System and method for coalescing information for presentation to a vehicle operator
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- receiving one or more offers from a bidding server;
filtering said offers to accommodate a mode of an in-vehicle information system;
adjusting content of said filtered offers according to a communications bandwidth capacity to said in-vehicle information system; and
coalescing said adjusted and filtered offers into a presentation to a vehicle operator according to a set of general operator preferences, said coalesced presentation being rendered by said in-vehicle information system.
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Abstract
Multiple “opportunities” or offers for service or product are coalesced for presentation to a vehicle operator via an In-Vehicle Information System (“IVIS”) according to user preferences, IVIS modal characteristics and capabilities, and vehicle conditions and state. Opportunities may include offers and quotes for services or products which have been provided by one or more potential vendors in response to a request from the vehicle'"'"'s on-board diagnostic systems or from a user-initiated query. Presentation of such opportunities may include text displays, color displays, graphic images, moving images (e.g. video clips), and/or audio. By coalescing the opportunities prior to presentation to the vehicle operator, user preferences are applied such as filtering and sorting for preferred vendors, price and availability, IVIS presentation capabilities, and conditions of the vehicle are considered such as avoiding presenting distracting object types during high speed vehicle operation.
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving one or more offers from a bidding server;
filtering said offers to accommodate a mode of an in-vehicle information system;
adjusting content of said filtered offers according to a communications bandwidth capacity to said in-vehicle information system; and
coalescing said adjusted and filtered offers into a presentation to a vehicle operator according to a set of general operator preferences, said coalesced presentation being rendered by said in-vehicle information system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13)
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8. A computer readable medium encoded with software for performing the steps of:
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receiving one or more offers from a bidding server;
filtering said offers to accommodate a mode of an in-vehicle information system;
adjusting content of said filtered offers according to a communications bandwidth capacity to said in-vehicle information system; and
coalescing said adjusted and filtered offers into a presentation to a vehicle operator according to a set of general operator preferences, said coalesced presentation being rendered by said in-vehicle information system. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 14)
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15. An offer coalescing system comprising:
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an offer receiver for receiving one or more offers from one or more bidding servers;
an IVIS mode filter configured to filter said received offers to accommodate a modal restrictions of a targeted in-vehicle information system;
an offer content adjuster adapted to adjust content of said filtered received offers according to a communications bandwidth capacity to said targeted in-vehicle information system; and
an offer coalescer configured to further adjust, filter and combine content of said offers into a presentation to a vehicle operator according to a set of general vehicle operator preferences for rendering by said in-vehicle information system. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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