Vehicle computer system with open platform architecture
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1. A vehicle computer system comprising:
- a housing of a size suitable to be mounted in a vehicle dashboard;
a computer mounted within the housing;
an open platform operating system executing on the computer; and
multiple vehicle-related applications executing on the operating system to control operation of components in the vehicle.
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Abstract
A vehicle computer system has a housing sized to be mounted in a vehicle dashboard or other appropriate location. A computer is mounted within the housing and executes an open platform, multi-tasking operating system. The computer runs multiple applications on the operating system, including both vehicle-related applications (e.g., vehicle security application, vehicle diagnostics application, communications application, etc.) and non-vehicle-related applications (e.g., entertainment application, word processing, etc.). The applications may be supplied by the vehicle manufacturer and/or by the vehicle user.
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20 Claims
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1. A vehicle computer system comprising:
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a housing of a size suitable to be mounted in a vehicle dashboard;
a computer mounted within the housing;
an open platform operating system executing on the computer; and
multiple vehicle-related applications executing on the operating system to control operation of components in the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A vehicle computer system comprising:
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a support module having a bus;
a computer module connected to the bus, the computer module having a processor;
a faceplate module connected to the bus;
multiple applications stored on the computer module and executed by the processor. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A vehicle computer system comprising:
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a computer;
an open platform operating system executing on the computer; and
multiple applications executing on the operating system, the multiple applications including at least one vehicle-related application and at least one non-vehicle related application. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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