MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING REAL-TIME CONTEXT-AWARE MESSAGES FOR VEHICLE-BASED AND OTHER COMPUTING DEVICES

• US 20140094989A1
• Filed: 09/28/2012
• Published: 04/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Saurabh Dadu
• Inventors: DADU, SAURABH, Prakash, Gyan, Poornachandran, Rajesh, Chukka, Ravikiran
• Application Number:
  US13/629,969
• Publication Number:
  US 20140094989A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0816 Indicating performance data, e.g. occurrence of a malfunction
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0962 having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages

Abstract

A mechanism is described for facilitating real-time context-aware messages at computing devices according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes evaluating real-time context-aware data relating to a vehicle, recommending a real-time message based the evaluation of the context-aware data. The recommended message may include one or more of a warning message, an alert message, a reminder message, and an information message. The method may further include facilitating displaying the recommended real-time message at a first display screen at the vehicle or a second display screen of a mobile computing device within a proximity of the vehicle. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

data management logic to evaluate real-time context-aware data relating to a vehicle;

message recommendation logic to recommend a real-time message based on the evaluation of the context-aware data, wherein the recommended message includes one or more of a warning message, an alert message, a reminder message, and an information message; and

message placement logic to facilitate displaying the recommended real-time message at a first display screen at the vehicle or a second display screen of a mobile computing device within a proximity of the vehicle.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising data reception logic to receive the real-time context-aware data from at least one of one or more sensors or devices of the vehicle, one or more computing devices in communication with the vehicle, or one or more databases.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising access and mapping logic to facilitate providing access to and mapping of the evaluated real-time context-aware data over a network.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the real-time context-aware data comprises real-time context information relating to the vehicle, surrounding environment, and one or more individuals associated with the vehicle, wherein the one or more individuals include an owner of the vehicle, a driver of the vehicle, or one or more passengers of the vehicle, wherein the surrounding environment includes one or more of a road condition, a traffic condition, and a weather condition.

5. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the one or more sensors comprise one or more of a global positioning system (GPS) device, a brake sensor, a rain sensor, a fuel sensor, a temperature sensor, an oxygen sensor, a parking sensor, a compass, a speedometer, a speed sensor, a yaw rate sensor, an accelerometer, a steering wheel positioning center, a clock, a traction control system, an anti-lock brake system (ABS), an electronic stability control (ESC), an on-board diagnostics (OBD) tool, and a Bluetooth pairing device.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first display screen is associated with a display device coupled to an onboard computer of the vehicle or a navigation system associated with the vehicle, wherein the onboard computer includes an electronic control unit (ECU).

7. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

data collection module to collect the real-time context-aware data received from the one or more sensors at the vehicle;

recommendation reception and evaluation module to recommend whether the real-time message be displayed at one of the first display screen or the second display screen; and

message placement module to display the message at one of the first display screen or the second display screen.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, further comprising:

a user interface to provide user access, wherein the user interface is provided via one of the onboard computer of the vehicle or the mobile computing device within the proximity of the vehicle; and

a local storage of the onboard computer.

9. A computer implemented method comprising:

evaluating real-time context-aware data relating to a vehicle;

recommending a real-time message based on the evaluation of the context-aware data, wherein the recommended message includes one or more of a warning message, an alert message, a reminder message, and an information message; and

facilitating displaying the recommended real-time message at a first display screen at the vehicle or a second display screen of a mobile computing device within a proximity of the vehicle.

15. At least one machine-readable storage medium comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to carry out a method according to one or more operations comprising:

evaluating real-time context-aware data relating to a vehicle;

recommending a real-time message based the evaluation of the context-aware data, wherein the recommended message includes one or more of a warning message, an alert message, a reminder message, and an information message; and

facilitating displaying the recommended real-time message at a first display screen at the vehicle or a second display screen of a mobile computing device within a proximity of the vehicle.

10. The method of claim 15, further comprising receiving the real-time context-aware data from at least one of one or more sensors or devices of the vehicle, one or more computing devices in communication with the vehicle, or one or more databases.

11. The method of claim 15, further comprising access and mapping logic to facilitate providing access to and mapping of the evaluated real-time context-aware data over a network.

12. The method of claim 15, wherein the real-time context-aware data comprises real-time context information relating to the vehicle, surrounding environment, and one or more individuals associated with the vehicle, wherein the one or more individuals include an owner of the vehicle, a driver of the vehicle, or one or more passengers of the vehicle, wherein the surrounding environment includes one or more of a road condition, a traffic condition, and a weather condition.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more sensors comprise one or more of a global positioning system (GPS) device, a brake sensor, a rain sensor, a fuel sensor, a temperature sensor, an oxygen sensor, a parking sensor, a compass, a speedometer, a speed sensor, a yaw rate sensor, an accelerometer, a steering wheel positioning center, a clock, a traction control system, an anti-lock brake system (ABS), an electronic stability control (ESC), an on-board diagnostics (OBD) tool, and a Bluetooth pairing device.

14. The method of claim 15, wherein the first display screen is associated with a display device coupled to an onboard computer of the vehicle or a navigation system associated with the vehicle, wherein the onboard computer includes an electronic control unit (ECU).

16. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the one or more operations further comprise:

receiving the real-time context-aware data from at least one of one or more sensors or devices of the vehicle, one or more computing devices in communication with the vehicle, or one or more databases.

17. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the one or more operations further comprise:

access and mapping logic to facilitate providing access to and mapping of the evaluated real-time context-aware data over a network

18. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the real-time context-aware data comprises real-time context information relating to the vehicle, surrounding environment, and one or more individuals associated with the vehicle, wherein the one or more individuals include an owner of the vehicle, a driver of the vehicle, or one or more passengers of the vehicle, wherein the surrounding environment includes one or more of a road condition, a traffic condition, and a weather condition.

19. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the one or more sensors comprise one or more of a global positioning system (GPS) device, a brake sensor, a rain sensor, a fuel sensor, a temperature sensor, an oxygen sensor, a parking sensor, a compass, a speedometer, a speed sensor, a yaw rate sensor, an accelerometer, a steering wheel positioning center, a clock, a traction control system, an anti-lock brake system (ABS), an electronic stability control (ESC), an on-board diagnostics (OBD) tool, and a Bluetooth pairing device.

20. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the first display screen is associated with a display device coupled to an onboard computer of the vehicle or a navigation system associated with the vehicle, wherein the onboard computer includes an electronic control unit (ECU).