Vehicle Connectivity Systems, Methods and Applications

• US 20110225260A1
• Filed: 02/25/2011
• Published: 09/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Inventors: Delorme, Gilles M., Chappell, Michael J., Chau, Jarvis, Weigert, Norman J., Kalhous, Amanda J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,132,715 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00657 Remote control devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00807 the input being a specific way of measuring or calculating an air or coolant temperature
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 11/0807 Remote means
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 2200/0806 Air condition state
• 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 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A vehicle communication method is provided. The method includes receiving a first wireless communication that is transmitted from a remote device; and managing a transmission of the first wireless communication over a vehicle network using a configurable message list.

Claims

1. A vehicle communication method, comprising:

receiving a first wireless communication that is transmitted from a remote device; and

managing a transmission of the first wireless communication over a vehicle network using a configurable message list.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the managing comprises assembling data into a configurable message of the configurable message list and transmitting the configurable message on the vehicle network.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first wireless communication is data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first wireless communication is a request for data.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising monitoring the vehicle network for data when the first wireless communication includes the request for the data.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising transmitting the data to the remote device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a second wireless communication and selectively storing data of the second wireless communication.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the second wireless communication is a device application.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the selectively storing the data comprises determining whether sufficient memory is available to store the device application.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the selectively storing the data further comprises when sufficient memory is not available selectively removing other device applications based on a memory management method.

11. A vehicle communication system, comprising:

a portable connectivity device including,

a message manager module that receives a first wireless communication that is transmitted from a remote device and that manages a transmission of the first wireless communication over a vehicle network using a configurable message list.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the message manager module manages the transmission by assembling data into a configurable message of the configurable message list and transmitting the configurable message on the vehicle network.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the first wireless communication is data.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the first wireless communication is a request for data.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the message manager module monitors the vehicle network for data when the first wireless communication includes the request for the data.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the message manager module transmits the data to the remote device.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the message manager module receives a second wireless communication and selectively storing data of the second wireless communication.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the second wireless communication is a device application.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the message manager module selectively stores the data by determining whether sufficient memory is available to store the device application.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the message manager module further selectively stores the data by selectively removing other device applications based on a memory management method when sufficient memory is not available.