SELF-CONFIGURING VEHICLE CONSOLE APPLICATION STORE
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1. A method, comprising:
- determining, by a microprocessor executable application manager, configuration data regarding a vehicle;
determining, by the application manager, a requirement of a selected application in an application store, the application store comprising information relating to a plurality of applications available for installation on a vehicle computer; and
comparing, by the application manager, the vehicle configuration data with the requirement of the selected application to determine at least one of whether the selected application can be installed currently in an electronic readable memory of the vehicle computer and/or whether the selected application can be executed currently by on the vehicle computer.
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to an application store on board a vehicle. The application store contains, in one configuration, a plurality of applications for installation on an on board computer of the vehicle, with the applications provided to the vehicle operator being provided to the operator being based on predetermined types of information related to the vehicle, its state, operation, and/or configuration, vehicle location, vehicle type, make, model, and/or year of manufacture, and/or occupant(s) and/or occupant(s) of other vehicles.
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1. A method, comprising:
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determining, by a microprocessor executable application manager, configuration data regarding a vehicle; determining, by the application manager, a requirement of a selected application in an application store, the application store comprising information relating to a plurality of applications available for installation on a vehicle computer; and comparing, by the application manager, the vehicle configuration data with the requirement of the selected application to determine at least one of whether the selected application can be installed currently in an electronic readable memory of the vehicle computer and/or whether the selected application can be executed currently by on the vehicle computer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A tangible, non-transient computer readable medium, comprising microprocessor executable instructions that, when executed, perform the following operations:
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determine configuration data regarding a vehicle; determine a requirement of a selected application in an application store, the application store comprising information relating to a plurality of applications available for installation on a vehicle computer; and compare the vehicle configuration data with the requirement of the selected application to determine at least one of whether the selected application can be installed currently in the computer readable medium and/or whether the selected application can be executed currently by on the vehicle computer. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A device, comprising:
a microprocessor executable application manager operable to; determine configuration data regarding a vehicle; determine a requirement of a selected application in an application store, the application store comprising information relating to a plurality of applications available for installation on a vehicle computer; and compare the vehicle configuration data with the requirement of the selected application to determine at least one of whether the selected application can be installed currently in an electronic readable memory of the vehicle computer and/or whether the selected application can be executed currently by on the vehicle computer. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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