communications are associated with one or more of an identifier and an icon representing the vehicle personality, with this identifier and/or icon sent with at least one communication and displayable to the recipient of the communication. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310594 | CONFIGURATION OF HAPTIC FEEDBACK AND VISUAL PREFERENCES IN VEHICLE USER INTERFACES - Methods and systems for a driver or impairment assistive on board vehicle display, inactive control surface, and customization of a vehicle interface based on one or more of user impairment, user medical condition, user age, user physical condition, user driving characteristic and driving history are provided. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310610 | VEHICLE OCCUPANT IMPAIRMENT ASSISTED VEHICLE - Methods and systems for an impairment assistive on board vehicle display, inactive control surface, and customization of a vehicle interface based on one or more of user impairment, user medical condition, user age, user physical condition, user driving characteristic and driving history are provided. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310702 | VEHICLE AND DEVICE SOFTWARE UPDATES PROPAGATED VIA A VIRAL COMMUNICATION CONTACT - A system for vehicle to another party communications that includes a vehicle personality module adapted to create a vehicle personality and a communications system that utilizes the created vehicle personality for one or more communications instead of a user's profile. The one or more communications are associated with one or more of an identifier and an icon representing the vehicle personality, with this identifier and/or icon sent with at least one communication and displayable to the recipient of the communication. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310739 | SIMULTANEOUS VIDEO STREAMING ACROSS MULTIPLE CHANNELS - Methods and systems for a media controller subsystem that can provide video streaming using a distributed network control server, media server, and virtual network console on a common processing or circuit board and filter and apply restrictions to media content based on one or more of the identity of the vehicle occupant requesting media content, the identity of a portable computational device associated with the vehicle occupant, and the spatial location of the vehicle occupant and/or remote computational device. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310788 | ACCESS AND PORTABILITY OF USER PROFILES STORED AS TEMPLATES - A system to access one or more user profiles that govern one or more vehicle functions. The system cooperates with a processor and verification module which are adapted to verify, using one or more of biometric information, gesture recognition, facial recognition and device identification information, that a user has authority to access the one or more user profiles, where the one or more profiles are stored in one or more of a vehicle, a cloud and a communications device. An edit module is further provided and adapted to allow the user to make one or more edits to the one or more user profiles. | 10-16-2014 |
20150046243 | PRODUCT PRICING ASSISTANT - A method, system, and stored processor executable instructions are provided that receive a product identifier, determine a vendor offering best pricing, and propose a transaction structure to consummate the product purchase transaction. | 02-12-2015 |
20150048641 | UNIVERSAL CONSOLE CHASSIS FOR THE CAR - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a universal chassis that may be mounted in the head unit of a vehicle. The chassis may accept one or more modules that each have common dimensions. With a common form factor, the universal chassis is configurable as different modules with different functionality may be inserted into the chassis with ease. | 02-19-2015 |
20150061895 | RADAR SENSING AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE VEHICLE DETECTION - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system that detects emergency signals and presents alerts to devices of a vehicle to notify vehicle users of the emergency signals. Further, the methods and systems provide a presentation approach to continue to alert a user and even control a vehicle when an acceptable response to a first alert, or series of alerts, is not received from the user. | 03-05-2015 |
20150097798 | GESTURE RECOGNITION FOR ON-BOARD DISPLAY - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to recognize the drivers and/or passengers within the automobile. Based on the recognition, the vehicle may change a configuration of the automobile to match predetermined preferences for the driver and/or passenger. The configurations may also include the recognition of a unique set of gestures for the person. Further, the configuration can also include the tracking of health data related to the person. | 04-09-2015 |
20150110261 | CONTEXT SENSITIVE, CLOUD-BASED TELEPHONY - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a communication system that provides various automated operations, including searches of public and private resources for third party information, performance of operations to assist a user in response to keyword identification in an audio, text or video stream, and speed dial updates based on calling frequencies to various telephone numbers. | 04-23-2015 |
20150186094 | OCCUPANT SHARING OF DISPLAYED CONTENT IN VEHICLES - The present disclosure describes a displayed object movement module that causes displayed objects or other content to be moved from a first source vehicle display to a second target vehicle display at the request of a source vehicle occupant associated with the first source vehicle display. | 07-02-2015 |
20150188961 | ON BOARD VEHICLE MEDIA CONTROLLER - The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable media controller operable to receive a media stream from a remote node, the received media stream being for an occupant associated with an on board vehicle input/output system, identify which on board vehicle input/output systems are restricted due to operator command and/or as a result of a governing law, and provide the media stream, in compliance with any restriction, to a selected input/output system associated with the occupant. | 07-02-2015 |
20150193007 | UNIVERSAL BUS IN THE CAR - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to recognize the drivers and/or passengers within the automobile. Based on the recognition, the vehicle may change a configuration of the automobile to match predetermined preferences for the driver and/or passenger. The configurations may also include the recognition of a unique set of gestures for the person. Further, the configuration can also include the tracking of health data related to the person. | 07-09-2015 |
20150232065 | VEHICLE-BASED MULTIMODE DISCOVERY - Methods and systems for a device discovery daemon that bases access of a communication device to an on board vehicle network on device location are provided. | 08-20-2015 |
20160039426 | DRIVER FACTS BEHAVIOR INFORMATION STORAGE SYSTEM - Methods and systems for tracking user behavior, the user behavior including one or more of: one or more user actions and one or more user interactions with a vehicle. A storage system stores the user behavior, where the tracked user behavior is associated with a driver and the storage system is capable of storing the tracked behavior for the driver from a plurality of vehicles. | 02-11-2016 |
20160039430 | PROVIDING GESTURE CONTROL OF ASSOCIATED VEHICLE FUNCTIONS ACROSS VEHICLE ZONES - Methods and systems are presented for accepting inputs into a vehicle or other conveyance to control functions of the conveyance. A vehicle control system can receive gestures and other inputs. The vehicle control system can also obtain information about the user of the vehicle control system and information about the environment in which the conveyance is operating. Based on the input and the other information, the vehicle control system can modify or improve the performance or execution of user interface and functions of the conveyance. The changes make the user interfaces and/or functions user-friendly and intuitive. | 02-11-2016 |
20160040998 | AUTOMATIC CAMERA IMAGE RETRIEVAL BASED ON ROUTE TRAFFIC AND CONDITIONS - A system for vehicle to another party communications that includes a vehicle personality module adapted to create a vehicle personality and a communications system that utilizes the created vehicle personality for one or more communications instead of a user's profile. The one or more communications are associated with one or more of an identifier and an icon representing the vehicle personality, with this identifier and/or icon sent with at least one communication and displayable to the recipient of the communication. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041820 | VEHICLE AND DEVICE SOFTWARE UPDATES PROPAGATED VIA A VIRAL COMMUNICATION CONTACT - A system for vehicle to another party communications that includes a vehicle personality module adapted to create a vehicle personality and a communications system that utilizes the created vehicle personality for one or more communications instead of a user's profile. The one or more communications are associated with one or more of an identifier and an icon representing the vehicle personality, with this identifier and/or icon sent with at least one communication and displayable to the recipient of the communication. | 02-11-2016 |
20160047662 | PROACTIVE MACHINE LEARNING IN A VEHICULAR ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for an improved navigation environment are provided. The navigation system can route users to preferred locations based on user profile data and past experience with the present driver and other drivers. The system provides more cost-effective and time-sensitive routing by incorporating other information about destinations. Further, the navigation system provides enhanced guidance in foreign or unfamiliar locations by incorporating experience from other drivers and other data. | 02-18-2016 |
20160055747 | LAW BREAKING/BEHAVIOR SENSOR - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure builds on integrating existing technology with new devices, methods, and systems to provide a complete vehicle ecosystem. | 02-25-2016 |
20160059865 | PARENTAL CONTROL OVER VEHICLE FEATURES AND CHILD ALERT SYSTEM - A system to access one or more user profiles that govern one or more vehicle functions. The system cooperates with a processor and verification module which are adapted to verify, using one or more of biometric information, gesture recognition, facial recognition and device identification information, that a user has authority to access the one or more user profiles, where the one or more profiles are stored in one or more of a vehicle, a cloud and a communications device. An edit module is further provided and adapted to allow the user to make one or more edits to the one or more user profiles. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062583 | REMOVABLE, CONFIGURABLE VEHICLE CONSOLE - Methods and systems for a removable, configurable vehicle console are provided. Specifically, a configurable console may comprise one or more displays that are capable of receiving input from a user. At least one of these displays may be removed from the console of a vehicle and operated as a stand-alone computing platform. Moreover, it is anticipated that each one or more of the displays of the console may be configured to present a plurality of custom applications that, when manipulated by at least one user, are adapted to control functions associated with a vehicle and/or associated peripheral devices. | 03-03-2016 |
20160070456 | CONFIGURABLE HEADS-UP DASH DISPLAY - Methods and systems for a heads-up configurable vehicle dash display are provided. Specifically, a configurable dash may comprise one or more displays that are capable of receiving input from a user. At least one of these displays may be configured to present a plurality of custom applications that, when manipulated by at least one user, are adapted to control and/or monitor functions associated with a vehicle and/or associated peripheral devices. It is anticipated that the function and appearance of the plurality of custom applications may be altered via user and/or processor input. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070527 | NETWORK CONNECTED VEHICLE AND ASSOCIATED CONTROLS - Methods and systems are disclosed for determining available audio output devices in proximity to an audio controlling device and providing a selective control over one or more of the available audio output devices. Selected audio output devices may be grouped together to form a unified control of audio features associated with one or more of the audio output devices in the group. The audio output devices can include speakers associated with a vehicle. | 03-10-2016 |
20160082839 | CONFIGURABLE DASH DISPLAY BASED ON DETECTED LOCATION AND PREFERENCES - A vehicle control system can determine a location of the vehicle and evaluate laws and rules of the location to determine if changes to an instrument display are required. The vehicle control system can automatically configure the instrument display for the location. The vehicle control system can image and translate traffic signs in the location. The vehicle control system can also determine if the location is associated with an interruption of a communication network, identify an alternate communication network, and automatically transfer to the alternate communication network. An alert may be generated by the vehicle control system that includes information related to traffic rules, languages, and communication networks of the location that are different than a previous location of the vehicle. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086391 | FLEETWIDE VEHICLE TELEMATICS SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Fleetwide vehicle telematics systems and methods that includes receiving and managing fleetwide vehicle state data. The fleetwide vehicle state data may be fused or compared with customer enterprise data to monitor conformance with customer requirements and thresholds. The fleetwide vehicle state data may also be analyzed to identify trends and correlations of interest to the customer enterprise. | 03-24-2016 |
20160103980 | VEHICLE MIDDLEWARE - The present disclosure describes a vehicle implementing one or more processing modules. These modules are configured to connect and interface with the various buses in the vehicle, where the various buses are connected with the various components of the vehicle to facilitate information transfer among the vehicle components. Each processing module is further modularized with the ability to add and replace other functional modules now or in the future. These functional modules can themselves act as distinct vehicle components. Each processing modules may hand-off processing to other modules depending on its health, processing load, or by third-party control. Thus, the plurality of processing modules helps to implement a middleware point of control to the vehicle with redundancy in processing and safety and security awareness in their applications. | 04-14-2016 |