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Apparatuses and methods of an in-vehicle gateway system for monitoring and controling in-vehicle subsystems

  • US 10,315,520 B2
  • Filed: 04/04/2017
  • Issued: 06/11/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An in-vehicle gateway system for monitoring and controlling a plurality of in-vehicle subsystems within a vehicle, comprising:

  • a central controller configured to;

    enable a third in-vehicle subsystem to use a resource of a first in-vehicle subsystem by converting a command from the third in-vehicle subsystem to a unified control command that can be understood by each of the plurality of in-vehicle subsystems, wherein the resource of the first in-vehicle subsystem was originally exclusive to the first in-vehicle subsystems; and

    enable the third in-vehicle subsystem to use data from a second in-vehicle subsystem by converting the data to a common data format that can be read by each of the plurality of in-vehicle subsystems, wherein data from the second in-vehicle subsystems was originally exclusive to the second in-vehicle subsystems;

    a virtualization module configured to encapsulate the unified control command and data of the second in-vehicle subsystem in the common data format into Ethernet packets to be transmitted;

    a switch fabric configured to;

    interconnect the central controller to the plurality of the in-vehicle subsystems; and

    transmit at least the encapsulated unified control command from the third in-vehicle subsystem to the first in-vehicle subsystem and encapsulated data of the second in-vehicle subsystem in the common data format from the second in-vehicle subsystem to the third in-vehicle subsystem.

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