Systems and methods to aggregate vehicle data from infotainment application accessories

• US 10,567,512 B2
• Filed: 10/13/2017
• Issued: 02/18/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Inventors: Hrabak, Robert A., Bai, Fan, Shan, Dan, Grimm, Donald K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pan, Yuwen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fleming-Hall, Erica L
• Application Number:
  US15/782,882
• Publication Number:
  US 20190116255A1
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/07 Responding to the occurrence of a fault, e.g. fault tolerance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/38 for collecting sensor information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A portable system, for use in projecting proprietary host-data-based output to a host device using a dual-layer proprietary-data-provision arrangement including the host device and portable system. A storage component includes one or more first-layer components, of the dual-layer proprietary-data-provision arrangement, that, when executed by a hardware-based processing unit, communicates with the host device by a first wired communication channel or a first short-range wireless communication channel to receive the proprietary host data from the host device. The storage also includes a portable-system application that, when executed, generates, based on the proprietary host data, proprietary host-data-based app output. And the storage includes one or more second-layer components, of the arrangement, that, when executed, communicate with the host device by a second wired communication channel or a second short-range wireless communication channel to provide the proprietary host-data-based app output to the host device for rendering at the host device.

Claims

1. A portable system, for use in projecting proprietary host-data-based output to a host device using a dual-layer proprietary-data-provision arrangement including the host device and the portable system, comprising:

a hardware-based processing unit; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage component comprising;

one or more first-layer components, of the dual-layer proprietary-data-provision arrangement, that, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit, communicate with the host device by way of a first wired communication channel or a first short-range wireless communication channel to receive the proprietary host data from the host device;

a portable-system application that, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit, generates, based on the proprietary host data, proprietary host-data-based app output; and

one or more second-layer components, of the dual-layer proprietary-data-provision arrangement, that, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit, communicate with the host device by way of a second wired communication channel or a second short-range wireless communication channel to provide the proprietary host-data-based app output to the host device for rendering at the host device, wherein the first wired communication channel and the first short-range wireless communication channel are distinct from the second wired communication channel and the second short-range wireless communication channel, respectively.

2. The portable system of claim 1 wherein the host device is part of, or includes a vehicle of transportation.

3. The portable system of claim 1 wherein the proprietary host data comprises one or more of:

host-device dynamics information;

host-device environmental information; and

host-device navigation information.

4. The portable system of claim 1 wherein the one or more first-layer components of the dual-layer proprietary-data-provision arrangement comprise a host-device-hardware communication module.

5. The portable system of claim 4 wherein the host-device-hardware communication module includes an onboard diagnostics (OBD) module.

6. The portable system of claim 1 wherein the one or more first-layer components of the dual-layer proprietary-data-provision arrangement comprise a host-interaction protocol client module.

7. The portable system of claim 1 wherein the first wired communication channel and the first short-range wireless communication channel are the same as the second wired communication channel and the second short-range wireless communication channel, respectively.

8. The portable system of claim 1 wherein:

the first-layer components comprise a host-communications client module that, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit, receives the proprietary host data from the host device by way of the first wired or short-range wireless communication channel; and

the second-layer components comprise a portable-system-projection server module that, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit;

receives the proprietary host-data-based app output data from the portable-system application; and

sends the proprietary-host-data-based app output data to the host device by way of the second wired communication channel or the second short-range wireless communication channel for presentation at the host device.

9. A hardware-based non-transitory computer-readable storage device, for use at a portable system to project proprietary host-data-based output to a host device using a dual-layer proprietary-data-provision arrangement including the host device and the portable system, comprising:

one or more first-layer components, of the dual-layer proprietary-data-provision arrangement, that, when executed by a hardware-based processing unit of the portable system, communicate with the host device by way of a first wired communication channel or a first short-range wireless communication channel to receive the proprietary host data from the host device;

a portable-system application that, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit, generates, based on the proprietary host data, proprietary host-data-based app output; and

one or more second-layer components, of the dual-layer proprietary-data-provision arrangement, that, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit, communicate with the host device by way of a second wired communication channel or a second short-range wireless communication channel to provide the proprietary host-data-based app output to the host device for rendering at the host device;

wherein;

the first-layer components comprise a host-communications client module that, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit, receives the proprietary host data from the host device by way of the first wired or short-range wireless communication channel; and

the second-layer components comprise a portable-system-projection server module that, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit;

receives the proprietary host-data-based app output data from the portable-system application; and

sends the proprietary-host-data-based app output data to the host device by way of the second wired communication channel or the second short-range wireless communication channel for presentation at the host device.

10. The hardware-based non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 9 wherein the host device is, is part of, or includes a vehicle of transportation.

11. The hardware-based non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 10 wherein:

the proprietary host data is proprietary vehicle data; and

the proprietary vehicle data comprises one or more of;

vehicle dynamics information;

vehicle environmental information; and

vehicle navigation information.

12. The hardware-based non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 9 wherein the host-device-hardware communication module includes an onboard diagnostics (OBD) module.

13. The hardware-based non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 9 wherein the one or more first-layer components of the dual-layer proprietary-data-provision arrangement comprise a host-interaction protocol client module.

14. A host device, for projecting proprietary-host-data-based output utilizing a dual-layer proprietary-data-provision arrangement including a portable system and the host device, comprising:

a hardware-based processing unit; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage component comprising;

one or more first-layer components, of the dual-layer proprietary-data-provision arrangement, that, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit, communicate with the portable system by way of a first short-range communication channel or a first wired communication channel; and

one or more second-layer components, of the dual-layer proprietary-data-provision arrangement, that, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit, communicate with the portable system by way of a second wired communication channel or a second short-range wireless communication channel;

wherein the first-layer components comprise a proprietary portable-system-communications server module that, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit, sends proprietary host data to the portable system by way of the first wired or short-range wireless communication channel; and

wherein the second-layer components comprise a host-system-projection client module that, when executed by the hardware-based processing unit;

receives, from the portable system, by way of the wired communication channel or the short-range wireless communication channel, proprietary host-data-based portable-system app output generated at the portable system using the proprietary host data sent; and

initiating presenting, by way of a host user-machine interface, host data output based on the proprietary-host-data-based portable-system app output.

15. The host device of claim 14 wherein the one or more first-layer components comprise an onboard diagnostics (OBD) module and a host-device-interaction server module.

16. The host device of claim 14 wherein the one or more first-layer components comprise a host-device-interaction server module and a host-device application-framework module.

17. The host device of claim 14 wherein the first wired communication channel and the first short-range wireless communication channel are distinct from the second wired communication channel and the second short-range wireless communication channel, respectively.

18. The host device of claim 14 wherein:

the proprietary host data is proprietary vehicle data; and

the proprietary vehicle data comprises one or more of;

vehicle dynamics information;

vehicle environmental information; and

vehicle navigation information.